It does, yes. Every area is a little different. But we firmly believe that the value of taking the waste away with us offers our customers a better experience that is worth the cost!

Sounds like a good time!

Pups Pub is always expanding! Scoop Soldiers IS in Portland, thought!

We service across the country through our franchisees. What state are you in?

@ Missouri

@ I have a bicycle shop is dead in the winter time but be nice to have this as a job as well and even use my shop to advertise the poop company that you have. Double up, well my Son is helping at the shop, I can pick up poo 💩. I am a professional poo scooper from my dogs. Haha Don’t need training me , except for proper way you want us to do it and talk with the customers and process the invoices 🧾

We do! We have multiple franchisees across the country. We have territories we are building, and we are always looking for solid franchisees. Reach out if you want to know more about franchising.

That is awesome! Please let me know how it goes. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out.

Thank you! If you see a truck, snap a photo and send it to us. It's always nice to have eyes on our team.

Could get a bit smelly. Open air truck bed will do much better.. for you and the people around you.

Also not a great place to hold a conversation. Hahaha. A bit loud, and the big tires don't help.

@petwastemillionaire 🤣

You are welcome. I hope you were able to take something from this video. We make these in the hopes that you will start your own business. Hopefully we can point you in the right direction and help you avoid any mistakes that we made.

I believe that if you acquired a new client and it is their first service, it doesn't matter if it has been 6 years since they picked up the poop, charge them the price you would charge someone who picked it up yesterday... on the first service. Yes, it will be a lot more work, but it will show the client that you care and may just get you a client for life.

Thank you so much! Limiting your clients to only Saturday or Sunday has a couple of potential downfalls. 1) It limits the amount of customers you can actually service (only having two days in which to scoop every house) and 2) A lot of people have the weekends off of work, which could give them the time and opportunity to pick up their own dog poop, creating a situation where they might not need the service. To start as a side hustle, absolutely give it a shot. When you get to a point where the weekends are completely booked with clients houses to scoop, you could always reevaluate to determine if you should hire an employee or two and add service during the week.

@@petwastemillionaire Thank you for your insight. While I had considered that limiting to only Saturdays or Sundays could restrict the number of customers I can serve, I hadn’t thought about people having time to do it themselves on weekends. I’ll look into finding help during weekdays until I can grow the business enough to quit my job. Your advice has been helpful and is much appreciated!

DVA stands for doing business as. Contact your secretary of state.

Yes! We absolutely incentivize our team to find new customers. It is a great way to spread the word that the poop scooping industry exists. The more people who know that the industry exists helps everyone in the poop scooping business.

How much would creating an llc cost , if you dont mind me asking u

@@Rumplestiltskin777 the price varies depending on the state you live in. The range is between $100-$500.

In Colorado it’s only $50 to form an LLC.

CA was $70

Excellent point @johnjackgallaghercpa2273!

But did you die? Everyone, but you, in the comments wants to start a business. We call long hours, no break and a full schedule progress

@ what an idiotic question

@ that shitty job isn’t progress

Our employees have the ability to go at their own pace, take breaks and lunch whenever they like. Just like any other job, if they can get the clients serviced on the days they are scheduled and do a great job, they get to manage their time as they see fit.

@ false. I was trained and told no one takes a lunch. They work thru it. Your system is fucked

How much the franchisees make is dependent on the territory they own, whether or not they acquired an enhanced territory or are starting with zero clients, and the conversion of leads to clients. As far as how much they keep, it depends on their contract.

Happy New Year, @fuzzibert! While I appreciate the constructive criticism, motivating a team is a tad bit harder than giving and believing that your opinion is the only correct one. I care very much about the feelings of my team. As a leader, I listen to my team and work to motivate each person in a way the can feel inspired. This purpose of this talk (much of what you didn't see) was to be transparent with the team in regards to goals hit and goals missed, and to inspire each of them to take ownership of the roles they are in, and give them confidence (training) to go after the role they want. Thank you for your honest feedback.

Hey, Eric. I hope had an amazing holiday season! Welcome to 2025.! If you are still interested, please reply back. We have opportunities across the country.

Yes I am still interested

Thanks for the feedback. We love Scoop Start! They teach some good stuff. But be careful, it's not as easy as it sounds. Otherwise, our page is not the same and is going to have far more variety of content starting with covering my journey as an entrepreneur, but others in the future as well. We aren't building a university. We are trying to bring awareness to the whole industry, entertain, inspire and document. Hopefully something can also be taught through all that. Best of luck. Keep learning.

Yup, she never saw it coming. To be fair, a grown man should have a better arm and accuracy than that.

