Are You Wanting to Love What You Do Every Day?

We have training programs designed to bring you up to speed on the most successful methods to run your business as well as train dogs. We do sales conferences, training conferences and business conferences every year for continuing training for our locations.  Additionally our initial training program is 6 weeks long which is 3x longer than what our competition does and leaves our new locations ahead of the competition.

We have staff dedicated to providing ongoing assistance to our franchisees. When you own a Tip Top K9 you are not alone when you’re building and running your business, and you can always call on experienced people when you hit a rough spot or are not sure what to do with a certain type of dog issue that you havent seen before.

Our model is low on start up cost and high on support. 

With Tip Top K9 you are in business for yourself but not by yourself. 

No one provides as much support as we do. 

Support We Provide: 

• Marketing Support 
• Call center support
• Business Coaching
• Calendar support
• Payment support
• Product support
• Training support 

Financing Opppurtunies are available so if this sounds like something you would be passionate about fill out the form and our team will give you a call!

We do not want our franchisees watching videos to figure out how Google Ads or Facebook Ads work. Instead franchising vets marketing teams for you and negotiates great prices for you to make sure you have the very best marketing assistance to attract new clients. 

We then implement a grand opening marketing plan with you and the marketing team.   On top of that Franchising also has graphic designers that design all needed print materials or signage related items for all of our locations.

At Tip Top K9 we take advantage of the buying power of the entire system to negotiate prices for everything you need at significantly lower levels than you could achieve as an independent small business operator. This applies not only to training equipment purchases, but also to dog collars, dog leashes, print marketing materials, trade show set ups, uniforms and everything else you’ll need on an ongoing basis.  You are able to buy the majority of what you need to run your business from us cheaper than you could on the open market.  This also allows you to focus on what makes you the most money. Training dogs and training people.

With our most popular packages ranging between $3,000 – $4,000 our franchisees only need to sell a few new clients each week in the beginning stages of the business.

We recommend you provide dog training sessions in your clients’ home to begin with.  Then as soon as your revenue can support it then you can move into a location to fuel your growth.

We let location owners add territory to their existing location or buy new ones whenever they are ready! One of our location owners has 4 Tip Top K9 franchises in 3 different states. 

Revenue potential 

For locations that were fully operational in 2022 their gross revenue ranged between $178,620 on the low end for an owner-operator home based location and $1,177,703 on the high end for a location with a facility and multiple employees.

The average yearly gross income for locations that were fully operational in 2022 was $519,905. 

Individual results may vary.

Do I need to have a young dog my dog is older?

You will need a demonstration dog that we take from A-Z during your 6 weeks of training. So the dog needs to be young enough and high energy enough to work 3-4 hours a day.  We love labradors for this but can help you find a good dog if you don’t have the right dog currently.  

What age of dog is too young to bring?

You need at least a 6 month old dog, 8 months or older is preferable.  

Is this owner operator model or semi absentee or absentee?

It is set up as an owner operator or semi absentee.  Most owners are heavily involved in the first 12 months at the very minimum. Our concept does not work well for absentee owner unless say the 60% owner is the money partner and the 40% owner is the operator.

How much does the call center cost? 

6% of gross revenue.

6% seems to be a lot, do I really need a call center?

It may seem like a lot but you really cannot do it on your own for cheaper! 

For instance, if someone was grossing $40,000 a month: 

$40,000 at 6% is $2,400 a month in call center cost.

That’s a 40 hour a week $13.95 an hour employee – but really you need the phone answered more like 60 hours a week and especially on Saturdays. 

So you cannot hire a receptionist yourself for less than we can do it for you. 

Plus in addition to hiring someone you would have to:

1. Spend a few weeks training agents 
2. Have expensive call center software that allows tracking and transparency 
3. Listen to recorded phone calls every week 
4. Have weekly team trainings 
5. Continue to interview and hire every month ! 

The initial investment in your dog training business covers everything needed to get your business started, including: the franchise fee, 6 week initial training, start up equipment, technology, software, your vehicle wrap, start-up marketing packet, and initial marketing costs.

For interested dog lovers the total investment necessary to begin operation of a Tip Top K9® franchise ranges from $68,545 to $143,915.  For those interested but not having access to that much liquid cash we do have financing options!