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 [...]

Last week, I discussed the advantages and disadvantages on using a Facebook profile/fan page as your company’s webpage. Well, people can also do a search within Facebook and find your profile or fan page.  Optimizing your Facebook fan page can help increase the chances of this happening. Search Engine Land gives great tips for getting [...]

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 [...]

Usually, social media networking sites have more than one purpose. I always knew Twitter had a lot to offer…more than just tweeting. Mashable’s website ~ The Social Media Guide ~ discusses things you can do on Twitter other than tweeting…
1. Share files on Twitter using www.filesocial.com ~ Files need to be smaller than 50 MB.
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Do you still have doubts about social media sites? Well, think no more! Therese Kopwida, from PetsitUSA shared this video with her subscribers and now I want to share it with you. The stats in this video about social media are unbelievable. I saw this video last week and fell in love with it.  Enjoy!

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I’ve been curious to find out which social networking sites pet owners prefer to use. There are so many social networking sites out there that sometimes pet sitters get overwhelmed and they are not sure which ones will benefit their business. I created a survey where I asked pet owners questions related to social media. [...]

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 [...]

In my last blog post I talked about Delicious and how it is a great tool for your URL bookmarking. I created this video with the basic usage of Delicious. There’s a lot more that I can’t really cover in one short video, but this is a great start. Enjoy!
And as always, let me know [...]