The Pet Biz Helper

A couple of weeks ago Danielle Chonody from The Circle of Pet Sitting Excellence interviewed me to discuss fresh new tips that pet sitters can use to get new clients using social media.  Here is what she said about our interview…
Last week I interviewed Joan Fernandez from PetBusinessVA.com and learned a lot of fresh new tips [...]

I want to share a little secret with you guys that makes my life so much easier when it comes to social media. Are you ready? Here it goes…Ping.fm. Ping.fm is a FREE service that makes updating your social networks a snap. You can update your status in over 35 social networks with a touch [...]

I read an article written by Hubspot.com about using Facebook as your company’s website and then I thought….hhhuuuummmm…it might be a good idea. But then I thought about it a little bit more and realized that it is important for a company to have a legitimate website outside of just Facebook so that you can [...]

Nowadays everyone has a blog site. For this reason, you have to make sure you promote your blog effectively so that your rankings go up and people can find your website in the search engines. Darren Rowse from ProBlogger.com made a great video on how to he promote his blogs. It is a little [...]

I learned about the Heartselling Model from Sharla Jacobs a couple of months ago and it really works. As a always, I just want to share this information with you guys.
The 5 elements of the Heartselling Model are:

Connect (Fire) - Connection comes from the fire element. Your heart is related to the fire [...]

Word-of-mouth marketing is very important for a pet business. I found this great article on the Small Business Trends website ~ 16 things you can do yourself to create word-of-mouth for your business. I summarized the 15 things that are important to me when it comes to dealing with my clients and staff.

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When I first started my virtual assistant business I was always checking 2 different email accoutnts - my personal Gmail account and my business email account. Then, I found out that you can actually connect your business email account to your Gmail account. How perfect! This saves me so much time everyday! I wanted [...]

This past weekend I attended the Inbound Marketing University founded by Hubspot. Laura Fitton from @Pistachio taught a very important class…Twitter. Today I saw this video she created and wanted to share it with you guys. Clients often ask this question “Why would I join Twitter if my clients don’t use it?”. Laura answers this [...]

This blog entry was written by my really good friend Josh Gartenberg from PetSittingOlogy.com. Josh and his wife Alitia started their pet sitting business, Alitia’s Animals in New York, a couple of years ago and in their first year they provided over $100,000 in pet sitting services. Amazing! They took this knowledge and created the [...]

Are you overwhelmed with tons of work and worried that you won’t be able to afford a virtual assistant? Erin Blaske put a video together explaining with simple math why outsourcing your work just makes sense. I know some of you probably don’t get paid $100 per hour, but you get the point
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