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Since 1989 we've been the premier resource for "businesspersons that groom." This is the home of From Problems to Profits, world's #1 grooming business book with over 20,000 copies printed. Also, Grooming Business in a Box®, a series of professional Workbooks with CDs under development by Find A Groomer Inc., creators of PetGroomer.com. Welcome to business class.
 

Grooming Business in a Box® is a Series of Four Workbooks & CD's

Other Book: From Problems to Profits: The Madson Management System for Pet Grooming Businesses
CD #1 Pet Grooming Business Plan Helper & Sampler with User Guide & & Real Sample Plans
CD #2 Business Forms & Appointment Book CD with User Guide

CD #4  Mastering Pet Groomer Compensation - Coming 12/31/11
 


CD #3 Pet Grooming Floor Plan Concepts User Guide with CD #3     $39.95
 

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Our 85 page User Guide and CD provides you with truly state-of-the-art concepts to develop your custom floor plan. All floor plans are described below, some with samples. Our models include one person grooming businesses, to major pet care centers. Whether you have 300 square feet or thousands, we have plans for you, including home garage conversions.

Many thousands of groomers have never even heard of our superior design features, such as Silent Rooms, Noise Abatement Rooms and more surprises. In some models pet owners can enter and hear soft music playing even though 50 pets are on-site and dryers, vacuums and more equipment are turned on.

The CD includes files of all the floor plans, including copies with Line of Sight Safety Analysis. Our floor plans even include Sales Forecasts showing you how much you can revenue you can generate a year. Every plan has extensive commentary, design hints and directives and tips for materials and supplies. Be sure to view the Table of Contents. There is simply nothing else like this User Guide and CD in the industry for designing home and commercial grooming spaces.

Remember we are not providing you with drawing software. You can hand draw your custom plan with pencil and ruler, and you can print our JPG and PDF versions on the CD. We used SmartDraw® software to design our plans, and our original files are on the CD. Get your own copy of SmartDraw® (free trial version is often available) and you can load and edit our plans! SmartDraw® has dozens of other uses for business owners for presentations, flow charts and much more. www.smartdraw.com We also provide JPG and PDF versions which you can print, even very large paper, but you cannot edit those files such as with SmartDraw®.

If you are working with an architect to create formal plans to build or remodel, your professional will enjoy working with our concepts. Most architects don't know the needs of groomers, let alone Silent Rooms, Cattery Grooming Rooms or Noise Abatement Rooms. Share our ideas as many of our clients have with their architects. We will answer questions of your architect when you are a registered owner of this CD and Guide.

There's much more in the User Guide too. Tips for materials and designs. Organizer to plan your purchases to build out your business. Plus state-of-the-art knowledge on how we design, and you can too, the most unique professional grooming shops small or large. Nothing like this is available anywhere else in the Pet Industry let alone grooming. Read the complete table of contents to understand what we mean.

See Complete Table of Contents - Click PDF or DOC
 

Floor Plan Illustrated in User Guide and on CD Customizable File Format on CD

Pet Grooming Shop 300 Model – Storefront

Includes...

Pet Grooming Shop 300 Model – Line of Sight Safety Analysis
Pet Grooming Shop 300 Model – Sales Forecast

The perfect floor plan for a 300 square foot pet grooming shop suitable for one person business, or a groomer and one bather. Including client relations area, grooming area and a bathing and drying area. Plenty of storage and room for some retail.


Illustrations are in sharp black and white format in User Guide and on CD.

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SmartDraw® *

PDF

JPG

Pet Grooming Shop 500 Model – Storefront

Includes...

Pet Grooming Shop 500 Model – Line of Sight Safety Analysis
Pet Grooming Shop 500 Model – Sales Forecast

What a difference adding another 200 square feet. The look and feel of a larger pet grooming salon in just 500 square feet. Suitable for one person business, or a groomer and up to 2 employees. We even made room for a manager's office and a second groomer workstation.

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SmartDraw® *

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JPG

 

Pet Grooming Salon 1200 Model – Storefront

Includes...

Pet Grooming Salon 1200 Model – Line of Sight Safety Analysis
Pet Grooming Salon 1200 Model – Sales Forecast

We've optimized what can be done with 1,200 square feet. The added features make this model perfect for a reasonable size salon or spa. Here are some key features:

1. Manager’s office
2. Three groomer workstations
3. Expanded retail and more spacious reception area
4. Pre-grooming inspection table capable
5. Separate Cattery
6. Noise abatement room within bathing department
7. Kitchen area
8. Washer and dryer
9. Second bathing tub with closet for shampoo distribution system
10. Separate prep and drying counters in bathing department

P.S. If you are using Pet Grooming Business Plan Helper & Sampler CD #1 by Grooming Business in a Box®, this floor plan is ideal for The Mary Groomer sample business plan.


Illustrations are in sharp black and white format in User Guide and on CD.

Yes

No

No

 

SmartDraw® *

PDF

JPG

 

Pet Grooming Salon 2000 Corner Unit Model – Storefront

Includes...

