How to Start a Home-Based Pet Care
Business, 2nd (Home-Based
Business Series) by Kathy Salzberg
How To Start A Home Based Pet Care Business
Do you love animals? Have you ever dreamed of making them your lifes
work? Have you ever imagined yourself as a groomer, a dog walker/pet
sitter, or an obedience trainer? This comprehensive book contains all the
necessary tools and success strategies you will need to launch and grow
your own home-based pet care business. Author Kathy Salzberg, a
successful home-based groomer, shares her experience and down-to-
earth advice on every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-
based business. Throughout these pages she will show you how to
develop a business plan, estimate your start-up costs, price your services,
and stay profitable once youre in business. From painless record keeping
to savvy marketing techniques, her step-by-step methods are realistic,
innovative, and easy to understand. From advice on zoning and insurance
to pet grooming and health issues, this guide can help you experience the

satisfaction of building your won home-based business. Learn all about:
what it takes to be a professional groomer, dog walker/pet sitter, or
obedience trainer; attracting clients and gaining their trust; equipping your
home office and shop; pricing competitively; setting your daily schedule;
building your reputation; managing growth. The following special features
as well as workbook pages are included: business registration form;
sample business plan; sample client card; sample grooming menu; pet
sitters service contract; obedience trainers contract; business opening
press release; advertising and promotion checklist. (7 x 10, 288 pages,
business forms, charts)
Personal Review: How to Start a Home-Based Pet Care
Business, 2nd (Home-Based Business Series) by Kathy Salzberg
There are two main aspects to a home-based Pet Care business, or in fact
to just about any business. First is the part of the business that is special to
the particular business. For a pet care business this includes such things
as grooming equipment that is unique to this business as opposed say to
starting a car repair shop. Second is the standard rules fo business. For
instance, what do you need in the way of business licenses, will you be a
corporation, what about insurance -- all that stuff. This book draws a nice
balance between the two requirements.
There's only one point I would do differently, not so much differently as
with a greater emphasis. That is: Get a Computer. You don't need the
latest and fastest, I bought quite an acceptable computer at a thrift shop for
$75. Then get some accounting software. When they get around to
questioning you, the IRS will look at computer generated reports with a lot
more acceptance than they will at any manual system. QuickBooks is a
good package (there are others). The latest version will cost you two or
three hundred dollars. Or you can buy last year's version on eBay for about
a hundred, or the year before that for about $65. Each year buy an income
tax package, about $20. Do your own taxes and then have an accountant
go over them. You can type stuff into the package just as well as he can
and he will charge you a bunch.
All in all the book is very well written, the authors clearly understand the
business. The writing style is clear and informative. Highly recommended.
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