If the person whose name is on the van disappeared for thirty days, what would actually break at your shop?
Not the website. The eval. The hard dog. The refund. Saturday.
Michele Forto is solo on this episode of Dog Works Radio. She talks to owners of family-run dog training businesses in rural and mid-size markets, private lessons, group class, board-and-train, service and therapy work, where family is on the books and the founder is still the bottleneck.
In this episode
- Why a thin local list is not the real ceiling
- Drive time, seasons, and word of mouth as operating rules
- The four stalls: eval, hard case, refund, Saturday exception
- Family system vs. training floor in the same building
- Criteria, consequences, consistency—for the dog and the next trainer
- The one page to write if someone left for four days
Free worksheet
The 30-Day Handoff (two pages): dogworksradio.com/handoff
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