Online Course: How to Start a Pet Sitting Business - Certificate and CEUs
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Online Class: How to Start a Pet Sitting Business

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Basic Course: $25.00
with Certificate & CEUs: $50.00
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. Enroll today! This is a self-paced, online course. You have 6 months to finish. An instructor will monitor your progress and assess your body of work at course completion. UniversalClass™ offers many wonderful learning tools to help you get the most out of your online course, including an online portfolio service that manages all your course completions.

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Continuing Education Units (CEU)
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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

    1. Getting Started - Who, what, when, why and how of pet sitting.
    2. Dive In - Business basics
    3. Setting Up - How to set up your office
    4. The Thrifty Woman's Guide to Promoting your Business -Marketing Basics - Discusses how to get out there and promote your new business
    5. Doing Good is Good for You-More on Marketing - Promoting your business through giving.
    6. Beginning Pet Sitter Tips - Phone script, tips, etc.
    7. The Joy of Hired Help - Using Employees in your business
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    Course Title : How to Start a Pet Sitting Business
    CEU Value : (Continuing Education Units)
    Course Number : 5345
    Course Type : How To
    Course URL : http://class.universalclass.com/petsit
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    Instructor : Katelyn Thomas
    Syllabus : View Syllabus
    Duration : Continuous: Enroll anytime!
    Course Fee :
    Basic Course: $25.00
    with CEUs & Certificate: $50.00
    NOT FOR COLLEGE CREDIT
    This is a non-credit course. This course may not fulfill any local, state, government, licensing, or educational requirements.
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