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Pet care / Dog Walking
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Price:
$104.96
Includes Books/Manuals and 25 Software Titles to get your business started. See what's included below.
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Product Description
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If you like animals, the fast-growing business of Pet Daycare can very rewarding, personally and financially. In this kit you get marketing ideas, forms and checklists to keep you organized and many, many tips and tricks to ensure success. And every kit comes with a comprehensive business suite of software applications. All you need to run your business.
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Includes Biz Support Kit
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How to Start a Home-Based Pet Care Business,
Do you love animals? Have you ever dreamed of making them your life's work? Have you ever imagined yourself as a groomer, a dog walker/pet sitter, or an obedience trainer? This comprehensive book contains all the necessary tools and success strategies you will need to launch and grow your own home-based pet care business. Author Kathy Salzberg, a successful home-based groomer, shares her experience and down-to-earth advice on every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-based business. Throughout these pages she will show you how to develop a business plan, estimate your start-up costs, price your services, and stay profitable once you're in business. From painless record keeping to savvy marketing techniques, her step-by-step methods are realistic, innovative, and easy to understand. From advice on zoning and insurance to pet grooming and health issues, this guide can help you experience the satisfaction of building your won home-based business. Learn all about: what it takes to be a professional groomer, dog walker/pet sitter, or obedience trainer; attracting clients and gaining their trust; equipping your home office and shop; pricing competitively; setting your daily schedule; building your reputation; managing growth. The following special features as well as workbook pages are included: business registration form; sample business plan; sample client card; sample grooming menu; pet sitter's service contract; obedience trainer's contract; business opening press release; advertising and promotion checklist.
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Pet Sitting for Profit
It's estimated that professional pet sitters serve a million clients annually, and demand for their services is growing rapidly. Updated and expanded for today's entrepreneurs, Pet Sitting for Profit, Third Edition covers all the fundamentals of starting and operating a pet-sitting business. It addresses new challenges and concerns faced by novice and experienced pet sitters alike, as well as the issues fundamental to the field. With information on everything from office procedures and personnel to advertising and business forms, this book is invaluable to entrepreneurs interested in starting a pet-sitting business or making an existing business more profitable. It's laced with real-life stories from professional pet sitters—stories that show how to handle unexpected situations with furry, feathered, or finny pets or their owners.
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All About Dog Daycare...A Blueprint for Success
Work for yourself in the company of dogs. Enter the new and growing field of dog daycare! Whether just starting your daycare career or a seasoned veteran in the industry, this book provides proven techniques to give you a blueprint for success. You will discover - Basic information for starting a dog daycare including business resources, licensing information, zoning guidance, and legal, financial, and insurance concerns for the daycare owner. - Forms and record-keeping materials needed to operate a daycare. - How to provide a safe and stimulating environment that keeps the dogs healthy and happy and the staff safe. - Optional money-making services that daycare centers can provide. - Ideas for cost-effective marketing of the daycare business. - Troubleshooting ideas including how to handle clients with aggressive dogs, dealing with contagious diseases and expelling dogs from daycare. - How to monitor the relationships within a pack of dogs and identify control measures that can be used to maintain stability.
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Support Software Included
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3001 Business & Sales Letters
3,001 Business & Sales Letters is a deluxe version of Easy Letters . You get
all 2,100+ award-winning business, sales and personal letters, plus 901 additional
sales letters that will help you sell more with attention-getting messages and
persuasive sales copy! Close the deal with the perfect sales letter. No-risk,
30-day money-back guarantee. They know just what to say - and how to say it best!
Handle business correspondence with confidence with 3,001 Business & Sales Letters.
With this resource by your side, you'll handle hundreds of common writing tasks
with skill, wisdom, and confidence. |
 
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ACT! 2007
Enables individuals and small business
customers to instantly access key contact and customer information,
manage and prioritize activities, and track all contact-related
communications so you can grow productive business relationships. |
 
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Budget Express 3.0
Designed to help you keep
a step ahead of your bills. This simple, powerful software walks
you through all the steps needed for creating your first budget
and gives you the guidance required for sticking to it. |
 
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DrawPlus 8
This application takes drawing & graphics
on the PC another giant leap forward. With the amazing ability
to paint with photo-realistic brushes, with 200 vector and bit
map brushes, plus a host of other great features and usability
enhancements – it's the upgrade professional designers
and casual artists everywhere have been waiting for. |
 
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EMC Retrospect Express HD
This software is
a full-featured backup-and-restore product from the industry leader
in storage hardware and software. From music and photos, to email
and games, to schoolwork and tax returns, your PC contains all
kinds of valuable information. What happens if you mistakenly delete
or overwrite a file, a virus infects your computer, or your hard
drive fails? With Retrospect Express HD 2.0, you won't lose
a thing. |
 
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ExpensAble Version 7
A highly intuitive and
powerful tool that streamlines the task of preparing expenses.
ExpensAble uses intelligent features that automatically sort expenses
into key categories, perform all calculations, and remind expense
filers of forgotten expenses. ExpensAble takes the hassle out of
reporting expenses. |
 
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Financial Powertools
This program gives
users of all levels the ability to understand and take control
of their financial situations. Novice users and financial-analysis
veterans now have the tools to make sound financial decisions with
confidence and ease. Financial PowerTools' intuitive, multi-windows
interface allows computer novices to rapidly and clearly analyze
their financial situation. |
 
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FormTool Deluxe 6
Custom form creator FormTool
Deluxe is perfect for small business. Includes 800 sample forms,
250 label templates, 150 self-running form fillers. Import/export
data from various sources and publish to HTML. Includes a license
to FormTool Filler. |
 
