Pet Store

2 Tips For Starting A Successful Pet Store (2025)

Updated: April 14th, 2025

Want to start your own pet store? Here are some tips you should know:

We've interviewed thousands of successful founders at Starter Story and asked what advice they would give to entrepreneurs who are just getting started.

Here's the best advice we discovered for starting a pet store:

#1: Justin Palmer, founder of iHeartDogs:

We chatted with with Justin, founder of iHeartDogs ($1.83M/month). In our interview, Justin says:

To this day I’m a proponent of building an audience before building a product. Products come and go and get copied easily. But an audience is far harder to replicate.

Additionally:

Understand your personal goals when building your business. For me, it was a desire to have more freedom.

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