Ep 101 - How to Create a Multi-Million Dollar per Year Dog Walking Business with Lauren Cora

Handling Business

Welcome to the Handling Business podcast! We wanted to start off our podcast with a bang by talking to one of the most successful dog walking business owners in the country. Lauren Cora is the owner of Dogs Deserve It, a Chicago based business that employs over 70 dog walkers, 5 managers and takes care of 300-400 dogs per day. Lauren started law school with intentions of becoming a lawyer, but quickly knew that she needed to capitalize on her eternal entrepreneurial fervor. After much research and contemplation, Lauren started DDI in 2009 by herself and has since grown the company to 70 walkers and five in-house managers. Her focus has been and always will be on innovation and reliability. Dogs Deserve It was the first company to utilize walker tracking using time stamped pedometers and the first to provide our walkers with salary and benefits. Dogs Deserve It believes that accountability and walker happiness will continue to set them apart from their competition. Dogs Deserve It is a perfect model of what a professional pet business should be and Lauren is here to tell us how she did it and how you can too. For Lauren, it hasn't always been a walk in the park, but with her business sense, know-how and persistence she has created a multi-million dollar business that is an industry leader.