Is there such thing as being in the wrong part of the country thats bad 4 business?!

[VetTechJess]

Hello,

As many of you know already, or know now after reading this thread, I have started my own Pet Tattooist Identification Business.

Actually I bought into an established business called Tattoo a Pet and am now an Authorized Agent for them...

But there's one problem:

I haven't had anyone thats interested! I made a list of ppl and places I thought would be interested in my service (breeders, pet shop owners, kennel clubs, etc.) and went from there.

I had a meeting with a kennel club a few weeks ago, and still havent heard back from them. I called a no kill shelter humane society and I keep getting the damn answering machine and when I leave messages, they are not returned. I feel the kennel club didn't take me seriously because I am young (24 years old).

After all these doors slamming in my face, I began to look at environmental factors that may affect business.

After some digging I found out I am in a poor part of the country where, as a pharmacist friend put it exactly: "If it cannot be subsidized by welfare, they're not interested...".. It wouldn't be so funny had it not been so damn true!

I know theres a well off part of this piss town I am in, I just don't know what to do. However I'm not giving up...even if it has to be put on hold till my bf and I gratefully move away from this god forsaken part of the country we are in right now to a more affluent part of the country in my home state of Georgia when we move for him to go to pharmacy school...

I don't want to spend the rest of my life trading my time for money, working during the summer when I would rather be at my lake house (its no house in the Hampton's, just a place to spend the night during the summer and swim for free indefinitely...) and "asking permission" before taking time off to spend with my family or how I like...

Any Ideas?!?!?!

[JSB]

My first thought was that implanted ID microchips will supplant ID tattoos for pets.

Chip implantation is quick, relatively cheap, less painful than a tattoo, and easily available.

It may be less about geographic area and more about the state of the industry.

[VacMan]

Personally I don't know a whole lot about pet tattooing <--- that word looks weird

But...

Isn't the new "thing" for pet ID's microchipping and not tattooing?

It could be a message to market mismatch you're looking at.

[Brutha]

If you sell a luxus product in a poor neighbarhood you probably won't have much success.

On the other hand there is probably something that the people around you need.
Being in a poor part also means that it probably is easier to get someone to work for you for a low wage.

[1000feet]

Two groups of people not calling you 24/7 to get the latest updates doesn't really qualify as a lot of doors being "slammed in your face". It's also counterproductive to look for reasons why the environment isn't right when you haven't tried everything you can to make something work. After all, the economy may not look good but there's still businesses that will do well and grow over the coming years while others are barely standing still. It's because the successful businesses find the good parts of a bad environment and build on them, letting others worry about the "bad business environment".

As you can probably tell by now, I don't think there's really a bad part of the country. You do need to think a lot about how this is helping the people you want to help you and there may not be a lot of them close to you - but there probably are a few. Usually if you aren't getting anywhere it's the business or marketing that's the problem, not the environment. How does living in a big, impersonal, and wealthy city help you if you can't get people interested in you in a small town?

Remember that if this was easy no one would work.