Nikila Gibson is a serial entrepreneur who has started businesses from preschools to drop shipping to staffing agencies, and now runs a laundry pick-up and delivery business in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has started and grown her business from scratch using mostly word-of-mouth advertising and is growing at a rapid pace!
Nikila brings grit and determination, hard work, and hard-earned business savvy to her laundry business, and, in this episode, she shares how she's done it and gives great advice to anyone else wanting to start or improve their pick-up and delivery business. And we have a lot of fun talking about it!
In this episode we talk about:
- Nikila's entrepreneurship background
- Being a single mom and business owner
- How she got started in the laundry business
- Eco-friendly laundry services
- Pros and cons of a laundromat owner partnering with a fluff n fold operator
- Pickup and delivery without a location
- How Nikila's customer flow works
- How Nikila gets customers
- Pickup and delivery as a tech and logistics company
And more! Be prepared to learn from a true entrepreneur!
Show Notes
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