Episode 284 - Juggling a Pet Sitting Business, Conference Organising and Adopting Seven Children, with Jessica Milam
The Poodle to Pitbull Pet Business Podcast
Release Date: 02/13/2023
Episode 360: Pet Passion to Profit: Bill Betts’ Journey from Police Officer to Pet Business Guru
The Poodle to Pitbull Pet Business Podcast
Todays awesome guest is Bill Betts who runs Pet Passion to Profit, a coaching group for dog groomers. Bill used to be a policeman but left the force in 2021 after mental health struggles. Whilst in the force he had been helping his wife Emma out with her busy grooming business A to Z Animal Care. He joined a business accelerator program in 2020 which sparked an entrepreneurial shift, and set him off in a coaching direction, which led to his current role as a business coach to dog groomers all over the U.K. Tune in to discover; Bills Business Journey: Hear how he...
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Episode 359 - Old School Marketing Magic: Five Classic Techniques to Grow Your Pet Business
The Poodle to Pitbull Pet Business Podcast
Does marketing your pet business make your feel overwhelmed and overworked? Are you tired of running ever faster on the social media treadmill, but getting ZERO return? Would you like to learn a better, easier way to market your pet business, that your competitors would NEVER do? Then you are in luck, because in this weeks episode I am sharing five 'Old-School' marketing methods that you can start using TODAY to help you more easily attract better clients. Tune in to discover; The Power of Networking - How to do networking that works for YOUR business. Find the white-hot...
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Episode 358 - Behind the Scenes at The 2024 Pet Business Success Summit - Part Deux!
The Poodle to Pitbull Pet Business Podcast
What were the big pet business boosting takeaways that the attendees learned at IMPACT 24? You'll find out in this weeks show, because this is part 2 of the behind the scenes at the Pet Business Success Summit! Tune in to discover; How to Systemize for Success: How speaker Adam Delderfield wowed the crowed with his customer journey map Canine Wedding Niche: How PBIC Marketer of the Year inspired attendees with her new business Social Media Success: Attendees learned how to write like they speak, which will improve all content Pet Biz Origin Story Secrets: Why your origin...
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Episode 357: Behind the Scenes at IMPACT 24!
The Poodle to Pitbull Pet Business Podcast
It's time to go behind the scenes at the IMPACT 2024 Pet Business Success Summit! You'll hear from the attendees and speakers about the amazing seminars, networking opportunities, the actionable plan they took away, and the 'feel-good' factor that only happens at a Dom Hodgson IMPACT event! Grab your ticket for next years IMPACT by clicking now Get ready to discover; * Why Batman, Spiderman, Supergirl and the Hulk turned up at IMPACT 2024... * Why you need a 'Superhero' origin story, that tells clients WHY you do, what you do... * How Adam Delderfield blew everyone with his...
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Episode 356 - The 2024 Pet Business Marketer of the Year: The Heats are On!
The Poodle to Pitbull Pet Business Podcast
IMPACT 24 is here which means that ambitious pet business owners from all over the world will make the pilgrimage to the Grand Hotel to enjoy two full days of pet business marketing magic in the wonderful city of Sunderland! It also means the Pet Business Inner Circle marketer of the year will be crowned, so in this weeks show I'm going to share the presentations from the six awesome pet business owners who entered the competition. You'll hear from; * Caroline Sammon from Rebarkable adventures as she shares how she took the lessons learned at IMPACT 23 to Disnify her...
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Episode 355 - Dom's Speaker Journey, Eight Years Running LIVE Pet Business Events
The Poodle to Pitbull Pet Business Podcast
We are one week away from IMPACT 24, so I thought I'd share a behind the scenes look at what went down over the last 8 years of my speaker journey. Tune in to hear more from; * My first presentation from my first Poodle to Pitbull Pet Business Bootcamp back in 2017 (hear how BAD I was!) * In 2018 I delivered two bootcamps, a dog walkers and a dog trainers special. You discover why niching is the way forward in your business. * There is one BIG difference between dog trainers who are super successful and those that aren't. I share that secret in this snippet from the dog...
