Hi

First of all, I'd like to congratulate on your successful business Hope it goes well in years to come.

I'm interested in the laundry business and I have a few questions to ask.

The first is the capital. I've read you said the capital would be 30K - 300K (or more) but lets just take 30K, because most people would like to test out the market first before going on expanding the business. With 30K (or around that), can you provide the details on what have you spent on with the capital? Since this business is totally depend on the are where it is establish, the capital would vary and I like to know by how much so I can apply to my area.

Secondly, the place where you establish the laundry outlet. Before you rent the place, I'm sure you have spent time checking out the area for some potentials. How about sharing with us those aspects. Close to Uni, College, offices, residential area etc etc, what kind of residential area? flat? rumah teres? etc etc.

Also, the shop itself, you said you started out with one washer, one dryer etc etc, how big is your shop? how big it should be? since you also need space to keep other stuff etc etc, water piping, electricity, rental price etc etc everything there to consider about

When you first starting out, in the first few months, we wouldn't aspect we generate profit yet, do we? or maybe low profit margin, all due to not having profitable number of customer and monthly rental, I assume. Would you like to share with us the experience of those few months? What you did, and what you could have done better, that would be really great. Also, in what ways you did your promotions. I could list a number of ways but its nice to hear from real people who actually done those thing

Lastly, regarding the monthly expenses, can you share the details?

edited : Is there any gov organizations provide some kind of training course on this? I would like to know

I'm sorry I have posted so many questions. I know that you're busy, please don't be obliged to answer all of my questions, do take your time. I would check this thread regularly.

Wish ya best

This post has been edited by Andicom: Jun 11 2009, 06:33 PM

Actually if you consider me, I would have some other plans in the mean time (I'm still studying).

But I do have family members who are willing to start out this business together and take care of it. The plan is (god willing) to start out together with family members (and have someone of among us close to manage it full time) until I'm finished and able to take over the operations fully by myself.

I might chance my mind in the future, nevertheless, but this is a good opportunity (because I got some cousins who're not working but are willing to, too old to study to get cert for job etc etc). Given how good the business is, I might just settle down with it.

Anyhow it still depends on how potential the business is around my area, or somewhat close-by. I live in Kemaman, Trg and pretty close to Kuantan to consider starting out there.

Hope that helps.

Thanks, actually I have been following the thread for a while.

The idea was around (was from my mom. She ran a Wedding Boutique with my Untie at my area and was quite successful, but had to give up because she loves teaching more. The business is still running and operated by my Untie.) a while before I found out this thread though, but since I'm busy studying, I didn't give much thoughts into it.

There are really a lot of works to do to and hopefully your experiences will ease my path and others'.

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Added on June 14, 2009, 3:27 pmAm,

Can I know where did u attend the training course? I read about it somewhere in this thread or the other one. Might reply here or pm me, thanks


This post has been edited by Andicom: Jun 14 2009, 03:27 PM