I just got back from the Pet Boarding and Daycare Expo in Hershey Pennsylvania and wanted to share some of the things I learned there. I met so many great people and saw some amazing presentations that have opened my mind to new ideas and fired me up to implement in some things for future growth.

Learn what I discovered there, as well as what you should do with all that knowledge that you've learned.

Everything starts at the top and trickles down throughout your entire business. If you, as the senior leader, or your management team are not effective leaders, everything will suffer. Learning how to lead properly is a skill that is worth investing in for everyone of influence in your organization. 

To help you understand exactly how you can become a better leader and build leaders in your staff I brought Phillip Paris back on the podcast to discuss the specifics of this very important topic. 

Taylor Swift seems to be on an unstoppable journey to take over the world. She just become a billionaire and is the most popular artist on plant Earth. Whether you're a fan of her music or not, you can learn a lot from how she continues to build her brand and grows her empire. 

In today's episode we'll look at some of the ways Taylor markets and promotes herself, and how you can do similar things to build your pet business. 

They say "success leaves clues." I believe that's true but failure also gives us valuable lessons that can teach about success. I've found that businesses that experience problems have certain things in common that cause or greatly contribute to their ultimate failure.

In this episode, we'll go over the top 5 issues that are plaguing failing dog daycare businesses, as well as what you can do to avoid and/or improve these areas in your own business.

For one week (or more) every year people are ready and happy to spend lots of money. If done right, Black Friday promotions can mean a giant cash infusion right before the holidays. Many businesses, however, miss out on this prime opportunity because they don't understand  how to structure a good offer or market it effectively. 

In this episode we'll break down how you can take advantage of Black Friday by finding the right promotions for your business and how to properly advertise it so that it sees success. 

Just under 100 years ago Napoleon Hill published his success principals after studying and interviewing the most successful people in the world. He found that all the top successes did some of the same actions to build their empires and compiled these into a course on how anyone can achieve great results by following the same principals. 

Reading these and then putting them into action has greatly changed my business and life. In this podcast I'm going to share Hill's 17 principals of success and give you tips on how you can implement them in your life with epic results. 

A giant problem in the dog daycare industry is that you don't get much time with the paying (human) customers.  That means you need to find creative ways to get in front of them if you want them to feel connected with you and your business. 

One easy way to do this is with regular email newsletters. In today's episode we'll discuss why they are so powerful, what to put in them and exactly how you can get them done. 

The term "work-life" balance it thrown around a lot these days, however I don't think people are having the right conversations about this topic and most people are not properly prioritizing it. 

In today's episode Patrick Lyons from Culture By Design comes back on to teach you why this is so important, as well as how to implement it for yourself and all your employees. 

Running your own business is a lot of work. There's always so much to do and never enough time to get it all done. So, we do what all entrepreneurs do, we put our heads down and grind it out. We sacrifice our time, energy and often, our sanity for the good of the business. 

The problem that so many face in the dog daycare industry is that you can only keep that up so long and then you fall apart - mentally and physically. In order to make your business a success AND feel good doing it, you need make sure you're taking care of yourself FIRST. 

Traditional group play dog daycare is great for many dogs, however it's not the right environment for all. Those dogs that are not a good fit for group play typically have to be turned away because most businesses are not set up to handle single dogs that can't be in the groups. 

Learn how The Yellow Dog Barn has turned solo dog play into a lucrative revenue stream and one of their most in demand services. Discover how they handle the dogs, as well as, how they structure their days to manage both the dogs and staff, so that it works together with their group play service.