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Dangerous Beliefs That Could Ruin Your Pet Food Franchise

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As you set out on your journey to opening a pet store franchise, you will have specific goals in mind that you may think are the keys to success. There are quite a few common beliefs among business owners that actually have the opposite effect. As you open and run your pet supply franchise, don’t allow these common beliefs to get in the way of your success.

1.Success Means Perfection

Many business owners have the idea that to be considered successful in their business, that everything under their control must be perfect. The danger in believing this for your pet food franchise is there is almost never a ‘perfect’. When you start to believe everything is perfect, it opens your pet supply franchise to fall apart. If you can’t see something wrong anywhere, you should go looking for it. Strive for perfection while knowing it’s unattainable, but with every step your pet food franchise will be better and don’t take it as a failure if anything goes wrong. It’s a chance to improve.

2.Always or Never Determines Everything
Too many pet food franchise owners fall for the idea that you’re either going to fail from the start or succeed from the start. That you will either always fail or never fail. A good pet supply franchise, like a working heart, has its ups and its downs. By believing you’re only able to succeed, you set up your failures to hit your business twice as hard as you’re unprepared while expecting only failure can be depressing and end your pet food franchise by just giving up.

3.Success Means Getting Approval From Others

The pet food franchise is one of customer service, but does that mean you’re only successful if you have the approval of others? No. People will always talk, you’ll see reviews online saying good and bad things. The important thing to remember is that you are never as good or as bad as the public says you are. Always take what they say lightly, but be objective if there are changes you think you need or could make. Worth for your pet supply store and yourself comes from you.

4.My Emotions Are Reality
Emotional responses can destroy a pet food franchise because they take away your ability to look at a situation objectively. Nothing is ever as bad as you think it is. If you feel yourself making emotional decisions for your pet supply franchise, stop. Take a breath, calm down, and approach the issue again when you can think objectively. The worst decisions are made by emotion because our emotions like to skew reality.

5.The Future of My Pet Food Franchise is Unchangeable

No matter how much success or failure the past of your pet food franchise has had, the most dangerous thing to think is that you can’t change. Every day in the pet supply franchise is a new day. Your past failures don’t exist and don’t determine your future. It’s how you deal with today that matters. While repeated failures can destroy self-confidence, don’t look at them as predictors of the future, but learning experiences of the past to make your future better. Anything worth doing is difficult. A pet supply franchise that you care about will present difficulties that you will just have to work through, but it will make your franchise that much better.

Dealing with the Tough Decisions of a Pet Food Franchise

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The pet food franchise, like any other business, sometimes faces tough situations. As the owner of said franchise, it will be up to you to make the decisions that will affect the life and productivity of your pet supply franchise. Whether it’s opening up an extra purpose (daycare, grooming, bakery, etc) or just to purchase another brand of food to sell on your shelves, here are some points to go over to help make the best decision you can.

Practicality of Decision

As you’re adding another service or product, or maybe you’re just considering opening your first (or second) pet store franchise location, think about the practicality of the decision. Is it doable? Do you have the space or the budget? Do you have the staff if it’s a service? If you don’t have the staff, do you have enough payroll to hire enough staff to cover the expansion? Keep in mind that not all practical ideas are possible and equally, not all impractical ideas are impossible. Some of the best inventions, works of art, or technological advances have come out of impractical ideas done by the right person. Just because it seems impossible, doesn’t mean it is, but be realistic in your expectations when you take a risk.

Achievability of Decision

With any question of practicality for a pet food franchise comes the question of achievability. While it might be practical to expand to include a pet grooming franchise in your pet supply franchise, is it achievable based on your resources? Do you have the resources to find the resources to make it achievable? Don’t make any decisions on anything until you’ve thoroughly researched the possibility of your decision’s effect in reality. You can dream big, but be realistic at the same time.

Benefits of the Decision

Consider all the benefits this decision will have on your pet food franchise. What are the goals you’re trying to achieve by making this decision? Are you focusing on expanding, assisting your employees, lightening your stress load, or helping your customers? By targeting the benefactors of the decision and how it will change your pet supply franchise, the weight of the decision will shift for the better or for the worse.

Mistakes Happen

For every decision you make in your pet store franchise remember: failure happen, but you don’t learn from success. The chances of every decision you make being the right one is never guaranteed. Most decisions you will make hold a risk factor. Keep that in mind, but know that every mistake is a chance to learn and don’t stress out about it. Risks cause growth more than they cause loss and every decision you make will not only help you run your pet food franchise better, but will also help you with your life decisions as well.