Your Horse Career Starts Here
Hi everyone!
If you’re planning to (or thinking about) starting your equine business this year, then why not join in the free event, the 7 Day Startup Challenge?
Starting January 19, this free event is designed for entrepreneurs to help them launch their business idea in 7 days! Sometimes all we need is a little push from people in the know. Of course, free resources help, too!
Check it out.
“Half the failures in life result from pulling in one’s horse when it is leaping.” – Author Unknown
How much of your day/week is related to horses?
Almost all of the working day and much of the night and weekends – such are the joys of Facebook!
What is it exactly that you do?
I am Research and Marketing Director for EquiFeast. Combining customer contact and technical responsibilities has enabled me to develop products that really help solve rider problems. As our team grows I encourage the same focus on horse and rider needs.
But our strength also lies in our willingness to try novel things. Chelated calcium is proving to improve functions all over the horse and it is very exhilarating to see such a novel approach make our customers smile.
Favorite horse memory?
Winning an unaffiliated prelim dressage test at a local dressage centre on Paddy the horse that got us started down the chelated calcium route. I am the worlds worst rider but 69.55 was a great score from a horse that previously used to enter at A and canter to B and then C before thinking about jumping the judge’s car.
Watching other riders I think it has to be watching Laura Bechtolsheimer (now Tomlinson) winning Gold and Bronze at London 2012 using our chelated calcium supplement!!!
Future goals?
Getting a better understanding of what chelated calcium can do and taking the technology beyond improving behaviour and performance and making progress with health and welfare issues. Top targets for 2016 are mobility (Kissing Spine and less extreme conditions) and Cushings (big trial with the Royal Agricultural University about to start).
Best thing about your job?
Definitely getting calls from customers saying we have saved their wild and uncontrollable horse from the doggers.
“The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit and freedom.” – Sharon Ralls Lemon
Is there anything you can’t do or anywhere you can’t go on horseback? I’m sure there is, but these guys offer a great chance to explore and dine with their horse business!
Horseback provide winery tours, equine education and fun for the kids. It says on their site:
Welcome to Horseback Winery Tours where unique equine experience blends with the best produce the Mornington Peninsula has to offer.
Take one of our two, three or all day Horseback Winery Tours throughout the Mornington Peninsula Hinterland and drop into some of Australia’s finest wineries for vino tastings or a gourmet indulgence.
Perhaps you’re interested in running a horse business where people get to ride, but it has a niche twist to it? Horseback Winery Tours are an example of one such possibility.
“No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.” – Winston Churchill
Now we have covered this before, but I want to touch on it again for the New Year. What horse related goals do you have in mind for 2016?
I am excited about my goal of generating a set figure of $1000/month via passive income means, and horse focused! I aim to achieve this through a few different avenues, all online. To achieve this, I need to:
I have set myself specific goals to achieve by November 2016, having given myself a 12 month period to achieve these. This way I feel that each week I can be doing something proactive towards my larger goal.
You may have one goal, you may have many. Feel free to join in this blog hop and post on your blog what your equine related goal/s are for the New Year. And don’t forget, you can get a head start on them now, you don’t have to wait for 2016 to arrive!
Once you’ve written the post, link it back to this one and leave a comment below!
Writing down your goal/s is the first step to making them a reality. Good luck!
Participants:
There’s a fundraising campaign going on for the radio station I listen to, Visionfm and after their focus on raising funds via donations, I heard an advert indicating that if listeners made use of Bartercard, and they had built up points, then they could donate to Vision in this way. Great idea!
It got me thinking again about how this could be utilised in the Equine Industry. Some of you may be familiar with the free resource, the Equestrian Exchange on Facebook. If not, check it out!
The idea is that you offer a product or service in exchange for another product or service that will benefit you or your horse business. For example, an equine author offers a copy of their book in exchange for a review.
As a business owner of a horse feed store, you may offer a load of hay to the stud down the road in exchange for the chance to breed your mare to one of their stallions. My previous bosses at two different jobs (training and breeding) bartered by the breeder sending stock to the trainer for racing and the trainer sending some broodmares to the stud for his stallions. They helped each other out.
What if there was a setup like Bartercard that catered specifically to the horse world? Perhaps you love the idea of setting up a business and this appeals to you. It would require:
I’m sure that there’s more that would need working out, but it’s some fodder for thought.
“To barter: exchange (goods or services) for other goods or services without using money.”
