The Art & Science of successfully starting a pet sitting business.
Every morning, I head over to my local 7-Eleven (convenience store) to fill up on my much needed cup of coffee. Always offered are 4 cardboard cup sizes; 12oz, 16oz, 20oz and 24oz. My routine is to grab the 16oz. cup, fill it up with regular black coffee and head on my way. This morning, [...]
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Do you know what I love most about receiving email inquiries from my pet sitting website? Besides enjoying the obvious lead, I love getting to learn more about how my website is actually performing. Here’s what I mean. I recently received an email that said the following: “I wanted to inquire about pricing info for [...]
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When was the last time you visited a website and simply stared at it for a while trying to understand what made it work so well? Call me a website nerd, geek or junkie but I have a passion for doing just that. And pretty often, too. Especially when it comes to pet sitter websites. [...]
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This is a guest post written by Ashley Spade. For the past few months, I’ve used the extra cash I earn from pet sitting to support myself and my dog, Sir Winston Pugsalot (known as Sir WP by friends and family). I decided to start a pet sitting business as a way to make money [...]
[Continue reading...]Here’s a wonderful question I received from a pet sitter. It addresses something we all have to deal with at one time or another in our business: Confronting a client with an observation we think is not in the pet’s best interest. Joshua, I have a question about how to handle a situation with a [...]
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Do you remember your very first kiss? Or the first job you ever had? What about your first car, or the first house you bought? Our lives are filled with a long series of firsts. Sadly, as life moves from one day to the next, we give less thought to our firsts of the past, [...]
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