The Art & Science of successfully starting a pet sitting business.
Tri-County Animal Rescue, North Carolina
We started Tri-County Animal Rescue in 1998. We take animals to adoption events each weekend. We help our community with stray animals, assist with low cost spay/neuter, provide assistance with pet food for those in need, visit schools to educate children about animal welfare issues, work with Boy/Girl Scouts, partner with the Court Systems Community Service Work program, visit local nursing homes and much more.
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Don’t you ever wish it were easier to attract new pet sitting business clients your way?
Fortune 500 companies have the luxury of a huge marketing budget allowing them to advertise on TV, in magazines and on billboards.
Fear not Super Pet Sitter – You’re about to level the playing field.
Plenty of online companies give you the very reasonably priced opportunity to create custom designed t-shirts to promote your pet sitting business with pride.
Simply pick a company from the list below, choose a t-shirt style and color, add text, images and/or your logo, and you’re done.
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Don’t you just love using four-letter words?
They have power.
Use the right ones at the right time and you’ll succeed beyond your wildest dreams.
They make you feel good, keep you energized and have others looking up to you in admiration.
I’m not, of course, talking about those four-letter obscenities. I’m talking about the two four-letter words that most of us forget about.
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Earlier this month, I was thrilled to be asked to write for the Technorati Small Business Channel.
Technorati was founded to help people discover great blog content, and their network of media sites was just ranked the 5th largest media property.
Needless to say, I’m stoked to have been given this opportunity to expand my business knowledge to a wider audience.
With that said, below are the first 5 articles published on Technorati. I’m certain pet sitters can find value in these posts.
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I love all things technology. Rarely, though, does something as cool as Google Voice come along.
I’ve been using Google Voice (GV) for several months now and I am in awe of the service and capability.
In a nut shell, GV provides you with one phone number that you can tie to all your phones. It’s not a phone service, but rather a way to manage your phones.
Initially, the service was in beta and accounts were given out by Google by invite only. They have now begun to change all that.
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We recently updated our “What Is PetSittingOlogy (About Us)” page (check it out, you can listen to an interview and learn more about my background).
The following list of 8 components was originally featured on that ‘About’ page but didn’t fit the bill during our page revamp.
So, it’s now restructured into a full-featured blog post here. Please make it feel welcome.
And, here we go…
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My wife Alitia absolutely loves our Tivo. She’s also the one in charge of the remote control, for the record.
One of the brilliant ways Alitia saves us money each month is on movie rentals.
Instead of shelling out $5 per rental (or more on a Netflix service fee), she’ll go through the Tivo guide and search our channels for upcoming movies to record.
We then build up a library of movies to watch at our leisure (with no late fees, of course). A common enough practice.
Apparently, we’ve been catching a string of movies about dogs and honestly I don’t know how many more I can take.
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