Pet Sitting Business Success

control the taxes in your pet business

How to Gain Control of Taxes in Your Pet Business Without Letting Them Get Out of Hand

I’m pretty certain even hearing the word ‘taxes’ sends a knot through your stomach.  No matter your relationship with personal and business taxes, it seems like it’s a never ending thing that continues to pop up.

Once we learn to adjust our thinking around it and set a legitimate plan in place, you can absolutely develop a new feeling around the topic.

Our very own Sarah Burns (owner of Menly’s Pet Care in Michigan) truthfully shares her own experience with business taxes.

Taxes. Everyone’s favorite topic, am I right?!

When I started my business I was so excited about creating a brand and the pet sitting itself that I didn’t give much thought to the financial side. Not to mention the fact that I was 19 when I started my business!

I may have been mature enough to start my business but there was still a lot I needed to learn. So I learned the basics (very basics) but didn’t think much about taxes at all.

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Arden Moore’s Podcast Episode Spotlighting Speakers During Our Pet Care Conference

Arden Moore on Pet Life Radio photo

If you’ve been working in the professional pet industry for any length of time, there are certain names you quickly come across.

Arden Moore is certainly one of those names!

Arden’s resume and credits read like a Who’s Who of our industry as she seemingly continues to have her hand in a variety of projects, and has worked with “everybody!”

We were fortunate enough to have Arden with us in person during our 5th annual pet care conference in Las Vegas. She was there with mic in hand to record a special episode of her wildly successful podcast, Oh Behave!, featuring five speakers.

Arden’s podcast lives on Pet Life Radio and reaches over 800,000 listeners.

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Dr. Marty Becker Joins Us for A Live Training Session

How to Reduce Fear, Stress, and Anxiety in the Pets in Your Care: A Dialogue with Dr. Marty Becker, hosted by Josh Cary

Update: Our live video training session, where our special guest, Dr. Marty Becker, went incredibly well.  We discussed all the ways that you as a pet care professional can reduce the fear, stress and anxiety in the pets in your care.

Obviously, this has multiple benefits, least of which is creating a stronger bond between you and the pet, and allowing you both to enjoy a happier, healthy life.

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Cindy Vet on How Pet Sitters Can Find ‘Me Time’ [video]

Please join us at the PetSittingOlogy conference this October. We’ll be featuring expert speakers and experienced pet sitters, all of whom will help you build a better, more organized pet sitting business!

Our special interactive feature at the conference will be Workshop Wednesday, at which five very successful pet sitters will lead community discussions on current topics.

Cindy Vet, a pet sitter and coach from Atlanta, will lead a discussion on why getting “me time” will not only help you and your state of mind, but it can also be a great way to network.

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Support and Feedback for Our Pet Sitting Industry Documentary Movie

We are making a documentary movie about the professional pet sitting industry! And by ‘we’, I do not simply mean my production team and me.

I mean WE, as in you, our colleagues, supportive pet industry professionals (including veterinarians and trainers), and the collective professional pet care industry.

Production officially began recently as we made our way to Northern Virginia for four days to capture the day-to-day operation of All Friends Pet Care and other local pet professionals. It was an incredible experience that allowed us to get the ball rolling.

We then held a live virtual production meeting detailing our plans, our goals, and the reasons we are making this movie in the first place.

RELATED: Watch the replay of our virtual production meeting on PetSittingMovie.com

On that page, pet sitters were asked to submit their thoughts.

In one day, we received over 50 submissions from pet professionals guiding our project even further.

Outlined below are snippets of some of our favorite responses.

The beauty of this pet sitting movie project, as you’ll see, is that we are all speaking the same language! We are each passionate about what we do and all see the great need at this point in time to further educate the general public on what it truly means and what it takes to be a professional pet sitter.

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4 Essential Elements of an Effective Website

When I was asked to present at the 2016 NAPPS conference on the topic of SEO and how to rank higher in Google, I wanted to achieve two things.

One: I wanted to make certain that the audience had an understanding of WHY Google ranked certain websites above others.

Two: I wanted to provide specific and tangible takeaways that each person in the audience can do and implement immediately.

Those two goals were the recipe for what became my presentation titled “4 Essential Elements of an Effective Website”.

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How To Help Your Site Rank Higher For Local Searches

coming up on local searches

A recent question on our Facebook forum group (which, if you are not a part of and are a client of ours, search for PetSittingOlogy Training Center and submit a request to join) was asked by Maria Connochie, owner of The Pet Butler in Apex, NC:

“I am only coming up on search on one town and I do service other areas.  Is there anything we can do about this?  Thanks”

There is definitely something you can do to help your business come up in local searches.

CREATE RELEVANT CONTENT AROUND THOSE LOCAL AREAS.

It’s that simple.

If you service more than one town, you want to write about topics specific to each town that you service.

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Marketing Your Pet Sitting Business With A Car Magnet Or A Car Wrap

Here at PSO we talk a lot about your on-line presence and blogging – that’s where it’s at in this day and age.  It’s why our web site template is tailored to SEO and mobile ready right out of the gate.

What about other marketing opportunities though?

One popular and fun marketing opportunity is using a car magnet or a car wrap!  With all of the miles we drive around town, our cars can be the most visible marketing billboard!

CAR MAGNET

marketing with car magnet

Hillary Rich, owner of Best In Show Pet Sitting in Morrisville, NC has a very cute, very eye catching bone shaped magnet!

Pros of using a car magnet:

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