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Grant Writing

Our fee schedule for grant writing is based on a sliding scale for the complexity and size of the grant proposal and very economical.  We do this because we have so much experience with requests for proposals (RFPs) and award-winning technical writing, as well as a mission to help horse businesses, especially non-profits.

Quick Easy Website Review

Frustrated that you've paid all that money for a website, in design and monthly hosting fees, and it isn't getting the results you expected?  Don't want to sink much more into it?  Well, might want to, but don't have the budget?  We understand. 

We offer an inexpensive "refresher" to put that website to work for your farm now.  Details ...

How to Make Your Horse Boarding Business Profitable in 10 Easy Steps

Get ready for 2010.  Order a copy of this terrific practical e-book.  It blows the lid off how to resurrect, revitalize or launch your profits from Board and Care in these challenging times!  This is a real 90-page book, not a magazine article re-packaged as an electronic book.  Special first edition pricing will not last.   

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The Best "What If" Budgeting and Forecasting Tool for Boarding Stables

Wouldn't it be great if you could quickly answer these questions?

Order a copy of this terrific practical Excel spreadsheet.  It makes pricing services and forecasting your profits from Board and Care simple in these challenging times!  This tool is easy for anyone to use who has Excel software on their computer.  Just plug in your actual costs and occupancies, then evaluate the results. With hay and fuel prices fluctuating monthly, get ready for 2010 with a tool you will use often.  Designed as a companion tool to the e-book. Special first edition price will not last.

Stable Profits Toolkit — The eBook and the Spreadsheet

Order a copy of the Stable Profits Toolkit to receive both the e-book and the companion budgeting and forecasting spreadsheet and save 25%. 

Lesson Scheduling

  A lesson scheduling program goes beyond the whiteboard in the tack room or barn office.  It is Faster: Spend less time scheduling appointments and more time focusing on customers. Quickly add or locate customers, find available appointment times, manage waiting lists, and schedule appointments in seconds.
It is Flexible: Customer Appointment Manager is designed to accommodate your unique needs. Use definable fields to store information important to you and your business. Export or print your appointment calendar and reports in various formats.
It is Easy to Use: An intuitive design makes Customer Appointment Manager easy to learn and use. Getting started is effortless and you'll be scheduling customers in no time.
View appointments by day, week, or month. Find open times quickly. Fill cancellations and avoid no-shows. Email customer appointment reminders. Create personalized letters and mailing labels. CAM works with PDAs and synchronizes with QuickBooks.

Reservation Management

If your horse business includes a dude ranch, bed and breakfast, carriage service, campsites, wild horse watching tours, or trail rides, you know how important it is to ensure that reservations are managed so that you do not overbook but also do not turn down business holding reservations that "no show".  Manage your reservations professionally and effectively with software used by other hospitality businesses: hotels, motels, and resorts.

For information on one such reservations package Click Here!

If you lose power to your well pump, your barn, or your home during a storm, flood, earthquake, blackout, or construction in your area, what will you do?  If your energy bills keep rising faster than your take-home pay, where can you turn?

You can make your own solar and wind energy at a fraction of the cost of retail products.  It is easy to do -  you do not need to be a handyman or electrician.  School children do it as an after-school or school break project.  Learn how to find inexpensive materials and follow step-by-step instructions from this leading figure in the solar energy field. Click Here!

Books for

Cost Savings, Additional Profit Centers, Environmental Improvements

Topics of Workshops, Clinics, Seminars for Your Breed, Rescue, or Professional Horsemen's Association  

   Speaker Barbara Beard

Topic for Keynote Speech, 1 Hour Seminar or 4 Hour Workshop
Make Your Media Investment Pay Clinic for Profit and Non-Profit Stables and Associations
Discusses various modern methods of reaching your target audience with high impact at low to no cost.  Where to concentrate your efforts when you have very little time to devote to marketing.  Where to concentrate your dollars when you have very little money to devote to marketing.  How to get inexpensive expert help. This is a hands-on clinic for participants to leave with specific action plans and a raft of practical ideas with how-to steps. Details ...

Teaching Beginners for Riding Instructors - a Train the Trainer Session Your State Conference Needs

For Therapeutic Riding Stables, or Professional Breed or Discipline Associations or Clubs, this dynamic presentation can be adapted to a classroom demonstration, or an arena with horses and riders.  Invest in your future, your career, the well-being of your teaching horses, and your students.  Designed for:

In order to be a good riding instructor who gets results - that is, whose students progress in safety and communication, balance and skills, several coaching skill sets of the instructor must converge.  It is not enough to be a good rider yourself, or to know the basics of managing the logistics of a beginner or therapeutic riding class, or how to train a horse.  You must also be able to read the horse, the assistive team, understand the equipment, and the basics of teaching a sport that requires balance and communication with an animal to achieve safety and control. 

Ninety percent of all accidents with beginners could be avoided by instructors, including those seemingly due to the horse or rider error, or environmental surprises. 

Most school horses and therapy horses can perform well for decades without "reschooling" when instructors creatively teach positive skills from the very beginning, and can read the horses.  Teaching beginners requires the most skill as an instructor, and the most experience.  Gain the insight and techniques that enable your students of any age or ability to learn, have fun, and be safe.  Beginners and school or therapy horses that work with them, need the BEST teachers.  Too often the most experienced trainers or riding instructors only work with the intermediate and advanced students.  Yet it is the beginners, and the horses that must balance under them and try to figure out what the rider (and possibly horse handler, coach, and sidewalker) are doing that need the BEST teachers the most!  These teams are the most dependent upon a very skilled instructor who is a very clear, precise, and knowledgeable communicator.  An instructor who develops beginner riders must understand

Forming a Horse Supplies Buying Co-Op

In today's economy every kind of horse stable - from boutique dressage and trail riding boarding facilities, to small breeders, to equine-assisted therapy centers, to horse retirement farms, struggle valiantly  with steadily rising costs for feed, bedding, water, pesticides, electricity, truck and tractor fuel, trash removal, and other necessities. Many are curious about forming a co-operative purchasing group in their neighborhood, but are uncertain how to begin, or worry that they cannot manage the logistics in addition to their current heavy workload.  Others doubt that the savings can be sufficient to warrant the extra work and financial risk they believe they would need to assume.

This seminar is for professional breed or discipline associations or clubs, or for state conferences of therapeutic riding centers or horse rescues.  You can do it!  We know how. 

This is a hands-on clinic for participants to leave with specific action plans and a raft of practical ideas with how-to steps to get started right away saving money and gaining peace of mind that supplies will be there when they need them.

Choosing a Lesson Program

How to select a stable and an instructor. What to ask when you call.  What to look for when you visit.  Whether you should take private or group lessons, etc.

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