Dog Health Questions: How does one go about starting a dog training/boarding/grooming business? What would the first 3 steps be?

I don't know anything about business plans and how to go about it - we don't have a lot of "start up" money to hire other people to do stuff for us. I just want to start small and then go from there. We already board/train some dogs - worried about liability and how to go about insuring that there isn't an incident that would cause us to lose our house! These are just some of the issues.

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• It's all research. Contacting companies that already are in this business in parts of the same state that you live would be a good start. Probably start with 3-4 companies. You aren't infringing on their customer base, and talking shop... but first you want to know:
  
  1) Who is your local competition?
  
  2) How many people in your area have pets that would be within a reasonable distance from you?
  
  3) What facilities will you need?
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  after that, contact those companies I spoke of earlier and ask:
  
  a) What prices are they charging for the services you want to offer?
  
  b) Ask your questions regarding insurance
  
  c) How many customers do they handle per month?These should give you a start, to help you determine what your next steps should be. Good luck.