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Let us share that PetGroomer.com came into being only as the result of Find A Groomer, Inc. (owner) becoming the world's leading pet grooming management consultation firm in 1987. Even today you have more fingers on your hands than there are similar firms. That's amazing when you consider the size of the grooming and overall pet industry. In fact in the 1960's when we opened our first grooming, there was NO formalized grooming business management training or books, and the same is essentially true of the 1970's and most of the 1980's! Even in the 1990's there are only a few grooming management consultation firms and we are NOT in competition with them. In fact, we're elated!

It's about time that management training be taken just as seriously as the art of pet grooming. You can be the world's best pet groomer and not know how to manage and maintain a stable, highly-profitable, legally compliant and valuable (maximum net worth - the greatest contributor to your eventual retirement) grooming business. All of these are grooming management factors, and you've got to become familiar with them as a business owner.

Management means you have a written "road map" and special business skills that will guide you to your career and business goals. If pet grooming was a vocationally licensed profession almost certainly required training would include some grooming management training, and there would be substantially more educational opportunities.

Too many pet groomers, in fact a huge majority, open grooming businesses and do well on their own but one day crash right into a wall of limitation. The wall is brick, and each brick is a problem. For example, one brick is the industry's chronic shortage of skilled full-charge groomers, and another is potent levels of stress generated by owner/groomers doing it all - from client reception, bathing, pre-clipping, finish trimming, marketing, advertising, cleaning and on and on, instead of having the means and freedom of know-how to delegate extensive labor burdens. Perhaps now you better understand why Madeline Bright Ogle, owner of PetGroomer.com, wrote the book From Problems to Profits - to help others take a hammer to the brick wall. Know that even today it is still the only extensive book dedicated to the business side of grooming for a MULTI-BILLION industry - ironic isn't it?

Fortunately more pet grooming schools today are offering some level of management training to students than ever before in the history of the industry. Their management training varies, from a few hours of management training part of a several hundred hour grooming course, to the industry's most advanced 40 hour career and/or business workshop and in a private 2 day version just for you and your associates.

Even today as the leading management consultation firm in the grooming industry, we attend regular continuing education. Everyone should in the industry, including the art of grooming and the business of grooming. Be sure to check our Industry Calendar for some of these opportunities.

The need for management training is obvious when we look at your expected duties as a manager and owner. You will be required to provide new customer and client services, maintain professional records, possibly hire and supervise staff, lease or rent a van or commercial space, maintain bookkeeping, prepare and file business tax returns, maintain adequate and proper insurance, manage a cost-efficient and productive operation, and much much more. These duties and responsibilities are NOT the artistic groomer in YOU, they are the MANAGER in YOU. They are learned and experienced only through advanced training just like the training you require to become the grooming artist. Without these skills you are at risk.

Based on our 14 years of providing management consultation to thousands of groomers and owners, the #1 leading cause of owner stress is a lack of grooming management training. Management solves problems, therefore, with management skills problems flourish. Yes, groomers do okay, and some very well and make money and get by, but the key is at what cost of business owner stress? Management skills free you to love your business. In fact, many readers of our books and those that attend our Workshop say with the knowledge they gained from us, "I fell back in love with my business again." Recently, Vicki Hargett of Alpharetta, Georgia told us that by her getting more management training she did just that, and now she can't wait to go to work every day. That's awesome!

Get all the business and grooming continuing education you can and network with other business owners of all types in your area to learn and share what works best in their businesses, and their valuable lessons. If you are a career seeker, make management training a part of your earliest training so you can better plan your career from the get go.

What About Home Study or Online Grooming Courses?

There are a growing number of opportunities for home study and online courses in grooming. The advent of the Internet is making education at home more possible than ever. Click here to see a list of home study opportunities.