Saturday, November 17, 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.

These are your must haves. You may also want to have your own toolkit for this purpose as it improves professionalism. Although you might be provided with everything, but you still need to have all the requisites at hand to get the job done to your utmost satisfaction. You can even modify it in order to suit your requirement and set higher standards to build up a great reputation.

Make Your Presence Known To make others take you seriously you must make your presence felt. Speak about your services and highlight your achievements in front of the prospective clients. It would also be a good idea to be in contact with other competitors as in this way you would know where you lack. It will also keep you updated with the changing requirements of the customers and you will be aware of the market trends. Knowing others doing similar jobs will help you to begin in the initial phase.

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.

The interactive platform that Facebook offers multiplies your customers because each time somebody 'likes' your fan page they end up telling their friends about it through this platform that ripples with friends creativity and encouragement. This kind of advertisement that is created on Facebook Fan Page through a 'like' is effective for promoting your business online.

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.

Even though the entire population of your followers may not try your services, they will be crucial in getting you referral clients, as they will more often than not mention you to any people around them that may need your service.




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