Category Archives: Pet Industry leaders

10 Random Acts of Kindness – Pet Industry Edition

by Nancy Hassel, American Pet Professionals Random Acts of Kindness Week (February 12 – 18, 2023)   What can you do during this week of Random Acts of Kindness?  We usually think of small acts like paying for the person behind you in the coffee line their coffee or giving someone you don’t know flowers. …
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Are you adapting different training modalities for your employees?

by Nancy Hassel, American Pet Professionals Have you ever stopped to think, what is the best way that you learn?   What modality of education or training serves you best when learning?    Hands on, by doing?  Training Videos? Audio?  Reading a brochure?  Following an employee around to train with them? All of the above?…
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Hiring woes?

by Nancy Hassel, American Pet Professionals Are you having hiring woes?   We know as a business owner in the pet industry just how hard it is to find reliable employees or outside contractors when it comes to your service based pet business.   Over the years in the pet industry I have heard many…
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Celebrating 13 Years in Business!

by APP Staff   It was a cold night in February 2009, the 27th to be exact, smack dab in the middle of the recession when our founder and President of APP, Nancy Hassel decided to host a networking event for pet professionals on Long Island, NY.  Hoping to bring together pet pros from all…
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