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Policy and Procedures Manuals or Employee Handbooks are used to provide employees with a written guide of the policies of the business and how the business is to be conducted. The employee handbook is one of the most important communication tools between your company and your employees. This single document sets forth your expectations for your employees, and also describes what they can expect from the company. It is essential that your company has one and that it be clear and as unambiguous as possible. Misunderstandings or misstatements can create legal liabilities for your business. In legal disputes courts have considered an employee handbook to be a contractual obligation, so word it carefully.

The company employee handbook and related personnel policies should be one of the first formal communications that you will have with an employee after they are hired. Make sure the first impression is a good one. Similarly, in the event of a dispute or poor performance review, this will be the first place that the employee turns.

The handbook should contain enough detail to avoid confusion, but not so much as to overwhelm.  This is the complete employee manual and covers nearly every topic of daily operations in greater detail than the basic version with the inclusion of additional chapters.

This is manual is designed to provide you with the easiest way possible to have a detailed and professional employee manual to provide your hires. Read the document, make any minor changes specific to your situation and change the highlighted text to reflect your business name and print it. It can’t get any easier than this, why spend days if not weeks trying to draft your own original document when you can use this pre-created template and be done in minutes.

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Drafting an Operations Manual for a Dog Daycare can seem like a daunting task, especially for a company that has never written one before.  When done correctly, the operations manual is the daily reference tool that guides someone unfamiliar with your business through the day-to-day operating procedures.  The objective of this manual is to clearly define each step of your best practices.  An operations manual is often called the Bible of Operations and  is different from an Employee Handbook (a much smaller document covering employment conditions, corporate culture and on-the-job behavior policies).

This is why the Operations Manual must be written by someone familiar with a particular type of business and its day to day operations. A good operations manual reduces the user's endless stream of questions, like "how do I do this," and becomes a 24/7 reference guide.

Included is over 450 pages of information on the day-to-day procedures for running a dog day care and boarding kennel.  It also includes extensive information on all aspects of operations management, from client interactions, dog care and handling, emergency procedures, marketing, public relations, financial management, hiring, firing, and other human relations issues. The Operations Manual will save you thousands of dollars in costly mistakes!  Provided in Microsoft Office Word Format you can customize to suit your particular policies and procedures.  Simply replace the sample “XYZ Dog Daycare” business with the name of your business, click print, and you have a professional, well-researched Operations Manual to guide you through every aspect of running your pet business.

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The Dog Daycare Quick Start Guide

The Nitty Gritty of Dog Daycare is a Dog Daycare quick start guide designed to provide you with the information that you will need to successfully begin the process of starting your own dog daycare. All of our publications are written by industry professionals that have successfully Started Dog Daycares of their own,  individuals that have operated a successful profit making facility day in and day out.  The Nitty Gritty of Dog Daycare provides you with relevant, realistic and current information that you should know before beginning the process of opening your facility.  The guide is designed to give you the inside perspective on the Dog Daycare Business the good, the bad, and the ugly.  We pour our years of experience into every page, so you know what to really expect when you Start a Dog Daycare of your very own.

The information others fail to mention..

The intent of our Quick Start Guides is to provide you with the most realistic and up to date information available to get you going. We want you to know what the Dog Daycare Business is really about from the inside, from industry professionals.  We did not dumb down the guide or sugar coat the content to give you an unrealistic expectation of what this business entails, we provide you with the exact information you need to understand what this industry is all about.

The Nitty Gritty of Dog Daycare

The Nitty Gritty of Dog Daycare provides you with the critical information you need before and after you started.  It gives detailed information on what to expect before, and during the operation of your Dog Daycare. This guide is designed to give you the information that prevents you from making the mistakes that so many others do. The intent of this guide is to give you the basics you will need, to not only start your own Dog Daycare,  but to determine if starting a Dog Daycare is the right career  choice for you.

• What to expect from the Dog Daycare Business

• How to keep your canine customers coming back

• How to conduct temperament testing and interview your new canine clients.

• The most important things you need to know about designing your facility.

• The minimum number of staff members to operate successfully and safely?

• Pricing mistakes you don’t want to make.

• Establishing solid client relations

• The tools you need to succeed.

• Zoning issues that you need to consider

• What’s in a website and how to sell your clients with it.

• Cleaning procedures

• How to control fleas, and other parasites.

• How to provide adequate supervision for the dogs.

