OverDog: Dog Daycare & Boarding Business Tips
This is where dog daycare and boarding businesses can learn the top tips and business strategies to grow. Discover what the top dog daycares are doing to overcome challenges, improve everything they do and keep their staff and customers happy. Learn the latest in marketing pet businesses as well as creative ways to increase your brand's image and move your business farther, faster. Running a pet business can be difficult and often leave you feeling like an underdog. Not anymore - together we'll make you the OVERDOG.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 35 minutes
- Episodes
- 221
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
81: Using Video To Grow Your Business
Online video consumption has been going up every year and even though it's such a powerful tool to grow your dog business, few companies are taking advantage of it.
Today we'll talk about why you sho…
80: Creating Your Marketing Calendar
You've heard it before: "failing to plan is planning to fail." That's true for much about your business but especially when it comes to your marketing. In order to set yourself up for success you nee…
79: Google vs. Facebook Ads
If you're looking to really supercharge your marketing efforts, paid advertising can help you reach more people and get more customers. Hands down, the best bang for your buck is using digital ads on…
78: Rescuing Lost Customers
What do you do when you haven't seen a regular customer in a while? Do we just assume that they no longer need you or that they founds someplace else to go?
No way. They might not be lost forever - t…
77: Choosing Quality
In every market there are low end service offering and their are high end businesses. There is an audience for every kind of business so it's up to you to decide what kind you want to create, the kin…
76: Creating a Better Company Culture
Staffing continues to be one the biggest issue in the dog daycare industry. Everyone seems to be focused on where to find good people, how to interview and the quality of the candidate pool. All that…
75: How To Only Work With Awesome Clients (and Eliminate Pain-In-The-Butt Customers)
Wouldn’t it be great if you only had customers you loved? People who appreciated what you do, were amazingly loyal and made your job easy. Discover how you can create a business that attracts great c…
74: Creating Disney Magic In Your Business
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 possib…
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 d…
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…
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 peop…
69: Improving Your 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 bet…
68: How To Outdo and 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…
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…
66: How To Manage 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 mak…
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 al…
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 daycar…
63: The Cage-Free Boarding Business Model
Traditional dog boarding has historically meant placing dogs in kennels and is still the most common method dog businesses use for keeping dogs overnight. Recently, some businesses have been taking a…
62: Strengthening Your Brand with Email Marketing
There's lots of new tools and channels that you can use to reach leads and customers in today's ever changing digital ecosystem. They all have value and can work but no matter what new tool comes on …