The Pet Grooming Industry is huge! With doting pawrents, Pet Grooming Businesses are growing bigger and bigger. Thinking of starting your own Pet Grooming Business? Here’s a quick guide on how you do it.

1. Love Pets

If you want to start your own pet grooming business, you must have an inherent love for animals. You must be able to hire and train handlers who have the same appreciation as you do as they will be in primary contact with animals. Build a team of professionals who have empathy towards animals so they will care for them and understand their needs.

Be mindful that not all pets can be groomed, so you have to be careful about the entire process. Be sure you talk to the pawrents to know if their fur babies have special needs, or is it the pets first time to be groomed, is the pet okay being touched by strangers, etc.

2. Location, location, location

As in any other business, your location is important. This will be crucial on how profitable your business is going to be depending on the amount of foot traffic you get — or in this case, the paw traffic you’re going to get. Now, there are also companies that provide grooming services on the road. Some grooming businesses can even do home service for clients with pets who are afraid of car rides. May it be in store, on the road, or in a clients’ home, pet grooming is in demand for pawrents all over the world.

It’s up to you on how you can utilize your resources in providing the best grooming service to your clients.

3. Marketing

Let’s face it — any type of business needs Marketing. To promote your Pet Grooming Business, you can target a smaller or much closer group for you to be known — your neighbourhood. Develop a website and be active on social media so your potential customers can see where you are located and how much it would cost to groom a pet.
Don’t forget to share photos or videos on social media because a good number of your customers are already there. You can be smart with your captions and use hashtags on Instagram for easy search. Social Media is an effective tool to market your business. I mean, dog and cat photos are cute and irresistible. What more if you start posting videos of newly groomers pups? Your Instagram notifications would explode!

4. Supplies

You may not be a brick and mortar store but often times pet grooming businesses also sell goods to their customers. Even if you only offer grooming services, you’re going to need supplies. Ensure that you have a budget for your space, equipment, and grooming supplies.
The last thing we want to happen is run out of water or dog shampoo in the middle of grooming a pet inside a clients’ home.

5. Transactions

Any business needs to finalize transactions in order to get paid from a job well done. In this kind of industry where work is so in demand, you must be able to keep up with your customers’ needs. Some of your customers may be very busy and holding up a line or being late for the next appointment will just give you both problems.
As a Pet Grooming Business, you need to be able to accept payments and provide receipts on the spot. You can use a mobile payment processing system that can do that for you even when you’re on the road. MX is an excellent tool to use for any type of business, much like yours. With this, you can process payments faster, close more deals, monitor revenue, and record customer information for future services.

Use this guide for you to get started on building a Pet Grooming Business. Having a company while doing what you love is a dream come true!
If you don’t have MX Merchant yet, give us a call (link to number) and we’d be glad to set that up for you. We can even provide training for your team to lessen your burden.