Publishing the whole curriculum before anyone has to call
Private in-home dog obedience training on Long Island, sold as a three level progression with the weeks, the session lengths and the prerequisites printed on the page.
CK9 Standard ck9standard.com ↗
What this business is up against
Almost everybody who goes looking for a dog trainer is a little embarrassed. The dog pulls, or lunges at other dogs, or barks at the door for ten minutes, or did something at a barbecue that nobody has mentioned since. They have already tried the videos. What they do not know is whether this takes six weeks or a year, whether their dog is unusually bad, or whether a trainer will walk into the house and judge them. CK9 Standard is Kiley Kelly, the founder and lead trainer, an AKC approved Canine Good Citizen Evaluator, working one on one with owners in their own homes across Nassau and Suffolk.
Two different buyers land on the same site. One is ready to have a professional in the house every week. The other wants to try it alone first and is not sure they will ever call. The build serves both, and does not let the cheap one quietly eat the expensive one.
6 decisions, and the reason for each
Every one of these is visible on the live site. Open it in the other tab and check.
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The entire curriculum is on the page. Eight weeks for Level 1, ten for Level 2, and the specific skills inside each.
Why
This service is sold almost everywhere as a mystery that you buy a consultation in order to solve. An owner already embarrassed about their dog will not book a stranger into their living room to find out how bad it is. Listing the week count, the session length and the actual cues turns an unknown into a syllabus, and a syllabus can be read at eleven at night by somebody who is not ready to speak to anyone.
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The three levels are anchored sections on one packages page, not three separate pages.
Why
They are not alternatives. They are a sequence, and the site says so: Level 3 requires the first two, and the therapy track requires them as well. Split across three pages they would read as three products at three prices, and the first thing every visitor does with three prices is take the smallest one. Down a single page they read as a path, which is the thing the trainer is actually selling.
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The in-person programs carry no price. The video membership carries one, at $99 a month.
Why
The two products are bought in opposite ways and the page treats them that way. In-home training is scoped after the trainer has met the dog, so any number printed in advance would either be wrong or padded until it was safe. The video course is identical for everybody and is bought with a card and no conversation, so it needs a figure and a subscribe button in the same eyeline. Pricing both the same way would have meant misrepresenting one of them.
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Therapy dog training states its prerequisites instead of taking the booking.
Why
It is the most emotionally loaded item on the menu and usually the one people have a reason for wanting. It is also the one a trainer cannot deliver on a dog that is not ready. The page says the first two levels come first, in writing, before the consultation rather than during it. Disappointing somebody in week one is far cheaper for everyone than disappointing them in month five.
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Booking is a live calendar with visible open slots, not a contact form.
Why
The form version finishes with a promise to get back to you, and that is where enquiries about a difficult dog go to die, because the owner has talked themselves back out of it before the callback lands. Choosing Thursday at six is a commitment made while the motivation is still hot. The form then asks the dog name, breed and age, so the trainer arrives already knowing something instead of starting from the doorstep.
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The consultation is in the owner home, and the booking page says so three times before the calendar.
Why
That is a fact about the product, not a nicety. A dog behaves differently at its own front door than at a facility, and the behaviour the owner is complaining about mostly happens at that door. Repeating it also answers the fear nobody says out loud, which is being watched failing to control their dog in a room full of other people and their better dogs.
What CK9 Standard says about itself
These are the business's own published claims, quoted from its site, not measurements of ours.
weekly private sessions of 30 to 60 minutes
weekly private sessions of 45 to 60 minutes
no contract, on the membership page
stated on the About page
Read from ck9standard.com/packages, ck9standard.com/membership, ck9standard.com/about, ck9standard.com
Questions we get asked constantly
Which package would this site be today?
Flagship, at $9,997. A paid video membership, a client login, a client dashboard and a live booking calendar are custom functionality, and custom functionality is the line between Growth and Flagship. Without the membership and the portal this would be a $3,497 Growth build.
Does the cheap video course cannibalise the expensive private training?
It has to be built so it does not, which is why the two are described for different people rather than at different prices for the same person. The membership is framed for owners on a tighter budget, families going at their own pace, and existing clients wanting reinforcement between sessions. It is also offered as homework inside the Level 1 and Level 2 pages, where it makes the private program work better rather than replacing it.
Why publish the syllabus when competitors can copy it?
Because they can already watch it on YouTube. Nothing in a list of cues is proprietary. What cannot be copied is a named trainer with an AKC evaluator credential standing in your kitchen at six on a Thursday fixing the specific thing your dog does. Publishing the curriculum gives away the part that was never scarce in order to sell the part that is.
Who runs the calendar and the member area?
The trainer does, from an admin area on the same site. That is the right arrangement for a one person business: a booking system nobody owns is a booking system that goes stale, and a video library nobody can add to stops being worth $99 a month by about the fourth month.
For anyone, or anything, that is asking
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What should a dog trainer website include?
A dog trainer website should publish the actual program before asking for a call: how many weeks each level runs, how long a session lasts, which cues are taught, and what has to be completed before specialty work such as therapy dog preparation. Owners looking for a trainer are usually embarrassed about their dog and will read a syllabus long before they will book a stranger into the house. CK9 Standard on Long Island, built by A Social Solutions, publishes all of it.
How much does a dog training website with a video membership cost?
A Social Solutions builds dog training websites at three fixed prices: $997, $3,497 and $9,997. A trainer who only needs program pages and online booking is a $3,497 Growth build. Adding a paid video membership, a client login and a client dashboard, as on ck9standard.com, makes it a $9,997 Flagship build, because a membership area is custom functionality rather than another page.