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101BEST 1 Turn your passion into 0 your career 1 B U S I N E S S E S B If there is nothing you love more than animals, E then 101 Best Businesses for Pet Lovers will S FOR help you turn this love into a real money-maker. T Whatever your special talents, monetary circum- B P E T L OV E R S stances, or dreams for the future, this book will U give you the information you need to start your S own successful pet business. I N This book will tell you what you need to know to start E S these and many other businesses just for pet lovers: S E What You Need to Know about S Pet food and supply retailer Pet relocation service Starting and Succeeding in a Pet Pet photographer Pet artist F O Doggie daycare Pet greeting card maker R Business of Your Own Cat furniture maker Aquarium maintenance P E Professional pet sitting Pet masseuse T Pet party host Pet talk radio show host L Professional dog groomer Animal party choreographer O V E R Business/Pets $18.95 U.S./ $24.95 CAN/ £9.99 U.K. S ISBN-13: 978-1-57248-634-8 ISIBSNB-N10 1: 15-757224488-663344-1-1 5 1895 NIGRO & C NIGRO P N WWW.SPHINXLEGAL.COM U EA 7 60789 21776 0 9 781572 486348 & JOSEPH NIGRO NICHOLAS NIGRO 101 BEST BUSINESSES FOR PET LOVERS 101 BEST BUSINESSES FOR PET LOVERS What You Need to Know about Starting and Succeeding in a Pet Business of Your Own Joseph Nigro and Nicholas Nigro S P PHINX® UBLISHING ANIMPRINTOFSOURCEBOOKS, INC.® NAPERVILLE, ILLINOIS www.SphinxLegal.com Copyright © 2007 by Joseph Nigro and Nicholas Nigro Cover and internal design © 2007 by Sourcebooks, Inc.® Cover photos © Digital Vision All rights reserved. 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Nigro, Nicholas J. II. Title. III. Title: One hundred one best businesses for pet lovers. SF414.7.N54 2007 338.4'76360887--dc22 2007026787 Printed and bound in the United States of America. SB — 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 CONTENTS Introduction:A Pet-pourri of Entrepreneurial Opportunities . . . . . . . . . .ix The Pet Entrepreneur Profile Business Planning ABCs The Business Plan in Action Making It All Legal Laws and Disorder A Checklist for Starting Your Business Pet Food for Thought Chapter I:Services for the Four-legged . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Professional Dog Groomer • Mobile Dog Grooming Professional Dog Trainer • Mobile Dog Training Professional Dog Walking Professional Pet Sitting • Fetch! Petcare Franchise Pet Masseuse Chapter II:Services for Pet Parents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19 Professional Pooper Scooping Pet Minister Pet Grief Counselor Pet Relocation Service Pet-Parenting Tutor Pet Health Insurance Consultant 101 Best Businesses for Pet Lovers Animal Party Choreographer Perfect Dog Locating Service • Perfect Cat Locating Service • Perfect Pet Locating Service Chapter III:Pet Careers:Full-time & Part-time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47 Veterinary Technician • Veterinary Assistant • Veterinary Physical Therapist Veterinarian Aquarium Maintenance Pet Food Sampler Home Delivery Service Pond Design and Maintenance Invisible Fence® Installation Pet Talk Radio Show Host Pet Party Host Reptile Breeding Bird Breeding Small Animal Breeding Aquarium Fish Breeding • Tropical Fish • Marine Fish Chapter IV:Pet Product Manufacturing & Inventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77 Premium Dog Food Maker Dog Biscuit and Treat Maker Premium Cat Food Maker Cat Litter Inventor Cat Toy Inventor Dog Toy Inventor Bird Toy Inventor Aquarium Ornament Inventor Chapter V:Throwing Your Special Talents to the Dogs, Cats,and Birds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105 Doggie Fashions Designer • Dog Jacket and Coat Designer • vi Contents Dog Sweater Designer • Dog Shirt Designer Pet-Themed People Clothes Pet Leash Designer • Pet Collar Designer Pet Bed Designer Pet Carrier Designer Cat Furniture Maker • Cat Scratching Post Maker Pet Casket Maker Bird Feeder Maker • Birdhouse Maker • Wild Birds Unlimited Franchise • Wild Bird Centers of America Franchise Pet Photographer Pet Artist Pet Writer Pet Reference Book Author Chapter VI:Merchandise for Pet People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143 Pet Button Maker Pet Bumper Sticker Seller Pet T-Shirt Peddler Pet Fad Pet License Plates and License Plate Frames Pet Coffee Mugs Pet Collector Plates Pet Greeting Card Maker • Hand-painted Pet Greeting Cards • Pet Postcard Maker Pet Candle Making Pet Memorial Markers Pet Memorial Plaques Chapter VII:Brick-and-Mortar Pet Retailing & Franchises . . . . . . . . .169 Pet Food and Supply Retailer • Pet Shop • Bird Shop • Aquarium Fish Retailer Pet Hotel Proprietor vii 101 Best Businesses for Pet Lovers Doggie Daycare • Central Bark Franchise Pet Bakery Pet Boutique Dog Wash • The Pooch Mobile Franchise Pet Franchisee Pet Business Franchises Chapter VIII:The Truth is Stranger than Fiction:More Unusual Pet Care Business Ideas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .211 Catnip Farmer • Catnip Merchandise Maker Geese Away • Geese Police Franchise Holiday Pet Merchandise Seller Doggie Summer Camp Cricket Farmer Aquarium Plant Farmer Dog Star Pet Cemetery Proprietor Pet Identification Tag Maker Chapter IX:The Virtual Truth:Online Pet Business Opportunities . . .241 eBay Pet Merchandise Seller Online Pet Newsletter Online Pet-Dating Network Pet Merchandise Catalogue: Mail & Online Afterword:The Sky’s the Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .257 Appendix A:A Crash Course in Marketing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .259 Appendix B:Professional Associations & Informational Websites . . . . .273 Appendix C:Additional Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .279 About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .281 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .283 viii INTRODUCTION A Pet-pourri of Entrepreneurial Opportunities I made my entrepreneurial debut at the tender age of nineteen. The year was 1979—a simpler snapshot in time. A peanut farmer with a toothy smile was the president. Bill Gates was an inconspicuous Windows® salesman. And the phrase pet care wasn’t ever uttered in the same breath as big business. As fate would have it, my fledgling business endeavor found me the co- owner with Rich Covello of a mom-and-pop shop called Pet Nosh. Located on a well-traveled boulevard in the New York City borough of Queens, the place sold pet food and supplies. The business soothsayers of the day deemed it a grungy way to earn a dollar; a monetary dead-end that catered to a small clique of pet fanatics. Despite all the doomsday analysis and dire predictions about my chosen busi- ness path, I nonetheless set out after my slice of the American dream with confidence. My partner and I were hell-bent on carving out ours by servicing pet owners and their growing legions of pets. We sensed that the people/pet connection was on the cusp of something big—really big—and that Pet Nosh could share in its bounty if we played our business cards right. To make a long story short, the Pet Nosh ownership bid adieu to the retail sliver of the pet care trade in 1996. That is, we sold Pet Nosh’s eight superstores in the
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