BUSINESS INFORMATION DETAILS

PET PALS In-Home Pet Sitting license agreement includes:

• "A PROFESSIONAL PET SITTERS GUIDE"

"A Professional Pet Sitters Guide" Includes:


Setting up your business
Your home office
Marketing
Pricing
Phone calls
Meeting clients (all documents & forms)
Office work & daily organization
Route procedures
Follow up with clients

• Proven PET PALS In-Home Pet Sitting Marketing, P.R. strategies and business forms


• Web marketing (Dennis is a Google Adwords professional)
• 10 hours of mentoring and consultation
• "A Professional Pet Sitters Guide" is set up to follow directly with ten hours of mentoring and consultation. We will talk about your part time or full time approach and your pace of information and then set up our ten hour timetable. Usually one or two hours per week with the last two hours left for review when you have established your client base.

MARKET OVERVIEW

Hot Timing

Market Statistics

• The Pet Services industry, even in this economy, is growing at a rapid pace. Pet care expenditures have increased from $5.2 billion to $6.9 billion within the past three years with major growth now predicted for the next five years. According to BusinessWeek "Pet Services is one of the fastest growing sectors in the Pet industry, jumping 8%-12% per year".
• 63% of U.S. Households own a pet and 40% own more that one pet. That equates to 71.4 million homes.
• Americans own 77 million dogs and 93.3 million cats.
• The yearly cost of buying, feeding, and caring for pets is in excess of what Americans spend on movies ($10.8 Billion), playing video games (11.6 Billion) and listening to recorded music $10.6 Billion) Combined!
• 87 % of pet owners include their pet in holiday celebrations. 94% have photos of their pet on display. 84% refer to themselves as their pets "Mom" or "Dad".
• A survey by the Iams Company states that 76% of owners use some type of pet care when traveling. 30% use a Pet Sitter, 22% a kennel/veterinarian and 14% use friends etc.
• Pet services (pet sitting, grooming & boarding) $3.4 Billion annually