Are you building, expanding or remodeling your pet care? Confused about all the dog housing options available? We recently talked to Scott Manning from Midmark about best design options for animal health and ease of cleaning your animal enclosures. Midmark is the parent company for both Mason Company and Shoreline. Key take-aways Scott shared on animal …
Evaluating Your Facility
The Secret to a Profitable Pet Business You Love
Did you know there is a secret to a profitable pet business? How do you want your business to look one year from today? What would be your ideal work schedule and paycheck? Does your vision seem like an impossible dream? We’d say that the secret to making the vision for your business a reality …
Emergency Evacuations & Safety Protocols in Your Pet Business
Recent tragedies in the pet industry have us all reviewing our emergency evacuation and safety protocols for our pet business. What safety measures do you have in place? Do you require overnight staff? Do you have cameras and monitor systems? How often do you practice emergency evacuation drills? Do you know what common emergencies are …
Starting Your Own Pet Care Business – 7 Tips to Avoid Mistakes
Starting your own pet care business can be overwhelming. Hindsight is 20/20 and if we could travel back in time to our pet business planning days these are the tips we believe would have the biggest positive impact. Fortunately, when starting your own pet care business, you can benefit from the lessons we’ve learned over …
The Two Most Important Factors to Operating a Safe Dog Daycare
Do you wonder what it takes to really operate a safe dog daycare? There are actually two key factors to operating a safe dog daycare. Proper dog evaluations Proper staff training Check out the video below to learn why these two factors are so important.
5 Pet Care Business Lessons Learned from Covid-19
As 2020 comes to an end, let’s look at the top 5 pet care business lessons learned from Covid-19. These ideas are great opportunities to increase your pet care operations in the future. Know Your Numbers – profitable pricing and understanding your fixed and variable costs were key to success. Understanding the financial numbers allowed …
Top Tips to Running a Successful Pet Care Facility
The pet care service industry is an unregulated industry so how do you know if you are operating an average or excellent operation? How do you know if you’re running a successful pet care facility? Here are a few tips to help you evaluate your operations. Review the number of medical emergencies you have each …
Tips for Monitoring, Managing and Communicating Dog Behavior
As a pet care business owner operating a dog daycare or boarding facility, when you think about dog, it’s important to remember that you have control of the dog behaviors you allow in the dogs that use your services. In fact, creating a list of the appropriate and inappropriate behaviors from dogs for the services …
How Much Space Do You Need for Your Dog Daycare?
I frequently encounter new dog daycare business owners either at seminars, workshops, on Facebook or through email. When folks are first starting their own pet care business, they have many questions (and rightly so…staring your own business is not for the faint of heart!). One of the most commonly asked questions has to deal with …
3 Reasons to Prioritize Key Performance Indicators
Being a finance person, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are fun to me, and provide a different perspective on your business. In this post you’ll learn three reasons why making KPI’s a priority in your management toolbox will help you improve your business. 1. Provides Non-Financial Success Measures For most of us financial success is a …
Creating a Customer Referral Program
Competition is increasing. Enlist your customers to grow your database by developing a referral program. Here we’ve provided an easy recipe to get you started. Click on the links below to see information and samples Customer Referral Program Customer referral tracking sheet Sample Friends and family referral letter Sample Reward letter for a referral Sample …