Download Free Professional “Planners”

The creators of PetGroomer.com also created the series of workbooks and CD’s called Grooming Business in a Box®. They are pleased to offer you complimentary planners too! Make sure you download free Outfit a Grooming Business™ Planners. Nothing compares to them. Think of them like shopping lists organizing everything you need to purchase for your workstation and toolkit, or to build out a major mobile grooming or pet salon business. They are that complete. Talk about making a complex task easy!

It gets better. The Outfit a Grooming Business™ section at PetGroomer.com includes vendor references for every item including vendor contact information! Using your planner you easily organize the number and cost of every item and then tally your shopping list. You know the exact costs required for your career or business. That’s right, your career too. You can chart the cost of your home study or grooming school education, and continuing education like seminars and workshops. Planners are located at this link, click here.
 

Available Planners in 2008

• Mobile Grooming Business - New or Expanding Business
• Home or Commercial Location Grooming Business
• Daily Shopping Planner for Groomers & Grooming Businesses

Everything is entirely free, no catches. We have included Microsoft Excel® versions as well as regular PDF versions. The Excel® versions tally your shopping lists automatically as you enter items. Easy!

Supplier Resources

It couldn’t be easier to find suppliers for nearly everything you need by using the resources included with Outfit a Grooming Business online. Use this link to access planners and hundreds of resources. In each category you will find contact information for vendors taken from the PetGroomer.com Yellow Pages.

Career seekers need to know that the grooming industry has very few grooming supply stores where you can shop onsite. The large majority of purchases are done through mail order and online catalogs. Otherwise you may be visited by door-to-door distributors in your area.

Some manufacturers sell only through distributors, while other manufacturers also sell their products direct to groomers. Large suppliers carry an impressive array of product lines including goods you can sell to your pet owner clients such as treats and toys. Most groomers use the major suppliers but they still buy some specialty products from manufacturers and distributors. As you come to identify your favorite brands and products you will probably refine your shopping to a few suppliers on a regular basis.

We setup a convenient list of distributors, manufacturers and suppliers in the PetGroomer.com Yellow Pages. Of course many of our favorites have links to their websites on the PetGroomer.com Home Page.

Some Internet friendly groomers find new and used products on auction websites. We encourage you to check the New & Used Grooming Products section in the PetGroomer.com Classified Ads. Our used products and equipment ads are free. This special offer makes it a popular place to shop.

Many of the online suppliers also have mail order catalogs. Groomers love to sit down with a beverage and a catalog and shop! That’s why we developed the Daily Shopping Planner for you to download and use regularly for all shopping. Print out a free copy, get comfy, open your catalogs (print or online) and organize a real shopping list with our planner. You simply enter the source of each item, the number of each item and its cost, and then total your shopping spree! If you are comfortable with spreadsheets, our Excel® version will add up your shopping automatically! When your planner is completed use it to make all purchases at the sources you indicated. Check them off as you order. What a great tool! Be sure to get one today at PetGroomer.com’s Outfit a Grooming Business™.

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