Free for UK dog groomers
The Dog Grooming
Startup Checklist
Everything to do before the first dog is on your table, in the order to do it.
Starting a grooming business is not one big decision. It is about forty small ones, and the reason it feels heavy is nobody hands you the order to make them in. This is the order, from deciding the shape of it through to your tenth client.
Two files, both free. The startup checklist below, and the Grooming Price-Setting Worksheet, eight steps to work out what to charge from your own costs rather than from the salon down the road.
What is in the checklist
- Six stages, from deciding the shape of it to your first ten clients
- The licence question settled for England, including the three bolt-ons groomers walk into without noticing
- Registering with HMRC, insurance, and the cover gap nobody mentions
- Waste, home permissions and client data, with the source named beside every line
- A four-week launch countdown with a date box on every item
- Tick it on screen and save it, or print it and use a pen
Written for the UK. Checklist is A4, nine pages, and England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are covered where they differ. The worksheet comes in A4 and US Letter.
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Nothing here is legal, tax or insurance advice. Every item points you at the office or the website with the real answer.
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