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Each successful founder's story begins with passion. For Sam Stocking, dog trainer and founder of Korey the Kanine The founder of Korey the Kanine, his obsession was with dogs. "We always owned dogs as a family as a child, and I've always loved being with them," Sam shared with . "But I started to be fascinated by dog training after I had Korey."

In the year 2019, in search of an innovative way to control her Type 1 diabetes, Sam and her husband decided to introduce Korey to their family. Korey was still a puppy at the time however their intention was to teach Korey to become a Diabetic Alert Dog, a kind of service dog trained to recognize and notify the owner of spikes and dips of blood sugar.

When she and Korey began to work in a special trainer's office to aid in helping Korey grow up into the life-saving Diabetic Alert Dog that Sam needed the love of dogs that Sam had for years transformed into a business idea. "Seeing the amazing things that Korey could learn to do, it sparked my dream of becoming a dog trainer--which was the catalyst for the founding of Korey The Kanine."

Today, Korey the Kanine offers a variety of puppy training courses for both dogs and puppies. They also offer popular programs for Diabetic Alert Dog training. " Korey has made this possible and simple for me to use," Sam says. The process of streamlining bookings through her site to creating fresh opportunities for growth, and creating a vibrant social media presence, find out how Sam (and Korey) have made her hobby into a successful business through the potential of .

Scaling and Scheduling

Sam began launching Korey the Kanine in the time that he lived in Germany at the time of the start of the disease. "I had the opportunity to launch my online business entirely before expanding it to include both offline and online appointments after we relocated back in the USA and settled in the new environment."