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High Impact eMail 4.0 Professional
This
software gives you the power to change the way you communicate
with your customers. Send customized and personalized email newsletters,
promotions and messages that have lasting impact with just a few
simple clicks. Your emails will stand out from the crowd. |
 
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OfficeReady Professional
Created to help
small businesses get more done in less time, and look more professional
in the process. Packed with 400+ professional template designs
for: Microsoft Office, WordPerfect X3, and OpenOffice. An advanced
Photo Editor, PDF Roundtrip, Color Theme Manager, and more are
included as well. |
 
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OfficeReady Business Plans 2007
This application
gives you the entire toolset necessary to create a winning business
plan. This business plan software gives you a business plan document
template, sample business plans, an eBook guide, Excel spreadsheets
with formulas that crunch numbers, a built-in PDF publisher, and
presentation templates. |
 
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OfficeReady Marketing Plans 2007
Whether
you're starting a new business or seeking to enhance an existing
one, OfficeReady Marketing Plans contains the tools that will allow
you to formulate both the marketing plan and the numbers that underlie
it. |
 
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Org Chart Standard
Packed with the same features
and tools as our Professional version, OrgChart Standard, our organization
chart software is the perfect choice for companies with less than
50 employees. With our Org Chart software, quickly create, manage
and publish organization charts, work flow charts, or other hierarchical
information. |
 
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PagePlus X2
Serif's powerful Microsoft
Windows Vista certified desktop publisher. With PagePlus X2 it's
simple for anyone to create, publish, and share their designs as
outstanding printed documents, stunning PDFs, stylish websites,
and eye-catching emails. |
 
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PanoramaPlus 3
Serif's powerful image
and video frame stitching tool that enables everyone to broaden
their horizons in just 3 easy steps. Whether you wish to create
stunning panoramas of breathtaking landscapes, impressive tall
buildings, or even 360° virtual reality panoramas that can
be navigated and zoomed around, PanoramaPlus 3 has all the flexible
features you need to achieve fantastic results, fast! |
 
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Peachtree First Accounting 2008
This application
is an easy-to-use solution that improves your productivity. It
provides basic accounting tools to create invoices, record customer
payments, write checks, track expenses, produce customer statements,
and generate financial statements. Getting started is easy using
the Setup Guide and 20 instructional demos. First-time customers
receive 30 days of free support. |
 
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PhotoPlus11
This powerful new version of
Serif's image-editing superstar is now more powerful, flexible,
and easier to use than ever. Combining a powerful selection of
professional level image correction and adjustment tools with enhanced
usability features, the PhotoPlus 11 Studio Pack is a superb choice
for anyone looking to get the very best from their digital images. |
 
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QUICKEN Legal Business Pro 2007
You
don't need an attorney to start and run a business, most of the
legal work involved simply requires reliable information and the
right documents. With QUICKEN Legal Business Pro 2007, you'll
get everything you need to get the job done. |
 
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Resume Works Pro
Other brands use a one-size-fits-all
template. Resume Works Pro automatically determines the best resume
for you, given your career situation. Conceal inconsistencies in
your work history, emphasize cross-over skills to change industries,
and focus the attention on your best qualities. Whether you are
a first time job seeker, changing careers, or a seasoned executive,
you'll have all the career tools you need. |
 
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StuffIt Deluxe 11
This software provides a suite of tools
to help you access, compress, manage, protect, send, and backup
all your important files and images. Shrink documents up to 98-percent
of their original size. Free tons of space on your hard disk
and your flash drive. Expand Anything. Only StuffIt gives you
access to more than 20 different compression formats.
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TurboProject Professional
Create project
schedules, then assign resources, activities, and budgets. Includes
automatic over allocation warnings and other advanced features.
Publish to Web, PowerPoint, Excel, or Word. |
 
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WebPlus 10
Anyone can create a stylish website
in minutes thanks to its unique DTP style approach to web design
and instantly accessible interface. Now there's absolutely
no need to learn any complex programming languages - WebPlus 10
does all the work for you!
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OpenOffice 2
Organize your household records
and get a handle on where all the money goes. Do all the financial
planning, investment tracking, and personal information managing
you need to transform your household into a lean, mean, domestic machine.
Includes income and expense tracking, scheduling and budgeting, banking,
check printing, and much more.
A multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes the key desktop
applications, such as a word processor (Writer), spreadsheet (Calc),
presentation manager (Impress), and drawing program (Draw), with
a user interface and features set similar to other leading office
suites. |
 
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Sunbird Calendar
Sunbird Calendar offers various features, including the ability to
create scheduled events and to see an overview of events on a particular
day, week or month. The calendar can be shared by publishing it
to a WebDAV (World Wide Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning)-capable
server. WebDAV is a set of extensions to the basic HTTP (Hypertext
Transfer Protocol) underlying the Web, enabling people to collaboratively
edit and manage files on remote Web servers. |
 
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Thunderbird 1.5 Email
Thunderbird delivers. Enjoy safe, fast, and easy email, with intelligent spam filters, quick message search, and customizable views. Brought to you by Mozilla, Thunderbird makes email better. Full-Featured Email Simple to use, powerful, and customizable, Thunderbird is a full-featured email application. Thunderbird supports IMAP and POP mail protocols, as well as HTML mail formatting. Easily import your existing email accounts and messages. Built-in RSS capabilities, powerful quick search, spell check as you type, global inbox, deleting attachments and advanced message filtering round out Thunderbird's modern feature set. |
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