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Hi Laura,
Although I cannot help you with your financial start up costs, I do have a business opportunity that you might be interested in adding to your pet wash. Before I go on, I am sorry to hear about your father.
The name of my company is AJ Pet Products. Please go to my website; www.ajpetproducts.biz to see in detail how we can help you with additional income. We sell natural, holistic pet food. The formulator, Dr. Jane Bicks, has been a holistic veterinarian for 30 years. She has written several books and helped Mayor Rudolph Gulliani open the largest animal shelter in New York City. We all have such a love for pets.
When you get your business up and running, you could sell food out of your salon. You might be interested in starting to sell the food first and build that business up as well. We have great business opportunities with no overhead, no inventory and little or no paperwork. We also do not have territories. You can sell the food to whoever, wherever.
Good luck with everything.
I would love to hear from you.
Regards,
Tracy Robinson
AJ Pet Products
(775) 750-6754

I have a website that may be of interest to you seeing that like myself, you are a dog lover.

The website is http://www.PuppyDogPhoto.com.

Good luck in your business venture, and I wish you Canine Success!

Thank you for your reply. I am looking to start up in Greeley Colorado since that is where most of my contacts are currently which I feel would lead to success rather than starting cold slate.

I definitely understand that point. I went and looked yesterday at the retail space and talked to the agent. Unfortunately the same person ownd those as well as Petsmart and has blocked any other animal retail from going in at that complex. Smart for them bummer for me.

One of the existing tenants did give me some advice about being a tenant in the same area as the giants. He said one of the previous tenants was thinking the same as myself and opening a rock & tile store thinking Home Depot would drive business his way. It didn't do that at all and he only made in a year what he should have made in a month to be profitable or even break even.

Thank you for the advice!

My office is out of my home and I don't have to carry any inventory, so that is interesting to learn about the marketing restriction when you are in a strip mall. Thank you for that information. I was just thinking to have a few bags to get people feeding the food to their pets. We don't believe in having huge inventory. Our food is freshly delivered to the customers door from the manufacturer.
The American public has become aware of holistic pet products especially since the recall that killed thousands of people's family members (pets).

When you find a pet food on the store shelf, many times it has been in a tractor trailer for up to two years without any temp. control. There is no nutritional value in that food. That is even before it hits the store shelves.

With our food, it is shipped directly to the customers door from the manufacturer (which is human grade).The big pet food companies buy what they are going to put in the food, (which is another whole story), at the cheapest time of the year, in bulk. They feed our pets garbage, and they mark up their prices 200%. If a person is concerned about cost only, then this is not an issue. If a person loves and wants their pet family member(s) to live longer and healthier they want the best, healthiest food. Ask any chief, you need good ingredients to have a good meal.
Everybody has to make a profit, or they can't stay in business, obviously. But our charge is for premium, natural, fresh ingredients. I mention this because of the healthy markup comment that was posted. I am not offended. I just had to reply.
Thank you.

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Yes I was needing this clarification as well, I apologize that I did not clarify my question marks.

Also, I was curious if the writer of this thread had a chance to look at the website I mentioned, puppydogphoto.com.

Thank you.