Two identical days. Very different paychecks.
Same dogs, same prices, and one day earns far more than the other, purely from the route. Every minute between clients is unpaid, and a scattered calendar burns hours on the road that a clustered one turns into billable dogs. Booking around whatever's convenient feels like service and quietly drains your day.
Same five dogs, same prices: scattered across town it's three hours of driving; clustered it's forty minutes. Maria turned that gap into billable hours without charging a cent more. (Illustrative example.)
Who this is for
Mobile groomers whose days feel full and frantic but whose income doesn't match the effort.
By the end, you'll walk out knowing
You'll walk away with a finished plan
What you'll work through
7 short, plain-language lessons — most under five minutes. Read them or watch the slides, at your pace.
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- 2Cluster appointments by neighborhood5 min
- 3Calculate your real route profitability5 min
- 4Hub-and-spoke vs loop5 min
- 5The non-grooming time that wrecks every schedule5 min
- 6Build your weekly route plan5 min
- 7Your scheduling system, running itself4 min
The toolsyou'll use
Spreadsheets you copy and fill in as you go — yours to keep, unlocked when you enroll.
Your instructor
Ray runs a mobile route and learned the hard way that the money is in the map, not the dogs. He teaches the whole road: choosing and building a van, designing a profitable service area, and running routes that actually pay.
Not happy with the course for any reason? Email us within 14 days of purchase for a full refund.
Everything specific to running a van- or trailer-based grooming operation — the van, the route, and getting (and growing) mobile. Finish all 11 courses to earn the GC-MB credential — the full certification is $399.
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