Wednesday, 19 September 2012

Home and Pet Sitting: Fast Track Guide

By Johnny Chan


If you have in-born affection and care for pets and you know how to pet them then you might consider yourself suitable for the business of pet care. You require great amount of willingness to be able to look after the animals nicely. Pet sitting has turned from a hobby to a professional business in the United States where there are ample of services offered in order to attract the pet owners to be a part of their business.

The pet care workers often accept the customer proposals that come from a distance and require them to commute all the way down to them. They feel this does them more good then a local appointment, which only fetches them about $20. The far-out customers reimburse them the travelling expenses they incur in order to reach the customers place. This turns out very profitable to the pet sitters. Careful calculation of the expenses is important and needs to be done before you get involved in the job that requires daily transit.

Before you begin your work as a pet sitter you need to be well equipped. In this aspect the following list will be helpful to you.

1. Rawhide chews 2. Leather leashes 3. Nylon leashes 4. Dog fetch toys 5. Flea remedy 6. Tick remedy 7. Cat/Dog food 8. Cat/ Dog treats

All the things that have been mentioned above will be of great use to you and will make you ready for any task concerned with pet sitting. Having a toolkit for this purpose improves professionalism creating a better impact on the customer. With this, you have all the equipments ready with you to perform the job to the utmost satisfaction level even if you will be provided with all of it. A little modification may be done to match the purpose and to set standards that are high to achieve and will create a reputation of yours in the market.

Leading the market It is important to publicize your services in order to be successful in your pet sitting business. Many of the people in the pet sitting business call it unnecessary but it is an important part that helps the business flourish. The market men may help you achieve this as there is high degree of reliability on the market for the publicity and they form an integral part of the market. With contacts, you can get started easily and gain exposure.

The conventional means of advertising are here to remain. However, social media has seen a huge boom and relying on Facebook, Twitter and other such social media platforms can really serve your purpose with great effectiveness. Not only can you make great new contacts on a regular basis, these services are absolutely free! You can save a lot of expenses as well as hard work.

Word of mouth and other traditional ways to promote and advertise will be ever green. But digital media such as social networking sites help to spread word rapidly. They overcome the limitation of numbers and also break the geographical barrier. They are also very cost efficient and simple to use. Therefore these tools should be exploited and made use of to the optimum.

Since Facebook is entirely interactive, it promotes your business without your moving a single finger. That is because whenever someone 'likes' your page, they end up advertising your business to all their friends too, as Facebook encourages and displays friend activity!

Facebook also enables the concept of chain publicity also known as passive promotion. This is because when a person clicks on the like button then automatically it reaches the people who are associated with the person who has clicked the 'Like' button.

It is not necessary that all your followers will be your client but they will indeed help in spreading the word-of-mouth to other people. You can expect many referrals as the followers would mention about your services to people that are looking for such services.




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