Times haven’t changed much. Freshmen attend college miles away from home with little money, no transportation and using what little time they have after studies doing that dreaded laundry.
Tuskegee University student Bernard Height, a junior sales and marketing major from Redlands, Calif., came up with a solution.
Height, 20, made a dream reality by starting his own business - Advantage Plus, a mobile laundry and dry-cleaning business. The business that he started as a freshman caters to students, staff, faculty and the local community in Tuskegee and Auburn, Ala.
Advantage Plus began with three clients and now services about 350 clients a week. Yet, the laundry service wasn’t Height’s first business venture on campus. He started off with Cutting Edge Barbershop, a mobile hair-cutting service. “I would go to every dorm on campus, and that’s how I figured I could start another business,” Height said.
It’s nonstop work for Height. When he gets out of class at 3 p.m., he goes straight to work and gets off late in the evening. “I stay busy,” he added.
Photo by Tuskegee University.
Sandra Moses on April 1st, 2008 at 9:35 am
HELP…I need. Info… I want Dream…I have.
I want to venture into having a moble laundry service. I have nothing to start with but I do have the one ingredient to make any business survive…ambition and drive.
Right now as a homless single mother of 4, i have had many failures in my life but God has me here why?…. to make a difference.
I currently work for a lundrymat and see the potiential in the business. I want to enjoy it as well.
Please contact me via email or my number is 912-258-7519. I have questions and seems you have the answers.