u/Fortestingporpoises

Now I realize these days there's generally not much of a reason to do so, but I think I have a fairly unique issue. I started my company as a dog walking company. It's named "local geographical feature" dog walking. My website url is that . com. In the past years I've added grooming, training, daycare, poop pick up, etc. I've changed my logo to be more about the first words of it, then under it it shows our other offerings.

But I've definitely had people reply like we're just a dog walking company because you go to the url " " dog walking . com.

I realize it won't help my SEO or anything, but am thinking at least for people who do put in the url or go to the url it might make sense to make individual urls.

The other thing I am thinking is in the long run it might make more sense to have the final url just be "geographical feature" (. com) which is what I tell people we're named but I worry that is a waste of the SEO work we've done over the years so maybe not.

Or maybe none of this is worth the money or time and I just stick with what it is, like a hardware store that becomes a restaurant and they just leave it as is and let people figure it out.

Thoughts?

Ok so the situation is this: I currently own a pet care company. I’m renting a space that is literally brick and mortar (downtown so the faces is brick but the walls are drywall.)

I was asked if I wanted to purchase a lot that happens to be right across the street (by a client). Waiting on the appraisal. It’s 2.5 times the size of my current spot and would allow me to build and indoor outdoor daycare (with kennels and grooming rooms etc). My budget is tight so I’m gonna have to do some magic but to start with I need to figure out what to build.

Challenges beyond cost is that it’s in a historic downtown so the city will have its say. My first thought was steel prefab buildings, I had the thought of shipping containers (but the planning guy I talked to said probably too industrial looking). My brother suggested Quonset huts)

I also had the idea thrown at me of building two floors in which case we’d have to build more traditionally. Pre fab would obviously be quicker but we’d still have to figure out how to build the walls. Some of the rooms we’d want to be fully enclosed.

Running an indoor daycare space with a draining fake grass area and having a grooming tub puts a lot of moisture in the air so I’m thinking ahead on how to keep this place clean and dry.

The lot is 90’x47’. The building I’m thinking will be about 38x60 since I have to have the structure 5 feet off the main road and to accommodate for outdoor area. Any suggestions?

Ok, so I own a pet company, we provide grooming, training, walking and daycare and have a little boutique. As part of our membership in a downtown business association we get a free spot at the weekly farmers market.

The one catch is we can't sell anything. So our entire goal is to get people's info, get them in our system and hopefully on our schedule.

I have a spinny wheel where we give away dog toys, treats, and discounts on services. I have set up a few other things to increase engagement, and to try and get people to give us their info.

But I'm trying to come up with ideas to maximize our time. I am thinking of makign it so people can with other giveaway items but I don't have a huge budget to pay more than $1 per item.

Any thoughts? Anyone else set up booths at events and what works best for you?

So a little about my company: I've been building this small pet company for 13 years now. We started as a dog-walking company. In the last few years we added a brick and mortar with a small pet boutique, dog grooming, dog training, and a very small indoor dog daycare. Also mobile grooming.

I just two weeks ago had a client reach out and tell me she had commercial property she was wondering if I'd be interested in. It just so happens to be across the street from my current location, which I pay rent on and have a couple years left on the lease. The property I may be able to acquire is over twice the size.

My goal would be to build a spot with indoor and outdoor daycare, dog grooming areas, just generally a building dedicated for what I already do. And then I'd try to get out of my lease once I was fully up and running. My landlord made it clear pretty early that he was charging me too little, so I think he'd probably be open to looking for a new tenant.

So my question is, what would you think about if you were doing this? What would you try to include? What would you want for your dogs?