Work for Yourself
- Decisions to make before you open
- Setting up your daycare and business plan
- Learning about play behavior and pack dynamics
- Recognizing safe and unsafe behaviors and controlling the group
- Hiring a terrific staff
- Safety and cleanliness
Testimonial: All About Dog Daycare: A Blueprint For Success is an easy-to-use guide to the lifestyle and obligations of a dog daycare services owner. With All About Dog Daycare presented as a "user-friendly" introduction and exploration of everything necessary to get started. The reader will discover and understanding of the basic and general information needed to start a dog daycare including licensing zoning, guidance and legal, financial, and insurance concerns for the daycare owner, forms and record-keeping materials needed to operate a daycare, how to provide a safe and stimulating environment that keeps the dogs healthy and happy, optional money-making services that daycare centers may provide, troubleshooting ideas, how to deal with aggressive dog's owners, expulsion issues, and how to monitor relationships with certain groupings of dogs and identify control measures that can be used to maintain stability. All About Dog Daycare is very strongly recommended to all aspiring dog daycare owners, as well as the general dog owners seeking good day care arrangements for their animal companion.
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- How to pick a location that will bring you the best results.
- How to analyze square footage to know how many dogs can safely play there.
- How to create business plan that factors in costs, funding, and the break-even point. You’ll surpass your break-even point far quicker by implementing the lessons in this program!
- How to recognize dogs that will be great in a daycare . . . and the ones who won’t!
- How to market and sell your service to clients with plenty of discretionary income.
- How to make your day-to-day operations run smoothly, giving you more time to focus on increasing your revenue and fun!
- How to design your facility with SAFETY in mind.
- How to choose flooring that gives good traction, reduces stress on the dogs’ joints, and is easy to keep clean.
- 14 common canine stress signals and what they mean
- 12 most DANGEROUS situations in a dog daycare
- How to break up a dog fight
- BIG MISTAKES that people make in the dog daycare business . . . and how to avoid them.
- How to sort the dogs into playgroups
- Things NOT to say when you talk to clients
- How to get started and stay motivated, what to do STEP by STEP to be on your way to owning your own thriving dog daycare business
- Learn from my years of experience in the field, both success and failure, so you save time, money, and effort . . . probably years of it!
Testionial: "Robin has a tremendous understanding of what it takes to operate a safe dog daycare and provides valuable guidance to anyone in the industry."-Jim Krack, Executive Director, American Boarding Kennel Association
• Been a professional dog trainer since 1992
• Written two best-selling books on dog daycare and off-leash play
• Helped my consulting clients start and run numerous dog daycares
• Spoken on the subject of dog daycares at national conferences, including the American Boarding Kennel
Association and the Association of Pet Dog Trainers
• Evaluated dangerous dogs for animal control
• Earned the Certified Pet Dog Trainer (CPDT) designation
I don’t know about you, but that sounds like a good deal to me.
- Basic information for starting a dog daycare including business resources, licensing information, zoning guidance, and legal, financial, and insurance concerns for the daycare owner.
- How to provide a safe and stimulating environment that keeps the dogs healthy and happy and the staff safe.
- Optional money-making services that daycare centers can provide.
- Troubleshooting ideas including how to handle clients with aggressive dogs, dealing with contagious diseases, and expelling dogs from daycare.
- How to monitor the relationships within a group of dogs and identify control measures that can be used to maintain stability.
- The three most important skills you should already have before opening a dog daycare
- Two traits that make a potential client more desirable
- How the “location, location, location” adage affects your business
- The one playgroup configuration you should NEVER have
- One easy, free thing you can do to make every owner bring their dog back again and again
- Proven, detailed forms that gather all the information you need to have on every dog and owner
- Simple, cost-effective ways to keep the noise down and your neighbors happy
- One relatively inexpensive, high-tech option that will give you a big edge over your competitors
- Important RED FLAG phrases clients use to describe dogs who should NOT attend daycare
- The four play styles you must recognize to form effective playgroups
- One simple tip that can help you quickly evaluate whether a behavior is playful
- Eight signals that tell you to intervene NOW
- The extra piece of equipment that makes it safer and easier to move dogs in and out of the group
- Easy diagnostics that can help you differentiate between minor injuries and ones that require veterinary attention
- A source of online, same-day responses to all of your daycare questions
