Poodle to Pitbull Pet Business Podcast - Episode 65
The Poodle to Pitbull Pet Business Podcast
Release Date: 07/28/2019
The Poodle to Pitbull Pet Business Podcast
Katie Casell was born, raised and still still lives in Miami - a true Miamiam - where she now serves the community as Miami's number #1 force-free dog trainer. Katie has been holding a dog leash since she was in dipers, and grew up with a love for dogs and horses, a passion she inherited from her animal loving dad, who also trained dogs, horses and parrots. She worked as a groom aged 17, but then fell into a sales job selling pest control, before she started 20 year career with a floral importer. Katie could see the writing on the wall with her sales job, and so started...
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This weeks guest is the marvellous Jennifer Wolf-Pierson, the general manager of ABC pet resort in Houston, who this month celebrate their 32nd year in business! However, she wears a number of different hats, and is also a big part of the Turnkey design and build team, who give advice to people who want to open pet care facilities, people who are remodelling pet care facilities, and they also provide pet facility management courses. In her own words, Jennifer grow as a 'spoiled, only child mad about horses'... This passion continued into her teenage years, she did an agricultural...
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This weeks guest is Charles Countryman who along with wife Laura, runs K9-Culture, a 53,000 square foot,premier boarding and training facilty in Carrollton, Texas. Charles grew up in North Idaho, and joined the Army two weeks after leaving high-school. He eventually wanted to be a police officer so joined as an MP. Despite not wanting to travel, Charles ended up leaving basic training and ending up in Panama, he also saw Korea, Japan, the Gulf, and spent six-months in Somalia where he ended up in an accident that cost him the loss of a lot of his hearing. He left the army, met...
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This weeks guest is agression dog specialist Michael Shikashio. Michael grew up in a suburb of Rhode Island, as part of the only Japanese family in a big town of Irish and Italians families. He was encouraged by his parents to follow a maths based career, but struggled to settle studying engineeering, so ended up doing restaurant management. He worked as a sushi chef to put himself through school, which led to a job working as a chef, and eventually as a butler in the world famous Foxwoods casino, which he did for 20 years. Michael always had an entrepreneurial drive, and...
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This weeks show is an inspirational interview with Joey Stevens tells who went from sleeping in his car to establishing himself as Atlanta's premier 'stress-free' dog groomer! Joey grew up in Florida but didn’t settle well at school, and left as soon as he could with an entrepreneurial ambition to do something different. He's had many jobs over the years, and tried many businesses including working at Walmart, buying and selling cars, running a seed business called 'a sprouts life', retailing on his eBay store, working as a roofer, and he had an interesting acting...
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This weeks guest is Jeremy Cohen who describes himself as the luckiest lawyer on earth, because he runs a practice that helps pet dog owners by advocating for their pets rights. Jeremy developed a great work ethic by helping out in his parents bakery, serving coffee, making bacon and running the till at just 8 years old! He earned his way through high-school working part-time at a local roast beef restaurant, and continued this job as he followed his dad and brother into law school. After passing the bar exam he worked in insurance for a number of years before starting up his own...
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Do you dream of being known as the Disney Doggy Business in your town? Would you love to know the secrets to building a business that is see, known and revered as being the 'top dog' in your town? Do you struggle to stand out from the competion and do you wish you knew how to better attract affluent clients? Well, you're in luck, because in today's show Dom shares exactly how you can go from ordinary to extraordinary! You will discover; How to Price like Disney so you can easily afford to reinvest in the business AND provide a Ritz like experience for your clients How to use...
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This weeks guest is one of the busiest pet professionals I've ever had on the show... Jessica Milam is the CEO of Fur Services Fur Pets, a thriving pet sitting business in Aubrey, Texas. She also runs a Sign Gypsies franchise, is on the board and plays a big role in the Texas Pet Sitters Conference, and in November 2021 she and hubby Chris adopted seven children! Born in an entreprenuerial family Jessica was great at maths at school, and ended up using those skills doing accounts and systemising her dads air conditioning business. She had dreams of starting her own boarding...
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Do you WOW your pet business clients on a regular basis? Do they tell stories to their dog owning friends about the AMAZING things you do for them? Would you like to turn your customers into raving fans who are so blown away by what you do, that they feel compelled to keep spending money with you, AND referring their dog owning friends? And...would you love to attract more affluent clients who can afford to pay your higher priced services? Then this is the episode for you because I'm talking to Vance Morris, the Disney customer service expert who is a master at helping...
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What the hell happens on a VIP Private Consultion Day with Dom? Answer...A LOT! And...you can get a sneaky peak behind the scenes of a consultation day by listening to this weeks show, where you'll hear from Jake Long who runs Privilaged Paws Pet Care in Dallas, Texas. Jake co-hosted my recent Grow Your Pet Business FAST! seminar in Texas, and he's been one of my Elite International One-to-One clients for 8 months. In that time he has established his thriving pet care business as the premium (most expensive) dog walking service in Dallas. We hashed out his BIG plans for world...
info_outlineIn today’s ‘Bonus’ Episode Dom is sharing the PT Barnum promotional trick you can use to boost your pet business and leapfrog the competition. There’s also a ‘behind the scenes’ peak at this years marketer of the year presentations from IMPACT 2019. Early bird tickets for IMPACT 2020 are only available until Wednesday 31st July. Go to www.growyourpetbusiness.com/impact2020