The Balanced Pet Sitter


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So, you want to be a pet sitter? How to set up your own pet sitting/dog walking business.


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The book explains what you need to set up a pet sitting/dog walking business, the decisions you will need to make before starting and how to set up your business. Topics include managing your business efficiently, good customer service, continuing education, IC's vs employees and tips on how to avoid burn out. In the appendix there are checklists to ensure that you don't miss a step on your way to being a successful business owner.




Six-Figure Pet Sitting


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"This revolutionary book shows you how to turn your struggling pet sitting business into a lucrative, stress-free enterprise. You will learn how to: create the foundation to build a six-figure pet sitting business ; ensure business success from the beginning ; create the one-hour business plan: plan your work, work your plan ; understand your commitment and value in business ; remove the blocks to let financial abundance in ; work with business financials ; advertise and sell to generate results ; find, work with and keep great staff members ; set goals to achieve pet sitting business success ; and more" -- P. [4] of cover.




The Pet Sitter’S Tale


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From the time she was a young girl growing up in Chicago to unintentionally becoming a professional pet sitter in Los Angeles, The Pet Sitters Tale is Laura Vorreyers collection of stories about her love affair with pets. Each story is infused with the authors unique sense of humor and observations about the foibles and adventures of furry children and their human counterparts. Filling multiple roles as animal expert, companion, therapist, and friend, Laura muses over her clients pet obsessions while always lending a compassionate ear. Both poignant and humorous, The Pet Sitters Tale will amuse anyone whos ever had their heartstrings tugged by a cute pet.




So You Want to be a Pet Sitter Or Dog Walker?


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Irene was a stay at home mother when she decided to start her own pet sitting and dog walking business. Through the years she has gained insight as to what it takes to do this job.In this book, Irene gives you the keys to her success as a pet sitter. She hopes that anyone considering this as a career will gain the insight and wisdom she has from being on the job.This book was created to help you decide if Pet Sitting or Dog Walking is the right career choice for you. Where else are you going to get paid to exercise?




Love, Laugh, Woof


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From the time she was five years old, author Lynn Stacy-Smith has lived side by side with dogs as her best friends and constant companions. Love, Laugh, Woof, a memoir and guide to being a compassionate forever dog owner, shares a collection of stories from the authors life with her dogs a tribute to how her dogs brought joy and adventure into her childhood and later life. It segues from her memories into a training manual and pet care book that helps potential pet owners decide if a dog is right for them, and the importance of training and teaching the dog the rules of living in a human world. Smith shares the responsibilities involved in bringing a pet into their lives, and she strives to help people become more compassionate and understanding dog owners. A combination of anecdotes and instructional materials, Love, Laugh, Woof offers a look at Smiths philosophy on dog ownership. Love Laugh, Woof is a way of life and a set of beliefs that she follows to be a loving, thoughtful and fair dog owner.




The Reality of Professional Pet Sitting


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DO YOU OR DOES SOMEONE YOU KNOW DREAM OF WORKING WITH PETS/ANIMALS? Has PROFESSIONAL PET SITTING been considered? THE REALITY OF PROFESSIONAL PET SITTING was written mainly to help potential pet sitters decide IF they want to pursue pet sitting as a career, and goes on to give helpful advice. It helps to know the advantages and disadvantages before "pouncing" into pet sitting. It tells the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. A professional sitter must be ready for anything while visiting a client ́s home, and taking care of their pets. It is an enormous responsibility. The book provides a candid look at the author ́s experiences (as of 2010, she is a 20-year veteran!) - complete with illustrations and helpful advice. It is NOT just for potential sitters, however - it is said that ALL PET LOVERS WILL ENJOY IT! The book has gotten great reviews from pet lovers as young as 8!. Hopefully, it will also help enlighten pet owners to the fact that there is ANOTHER OPTION TO KENNELING their pets when they are away on a weekend escapade, a lengthy vacation, or a business trip. It will also bring to their attention that there is no need to rush home from work to walk their dog(s), since most pet sitters offer mid-day walking services.




The Hiring Handbook for Pet Sitters and Dog Walkers


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The Hiring Handbook for Pet Sitters and Dog Walkers will take you through every aspect of the hiring process - from finding the right people, to effectively managing them, to knowing what to do if it's time to let them go. This book has all the information you need to succeed with pet business hiring!




How to Start a Home-Based Pet-Sitting and Dog-Walking Business


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Just fifteen years ago, “pet sitter” meant the kid down the street who helped feed pets when the neighbors traveled. Today, this fledgling field is fast becoming an established profession. Combining the appeal of working with animals, a viable customer base, and truly low start-up costs, it is for many people the ideal home-based business. And yet its “fun” aspects are often overshadowed by the daunting tasks of registering the business, purchasing insurance, and knowing what first steps to take and how to continue from there. With a simple, step-by-step format, How to Start a Home-Based Pet Sitting Business guides aspiring pet sitters from the dreaming stage to the doing stage more clearly and comprehensively than any such book to date.




Master Pet Sitting with Rover


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Would you love to start your own pet sitting or dog walking business in 30 days or less?This entertaining and down to earth pet sitting business book is the closest thing you will ever get to a fool-proof pet sitting kit. Let Asheville pet sitter Sarah Jordan take you by the hand and show you exactly how to:*Set up your own enticing Pet Sitting Profile on Rover, the premier pet sitting website and app*Get high quality photos of you with pets, even if you don't have any pets of your own*Set your pet sitting rates so clients flock to you like flies on honey, while still pet sitting for profit*Book your first pet sitting, doggy day care, cat day care or cat care client, even if you have no experience*Market without feeling like a slimeball*Set up a meet and greet, set boundaries and feel ready to call yourself a professional pet sitter*Prevent pet sitting peril*Dump a clientAnd more! Whether you want to pet sit once in a while or open up your own lux dog resort, this book will have you pet sitting sooner than you can say, "Doggie day camp". As a bonus, you'll laugh, cry and dangle on the edge of your seat as you take a behind-the-curtains peek at the life of a pet sitter sharing her biggest OMG moments.