No one knows! Or at least he isn't telling. We left him alone there, and he has never mentioned it since. :)

I would check with local requirements on your county/ state websites. But in general, for your first 25 clients, yes

Many companies simply put it their customers trash cans. We do NOT. We don't consider that a complete service that leaves your hard poop and smell free. We have contracts with local dumpster service companies that allow us to dispose of the poop (bagged and tied) in their dumpsters. Great question!

If you are interested in working with Scoop Soldiers go to scoopsoldiers.com and request a 30 minute meeting with me, EJ.

We do not charge more for a larger yard until it gets to be sizably larger (an acre or more). When we charge ,the way we determine that is based on the amount of time we spend in a yard compared to a more standard sized yard. It's not based on a percentage.

Thank you, sir!

@@petwastemillionaireare you thinking it doesn’t take that much more time to do just under 1 acre than it does and 1/8-1/4 acre? How much time (reasonable) do you estimate it should take 1/8-just under 1 acre? How much more do you increase for 1 acre or more? How do you schedule them for days? Do you assign them a day or you let them choose a day they want it done? Thank you for dropping all of these free gems!!!

@@petwastemillionairedo you require the dogs be in the house when you come out

Or where are the depositing the money and does that mean they have access to your business banking information?

No such thing as dumb questions. You set up a merchant processing account that let's you charge customers for the services you provide.

@@petwastemillionaire thank you 😊

Thank you. I have no doubt there will be more videos like this, as the comments, I presume, will keep coming. Thank you for taking time out of your day to comment. I really appreciate it.

Look at your local competitors to see what they are charging, and decide how competitive you want to be. You could base your price on the amount of dogs and/or the square footage of the yard, based on the time it takes you to complete the job.

Typically, pet waste is able to be thrown out with your normal trash, including large dumpsters. The companies that operate those have the appropriate permits to dispose of the waste. But it is never a bad idea to check your city or counties official websites.

Hahahaha. A decent percentage of our customers are elderly or have something in their life that physically keeps them from being able to to pick it up. And we make it a point to make sure that after that HUGE poo haul the first time, we bring them peace knowing that it will never be that bad again with us.

@petwastemillionaire I'm not saying that I disapprove of them not picking up, I'm just confused about how it's not breaking down quicker than that. I wonder if it's a matter of what kind of food they're giving their dogs, if some have preservatives that keep the waste there much longer than others

No disrespect to you i agree with small startup from a car if thats all you can get going with but if you need to scale up then Personally, i think this trade / service should be using vans for many reasons. I have been converting vans into customised service vehicles for 20 years. A van like the size of a vw transporter that can park in a standard parking spot. seal off 1/3 in the back of the van for waste along with dirty tools and has good ventilation air flow. The side door should be set up with seating with hand washing facilities,first aid, a place to hang wet clothes, and get changed. Heating /ventilation and Porta potty in case of need. Also a place to have your lunch or just sit down, time is money you can stay on the job this way, sit down out of sight without feeling like a fish in a glass bowl in the cab .A small trailer for the bigger jobs ,single axel whenever it's needed. Coming from lreland, where it rains a lot, it would make no sense to work from a truck as everything would be wet and miserable. A van would be more fuel economic because of no wind drag in the bed of the truck. It sounds like an expensive setup, but it can be done on a budget. I don't want to come across as condescending I do respect everyone out there doing what they can dou with whatever they have. Regards Derick

@@derickdavorenablearen’t these cargo transport vans even more costly? How would you ventilate it? I would think a minivan would get better fuel efficiency than the cargo vans. Just wondering how to ventilate and keep the smell out…

@jmarko8720 Hi. So cargo vans are cheaper in Ireland and the UK. Compared to pickup trucks. And our diesel vans are cheaper to run than pickup tucks Regarding ventilation, I would put a partition wall dividing the back of the van into 2 areas. Then seal up the back section at the rear so it could be power hosed out and no water could get through to the front section. Then 2 large vents in the roof possably fan asaited and 2 more vents in the floor.

To which school would you be referring, Mr. Sushi2221?

@@petwastemillionaire any one my dude. Any one.

@@mr.sushi2221 You need to go back to school to learn grammar.

I am so fascinated by mobile pet grooming. The ins and outs of the day to day, and the scalability. Is there a breed that tends to give you the most trouble?

@@petwastemillionaire Mobile grooming is very fascinating! We can't think of a specific breed that tends to give us the most trouble, it more depends on the groomers experience and the dogs temperament!

Facts!

Send photos!!!!

They do slobber a LOT, though.