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Yahoo Tells Search Users to Stay Away from Pet Sitter’s Website [video]!

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Picture this scenario: You’ve worked long and hard to get your pet sitting website to the top of the search engines. Your site ranks high for excellent search terms (for example, when someone searches for ‘pet sitter [your town]‘) Visitors are on your site, impressed with your services and the emails come in and the [...]

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Your Favorite Pet Sitting Client Just Handed You $1000 Cash – Now What?

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Picture this: You head over to your favorite pet sitting client’s home for a routine visit. On the counter is an envelop with your name on it. It contains $1000 cash with a note for you that reads: ‘Use it well.’ Excited? Yes. Ready to make it happen? That’s the big question. Could you take [...]

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Should You Pay Pet Sitting Employees Percentage, Flat or Hourly?

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When it comes to growing your pet sitting business with staff, there are many questions that you need answered. Subjects like “Where can I find sitters to hire?” and “Should I use ICs or Employees” are popular. One question that I received recently was “Can I pay pet sitting employees a percentage per job, or [...]

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The Modern Rules of using Flyers and Door Hangers for your Pet Sitting Business [video]

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What is the number one reason to use flyers or door hangers in your pet sitting business? In other words, what are hoping to gain from it? New clients, right? Whether you are a solo pet sitter on your own, or a pet sitter looking to bring on ICs or employees, the goal is exactly [...]

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The Most Important Pet Sitting Question in the World

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#af-form-1214893728 {float:right;margin: 0 40px 0 50px;} If you could magically and instantly get one of your biggest pet sitting business questions answered, what question would you need the answer to most? Very often, growing, starting or taking the next steps in your pet sitting business becomes challenging only because you don’t have the answer to [...]

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Pet Sitter Pop Quiz: How do you handle ‘Email me your rates?’

Here is a pet sitting lead I recently received: name: Diana email: [removed]@gmail.com phone: 212-241-XXXX Regarding: Overnight Sitting location: Noho / Nolita DepartureDate: ReturnDate: message: Please email me your rates for overnight boarding of a 5 lb dog. Multiple Choice – What do you do in this situation? Do you: A) Reply to the email [...]

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