Dog Grooming Business - Getting Started
By Jerry Halsey
Do you have a passion for animals? Have you always enjoyed looking after your dogs and cats? Have you often offered to house sit for friends and neighbors pets? Now, would you like to make money doing what you get so much pleasure doing? If the answer is yes, then a dog grooming business is just the thing for you.
If you are nervous, here are some tips and ideas to help you take that first step. First, you need to be aware that bathing cute pooches is not the only job dog grooming is all about. You will have to trim nails, clean ears, brush teeth, brush badly matted and tangled coats and cut and style coats.
To set up a dog grooming business you need to know about grooming and what it is all about. To gain this knowledge you will have to enroll in a pet grooming school - if you are groaning think about this, remember that any career you choose will require you to get a degree!
Pet grooming does not require you to get a degree but you do need to get certification. The training will not be centered only round pet grooming but will teach about planning to set up the business. It will address questions on the kind of location you should choose for your business and the type of equipments you will need from basic to advanced tools of the trade.
Some of the other things you will learn from your training will include calculating the overall cost of setting up a pet grooming business. This cost calculation will include license fees and business insurance costs as well. You will learn all about the requirements for your new business and how to select your target market.
You will need to have some basic knowledge of running a business and a short term management diploma can help greatly. No business has ever succeeded without a proper plan in place. You can get a lot of information of the internet by investing some time in research. For example you will learn how to put a business plan together. It should have a goal or several goals if you will and a definite plan or schedule detailing how you will reach your end goal(s).
Whether you choose to work in a salon, out of your home or from a mobile van, you need grit and determination combined with your love of dogs to succeed.
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