Episode
Cohen Wills: I Got Almost Everything Wrong
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- Cleaner Conversations
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- May 10, 2026
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- 3446
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Summary
We kick off Cleaner Conversation with Cohen Wills. Cohen didn’t enter the dry cleaning industry through a traditional path. What started as a concentration risk in another business quickly turned into a crash course in survival, customer acquisition, marketing, and adaptation when COVID hit shortly after entering the industry. In this episode of Cleaner Conversations, we talk through the story behind Sage Cleaners and Cleaner Marketing, including pickup & delivery growth, attribution, scaling customer acquisition, learning the dry cleaning business in real time, and the mindset required to keep pushing through failure and uncertainty. This is an honest conversation about growth, pressure, risk, marketing, and what it actually takes to build and scale in the garment care industry today. Topics Covered: • Entering dry cleaning before COVID • Building Sage Cleaners • The growth of pickup & delivery • Customer acquisition and attribution • Failure, pressure, and persistence • Marketing systems that actually work • The evolution of Cleaner Marketing • The future of dry cleaning and laundromats Subscribe for more conversations with operators, founders, marketers, and leaders across the garment care industry.