Are you aware of this great service provided by the Pet Industry Distributors Association (PIDA) and Global Pet Expo? They provide online training courses for a variety of topics that are useful to pet retailers that include: Customer service Animal care Merchandising Nutrition Manager training And did I mention it was free? That’s right. The [...]
If you’re a pet retailer looking for new revenue streams you may not have to look any further than your breakfast table. We’re talking eggs! Or chickens, actually, and in this case we know that they come first! Why? Because backyard chicken breeders are springing up in suburbs and cities all over the US as families [...]
We just filled out our application for press credentials to the 2012 HH Backer trade show today. Are you going? The 3-day show, scheduled for April 18 -20 in Atlantic City, NJ, is something we look forward to each year, especially because we’re based in New Jersey. So to have one of the largest and most [...]
Niki Tudge is the founder of The DogSmith, America’s only Force Free Dog Training and Pet Care Franchise, where she developed her proprietary methods of training dogs and their owners. As well as being incredibly effective, her techniques provide for a completely “positive” stress-free, non-threatening learning environment. Niki will discuss how she turned her love [...]
I’m happy to say that I’ll be attending my first BlogPaws conference later this month presenting a workshop on “Email Marketing — the Original Social Media!” I’m not only looking forward to meeting my fellow pet bloggers but also looking forward to learning some new tricks from the many other experts in attendance during the [...]
As a way to test market our new 36-page ebook and say “thank you” to our subscribers and website readers at the same time, we’re making our brand new ebook available for free download. Completely updated for 2011, “So You Want to Start a Pet Business” is being made available 100% FREE for a limited [...]
A couple of weeks ago we ran a SURVEY to get a better handle on who you, the readers, are. Out of the 14 categories, not including “other,” it seems 23% of respondents are not actually in the pet industry but are looking to be. The next highest result was 21% who categorized themselves as [...]
With the recent recall of several lines of pet food sold at Kroger’s now would be a good opportunity to reassure your own customers by sending them an email blast or posting flyers in your store to let them know that the pet food you sell is a safe alternative. RE-ENFORCING YOUR ROLE AS EXPERT Maybe they [...]
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If you’re a pet retailer, pet sitter, groomer, doggie daycare owner or any other type of petrepreneur you’re always looking for low-cost, yet effective ways to bring in new customers and show your appreciation to existing customers. Send Out Cards is an interesting way to simply use the power of “Thank You” cards, hand written [...]
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