• Establishing a solid referral relationship with veterinarians in your area.

• How offering additional services can make dramatically increase gross profits

• Maintaining control of the customers and pets in your facility

• Selling yourself and your services to potential clients.

• The true Profit Potential of a successful dog daycare

• Design guidance and information

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How much money can you actually make by Starting a Dog Daycare?

To answer that question PAWS designed the Dog Daycare Profit and Loss Simulator, this easy to use tool allows you to realistically simulate all of the financial aspects of running a Dog Daycare before you even get started.  Calculate your gross profit, net profit, expenses, overhead, taxes, daycare income, and dogs needed per day to reach a net profit goal. You may also add any additional income and expense categories that you choose.

Here are just a few more of the things it can do.

• Choose the services you will offer and the prices that you will charge, it will give you're gross profit, net profit and average income per month per service, over the course of the next 5 years.

• Input the percentage you would like to grow your business per year, it will give you your projected growth for the next 5 years, including gross and net profits, the number of dogs that will use your facility in each of the next five years, and what services they will use, taking operational costs and other expenses into consideration.

• Accurately determine how much employees will cost you, the PAWS Profit and Growth Simulator will figure employee monthly and yearly wages, the social security that you pay, along with the total workman's compensation liability, and automatically adjust your net profit accordingly.

• Set the number of employees, set the wages, and get the costs.

• Not sure how many dogs a day you will need just to cover expenses? Click the Estimator On Tab and enter your expenses it will give you the exact number of dogs you need per day to break even.

• Do you have a desired NET Profit Goal in Mind? Not a problem, Click the Estimator On Tab and  enter your desired net profit, it will calculate the number of dogs needed per day to reach this goal, taking labor, operational and overhead expenses into consideration.

• Do you plan on offering boarding services?  It will automatically recalculate by raising or lowering the number of daycare dogs needed per day to reach your net profit goal as boarding numbers increase or decrease.

• Accurately calculate the true cost of Operating a Dog Daycare facility for the next 5 years, what your true profit will be and what your future expenses will be

• Income and Expenses are also shown in easy to read charts that display the percentage of the total that each each one represents.

• Fine tune your numbers and print the results.

• Use the simulator to help you accurately create a realistic Dog Daycare Business Plan.

• Accurately calculate the true cost of Operating a Dog Daycare facility before spending your life savings.

Take the guess work out of Opening a Dog Daycare

With the PAWS Dog Daycare Profit and Loss Simulator you can accurately determine exactly how much you need to make in order to cover your expenses, and how much you need to actually turn a profit. This tool gives you the ability to look at different variables and how they will effect your business years down the road. It can show you that by dropping your prices by one dollar and bringing in just one more dog a day you will actually generate an extra $9,000 a year in net profit.  

The Simulator gives you the ability to fine tune and plan your business finances before you ever open your doors.

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Find Out The True Cost of Operating a Dog Daycare.

*This software was developed primarilly for use with Windows Platforms. It has been tested and found compatible with Xp, Vista, Win 7 & 8.  While it is possible and users have been able to make it work correctly on a Mac there is no guarantee as to its compatibility and no support is offered for that purpose.

For potential lenders and investors, the financial section will be the most important portion of your business plan. Even if the other sections of your plan are impeccable, the financials are what will still make or break your presentation. Use the Dog Daycare Financial Feasibility Model to evaluate the financial feasibility of a proposed Dog Daycare, Dog Grooming or Dog Boarding operation and prepare a comprehensive, professional and convincing financial section for your business plan.

This Dog Daycare Financial Feasibility Model  has been refined over several years on a variety and number of actual pet related business ventures.

This financial model, designed specifically for Dog Daycare, Dog Grooming or Dog Boarding operations, will not only help you evaluate the financial feasibility of your proposed venture, but will also be a valuable tool in selling your project to potential partners, lenders and investors when included in your business plan.

The Business Plan Financial Model contains the following worksheets, schedules and statements:

    * Projected Sources & Uses of Cash
    * Capital Budget (Startup & Pre-Opening Costs)
    * Schedule of Equipment
    * Sales Projection Worksheet
    * Hourly Labor Cost Projection
    * Assumptions to the Financial Projections
    * Annual Operating Projection - Detail
    * Annual Operating Projection - Summary
    * 5 Year Operating & Investment Projections
    * Break-Even Analysis & Worksheet


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