This course covers all the information you need to decide if pet sitting is the business for you. Learn where to find valuable resources and receive handy start up tips. Includes resources such as: sample flyers and other advertising materials, links to associations, suppliers, etc. and sample forms. Receive answers to your questions and concerns and network with other people who would like to become pet sitters. This class is also useful to high school or home school students who want to find out about a career in pet sitting. Certificates and letters of recommendation are available.
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1.0 CEUs
Course Description
This course covers all the information you need to decide if pet sitting is the business for you. Learn where to find valuable resources and receive handy start-up tips. This course includes resources such as: sample flyers and other advertising materials, links to associations, suppliers, etc. and sample forms. You will receive answers to your questions and concerns and you will network with other people who would like to become pet sitters. This class is also useful to high school or home school students who want to find out about a career in pet sitting.
Instructor Katelyn Thomas bases How to Start a Pet Sitting Business on her own experiences. This course is suitable for anyone in the Pet Care field. You do not need a textbook to take the course, but to get full benefit from the course, it is a good idea to buy one or two of the available books. Lessons include:
1. Getting Started;
2. Dive In;
3. Setting Up;
4. The Thrifty Woman's Guide to Promoting your Business -Marketing Basics;
5. Doing Good is Good for You-More on Marketing.
Upon completion of the course, you will:
know what a pet sitter is and what a pet sitter does.
understand how to begin a pet sitting business.
participate in discussion in class forums and share your work and comments with others.
use the internet as a learning resource.
This course offers 1.0 CEUs upon successful completion. You may take this
online course with or without CEU documentation. An online and hard-copy Certificate of Course Completion displaying your coursework and
CEUs earned is included with the CEU Option. We also offer an expedited Transcript Service for sending your accomplishments to a third party.
Course Lessons
Optional Certificates Awarded
Certificate of Attendance
Certificate of Class Participation
Certificate of Merit
Certificate of Outstanding Achievement
Certificate of Academic Excellence
Certificates represent the hard work and time you put in to taking a class. You earn them and should feel very proud to have them!
Certificates awarded by the instructor will vary and are based upon student merit.
Any awards you earn are considered unofficial (or temporary) unless you decide to make the award official.
To make an award official, there is a $30.00 processing fee that covers the customization, printing, and shipping of a hard copy of the certificate as well as access to the UniversalClass™ Transcript Service.
Official awards include a serial number that verifies the authenticity of the award you earned for a lifetime (great for employers
to verify your achievement).