Pet Grooming Salon 2000 Model – Line of Sight Safety Analysis
Pet Grooming Salon 2000 Model – Sales Forecast

An amazing upgrade to the Pet Grooming Salon 1200 Model. It's a 2,000 square foot corner unit with only one shared wall with other tenants, and more natural light. Amazing features include a true grooming "Silent Room" and noise abatement features. Your customers can walk in and hear only soft music and clippers humming even with several dryers, central vacuum and clipper vacuum running in the bathing department. Many groomers have never worked in such a peaceful yet busy atmosphere. Your pet salon will be the talk of the town.

The floor plan improvements over the highly-rated Pet Grooming Salon 1200 Model are:
1. Enlarged retail area
2. More natural light
3. Five groomer workstations
4. Larger Cattery with room for 2 groomers
5. Silent Room (See Chapter 2)
6. Ample room for employee lockers
7. Larger kitchen
8. Larger Noise Abatement Room
9. Two traffic routes from the Client Relations Dept into operations
10. Pre-grooming inspection table in Client Relations Dept.

P.S. If you are using Pet Grooming Business Plan Helper & Sampler CD #1 by Grooming Business in a Box®, this floor plan is ideal for The Mary Groomer sample business plan.

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SmartDraw® *

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JPG

 

Garage Conversion Pet Grooming Shop 400 Model

Includes...

Garage Conversion Pet Grooming Shop 400 Model – Line of Sight Safety Analysis
Garage Conversion Pet Grooming Shop 400 Model – Sales Forecast

More and more groomers are converting their home garages into a work at home grooming business. Our plan is 400 square feet with plenty of room to groom, and still be able to store some household goods too. Easily adapted to basement shops.

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SmartDraw® *

PDF

JPG

 

Garage Conversion Pet Grooming Shop 400 Model with Utility Room

Includes...

Garage Conversion Pet Grooming Shop 400 Model with Utility Room – Line of Sight Safety Analysis
Garage Conversion Pet Grooming Shop 400 Model with Utility Room – Sales Forecast

All the features of the standard garage conversion 400 model above, but we know some groomers don't have a utility room inside their home. Therefore we divided the garage into a grooming business plus the homeowner has all the conveniences of a private, separate utility room. Easily adapted to basement shops.

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SmartDraw® *

PDF

JPG

 

Pet Care Center 4320 Model – Standalone Building

Includes...

Pet Care Center 4320 Model – Line of Sight Safety Analysis
Pet Care Center 4320 Model – Sales Forecast

The Pet Care Center 4320 Model – Standalone is dream come true for very motivated pet grooming business owners. Over 4,320 square feet of space for a truly state-of-the-art salon and spa, plus room for a pet boutique, pet foods, and a veterinary clinic or pet hotel even. The pride of any town is this model. The Pet Care Center 4320 Model has all the features of the Pet Grooming Salon 2000 Model - Corner Unit floor plan, and a few more.

The grooming department requires about one-third of the overall square footage. New features include:
1. Classroom or training room, expandable for school
2. Separate rest rooms for men and women, and a public rest room
3. Video monitors in the client relations area
4. Expanded retail including boutique, bakery and pet foods
5. Room to operate a pet hotel or veterinary clinic
6. Double set of sequential entry doors, stops fleeing pets!
7. Retail inventory storage room

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SmartDraw® *

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JPG

Pet Boutique with Grooming Dept. 3132 Model

Includes...

Pet Boutique with Grooming Dept 3132 Model – Line of Sight Safety Analysis
Pet Boutique with Grooming Dept 3132 Model – Sales Forecast

Perhaps you simply want to add a Grooming Department to your business. We've had dozens of consultation clients add them to veterinary practices and especially pet boutiques. Here's the ultimate grooming add-on for a major pet boutique. You can scale down the boutique to your actual size. What's important is the Grooming Department has been located and designed to increase retail sales, and yet BE QUIET and not disturb your shoppers. It has the upscale features of the Pet Grooming Salon 2000 Model situated perfectly in a high end boutique possibly with pet food sales too. Very adaptable. Here's the right way to a grooming department.

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SmartDraw® *

PDF

JPG

 

 

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON FILE FORMATS ON THE CD

* The CD stores Each floor plan is provided in 3 formats, JPG, PDF (www.adobe.com) and SmartDraw® format (SDR), a third party software. www.smartdraw.com. It is a visual processor program that not only does floor plans but business documents of many kinds. A free trial version is often available. If you acquire your own copy of SmartDraw® you can load each floor plan in SDR format and make changes using our floor plans as a starting point to create your custom floor plan. It's a major timesaver to start with ours on the CD, and then adapt them to your needs.

The PDF and JPG files versions on the CD can be loaded into most computers and printed on your computer printer. You can take the CD to a professional copy center and have the JPG files printed on oversized paper 11" by 17" or larger depending upon the printer. You cannot make changes to the PDF or JPG versions, you can only print them.

 
 
 
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