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How a Dog Trainer Scaled to Seven Figures Without a Facility
In episode 57 of Scaling Up with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore how a solo dog trainer in Austin bootstrapped a million-dollar business without ever renting a facility. They walk through the specific decisions—from using clients' homes as training spaces to building a referral engine that replaced all ad spend—that turned a side hustle into a scalable service company. The episode digs into the numbers: how 12 weekly sessions per trainer at $150 each hit $93,600 annual revenue per trainer, and how the founder grew to 8 trainers and $750,000 in revenue before adding a single paid ad. Key…
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