That's an important message you can help spread as even today less than 50% of U.S. pets are regularly groomed by a professional. Is the market large? It's huge. Just a few years ago there were only about 17,500 pet grooming businesses in the U.S. and today there are about 27,000. With over 115 million dogs and cats in the U.S. there are nearly 5,000 dogs and cats for every grooming business. No wonder they are so busy. Did you know that while we hear about people out of work there are THOUSANDS of groomer job openings year round? Many of these positions pay up to $50K a year with benefits for highly skilled employees. Did you know that since the 9/11 tragedy the pet grooming industry has seen its gross product increase by $1.5 billion a year to over $30 billion a year in the U.S.? At this web site alone there are an average of 500 to 1,000 job openings posted in the Classified Ads Main Area. What is of most interest is the people that become pet grooming business owners. Unlike previous decades, the advent of career information on the Internet, as well as more professional training programs, thousands of workers and even well-paid professionals are entering the pet grooming industry everyday.

The desire to be self-employed AND work with pets is compelling with them. Many leave high paying jobs to start over in pet grooming just because they love pets and the thought of owning their own business. We have seen bankers, lawyers, salespersons, accountants and programmers depart their fields to work with pets. The stereotypical image of pet grooming business owner is not always a prosperous one, but don't be fooled. As consultants, we counsel many groomers that choose to earn about $25,000 to $35,000 a year from a desired working lifestyle, but we also counsel a surprising number of grooming businesses owners that are netting $75,000 to $250,000 a year (personal income prior taxes) from their large, aggressively growing businesses across the U.S. The market is there, you simply have to choose how large a business you want to grow. It's really not a matter of right and wrong, just how large do you want to grow.

Of course, there is one chronic problem in the industry and that is the shortage of skilled pet groomer employees. It's very bad in some areas. However, as consultants we conquered that problem years ago and today train others how to resolve it in our book, From Problems to Profits and workshops. Once they learn the resolution, many go on to create those large businesses and incomes that shock even veteran groomers without our knowledge and consultation assistance. PetGroomer.com enjoys about 4,000 unique visitors a day on average a day throughout PetGroomer.com.

We are the world's leading career center for groomers. With 40+ years field experience and one time owners of one of the world's largest and most profitable grooming businesses, we have the answers and assistance career seekers need. As consultants we teach management and business courses too in becoming a prosperous grooming business owner and recently we had a banker, office manager, veterinarian for Jakarta, and an accountant all leaving their professions to own a business working with pets.

Did you know there are those making personal net incomes of $50,000 to $100,000 a year? They are truly "businesspeople that groom" and often they come from middle-management positions either through layoffs or willing career changes into the services portion of the pet industry, now equal in size to the retail portion. At PetGroomer.com we host the industry's only pet grooming business management consultant site, Find A Groomer, Inc., who break down the stereotypical image of pet grooming businesses into humane, prosperous, state-of-the-art, high profile locations and first-class client services at affordable prices, and following their lead others are doing the same and making major incomes in pet care.

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