Britt and Sully from The Bark Yard in South Portland, Maine join us to share their story of making their dream of opening a dog daycare business a reality. You'll hear how they got creative to get the town to change the zoning laws, how they built out their services and learn about their early success. 

These guys are doing great things in only a short amount of time. 

Learn some valuable lessons from someone who started her own dog daycare from the ground up by herself, grew it to a second location and then sold them both. Lori Zimmerman, former owner of Pups@Play in New Jersey comes on to share her story on how she was able to do it all. 

She's going to tell you the big lessons she learned, the mistakes to avoid and the things that make the biggest difference for success. 

People love saving money and getting good deals. In the quest to acquire more customers it's tempting to discount your services to try to make them more appealing for people to buy BUT is it really the right thing to do for your business?

In this episode we'll discuss the good and the bad of offering discounts, as well as how you can use them the right way for your business. 

Summertime is a time of brief change. School is out and people looking to travel more which means they will  most likely also be changing they way they utilize your business. This means you need to adapt your marketing campaigns in order to see continued success. What worked before summer doesn't usually work during summer.

In this episode I'll share some of the marketing campaigns I run for my clients and give you some idea on what you can do during this very unique time of year.

This episode is sponsored by Natura. 

Most dog daycare businesses find themselves busy the same days every week, while the other days are consistently slow. As a business, the obvious opportunity for more revenue is to get more dogs in on those light days, which usually tend to be Mondays and Fridays. 

Today we'll discuss some different things you can do to get those off day numbers up and even out the flow of dogs coming for daycare every week. 

As you grow your dog business I'm guessing you spend lots of time and attention on how to improve your facility, your services, your operations and everything else in your business. However, you probably neglect the single biggest influence on the success of your business - you. 

Everything in your business is affected by you. So it would make sense to take really good care of yourself and do things to improve yourself and how you show up for your business each and everyday. Let's look into how you can do that in today's episode. 

After working with dog daycare businesses for the past few years I've noticed a few things that are consistently done by the top players that lead them to amazing, long-term success. 

In this episode, I share what those key factors are and how you can implement them in your own business to help you grow bigger, better and stand the test of time. 

I run a lot of different marketing campaigns throughout the year for my clients. A few of them I run again and again because they always produce big results and help the dog daycare businesses that I work with grow their customer base and out pace their competition. 

In this episode, I share my five favorite campaigns that I use across all my client accounts. 

If you're looking to start a dog daycare, are interested in expanding your existing space or want to add an additional location, finding the money to fund your dreams can be a big obstacle. There's good news though - you do have options to make it all happen. 

In today's episode the folks at Live Oak Bank (who specialize in helping pet business) join us to fill us in on all the financing possibilities you have available to you. 

If you're thinking of jumping in and starting a dog daycare business there are two main ways to do it: create your own or buy into a franchise. Both options have positive and negatives and which one is best for you depends upon the kind of person you are and the kind of business you're looking to create. 

In this episode, I'm joined by Steven Parker from K9 Resorts to explain the ins and outs of being a part of a franchise.