Our 3 Step Business Plan
From Problems to Profits
The Madson Management System for Pet Grooming Businesses
Revised & Updated 1997 ISBN 1878795252 320 pages

How far you go with the Business Plan is your choice. Everyone starts at Step One and if you want a stable, profitable one person business, just enjoy that step for as long as you own your business. For those that desire a greater challenge, move on to Step 2 and 3. It's your choice entirely.

Step One of the Business Plan

You can grow a home, mobile or salon/shop grooming business until it reaches year round stability and matches your preferred owner lifestyle. Perfect for owners comfortable with 2 or less employees, or none! Fast results. In fact, new 1 to 3 person businesses fully-implementing the Madson People and Pet Marketing Program report they are booked year round just weeks after opening. Mobile groomers report even faster sell outs. You can optionally add a pet bather and receptionist, but the key is that you don't add another assistant or full-charge groomer unless you move on to the next steps.

Step Two of the Business Plan

You choose to expand and grow your business. You are the butterfly breaking free. Here's the industry's most remarkable and unique management information. You implement proven methods to support teamwork among groomers and eliminate 90% of the common personnel problems that plague business owners. You can even eliminate commission wages, lower payroll costs without lowering wages, and all the time support the highest standards of aesthetic styling, quality client services and humane pet care. Thousands are doing it, why not you?

In the 1960's we were one of the first operations to create an Assistant Groomer position; that's our specialty. Learn from the originators what is truly an Asst. Groomer. They became popular in the 1990's but we developed the concept in 1962 and we wouldn't operate today without them just as vets, dentists and doctors have assistants. The Asst. Groomer, done right, is one key to stress busting your operation, let us show you how the right way. The savings in payroll costs is remarkable. You don't cut wages to lower payroll, you staff smart.

Step Three of the Business Plan

You go the distance and become a truly full-service grooming business, or complete pet care center offering new services in addition to grooming. Open a second location if you like and manage both with The Madson Management System. You maximize the net worth of your business, and establish an operation that can even allow you to become an owner/manager only without income loss, or even an absentee owner.

Many readers have reported Step Three took them into owning amazing pet care centers with multiple departments and services. If that is your choice, we can help.