i want tostart a small business making doggie treats
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Best way to approach this is to make yourself known locally. For example attend local flea markets...farm markets and even yard sales displaying and selling your products. You will get repeated customers and through word of mouth sales will pick-up. Don't be disappointed if you recieve negative results from some people...dogs have different tastes. Insure you have a contact name and phone number labeled on each product you sell. Good luck with your venture.
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Start baking for friends and family to get your reputation and referrals started.  Find a licensed kitchen that will allow you to use their facilities.  Learn about what it takes to license a kitchen and the investment.  Bake lots of cakes and come up with your own style.  I don't think you need a formal education to market your personal services for events.  Just start doing it and get the word out.  Business cards are cheap.
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Try Pico International Inc.
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Pick the city of your choice, contact a local real estate agency for commercial properties, tell them you need a shop sized location  in the suburbs/housing area.\n3 out of 5 ppl have pets, so you can estimate how many potential customers youd be having in that location and you can estimate if you can cover the expenses.
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Good help is difficult to find in pet shops and they cannot legally hire you.  If you are entrpreneurial and industrious (which it sounds like you are) go in and say, up front, "I am a very good worker and have a real love for animals.  While I know you cnnot legally hire me, let me work around here for a week and you pay me what you think I am worth"...then you need to perform.  Do jobs, like cleaning cages and help the store look nicer with good merchandising.  Also, bring new ideas of things you can do to help the store be a better place to shop.  If you get tht far I can give you lots more ideas!
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go to a pawn shop or ebay ans sell ur items...on ebay ake thm soudn kool like take a bottle and say u captured dog fart in it and u can get like 20 bucks....wisdom from me
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The best routes to take are to research the process of starting a business as well as the industry you're interested in.\n\nI recommend checking out the SBA, Entrepreneur, The Start Up Journal & Nolo. All 4 are great informational resources for the new/small business owner. I posted links for you in the source box.\n\nAssociations may be a good avenue to explore as well. These organizations will address many of the thoughts, questions and concerns you'll inevitably have as well as many you haven't anticipated yet. See the source box for some relevant links. \n\nResearch, research, research – this cannot be stressed enough. Read as much as you can about the industry. Here are some book titles that are relevant:\n\nCatering Specific:\n* How to Start a Home-Based Catering Business, 5th by Denise Vivaldo\n* How to Run a Catering Business from Home by Christopher Egerton-Thomas\n* Start and Run a Catering Business by George Erdosh\n\nBakery Specific:\n* How to Open a Financially Successful Bakery by Sharon Fullen, Douglas R. Brown\n* The Baker's Trade: A Recipe for Creating the Successful Small Bakery by Zachary Y. Schat\n* Baking for Profit: Starting a Small Bakery by George Bathie\n\nIndiana Specific:\n* How to Start a Business in Indiana by Entrepreneur Press\n* How To Incorporate and Start a Business in Indiana by J. W. Dicks\n\nThere are plenty of free informational resources out there. Check the source box for links to articles.\n\nHope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!
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Try these:\n\nwww.usoutdoorstore.com\n\nwww.dogfunk.com
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A good place to start is www.sba.gov.  It is the small business administration website.  There is a ton of information on the site.  Your first step in starting a business is to write a business plan.  A business plan will help you work through your idea an see if is a viable business.  There are a variety of books and software that can help you with this.  Also, the sba website offers mentors and there are actually sample business plans for several different business types on the site.  You can also take classes through the sba and there should be information on places where you can get help with writing a business plan.  Don't be afraid to ask people questions, talk to other ice cream business owners.  The more you know, the better.  Good Luck!
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The best routes to take are to research the process of starting a business as well as the industry you're interested in.\n\nI recommend checking out the SBA, Entrepreneur, The Start Up Journal & Nolo. All 4 are great informational resources for the new/small business owner. I posted links for you in the source box.\n\nAssociations may be a good avenue to explore as well. These organizations will address many of the thoughts, questions and concerns you'll inevitably have as well as many you haven't anticipated yet. See the source box for some relevant links. \n\nResearch, research, research – this cannot be stressed enough. Read as much as you can about the industry. Here are some book titles that are relevant:\n\n* Running Your Own Boarding Kennels by David Cavill\n* Building, Buying and Operating a Boarding Kennel by James Krack \n* Kennel Building and Management (Howell Reference Books) by Mario Migliorini\n* The Business Guide to Pet Grooming by Sam Kohl\n* From Problems to Profits: The Madson Management System for Pet Grooming Businesses by Madeline Bright Ogle\n\nThere are plenty of free informational resources out there. Check the source box for links to articles.\n\nHope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!
