 If yes, then we've got the perfect business idea for you. Hi everyone and welcome back to our started-up series. In today's video, we will tell you how you can turn your love for animals into a business by setting up a mobile pet grooming service. In a mobile pet grooming business, you can provide door-to-door salon services like bathing, cleaning, tick and flea bath, therapy etc in a van to dogs and cats. Now you must be thinking why are mobiles far and not operate out of a brick and mortar The biggest upside is that you don't have to pay rent or on utilities every month. Also, the convenience point of going to someone's house to provide them a service is more likely to get you more customers compared to a store salon. Let's start it. The first step is to invest in a grooming vehicle. The van or mini bus must be fully equipped with a water tank, a water heater, a part generator, a sink, cleaning table and some more space for storing grooming tools. To accommodate all these requirements, a mini bus with a capacity of 12-4 people will be adequate. Next, you have to determine the locations you want to operate in. You can identify colonies that have maximum household width pets but the important thing to keep in mind here is that the primary target audience of mobile pet grooming services is high-end households with enough disposable income to spend on their pets. Once you have established repeat customers in an area, you can look to expand your services in other parts of the city. For expansion, we would recommend that you build a website and force ads on Google and social media platforms. To talk about licenses and certifications, starting a pet grooming business doesn't require you to get a license to show that you are trained to groom pets as is the case with humans alone. You can either hire trained professionals for grooming or you can get training if you want to perform grooming services yourself. So, what in the kind of investment require to set up a grooming business? A new mini bus or traveler can cost you anywhere between 9-9.5 lakhs or you can buy a used vehicle for as less as 4-6 lakhs. Alternatively, you can also lease a vehicle instead of 5. Fit in the van with essentials will set you down by another 2-2.5 lakhs whereas smaller grooming tools like brushes, clippers, combs, dryers and aprons is another 10-15,000. A basic website with SEO is a one-time investment of 10-15,000. That's about initial one-time cost. Since your business is not in a fixed location, your ongoing costs will be minimum that include fuel, vehicle, maintenance, replenishing supplies like shampoo and cleaning. All this will cost you 10-15,000 per month. If you run a website, it involves a recurring annual cost of around 2000. Whereas marketing on Google and Facebook to establish your web presence is rupees 8-10,000 a month. One of your key expenses can be payroll of groomers if you don't perform grooming yourself. This is usually in the form of a 50-60% cut from each session. You can save on this commission by making a one-time investment of 80,000-1 lakh on a professional course to become a groomer yourself. Charges of mobile grooming services are higher compared to regular salons. A bath and dry service for a medium-sized dog is rupees 1100-1300 that takes up to an hour. A package that gives you additional services apart from bath and cleaning like nail clipping, ear cleaning, teeth cleaning etc is another 14-1600 rupees. Whereas a premium package with extra services can fetch you 2500-3000 rupees that can take up to 3 hours. Going by all these charges, a back of the envelope calculation shows that for 12 bookings in a week on an average, you stand to earn between 90,000-1 lakh after removing operational costs. This can be lower or higher depending on the number of bookings that you get. Also, this is when you are the main groomer in your business. If you have hired someone to perform these tasks, your net income will come down to 40-50,000. For an animal lover, a business that involves grooming pets is undoubtedly the most satisfactory career choice. We hope that you soon take the plunge. Meanwhile, stay tuned and log into www.entrepreneur.com for more business ideas. Like the video, then don't forget to like, comment, share and subscribe to Entrepreneur India. Hit the bell icon to get notified for more such videos.