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Stage One – Initial Education
Every career seeker enters with a need for
training. The first stepping stone laid on
your path comes with your decision for
grooming training. The most popular sources of
training for entry-level career seekers are:
PetGroomer.com has the most extensive
resources available for career seekers. These
resources include leads for grooming schools,
home study, apprenticeships and training
programs. Refer to the
Home Page. Click
links to websites offering grooming training
matching the three categories above.
Both the
PetGroomer.com Classified
Ads and
PetGroomer.com Resources Directory have section
for schools, home study and employment with
training.
Come on down! Join other career seekers at
Groomer TALK Message Board. It’s a
sledgehammer breaking down the communication
limitations of our industry. At PetGroomer.com
today’s and tomorrow’s groomers network! You
can potentially save years of trial and error.
Stage Two – Employment or Self-Employment
After completing Stage One there is early fork
in your path. It’s a large decision too.
- Employment as a pet groomer
- Self-employment as a pet groomer
If you have no financial resources
employment is a certainty. Self-employment
requires start-up capital. We have helped many
pet groomers prepare professional “shoestring
budget” business plans using
Pet Grooming Business Plan Helper & Sampler,
a Grooming Business in a Box® workbook and
CD-ROM. Shoestring budgets generally require
$5,000 start-up capital for an in-home
business. For less than $10,000 shoestring
mobile grooming business plans finance a new
or used conversion and get the new groomer
started in self-employment. Generally
shoestring budgets for commercial shops and
salons start at $25,000 and quickly rise.
Remember our product includes a “sampler” of
seven real business plans by career seekers
like you. There is another important
consideration to use as a compass in
deciding which fork to take in your career
path at this point. We would have you ask
yourself this question, “Do I want to get
more hands-on experience working in a
staffed business before I own my own
business? Be certain you realize that when
you graduate from your initial training, you
remember we used the word “initial.” You have
plenty of experience to gain as well as
productivity. You’re likely to have had
little experience in the daily operations on
intake and outtake of pets with their
owners, let alone factors of marketing,
client relations, record keeping and much
more. The more knowledge and experience you
clock, the more confident you will be in
self-employment. We're just beginning to
discover the different paths, click the
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