Every pet business started with somebody who decided to bet on themselves. Somebody who stayed up past midnight doing the books. Who figured out payroll the hard way. Who thought about quitting and then did not. Those are the stories Candace wants to tell in
You had a great Saturday. 💰 So now you are thinking about hiring that groomer. Or buying the equipment. Or finally giving yourself a bonus. Candace has watched a lot of pet business owners make a big decision off a good feeling, and she has
Seven treats and the tricks that make each one actually work. 🎃 Everything Candace and Morgan cover is already running in our pet business right now. Some of it is powered by AI and the point of sale system. Some of it is just getting
Are you ready for the holidays? 🎄 Do you actually know what your customers are going to want this year and how they are thinking about spending? Candace has been digging through the 2026 holiday trend reports and there are some interesting shifts happening. People
This episode is a special treat. It’s an impromptu recording around a hotel fire pit in Perham, Minnesota, with wine in plastic cups, a train going by, and a surprise guest who walked up mid-recording and got handed a microphone. Candace drove 9.5 hours each
Q4 is here, and for most of you that means holiday prep and chasing down year-end numbers. For Candace it means something else entirely. This is the last quarter of the first decade of Pet Boss Nation. Ten years and thousands of clients through our
This one is a love letter. 💌 It is Neighborhood Pet Store Day weekend, and it is also the one-year anniversary of Dante and Dory’s! So Candace is doing two things at once: celebrating the independent pet businesses who decided their community deserved something more
It was a normal Tuesday, around 7 in the morning.Candace pulled up behind the building to get a head start on the day. Before she could unlock the door, she had to step around someone sleeping against it. Notice what that sentence does not say.
Many of our videos get hundreds, maybe a few thousand views. This one got 1.6 million. It was a video of a filthy self-wash tub getting rinsed out. That is it. A German shepherd had just been bathed on opening weekend, the tub looked like
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