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Episode 354 - Designing a Disnified Pet Business – A Look Back at IMPACT 23
The Poodle to Pitbull Pet Business Podcast
June sees the return of IMPACT - The Pet Business Success Summit, and this year it’s a superhero themed event as Pet Business Owners from all over the world 'Assemble' in Sunderland to learn how to upgrade to 'Superhero' levels of excellence... So, in the coming weeks, as the event of the year gets nearer, Dom will be sharing some behind the scenes his IMPACT 24 prep. To get you warmed up for that, in this weeks show he's sharing the opening presentation from last years IMPACT event, which was the Disnify Your Pet Business Success Summit. Dom started the show by talking about how you can...
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Episode 353 - Dom's Mid-Year Pet Business Review
The Poodle to Pitbull Pet Business Podcast
We are approaching the half-way point of the year, which means it's time for Dom to conduct a mid-year review of his business. What has been a spectacular success, and what was a phenomenal flop? Did Dom hit his targets or was the first half of 2024 a muddle of marketing mistakes? Tune in to discover; How to build a business around the kind of life you want to live (and how long it took Dom to do that) Why Segmentation is the watchword for Dom's promotions this year Why Dom had to re-arrange his working week, in order to maintain his productivity streak How to make...
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Episode 352 - Introducing PetBizSuite! The CRM Sales Engine Your Pet Business Needs
The Poodle to Pitbull Pet Business Podcast
When someone lands on your website, are they greeted with educational information that positions you as an expert, moves them closer to the sale AND makes them feel at ease because they've found the expert they are looking for? If not, then that might explain why your adverts and social media activity aren't converting into sales. Truth is, most pet business websites are a hot mess of overwhelming options that do little to NOTHING to grow the business. And if you aren't collecting contact details and doing email follow up then you are missing out on LOTS of future sales...
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Episode 351: The Secret to a Systemized, Scaleable, Fully Automated Pet Business
The Poodle to Pitbull Pet Business Podcast
Do you have a system to track your customer journey? So, new clients, existing clients and lapsed clients all get the right marketing message? Did you know you can automate this process with a CRM system like PetBizSuite? Most pet business owners never experience the freedom that comes when you add automation to your marketing machine, and in this weeks episode, Dom and Josh Hightower talk about the quick and easy automations you should add to your business, and how PetBizSuite can save a ton of time and energy because it comes pre-loaded with these automations. Tune in to...
info_outlineThis 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 and daycare facility when she finished her degree and bachelor's, but a lack of funds meant
Jessica took the unusual step of starting and growing a pet care business whilst at the same time working full time for her dad. A motorcylce injury forced her to take a step back, and it was then she decided to go full time with Fur Services Fur Pets.
Since then the team has grown dramatically, they just celebrated their best year ever, and won Naaps Pet Sitter of the year 2022.
In this packed episode you will discover;
- Why it's a total trip working in the business with hubby Chris, but why you also need clearly defined roles when you work with family members.
- The unusual benefits that happen when you start a pet business, whilst also working in a full time job
- How to ride the wave of scaling up with staff and letting people go as demand for services changes over the seasons.
- Why there's always an opportunity to start a pet business even if you have no experience, and no money!
- What an organisational team looks like for a national pet sitting conference
- How Jessica survived for nearly six months with hardly any sleep as they adopted a family of seven children aged 6-13!
And much, much more...
Tune in now to find out more about Jessica's amazing story tune in now!
Find out more about Jessica's business click here now
To find out more about the Texas Pet Sitters Conference click here now
To find out about Dom's USA tour of his Grow Your Pet Business FAST! seminar click here now
And if you enjoyed that you should grab a copy of my brand new book How to Disnify Your Pet Business, click here to grab it now
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To grab a ticket to IMPACT 23 - The Disnify Your Pet Business Success Summit, click here now