The Gingr Blog

This is a guest blog written by our friends at Broadly.com

The pet-care industry - whether dog boarding kennels, dog daycare, dog grooming or dog training - continues to grow by, well, leaps and bounds. With that growth comes some important trends to consider when planning for pet-care business in 2019.

A growing number of pet care facilities are providing webcam access to their customers.  While many business choose not to allow their customers to 'plug in' to their pet's day with a 'big brother'-type of service, webcams can provide a variety of benefits to your business.

With the haze from western wildfires so thick here in Boulder this week (we can't even see the Rocky Mountains) and cleanup in Texas and LA after Hurricane Harvey—it's hard not to think of disaster preparedness for your pet care business. Today's news reveals that natural disasters can happen pretty much anywhere, so it pays to make plans regardless of your geography.

This blog contains content from the 2018 Pet Boarding and Daycare magazine article “From Pack to Playgroup: 6 Tips for Fight-Free Daycare”.

Thriving in a competitive pet-care market requires you to stay on-top and ahead of the key trends in professional pet-care. Help ensure your professional and business' success by anticipating and acting on important trends in dog daycare, boarding, grooming and training industry.

Any busy dog daycare business has that ‘rush’ of check-ins in the morning: 15-30 minutes of high-paced customer interactions, with customers showing up (on their way to work), dropping off their pets and rushing back out.

The best dog grooming software programs will give you the essential features to help you operate your dog grooming business. These features include grooming pet and client management, online scheduling options, point of sale card processing, appointment cards for your groomers to read and take notes, and easy rebooking tools. Here’s a quick look at what our customers identify as the essential features: ESSENTIAL FEATURES FOR DOG GROOMING SOFTWARE

With new dog daycare and pet boarding businesses starting everyday, the industry is growing and well, getting more competitive. That's a good thing.  Competition gets us to 'raise the bar' and get better at what we do. Further, competition in a healthy market can actually increase your business and increase the value of it.