I just submitted my early bird registration for PSI’s Quest Pet Sitting Conference that will be held February 18-21st 2009 in Orlando Florida. Quest is Pet Sitting International’s annual conference and is a great opportunity to network with other pet sitters and increase your knowledge about the pet industry and pet care.
Some of the events at Quest include a welcome networking dinner, and crowning of Pet Sitter of the Year, speakers, worskhops, breakout training sessions and their charity auction. This year they have several extra workshops available including Pet Saver First Aid training by Pet Tech, disaster planning, customer service, and pet sitter safety. You can take a look at the full schedule here.
I have expressed my interest to PSI in teaching a break out session of my own – Creating Systems to Streamline Your Pet Sitting business, but I’m not sure if they still have any openings for speakers. I would also love to host a get together of all my blog readers and coaching students at the event – I’ll be announcing this in the next couple of months.
A new feature of Quest 2009 will allow attendees to earn accrediation CEU’s for every session they attend that can apply toward their pet sitter accreditation program. I completed their accreditation program in 2008 and would recommend it to every pet sitter.
The conference venue is the Rosen Plaza Hotel in Orlando Florida. Of course in Orlando there are plenty of other activities and sites to see such as Disneyland, Seaworld, wildlife parks, shopping, nightlife, and many golf courses.
I also plan to attend the Pet Tech Pet Saver Instructor training so that I can expand my business by offering Pet First Aid classes to customers here in Dallas Texas. If you are interested in adding this to your pet sitting business take a look at their course curriculum at Pet Tech Instructor Training.