The Pet Biz Helper

I received a newsletter email from Jennifer Haubein, Founder of Websites 2 Grow, and the title was “Are You Wasting Your Time On Social Media?”. Jennifer gave great tips on what to do with social media on a daily basis:

Spend a few minutes in the morning, at lunch, and in evening time posting valuable content [...]

Have you noticed that your Facebook profile URL link has crazy characters and numbers, and on top of that is way too long? There is a way to change that! For example, my Facebook profile URL link is www.facebook.com/joan.fernandez or http://profile.to/petbizhelper/. You can use the personalized URL for you business cards or include in your [...]

Thanks to Doug from Extraordinary Pet Sitting, our guest blogger this month for explaining how Twitter helps pet sitters stay connected with clients.
Most of our clients like to receive a brief text message once a day while they are at work or on vacation. Some of our clients would prefer not to receive any messages, [...]

Therese, founder of PetSitUSA, did a poll about what visitors want to see in your pet sitting website. Here are the results:
20% of people responding wanted to see:
Services offered (vacation care, dog walking, overnights, etc.)
Geographical area served by the pet sitter
Prices
17% of people responding wanted to see:
The pet sitter’s qualifications
A short bio about the pet [...]

This conversation started in a discussion posted in LinkedIn ~ What is the No.1 thing every pet related business should do to maximize web exposure? Michael Ayalon, CEO of www.petwebdesigner.com, responded to this question with 10 very important points that every pet business should follow if they want to increase their web exposure.
1.  Your [...]

I wanted to share with you guys a little secret that many online marketers use to create quick videos using their own pictures and music. Lou Bortone (@loubortone) talked about it via Twitter and now I want you to learn about this great marketing tool ~ Animoto.  You can sign-up for free, upload your pictures [...]

For the past couple of days, I’ve been trying my hardest to wrap up the shopping cart integration to The Pet Biz Helper website and yes…it is taking longer than expected. Everyday this week the word Virtual Assistant (VA) was running through my mind. If I had a virtual assistant she can be doing half [...]

In the last couple of weeks, various people asked me about TweetDeck. TweetDeck is a tool that I really enjoy using and it makes my life on Twitter so much easier.
What is TweetDeck?

TweetDeck creators definition: “TweetDeck is your personal browser for staying in touch with what’s happening now, connecting you with your contacts across [...]

I hear a lot of people complaining about social networking sites - “I’m not getting any new clients using Facebook”, “I’m wasting so much time on the computer talking to people, but I’m not closing any deals”, “I don’t see how Twitter will help me get more money for my business”. I disagree with all [...]

I’ve been talking about blogging lately, so I decided to discuss something that is very important for a blog site…TRAFFIC!
How does your blog get found online? How do you increase the traffic to your blog site?

1. Read other blogs related to your pet business and subscribe to them via RSS or email.
2. Comment on those [...]