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Let's face it — If you're like most dog trainers, some serious guess work went into pricing your services. Watch this recorded discussion about best practices for determining what to charge, what to include for those rates, and how to describe what you have to offer...
As a business owner, it’s important to understand the benefits and drawbacks of employing trainers and other professionals in your business. Whether you are on the verge of making a hire, or you think you want to do it all yourself, or even if the thought never...
We recently hosted a dog trainer panel discussion over in our free facebook group with several members of our Trainer's Growth Group - Brianne Harris, Crystal Partain, Janet Parker and Liz MacHaffie! We talked about how they got to where they are today and what's...
Want more time training dogs and less time pushing ‘paper’? Check out these business software options.
As discussed in our last post, dog training is an unregulated industry that doesn’t require a practitioner to hold any credentials. Despite that, certification options abound! This makes getting a qualification or certification a bit of a minefield!
‘Certification’ is a hot topic within professional dog training circles right now. Although dog training is a skilled profession, at the moment it’s an unregulated industry. You don’t need any type of proof you can deliver the service you (allegedly) provide.
Summary: Five years ago, Jo Ferraris had a stressful career as a Pharmacy Technician and 2 young twins. She had set aside her childhood dream of becoming a vet after college, and satisfied her love of animals by taking her pet dogs to agility and scent detection...
Case study: Crystal Partain, The Freckled Paw. On target to reach a goal of $150,000 in 2021. Summary: Crystal started working in a vet clinic, cleaning kennels, at 16 years old. She worked her way up, and by the time she went to college a few years later, she knew...
When you work for yourself, you’re not just a dog trainer… you’re a business owner. And that means doing a whole lot more than just training dogs.
Yet so often, even when we have the best of intentions, the tasks that need to happen for our business that aren’t directly related to the work we need to do every day for our clients — things like marketing, answering emails, or reconciling receipts — fall by the wayside. We know they’re important. We know they need to happen. Yet they never seem to get done.
That’s fine… for a while. But when those types of tasks get put off for too long, problems begin to emerge.
Your goal with your business is to help people and their dogs… which can make it easy to fall into bad habits, and incredibly hard to set boundaries and stick to them. And that’s dangerous.