Article Title: Make Your Pet Store Better With Pet Services
Author: Jerry Robertson
Most independent pet stores in the United States don't offer
services to their customers. These services could include
grooming, dog training, aquarium maintenance (personal /
commercial), and delivery to name a few. Besides delivery, the
other services can produce a high gross profit margin for your
pet store. The large pet stores in the U.S. know how profitable
pet services are to their bottom line.
Grooming can be expensive to initially set up and takes lot of
space; if dogs are placed in cages after they are groomed. You
could reduce the cost by offering to do a few dogs or better yet
at the home where the dog stays. If you groom dogs at their
residence, you could offered to delivered any products needed
for the canine.
Training is profitable. You need space set aside for training.
This space can be used for special events to make the most of
this valuable real estate.
A pet store owner that I know would make more money with
aquarium maintenance with commercial accounts than profit from
the rest of the store. He would spend one day a week just doing
this. This day happen to be a slow day for his pet store.
Having home delivery will help with large items such as large
aquariums, large doghouses, and stands for large aquariums. Many
people would prefer someone else handle this. This is mainly due
to reduce the risk of damage or don't have access to a large car
/ truck.
Having services in your pet store can be a huge profit maker.
It is also a competitive advantage against much of your
competition. In fact, this is one of the best ways to compete
against the Petsmart & Petco's of the world. If you are not
providing services to your pet store customers, you are leaving
plenty of sales and profits on the table.
About The Author: Jerry Robertson is a Retail Consultant and
author of "Shocking Truth to Pet Store Success". You can get a
free copy and subscribe to his free monthly newsletter at:
http://www.petstore
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