Dog Grooming Business Help & Support – Details, episodes & analysis

In this episode, Bill is joined by Lauren, the owner of Tamed Tails to talk about home grooming.

Business is going well for Lauren, so Bill asked her onto the podcast to talk about how it's going, the challenges and what works well as a home groomer.

This podcast is sponsored by Lopay the low-cost payment platform, helping you keep more of your hard-earned money.

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In this episode, following a question in his Facebook Group Bill goes live, to talk about why your business might be in a dip and what you can do to keep things moving. This podcast is sponsored by Lopay, the low-cost payment platform that helps you keep more of the money you earn. Want to know how YOUR Pet Grooming business is doing? Why not take my Groomer Health Check: https://petpassiontoprofit.com/quiz/

In this episode, Bill catches up with Richard the owner of Lopay this podcast sponsor and a payment platform that many groomers are now using, saving them more money. We talk to Richard about the platform, updates since his last project and benefits that people within our community can make the most of so be sure to listen to the end of the code. If you have enjoyed this episode, be sure to subscribe on your podcast provider.

Allowing people to pay for your services by card is vital in my opinion. It is also very easy now and there are a number of companies that can help you.

However as you get busier you need to watch how much is going through your card machine as you maybe able to get a cheaper rate. I talk to Richard all about this.

You can contact Richard for further details here

www.secure-payment-solutions.co.uk 

www.petpassiontoprofit.com

Trademarks is a topic that comes up a lot in my  Facebook Group so I sought the help of a professional to talk to us.

This is an awesome talk and is a must if you want to know more about trademarking your business name and logo.   Becky Knott is an Associate at Barker Brettell LLP. She is a Trade Mark Attorney Litigator and Chartered Trade Mark Attorney and was named as a ‘Rising Star’ by Managing IP in its IP Stars rankings for 2020-2021. Becky advises clients on protecting and enforcing their trade mark rights. This involves supporting the registration, use, and exploitation of new and existing trade marks, helping clients to protect the identity and integrity of their brands whether via prosecution or enforcement. She has a special interest in the Medical, Cosmetics, Fashion, and Start-Up sectors.   

Barker Brettell LLP is a boutique Intellectual Property firm specialising in trade marks, patents, designs, and copyright. It assists businesses of all sizes in protecting their brands, ideas, innovations, designs, trade secrets or business solutions. It offers a wide range of services, covering the prosecution process (securing registration of a trade mark or patent, for instance) through to more contentious work (including oppositions and infringement work).

Barker Brettell’s trade mark department is among the largest of any private patent and trade mark attorney practice across the United Kingdom. It is also one of the highest filers of UK and European trade mark applications  

https://www.facebook.com/groups/doggroomingbusinesshelpandsupport/

https://www.barkerbrettell.co.uk/people/becky-knott/

www.petpassiontoprofit.com

I wanted to talk to Holly as I had seen her business on the internet. Holly started as a Pet groomer and then grew her business to what it is now. Woof & Ready now offers Grooming, Day care and Hydrotherapy.

I thought this was really interesting adding branches onto the pet grooming business.

You can see what Holly does here

http://www.woofandready.com/

Petra is a brand photographer that helps Pet Professionals with their branding. We discuss how branding can help to elevate your business and can help you charge more for your services.  

You can find out more about Petra at 

https://petra-brandphotography.co.uk

Lots more going on in our Facebook group Dog Grooming Business Help & Support.

www.petpassiontoprofit.com

Robin is a business coach, speaker and best selling author. In this episode we talk about pricing, products and mindset. After listening I recommend buying a copy of Take Your Shot.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Take-Your-Shot-Business-Attract/dp/0995776806/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1623740651&sr=8-1

Here is more about Robin.

Robin is the Founder of Fearless Business, regular speaker at various business events and bestselling author of several books, including Online Business Startup, Marketing Machine and the recent popular release Take Your Shot.

He puts his 2 decades of business experience to work, coaching clients to reach their goals, create more time and increase their revenue.

From the age of 18, Robin spent four years as a systems analyst for a medical devices company, increasing their turnover by 50 per cent, from £1m to £1.5m.

From 2004 to 2016 Robin led a successful marketing agency serving over 250 clients. During this time delivering workshops and masterclasses that helped over 1,000 business owners improve their marketing, product architecture, pricing, websites and digital advertising.

Behind the scenes Robin is a husband and father to two young girls, a surfer and Sunday warrior (road cyclist). He hates going up the hills but is well known at his local cycling club for his descending at speeds more than 50mph down said hills.

Robin holds a Guinness World Record for participating in the largest ever speed networking event, has raised over £5k for a local Children’s charity in the last 4 years and has a goal to help remove 100kg of plastic from the World’s Oceans within the next 12 months via another charity he supports – 4Ocean.

Website: https://robinwaite.com/ & https://fearless.biz
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RobinMWaite
Facebook: https://facebook.com/RobinMWaite
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/RobinMWaite

Richard is the founder of Thrism Bookkeeping. Specialising in small businesses, providing hands on assistance when needed, training, set up and longer term relationships .   

He offers free advice, information, motivation and inspiration across the internet.  

You can get hold of Richard via Facebook or hello@thrism.com

We received a 1 star review the other day and this is my thoughts around it, how to respond to it and what to do about it.