Category Archives: Pet Sitting Business Tips

Some of you may be just starting your pet sitting business and still working a 9-5 job to pay the bills and others of you may have spent several years building up your pet sitting business but just still haven’t made the leap to full time business ownership. The decision to leave a stable income [...]

Last week I got some great advice that has really helped me in the last week to relax more at networking events – and also follow up more effectively with people I do feel a connection with. Instead of going to a large networking meeting and seeing how many business cards you can collect – [...]

We don’t like to think about the worst case scenario – but as pet sitters we carry the responsibility of caring for the pets of our clients who are many times out of town.   What would happen to those pets if we are in an accident and wind up in the hospital – or [...]

This is a hot off the press post to let you know that we just published our first virtual magazine (that means a downloadable Adobe pdf file). In our first issue you will find these great articles: Pet Care Professionalism in Your Decade Ahead – Thom Somes Where To – GET NOTICED – Jill Lublin [...]

One way to connect with pet lovers in your community is through Meetup.com – the place online to find like minded people gathering near you.  If you haven’t already gone to take a look – when you do I’m sure that if you search your city or area you’ll find lots and lots of pet [...]

Well here we are in the new year already!  I hope you enjoyed the holidays and New Year celebrations.  But now for most of us it’s back to business. Before you jump into all the tasks on your new to do list – have you thought about what you really want to get done this [...]

Do you ever find yourself in a place where you feel “stuck’ in your business? Perhaps you have been sailing along smoothly but suddenly find you need more clients and don’t know where to look. Perhaps you are a solo pet sitter and have too many jobs – but are really apprehensive about hiring your [...]

Today we have the opportunity to network both online or offline. It’s easy to meet people on Twitter, Facebook, and Linked from all over the globe. If you have a local business is also important be networking in person to make sure that you are meeting people who can spread the word about your service [...]

I know many of you just found Working with Pets and are new subscribers.  WELCOME! I have many free pet sitting resources available and you may not know how to find all of them. So I thought I’d repost some of these links so you can take advantage of everything to kickstart your business ready [...]

This month my APSE partner Josh and I have committed to writing 30 new articles in the next 30 days.  I wanted to let you know about some of them here – as it may be a bit quiet here at Working with Pets this month.. but I’ll do my best to keep writing some [...]