If you could just flip a switch and have your biggest challenge or frustration completed, done, checked off, how good would that feel?

Would you feel a burden lifted? Would you be able to focus on more important things and get to that next level in your business? Of course you would! So here is how we're going to make that happen for you.

I have something very special to share with you on this page, and it's something I know for certain will help you.

No matter what stage of your pet sitting career you are in - just starting out, or just starting to grow, there is no room for failure. There just isn't. I know that and you know that.

My pet sitting business, for example, is one of the most important things in my life.

When Alitia and I first started it in 2008, everything depended on it. Literally.

See, at the time, Alitia was a live-in Nanny for a wonderful family in Connecticut, and I was living in New York City.

The start of Alitia's Animals was motivated as the way for Alitia and I to work together from my apartment.

Everything depended on it. Literally.

If the pet business didn't work out, Alitia would have to continue to work as a Nanny. If it did succeed, this could become her new full time job and we could be together more of the week.

The Pet Sitter Sessions

Q: What are The Pet Sitter Sessions? A: The Pet Sitter Sessions are live Q&A mini-consulting calls that pet sitters attend to get their specific questions answered.

Q: What is available from this page? A: Right now, we have Episode #1 recorded and ready for you to access. Our plan is to hold a new Session once or twice per month that you can attend and get your questions answered, too.

Watch a Welcome Message from Bella Vasta

Gain immediate access to the 2-hour call recording that answers the following 26 questions in great detail!

• 1) Can I transition into this at my own pace or to be successful, do I need to give it 100% attention?
• 2) How can I make my business grow to the point where it can be my main income?

• 3) What is the best way to market your business, get higher up on search engines online, and get new clients if I am a new business.
• 4) I have signed up with a company as a independent contractor that is located in another city. I have had to do all my own marketing, and I am not getting any business. I've gone door to door, apartment complex to apartment complex etc. I do not have the money to pay for advertising, what can I do?
• 5) How do I get my website to the top of Google?
• 6) How do I convert website viewers into clients? What are the most important items on my website that make a viewer want to call?

• 7) What are the best forms of marketing, both online and offline, to attract daily clients?
• 8) What are some tried and true strategies for getting local vets to refer to our business?
• 9) I recently decided to take the plunge and quit my part time job. I am anxiously waiting for new client calls to replace the income and making marketing and networking a part time job now. What are your best networking tools? Business groups, pet networks, Facebook, Linked In, etc?

• 10) What are the best free press release distribution sites, and if the free ones all suck, what is the best paid one for the buck?

• 11) My clients tell ME how I great I am, but they don't tell OTHERS. I would love to have more new clients from Word of Mouth but it has never been a great referral source for me... despite my efforts. How can I change this?

• 12) Employees or ICs - What is best when you are first starting to grow?
• 13) Can I pay employees a percentage per job like ICs? Or does it have to be hourly?
• 14) What's a fair but competitive percentage to pay employees?
• 15) Best way to take that next step in growing my business. IC or employee? One question I have is about handling getting paid for a job. If I have an employee or IC go to the client, are they discussing money or taking it? It seems like there could be the potential for disgruntled employees/ICs if there is much of a difference between what is being paid and what they are earning. Or is that not people's experience?
• 16) When hiring do you have new staff sign any kind of disclosure staying clients are of the business and outside work/pet sitting on the side is not ok and how do you word something like this?
• 17) How do you stop IC's and employees from stealing your clients?
• 18) Full time and part time IC's. I have both. I pay my full time IC a little more of a percentage than my part timers. Good or bad idea? I figure I should make it worth the full timer's while to want to stay on. Even if the job hunting now a day is not good.
• 19) How do I expand into territories where I have no clients yet, and no ICs/employees to handle potential new clients?

• 20) I always hire great people, perform background checks, personally train them, have them take a pet first aid class, but they still want me to perform all of the pet sitting. Some clients think the employees are a negative thing. I see it as a positive as the business is thriving! Any ideas to better sell my great employees to my clients?
• 21) How can I best transition customers from having ME as their pet sitter to one of my recently hired pet sitters?

• 22) What is the best pet sitting software to use for my business paperwork? I need profit and loss statements, financial records, etc.

• 23) How do I grow my in-home visits/dog walking business while having to compete with local doggie day cares?

• 24) Social media: how do you get and keep an engaged community? There are a billion sites with every pet topic under the sun. People are busy. Content needs to grab and keep them. What if you don't feel inspired or creative, and it takes you forever to write? What if you have nothing interesting to say?
• 25) My question relates to technology and the wave of the future. (IE: facebook uploads, twitter lingo, youtube and how to utilize it to market, text messaging as a marketing tool.) So with those examples, my questions is: if you have a limited budget and are not technology savvy, but know all of the items listed above can assist in building a good marketing strategy, how do you go about finding a qualified person/company to assist in learning about how to use those social media technologies to their best ability when it pertains to a pet-sitting company.

• 26) What if you are so burned out you cringe when phone rings yet you don't make enough money?

Get instant access right now. Yes! I want to get this 2-hour recording right now. I understand that I will get: Lifetime access to this 2-hour Pet Sitter Session so I can listen at my own pace. The ability to download the MP3 file so I can listen on the go (ipod-compatible). Advance notice of upcoming Sessions so I can get my own questions answered. Email access to both Josh and Bella so I can ask them to expand on a point discussed in the recording. One-Time Payment of Only $47!

One-Time Payment of Only $47!