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#88 – 16 Things You Can Do to Improve Your Dog Breeding Program in Under an Hour

#88 – 16 Things You Can Do to Improve Your Dog Breeding Program in Under an Hour

by Julie Swan | Apr 7, 2024 | Business Management, Dog & Puppy Management, People Management

Get the 16 Quick Things You Can Do To Improve Your Dog Breeding Program Cheatsheet! Jump to Show Notes Ever look at the clock and realize you don’t have anything specific to do in the next hour? Maybe you’ve taken the dogs out, you’re waiting on taking your kid to his...
#85 – What Does the Dog Breeding Lifestyle Look Like?

#85 – What Does the Dog Breeding Lifestyle Look Like?

by Julie Swan | Mar 18, 2024 | Business Management, Dog & Puppy Management, Facilities Management, Getting Started, People Management

Jump to Show Notes Do you remember career planning in high school? They have you take a survey of questions asking what you liked: Do you prefer to work outside or in air conditioning. Do you like being physical or would you prefer to be mostly using a computer? Do...
#81 – How To Have Confidence In Your Puppy Pricing

#81 – How To Have Confidence In Your Puppy Pricing

by Julie Swan | Feb 15, 2024 | Business Management, People Management

Jump to Show Notes Have you ever caught yourself thinking about your pricing? If it’s right or not? Maybe you’re driving down the road and are wondering if you lost that last sale because your price was a bit too high? Maybe you’re wondering if your price is too low?...
#77 – 5 Things You Can Do On Your Phone to Make Your Business Better

#77 – 5 Things You Can Do On Your Phone to Make Your Business Better

by Julie Swan | Jan 22, 2024 | Business Management, People Management

Jump to Show Notes I’ll always find it amazing that this tiny gadget, slightly bigger than my hand, can provide me the ways to make so much money with my dog breeding program. There are things I love about cellphones and things I loathe. Do you remember when people...
#76 – How to Create a Better Customer Experience on your Website

#76 – How to Create a Better Customer Experience on your Website

by Julie Swan | Jan 18, 2024 | Business Management, People Management

Want to Get the “Optimize Your Website Homepage” Cheatsheet? Jump to Show Notes “You need a website!” You hear that everywhere. Everyone talks about needing a website, but very few people actually talk about what should be on the website, and even fewer...
#75 – 3 Things to Consider When Planning Your Year of Dog Breeding

#75 – 3 Things to Consider When Planning Your Year of Dog Breeding

by Julie Swan | Jan 5, 2024 | Business Management, Dog & Puppy Management, Facilities Management, People Management

Jump to Show Notes Did you get through 2023 thinking it was a whirlwind? It felt like that over here. There were lots of highs and lows, new struggles to overcome, and a new way to play the game. And there were lots of pivots. Bill isn’t the biggest on New Year’s...
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#122 – Which Kind of Breeder Are You?

Which kind of breeder are you?  The Reactive Breeder The first kind is what I call the reactive breeder. They’re passionate, hardworking, and they care deeply — but they’re always catching up. It’s like they can never get ahead, they’re running around with their head...

#121 – Does Placing Dogs in the Wrong Homes Make You a Bad Breeder?

You ever place a puppy in a home and almost instantly regret it? I’ve done it. You ever place a dog in a home that seemed perfect—only to find out months later they were nothing like they seemed? I’ve done that, also. You ever have to clean up a mess that a bad buyer...

#120 – Puppy Buyers Are Changing – How Dog Breeders Can Adapt

Remember the Adopt-Don’t-Shop Movement? I wish they were easier to forget. This movement pioneered this push towards making breeders bad, and teaching the public that they were wrong for getting a dog from a breeder. It was in the movement’s best interests, of course....

#119 – Secrets to Discounting Puppies – When it Works, When it Doesn’t, and How to Do it

SHOULD YOU DISCOUNT OLDER PUPPIES?  Discounting older puppies is tempting. Discounting is what stores do as the seasons change. They’ll have sales for summer clothes as summer comes to an end. Yet, does it work for puppies? The answer? Well, sometimes, but not...

#118 – How to Manage Parvo Once You’ve Had It

If you’ve ever dealt with Parvovirus, you know it’s the worst. It is by far the worst thing I’ve ever dealt with in dogs and puppies. It is relentless in how it takes over their system, and it has nearly around 90% fatality in puppies. One summer I had my puppies on...

#117 – Planning the Facility Upgrade

Get the Paying for Your Facility Upgrade Cheat SheetOkay, so now that we know investing in facilities is the goal, how might we invest in facilities in a responsible way? I remember talking with a couple who had purchased a large piece of land and had a nice facility...

#116 – Should You Invest in Your Facilities or Retirement?

In the last few episodes, we’ve been discussing setting up your future for success, capitalizing on your heyday, and creating a retirement that can support you whether or not you want that to involve puppies. If nothing else, having that retirement to provide for you...

#115 – Invest for the Future

Get the Getting Started with Cryptocurrency Cheat SheetShe said to me, “If I don’t sell at least 20 puppies per month, my business will collapse, I couldn’t afford it.” It was her opening sentence to the free strategy call she scheduled with me. It caught me off...

114 – Is Your Breeding Program Creating Your Future Or Just Getting You By?

Breeding is an emotional rollercoaster. You get excited for puppies to be born... then the pressure of selling them sets in. You get excited to match puppies with buyers… but then you have to figure out what to do with the one left over. You’re absolutely exhausted...

#113 – How Many Litters Should You Have?

Get the Breeding Dog & Litter Number Calculator I remember a few weeks ago I was sitting on the edge of my bed, feet resting on the bed frame. We have one of those wooden bed frames that has a 3” ledge at the foot, perfect for me to sit on the end of the bed and...

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