Podcast
Episode 73: How to Keep Customers Longer
If you want to sustain your business over the long term you need continually bring in new customers, however it's even more important to make sure those customers stay with your for as long as possible. In this episode we'll discuss some ways you can increase...
Episode 72: Enrichment Based Daycare
I firmly believe that the dog daycare business model is changing. It's changing because we're learning more about how to take better care of dogs and the consumer is starting to want more for their dogs than just being loosely watched as they run around aimlessly all...
Episode 71: The Power of Networking (And How To Do It)
As entrepreneurs we're built to put our heads down, working to move our businesses forward. Although I do believe that if you are smart and are willing to put in the work, you can accomplish anything, it doesn't have to be that hard and we don't have to go it...
Episode 70: Using Events To Excite Customers
The way to create a loyal, engaged mass of customers is to make sure they are excited about bringing their dog to daycare on a regular basis. One way to do that is to do different things to keep people coming back and give the dogs more fun while they’re with...
Episode 69: Improving Communication Throughout Your Business
A lack of communication is probably one of the major caused for stress and problems in any dog daycare business. Good communication across your entire business, however, will help the dogs behave better, keep customers happy and greatly improve your staff morale and...
Episode 68: How To Outdo & Outlast The Competition
There has never been more competition in the dog daycare industry. More and more places are opening up all the time and you have new companies like Rover.com entering the marketplace, giving people a lot of different choices for their dog's care. If you want to...
Episode 67: Tips For Assessing New Dogs
Many of the problems that dog daycares have with the play groups is caused by having dogs there that are not a good fit for the environment. These dogs are labeled "problem dogs" and cause stress for you, your staff and the other dogs in the groups. To create a...
Episode 66: Managing Play Groups
Often the biggest issues in dog daycare facilities come from the dogs in the play groups. Managing a pack of dogs is not an easy thing to do and and requires some specific knowledge and skills to make sure that both dogs and staff are safe and enjoying their time...
Episode 65: Should You Hire A Coach?
As entrepreneurs we tend to think that we can do it all on our own. We can figure everything, overcome every challenge and don't need any helping hands along the way. Often it's true, we can do it all on our own, however we could move much faster and go to higher...
Episode 64: How To Get More Hours In Your Day
Are you running around all day crazy busy but still feel like you can't get to everything you need to do? And after a long day of work, feel like you didn't get much accomplished? Running a dog daycare business comes with a lot of work that needs to be done on a daily...
