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3 Practical Ways to Seek Out Your Life’s Passion in a Career You Love

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How to Rise Above the Unhappy Labor Statistics and Work for Yourself In a Place That You Love

 

In the decades I have spent in various industries of business I have found common traits among successful people. Of course, you will notice successful individuals have outstanding habits of promptness, ambition, and punctuality, but more abstractly I have noticed two more things that give people an edge to buy a business or begin a startup—an edge in profit, but more importantly an edge in happiness.

The first, is they question everything. The inquisitive mind naturally makes this leap by not accepting the order of things. How can we make it better? Smarter? Quicker? These are the questions entrepreneurs like Elon Musk asks himself when reviewing prototypes for Tesla motors and SpaceX.

The second trait is following a pattern of finding the thing that makes you most fulfilled, then pursue it to the point of wealth.

For me, it was leaving the stability of what made me hugely successful in terms of money but left me wanting for something more fulfilling. I started my own company—a pet grooming franchise. My company was inspired by my dog. I was tired of being fed up with taking her to industrial places that only aggravated and ripped me off, and in this company, I found the gratification I wanted. It almost seems inadvertent now, but in retrospect, it was the most awesome decision of my life. It was the push to buy a business.

I often observe people of all ages struggling to find happiness. People who hate their job. The pattern continues. These individuals stay in the dead end cubicle of a job because they haven’t figured out what they want to do yet. They settle.

Many like me have noticed this same trope in the American workplace and have philosophized three practical ways of thinking that might help you escape.

 

Beware of the Idleness of Complacency

When people look for a career they often consider things that have nothing to do with passion or happiness—we are conditioned to do so. Salary, culture, stability, advancement, and location are all hugely important, but one can’t narrow their lens to only this criteria.

What is it that you want to do?

Many of my companies small business owners never realized they wanted to buy a business until they took the time to consider what they really wanted out of life.

One of my colleagues sat in an office for a multinational company for years waiting every Monday for a call to be laid off. She knew it wasn’t a matter of why, but of when. It was inevitable. One day she realized enough was enough and took the initiative to find something better.

She now owns her own Splash and Dash Groomerie & Boutique in McKinney Texas and feels blessed to not only be out the stressful work environment of her previous profession but make a daily contribution to beneficially impact her local community. She had the courage to buy a business.

This might not be your route, but it is an example of the mentality it takes to find the career of your dreams. Opportunities won’t seize themselves. Quit your job. Light an urgent fire under yourself that can only be doused with passion.

Sometimes, you have to make what was once optional and a requirement to find what you’re looking for.

 

Let Curiosity Illuminate the Path

The true etymology behind curiosity killed the cat, is curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. I believe this is the truer notion behind the popular proverb.

Peel back the layers of yourself to see your less obvious interests. This will give you a more rounded view of your goals and help to unlock your creativity.

A popular entrepreneurial story is Steve Jobs’ taste for calligraphy. Steve ended up taking a typography class for the pure enjoyment of it.

“It was beautiful. Historical. Artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture. And I found it fascinating. None of this had any hope of any practical application in my life. But 10 years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me,” says Steve Jobs in his biography.

Even if it seems less pragmatic right now don’t let this deter you. Finding these unique interests about yourselves is what gives you the edge and tenacity to turn your curiosities into your career and more importantly the mosaic of your life.

If you decide to buy a business, invent, or begin a startup you are in for some grueling work. A passionate career comes from being challenged every day, being intrinsically curious about what you do. At first, think in terms of money being removed from the scope of your curiosity.

 

Buy a Business: Never Set an Arbitrary Ceiling for Yourself

 

You set your own professional ceiling.

Corporate America might provide limitations, but what is even worse is limiting yourself. Once you remove the restriction of being complacent at a dead end job, and find out what you really want to do, you have already broken free of the two hardest barriers.

Next, you need to compare your current skills against the skills you want to develop. For example, say you a very good with back office accounting, and numbers come easily to you. But you realize that 2017 is the mecca of cloud computing and IT is a transient and foreign challenge that you want to dive into.

When thinking about buying a business or launching into a new sector consider challenging yourself and learning new things. Life is perception.The more people define themselves by I can’t, the more they won’t. Adversely, the more people define themselves by I will, the more they indeed will.

