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#102 – Q&A – Dog & Business Insurance and Discounting Puppies

#102 – Q&A – Dog & Business Insurance and Discounting Puppies

by Julie Swan | Sep 13, 2024 | Business Management, Dog & Puppy Management, Facilities Management, People Management

Jump to Show Notes You want to do things right, you want to take good care of your dogs, and yet you also don’t want to waste your money, and you don’t want to spend unnecessarily. You’re looking for the sweet spot, Isn’t that what we all want in our endeavors? Today...
#101 – Should You Have Two Breeds or a Second Size?

#101 – Should You Have Two Breeds or a Second Size?

by Julie Swan | Aug 30, 2024 | Business Management, Dog & Puppy Management, Facilities Management, People Management

Jump to Show Notes Ford Motor Company makes cars, trucks, and SUVs. Bakeries sell bread, bagels, scones, and cookies, while serving coffee. Joanne’s Craft Store sells supplies for crochet, scrapbooking, and sewing, to name a few. When a company, like Joanne, starts...
#100 – How Dog Breeding Has Changed Me

#100 – How Dog Breeding Has Changed Me

by Julie Swan | Aug 26, 2024 | Business Management, Dog & Puppy Management, Facilities Management, People Management

Jump to Show Notes Sometimes the hardest things we’ve been through turn out to be the best things that happened to us. I went to a Dr. Joe Dispenza Conference last summer, and he talks about this inner evolution we can go through. He pointed out how the challenges in...

I-10 – Email Marketing for Dog Breeders with Tori Mistik of Wear Wag Repeat

by Julie Swan | Aug 16, 2024 | Business Management, People Management

Jump to Show Notes You’ve heard you need to have an email newsletter to sell puppies, but “ugh” what does that mean! It’s sounds like just ANOTHER thing to add to your plate and a new thing to learn. In today’s podcast interview Tori...
#98 – 3 Reasons Why Dog Breeders Quit the Industry

#98 – 3 Reasons Why Dog Breeders Quit the Industry

by Julie Swan | Aug 3, 2024 | Business Management, Dog & Puppy Management, Facilities Management, People Management

Jump to Show Notes Giardia was awful. Losing those puppies was absolutely awful. It was a hard way to get through my first year of breeding. You know what was worse? Parvo. Parvovirus has been by far the worst thing I’ve dealt with in puppies. Watching their little...
#97 – How to Write Better Puppy Ads and Website Copy

#97 – How to Write Better Puppy Ads and Website Copy

by Julie Swan | Jul 26, 2024 | Business Management, People Management

Get the 3 Keys to Writing Better Puppy Ads & Website Copy Printable! Jump to Show Notes You ever hang out with a little kid and they ask you a question, so you explain it, and they ask, “Why?” to that answer? So you answer. Then they ask, “Why?” again? It’s so...
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#132 – Purposeful Chaos in Your Breeding Program

Jump to Show Notes The other day I was driving, and I saw a woman whose minivan license plate was ShipWrk. Then I saw the sticker on her back window and it said, “I run a tight shipwreck.” I had visuals of the Titanic and the crew saying the same: “We ran a tight...

#131 – Why Dog Breeding Feels So Overwhelming – and What to Do About It

Jump to Show Notes Welcome to the Honest Dog Breeder Podcast with me, your host, Julie Swan. Where each week, we dive in to discuss all things dog breeding, so you can build a breeding business you love, producing dogs that fulfill their owner's dreams. I believe you...

#130 – The Breeder You Need to Stop Being

Jump to Show Notes Watch the Webinar on Demand: Why Breeding Feels Overwhelming - and What to Do Instead  Watch Now In the last episode, we talked about what actually makes a good breeder. Not checklists, not rules, not appearances. Good breeders are defined by the...

#129 – What Actually Makes a Good Dog Breeder?

Jump to Show Notes Watch the Webinar on Demand: Why Breeding Feels Overwhelming - and What to Do Instead  Watch Now If you ask ten breeders what makes a good breeder, you’ll get ten different answers: Health testing. Registration. How many dogs you have. Where the...

#128 – Q&A – All About Puppy Deposits

Jump to Show Notes 1. Should puppy deposits be refundable or non-refundable? Breeders love to use non-refundable deposits because they mean that they don’t need to worry about paying people back if they cancel, so in theory it locks in that they want a puppy. It’s...

#127 – Setting Up Your Year for Success

Jump to Show Notes The new year always brings a lot of noise. Big goals. Big plans. Big pressure to do everything differently all at once. But before we rush forward, I think it’s worth slowing down for just a moment and taking an honest look at where we actually are....

#126 – Is Your Dog Breeding Program the Bringer of Good Things?

Jump to Show Notes I love that stores are closed on Christmas Day—it forces you to not go anywhere and not do anything. My favorite thing to do on Christmas is sit with the family, enjoy our new gifts, while we talk and share stories. Yet, as it always goes, when I...

#125 – The Secret to Higher Priced Puppies

Jump to Show Notes Recently I got rejected. The kind where you think everything is going well, and then it doesn’t. I was trying to get a guest on the podcast, and when I asked for them to come on the podcast, they were all excited. Then they realized that I had a...

12 Days of Breeders – 12 – Dana Filatova of Kismet Labradoodles

Jump to Show Notes The 12 Days of Breeders is a series of interviews conducted with members of the Dog Breeder Society who are doing innovative, creative, and inspiring things in their dog breeding business.  In each of these interviews we cover challenges each...

12 Days of Breeders – 11 – Andrea Gardner of Desert Sky Poodles

Jump to Show Notes The 12 Days of Breeders is a series of interviews conducted with members of the Dog Breeder Society who are doing innovative, creative, and inspiring things in their dog breeding business.  In each of these interviews we cover challenges each...

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