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- Revisions within the package are free.
- If you do not respond within 3 days of delivery, the work is accepted automatically.
The money is reserved when you pay and released only once you accept the work.
Example result
Market overview: dog grooming salons in a mid-sized town
Competitor comparison
| Competitor | Format | Full groom, medium dog | Online booking | Opening hours | Extras | Reviews (avg / count) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waggy Tails Salon | Salon, town centre | £52 | Yes | Tue–Sat 9–17 | Teeth cleaning £8 | 4.8 / 312 |
| The Groom Room | Salon + daycare | £58 | Yes | Mon–Sat 8–18 | Daycare £28/day | 4.6 / 190 |
| Pawfect Cuts | Home-based groomer | £40 | No, phone only | By appointment | — | 4.9 / 64 |
| Fluff & Buff | Salon in pet store | £45 | Yes | Daily 10–18 | 10% off pet food | 4.1 / 141 |
| Silver Coat Spa | Premium salon | £70 | Yes | Wed–Sun 9–16 | Blueberry facial £12 | 4.7 / 88 |
| Valley Mobile Grooming | Mobile van | £60 | Form, reply in 48 h | Mon–Fri | — | 4.3 / 37 |
Sources
| Competitor | Where the data comes from | Checked |
|---|---|---|
| Waggy Tails Salon | Website price page; map listing reviews | 08.09.2026 |
| The Groom Room | Website; social media price post from August | 08.09.2026 |
| Pawfect Cuts | Social media page; price confirmed in a reply to a public comment | 09.09.2026 |
| Fluff & Buff | Pet store website, grooming section | 09.09.2026 |
| Silver Coat Spa | Website price list (PDF) | 09.09.2026 |
| Valley Mobile Grooming | Website; map listing | 10.09.2026 |
Key findings
- Price range for a medium dog is £40–70, with most salons at £45–58.
- Only one mobile competitor, and it does not work weekends and replies to bookings slowly. Three of its 12 most recent reviews mention waiting for a reply.
- Instant online booking is standard for salons; phone-only booking is now the exception.
- Weekend capacity is thin: only 2 of 10 competitors take bookings on Sundays.
Opportunities for Tidy Paws
- Position as "the salon that comes to you, including Saturdays", priced at £58–62, near the mobile competitor but with instant booking.
- Target owners of anxious or older dogs: 9 reviews across competitors mention stress from waiting rooms.
Honest limits
- Prices are list prices; discounts and size surcharges may differ in practice.
- Review counts reflect public listings on the dates checked, not total customers.
- No data on revenue or market share is publicly available for these businesses.
Client: Tidy Paws, a mobile dog-grooming van planning to launch in Ashford Vale (pop. ~85,000). Standard package: 10 competitors, 8 criteria. Excerpt below shows 6 of them.
The client and all details are made up.
About this service
Family photos on one external drive and a film collection spread across laptops is a backup problem waiting to happen. Tell us how much data you have, how fast it grows and what you want the box to do (backups of every computer, a photo library, streaming films to the TV, a few home services), and we compare ready-made NAS units with a self-built home server for that job. You get the hardware, the drives, a disk layout with redundancy explained in plain words and a backup plan that keeps a copy outside the house.
What is included
- What you getA hardware pick with drives, prices and links as of the order date, a disk layout with usable capacity, a comparison of the options and a backup plan, as text you can copy or download as a file.
- Ready-made vs self-builtCompared for your use
- Drives and layoutUsable space after redundancy
- Media streaming checkTranscoding for your TV and files
- Off-site copyCloud or second location
- Prices with linksAs of the order date
How it works
- 1BriefYou describe your data and uses
- 2ResearchWe compare devices and plan the disks
- 3DeliveryYou get the pick and backup plan
What we need from you
How much data you store now and how fast it grows, what the device should do, how many people and devices use it, whether you stream video to a TV and in what quality, budget and country.
We will ask you:
- How much data do you have now, and how fast does it grow?
- What should the device do?
- How many people and devices will use it?
- Do you prefer something ready to use or are you fine assembling it?
Compare packages
| Packages | BasicOne recommended setup$12 | StandardUp to 3 options$25 | PremiumReady-made vs self-built$45 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deadline | 1 day | 2 days | 3 days |
| Revisions | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Options compared | 1 | up to 3 | up to 4 |
| Disk layouts | 1 | up to 2 | up to 3 |
| Backup plan | Short | Yes | Detailed |
| Order Basic | Order Standard | Order Premium |
Payment protection
You pay when you order, but the money is released only for accepted work.
- Fixed priceThe package price does not change after you pay.
- The money is reservedWhen you pay, the amount is only reserved. It is released to the service once you accept the work.
- Checked before deliveryEvery result goes through a quality check before it reaches you, and you see it on the order page before accepting it.
- Free revisionsAsk for changes within your brief as many times as the package allows.
- Acceptance after 3 daysIf within 3 days of delivery you neither accept the work nor ask for changes, it is accepted automatically. If you write in the order chat after delivery, the order waits; once we answer, we may start the 3 days again and will say so in the chat.
- Redo or a full refundIf the result does not match your brief and the revisions did not fix it, or the work takes more than twice its deadline, write in the order chat: we will redo the work or refund the payment in full.
Questions and answers
Is RAID a backup?
No. It protects against one drive failing, not against deletion, theft or fire. That is why the plan always includes a copy outside the device.
Do you set it up for me?
No. You get the pick and links to the official setup guides. We never connect to your network.
Will it play 4K films on my TV?
Tell us your TV or player and file types. We check whether the device needs to convert them on the fly and pick a processor that can.