Structure and anatomy affect the balance and proportion of all dogs. Groomers sometimes need to "camouflage groom" or hide faults in the coats. This session will cover common structural faults encountered every day and how to hide faults to bring out the best features for a beautifully finished groom.
The most important step in approaching a double-coated groom is prep work. Macie Pisa, winner of Pooch Perfect, will demonstrate how to properly prep a double-coated breed to achieve a smooth finish. She will then show you tips on how to accomplish the perfect haircut, and teach you how double coats can double your money!
Here's your time to shine! In this one-hour demo, you will learn how Blake can transform even the scruffiest mess into the perfectly fluffed beauty. Snap-on combs and quick tool and anatomy tricks to set you on your way will be demonstrated.
Unlock the keys to a successful home-based pet grooming business! Do you currently operate at home or have you ever dreamed of opening a grooming salon attached to your home? In this class Amanda will cover all the basics: legalities to consider, workspace set up, the secrets of client management, top tips for work-life balance, and so much more. This class delves into the intricacies of operating a thriving grooming business from the comfort of your home.
Patricia A. Pierce, M.Ed., shares how to become a more impactful communicator while realizing how emotions can control our thoughts and words. Improving social and emotional skills can improve the quality of our lives, relationships, and careers. In addition, this course will provide you with information on body language, tone of voice, and word choice.
The need for groomers willing to take on small mammals is there, but how do we reach the owners of these pets? There are some inexpensive and easy ways to go about this and Anjie will teach you how! As a groomer that specializes in small mammals, Anjie can attest that once you decide to dive into the world of small mammal grooming, you may decide to make small mammals your exclusive pets for grooming.
Grooming is an emotional business and our we store emotions in various parts of our bodies. This class is designed to target areas like hips, glutes, spine, and chest where poses are held for longer times in connection with longer breaths so we can allow our bodies to connect deeper to the stressors we carry around all day and release them. Groomers will learn poses they can use any time to provide physical and emotional relief. This class can be a bit more intense, so it is not ideal for those with active back injuries or those who cannot easily make their way onto and off of the floor.
Are you looking to perfect your doodles? How about those seamless column legs? What about perfectly sculpted paws? Well, look no further! Join “Zoom Groom Anna” as she takes you through doodle grooms and demonstrates how to achieve the perfect finish of those legs and paws!
Equip yourself with essential knowledge in grooming tools with Lis Johnston! In this seminar, Lis will use her knowledge learned from years of owning her own salons and training novice groomers to guide you through the fundamentals of grooming tools, their uses, maintenance, and how to choose the right tools for different grooming scenarios. Elevate your grooming proficiency by mastering the basics of tools under the tutelage of a seasoned professional.
Join Kelsey Ann as she shares and demonstrates some quick tips to change up your everyday dog grooming heads into little masterpieces. She will give her tricks to wow your clients with an adorable-looking face, even if the rest of them might be a shave-down.
Come learn the tricks of Restraint-Free Grooming. From your first step in Restraint-Free Grooming to tailoring your work to each individual dog, join Hannah on the journey of freeing your dogs to be calmer, happier, and more comfortable on the table. Learn when Restraint-Free Grooming can aid you and when this form of grooming may not be suitable for a specific dog. Learn new handling skills without using restraints and how to read the dog on your table. In this session, Hannah will take you through the techniques of Restraint-Free Grooming, as well as provide a live demo of dogs with a variety of different personalities.
Starting a business can be scary and overwhelming. In this class, Markie James will go over all the details that helped set herself up for success while running her own business. Whether it's home-based, house-call, or storefront, she has tips and tricks for all. She'll cover breaking down finances, branding, marketing, building clientele, planning ahead, and so much more!
This course focuses on the financial side of the pet grooming business—whether you are a solo groomer or have an entire team! The material from this course will benefit groomers at every level, from the employee to the multi-salon owner by teaching the foundation for setting realistic budgets, unexpected expenses, creating an emergency fund, appropriately paying and providing benefits (yes, even to yourself!), pricing, and how to create your plan to financial freedom for your business and your personal life!
The customer journey starts before they enter through your door and doesn't end until days after their pet is brought back home. In this seminar, Samantha will discuss three parts of the customer journey and how to enhance their experience to lead to 5-star reviews! She will also discuss how your online presence can and will attract the ideal client, how to prepare your customer service team to create a lasting impression, and how to get your clients to share their experience with others. Your business and bottom line will grow from having a great customer service plan in place!
Dreading your next drop-coat haircut? Struggling to get a soft, blended finish? Are your Yorkie and Maltese haircuts coming out choppy? In this one-hour seminar, Rachel will demonstrate how you can set yourself up for success every time with simple techniques to help you create a consistently beautiful haircut on all drop coats. She will cover prep work, the best tools to use, and scissoring techniques. Rachel’s methods will help you achieve a gorgeous, blended finish to elevate your drop-coat pet trims and make this difficult coat type a breeze!
Join Shannon for a quick and easy approach to setting a correct pattern on a Bichon. Whether it’s a show trim or a pet trim, Shannon will show you how to keep your Bichons looking the way they are supposed to!
This seminar takes you on a journey to develop the ability to study, understand, interpret, and transfer the breed standards into your styling techniques in a fascinating and precise way. Join Best In Show Winner Victor Rosado as he guides you through some visual exercises to train your eye in order to understand and learn a series of principles that he has found necessary in the formation of the successful pet groomer, competition groomer, or anyone in the industry related to pet styling. These principles are not often offered in teaching programs and are available only in this unique seminar.
Looking to start, expand, or diversify your mobile grooming business? Then this is the course for you! Mobile grooming salons are unlike any other salon type and come with substantial benefits for customers and pets. However, these customer benefits are not without cost to the groomers providing them. This course will teach you what to expect and how to prepare for life as a mobile groomer and/or how to successfully expand your mobile grooming team. Also covered will be unexpected issues and how to prepare for them ahead of time, best practices, pricing, team-building strategies, setting boundaries, useful tactics for marketing/networking, selecting the right unit(s), and efficiency.
Time is money, and no one has less time than someone who owns or manages a grooming salon. By building solid routines in both your business and personal life, you will be able to control your days and weeks instead of being on defense all the time. It's possible to get more done in less time with a solid plan. This class will help stop the overwhelm and teach you how to get ahead in your business!
This course is an introductory guide for those who would like to venture into rabbit grooming. With six to nine million pet rabbits in the U.S. and roughly 100 rabbit groomers, we need more groomers able to handle these pets for grooming. As rabbits are fragile creatures, much information should be known before even attempting to groom a rabbit, and this course will give you all the foundational knowledge necessary to help you decide if rabbit grooming may be the new revenue stream you’d like to add to your salon.