Many of us in the Splash and Dash Groomerie & Boutique family have been fortunate enough to break away from the norm, go against the grain, and find more than just a career in a place that we love to work in. If you don’t believe me, go visit a shop. See it for yourself.

 

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Recurring Revenue Model Franchise – 4 Methods That Beat The Competition

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Splash and Dash Groomerie & Boutique Brand is Unique in the Market and Dynamic Services Innovate

Innovating the Pet Service Franchise

The goal for many small business owners in the pet service franchise is to get their shop to a point where it is self-operational. Once this happens, there are two options. Either continue to expand your operations and open up multi units, or simply retire. It will take an enormous amount of work to get your shop self-sufficient to the point where it will operate without you being on-site, but this is the goal.

Splash and Dash has a huge advantage over other pet service franchise shops–a recurring revenue model franchise. Splash and Dash Groomerie & Boutique is the leader of the pack when it comes to offering unlimited monthly memberships. As the only pet franchise in the industry that offers multiple recurring revenue streams. This business model has propelled them to be ranked on the Inc. 500, 3 years and running.

This pet service franchise article will cover 3 different ways Splash and Dash implements recurring revenue into their franchise model, allowing other Franchise owners to take advantage of this award winning model .

recurring revenue model franchise methods

Evergreens: Auto Renewal Subscription

An auto renewal subscription is like an evergreen tree, its leaves will never brown. The subscription model is infinite, or at least until a customer decides to cancel their subscription. The most common example of auto renewal subscriptions are for cloud based document storage.

Splash and Dash Groomerie & Boutique has used this subscription model as the backbone of the company’s success. Emulated from the gym franchise industry, the model translates perfectly into a pet service franchise.

Customers want excellent service. Your shop provides and guarantees this. The Unlimited Dog Wash & Service is a two-way street. The service offers excellent pet grooming for customers who want to drop their pet off in a loving environment they trust. In return they pay a fair price that renews automatically.

A customer can get their dog bathed at their leisure and shop owners receive recurring revenue for win-win situation.

This makes Splash and Dash a unique and mutually beneficial option for pet owners who are fed up with the coldness and prices of big box pet grooming operations.

Sunk Money Consumables

This recurring revenue model franchise design is when a customer recognizes the value in a product and decides to make an initial investment. For example, a consumer loves coffee, but can’t afford to buy Starbucks everyday. They decide to invest a Keurig to make coffee. The customer will then need to buy the products that are branded for this product in order to continue to using their Keurig.

Splash and Dash follows this model as well, but not quite as forcefully. The company’s goal is to provide products and services to customers without demanding. (This is why we 100% guarantee products and service, and do not require consumer contracts)

Sunk money consumables that Splash and Dash has is our variety of premium pet food options. There is no binding subscription for customers. Customers purchase these healthy food choices because the company recognizes that the majority of customers want to give their dog the healthiest choice.

The recurring revenue happens in collaboration to their monthly membership. In this way, Splash and Dash can be one-stop-shop for all pet owner’s needs.

Splash and Dash offers pet food dietary options for any budget and employees are will always aid to help customers make an informed choice.

Retail  Consumables

Almost every storefront has viable usage of this type of a recurring revenue model franchise. Brand loyalty is key here. When someone goes to a McDonald’s and orders a burger, that customer knows wherever they are in the country, the burger will be the same–uniformity. The customer has a preconceived value in their mind about burger and will continue to go to Mcdonald’s to buy that specific burger.

A pet service franchise, like Splash and Dash, operates in the same way for recurring revenue. Just offering different products.

Splash and Dash Groomerie & Boutique offers gourmet dog treats, and a new aromatherapy line that is branded. Both products are superior to other pet service franchise retail products on the market, and customers know this, and will repeat their visits to your shop so they can purchase these specific products.

This also works in league with the Unlimited Monthly Membership. Customers will take their dog to Splash and Dash for a bath and see the convenience of purchasing products they need. Vice versa, if a customer runs out of gourmet dog treats, it incentives them to visit Splash and Dash to have their pet get a bath they are already subscribed for, and purchase more treats.

Win-win.

Pet store franchise shops aim for enterprise. Transparently, this is a goal of Splash and Dash Groomerie & Boutique. The difference is–this is the only one that offers multiple streams of a recurring revenue model franchise which benefits the shop owners, the employees, and the customer.

Splash and Dash Groomerie & Boutique was built on passion, and this will never change.  

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