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Grooming Your Career for Success with Technology

Barkleigh Productions — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 14:26:59 +0000

Technology can open up a whole new world in three distinct ways:
1. Customer Perception
How your customer feels before, during, and after the groom.
Check in. Can you quickly check in a client and have all notes and histories ready and up to date? Sorting through paper index cards can be slow and hard to keep track.

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The Clock is Tick, Tick, Ticking

Barkleigh Productions — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 16:09:54 +0000

"Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you won’t do anything with it,” says M. Scott Peck the author of The Road Less Traveled.

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Ten Tips to Improve Grooming Speed

Barkleigh Productions — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 14:32:43 +0000

“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” —William Penn
On internet grooming forums the following question crops up over and over: “How can I groom faster?” Most often this question is posed by people who are newer to our industry, those who have been grooming for five or fewer years.

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The 60 Minute Spaniel

Barkleigh Productions — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 15:38:40 +0000

The old expression “time is money” certainly applies to the job of pet styling. Groomers walk a fine line, trying to groom pets in an efficient manner, without cutting corners or rushing in a way that can cause stress or accidents. After more than three decades in this industry, I have learned to streamline the way I work so that I groom pets rather quickly.

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