The course in front of you is a walk-thru, talk-thru, blueprint for setting up and running your own successful dog grooming business.
Dog grooming training centres normally focus on teaching you the practical and theoretical skills of dog grooming. Naturally, less attention is paid to setting up and running your own business. For the most part, this is generally glossed over.
The aim of this course, therefore, is to take you, step by step, through the many considerations of turning your skill, as a dog groomer, into a business. Not that you have to be a dog groomer – this is a useful guide for non-groomers too.
This self-study course is broken into 12 modules of learning. Each module is loaded with information, including various exercises
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We enlighten you to the real world of dog grooming. We ask you some difficult questions so that you think carefully about why you are entering the industry.
• What does dog grooming training involve? We give you the highlights of what a dog grooming training course involves. If you are aiming for qualification, this will explain what’s involved, what you need to learn, what you need to do.
• What are the options for a dog grooming business? Once you have the skills, how will you apply them? Working for somebody else? Or for yourself? We look at the main options and business opportunities.
• How to identify a market for your business. Considerations when it comes to location and potential customers.
• We take you through the main business concepts and requirements that you’ll need to know.
• We walk and talk you through a business plan. And provide you a hypothetical business plan that you can tailor to your own purposes – whether you want to groom from home, set up as a mobile groomer or open a salon in commercial premises.
• Once your business is up and running, how do you keep it going? What are some of the customer retention strategies you need to consider? What are some of the additional revenue streams that you can implement to make your business more