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Look for neighborhood bulletin boards at grocery stores, etc. and put some of your business cards on them.\n\nWrite postcards to your friends telling them about your new venture, and offering to help with holiday gift ideas.\n\nInvite a few close friends over for coffee, cocktails or white chili*, and have some of your wares conspicuously in view.  Don't make an overt sales pitch, but be ready with enthusiastic questions to the inevitable questions.\n\n*  My answer to your earlier white chili question was mostly tongue-in-cheek.  Sorry if I offended you.
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How about a stock market for dogs and cats.  I want to boost their financial well being so they will stop meowing and barking at me everytime they get hungry.\n\nHey go get your own food guys, is it my fault you don't have any $$$ - and cut out the we can't open the cans, we don't have opposable thumbs argument, I'm not listening.
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Make bags of homemade sweet things - toffee, tablet etc.  Wrap these nicely and sell them - they will go down a treat - especially of there is a Christmas Fair at school.
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Entrepreneur Magazine has made a list of Low Cost Startup Businesses that you may want to consider:\n\nhttp://www.entrepreneur.com/lowcostbusinesses/0,6617,,00.html\n\nSome other home business ideas:\n\nTop 10 Home Businesses with Rapid Break-Even Time http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol33/breakeven.htm\n10 Profitable “Go-Out" Home Businesses http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol31/goout.htm\n\nThe best home business, of course, will depend on what you want, how you define to be interesting. A person may consider a pet sitting business to be the most exciting work in the world, while you would rather watch TV than take care of dogs. And you said you don't want to sell, make phone calls or involve family and friends.\n\nThe key is to determine what your interests are, what you want to do, what is suitable for your lifestyle and your overall goals, and what can fit with your resources.\n\nDan Ramsey in his book "101 Best Home Businesses" has a chapter on how to find YOUR best home business. He suggests these 10 steps:\n\n1. List 5 things you do best\n2. List how others would benefit from what you do best\n3. Find out how to give people what they want\n4. Learn the value of your services to others\n5. Find out who else offers similar services\n6. Learn from the successes of others\n7. Learn from the failures of others\n8. Plan your own success\n9. Make low cost mistakes\n10. Enjoy what you do and how you do it\n\nHe then made suggestions on the best home businesses according to type. Here are a few of them:\n\nBest Businesses Using Craft or Physical Skills\n- antique restoration\n- auto detail service\n- carpet cleaning business\n- errand/delivery service\n- housecleaning business\n\nBest Service Businesses \n- bed and breakfast operator\n- caregiver\n- catering service\n- senior day care center\n- tutoring service\n\nBest Professional Businesses\n- desktop publisher\n- magazine writer\n- import/export service\n- income tax preparation service\n- event planner\n\nYou can also check out the following books:\n\nTurn Your Talents into Profits: 100+ Terrific Ideas for Starting Your Own Home-Based Microbusiness \n The Best Home Businesses for the 21st Century \n 121 Internet Businesses You Can Start from Home \n The Best Internet Businesses You Can Start \n 101 Ways to Make Money at Home
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well - if you want to do this, you should know what you need... going into something that you know nothing about is a "VERY" risky venture .  try asking local taylors what they use, then scale it up a bit.  start small - but remember selling to europe & the states you'll have problems with quality demanded & competition from  the far east..  think hard before you do this.
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Try a doggy/kitty day care that would incorporate walking services, training, kenneling and just a friendly environment.\n\nYou can maybe get training and references from volunteering at your local animal shelter.\n\nYour rates may need to be lower than the competition at first but after you get a few committed and satisfied customers you will be able to increase your rates.\n\nI don't know what your neighborhood allows, so you might want to check your zoning rules.\n\nI would pay good money if I could find someone reputable to take care of my animals and wouldn't just feed them crappy food and cage them up for hours on end.\n\nI think whatever you decide to do you'll excel, you stayed at a job for 11 yrs that speaks volume.\n\nStand out from the rest(which isn't that difficult) treat the animals well, and try to restrain from cages and cheap food.\n\nGood Luck!!
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Why not make a flyer saying Baby Sitting/Pet Sitting/tutoring  Services available and post it in different places like shopping centers, if your neighborhood has a community newsletter put an ad in there...The flyers that you put up have the tags at the bottom with your name and phone number that people can rip off would be good and this way you can see the amount of interest people have.  What about a local animal shelter?  They might hire you.  If not, put lots of flyers out everywhere!  Put them in mailboxes of people you know that have kids and or animals.  Get your folks to spread your interest also.  Word of mouth is always good.  And make sure on the flyer you say references available upon request.  And have them available.  Good luck and keep us posted on your quest!