OverDog: Dog Daycare & Boarding Business Tips

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, …

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 sa…

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 f…

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. 

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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 sacr…

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 m…

I know you really love your customers but do they know? Too often we are so concerned with the day to day activities of running a dog daycare business that we neglect to continually show our existing…

Just about every single dog daycare business owner struggles with staffing issues. It's always the number one complaint, and yes, dealing with staff is challenging, stressful and exhausting. However,…

If you're looking for a cash injection into your business, you need to think about creating a special offer, available for a set limited time. You might be familiar with this concept and perhaps have…

With increased competition in the industry, combined with a rise in online web searches, it's never been more important to get your business to show up at the top of Google.  In this episode you'll l…

If you want your business to thrive you need to do some regular gardening on it. Just like flowering plants, to keep your business healthy, you need to cut out some parts in order to allow the others…

On today's show I invite on one of my newer clients, Tahlia Henderson of K9 and Company, who's doing some cool things with 3 dog daycare facilities in Australia. Learn how she's leveraging her existi…

Of all the kinds of marketing you can do for your business, my all time favorite is content marketing. By putting out value into the marketplace you don't have to sell so hard and will find you get a…

Learn how Playful Pack began with a dream of opening a single dog daycare, then grew it to multiple locations across the East Coast and now have begun franchising. Oh, and they did all that in a very…

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 th…

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…

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 t…

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 a…