Sunday, November 18, 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.

According to a recent study, the following equipments were found to be the biggest sellers in the range of pet care. You will find this list extremely useful when you initiate and prepare for your first ever pet sitting:

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.

Create fan pages on Facebook to create an official place to attract customers and advertise your services along with their feedbacks. It will help your business a lot.

Facebook provides a provision of creating community pages and fan pages. This can become a place where customer testimonials can be posted. Feedback from the end users has the most impact on future clients and therefore it is very useful. You can even promote your services and inform the clients about the free time you have available in order to take up the care of a new pet. This will also be useful to your work.

Twitter helps in achieving direct communication with your customers. The number of followers would rise slowly and with the rise in numbers, there will be a rise in the popularity status as well. It is a good form of publicity. The updates on your profile go to all your followers. You can even offer discounts on your services through coupons that can be made available through Twitter.

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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