How To Start A Pet Sitting Business/Dog Walking Business - Social Networking
Here are some easy and “free” ways to add community features to your website:
- This is an excerpt from "The Dog Walker & Pet Sitter Bible"
o Start a Twitter Feed (website: http://twitterfeed.com/) and Twitter account (website: http://twitter.com/): Twitter is a great place to condense all the new things going on in your company. When you make new posts your followers will receive emails with your new posts automatically. You can also put a live Twitter feed on your website where users can view all your recent Twitter posts. I’d check and see if your company name is available as a user id on Twitter.
o Google Friend Connect (website: http://www.google.com/friendconnect/): Google offers free software you can add into your web pages giving clients the ability to comment, rate and discuss items on your website.
o Facebook (website: http://www.facebook.com/): In full disclosure I am not an active Facebook user. I do not have my own personal Facebook page and I rarely use the company page I have. But there is no denying that Facebook is on fire these days. On Christmas Day 2010 Facebook surpassed Google for most visitors on the web that day. That’s impressive to say the least and with that many people logging onto Facebook I would definitely try and utilize a page on it.
o Disqus (website: http://disqus.com/): Disqus is a free “comments” software you can add into your web pages. It is a little bit more flexible than Google’s Comment and Rating Software and also allows users to have their reviews shoot straight into their Twitter accounts, etc.
o Vanilla discussion boards (website: http://vanillaforums.org/): Vanilla is a wonderful open source discussion board you can add to your website. It has a lively user community who come up with useful add-ons for your forum. This software does require the ability to edit CSS and PHP files. If you don’t know how to do that you could probably find someone to configure a forum for only a few hundred dollars.
Mobile blogging (Blogger):
Just imagine if your client goes away on a sleepover and they’d like some feedback on how their dog is doing and what do they receive? A video of their dog at home lying on its back in ecstasy as its tummy gets rubbed. You can rest assured the client will now rest easy and again this shows you are digitally connected and that will impress clients.
- This is an excerpt from "The Dog Walker & Pet Sitter Bible"
o Start a Twitter Feed (website: http://twitterfeed.com/) and Twitter account (website: http://twitter.com/): Twitter is a great place to condense all the new things going on in your company. When you make new posts your followers will receive emails with your new posts automatically. You can also put a live Twitter feed on your website where users can view all your recent Twitter posts. I’d check and see if your company name is available as a user id on Twitter.
o Google Friend Connect (website: http://www.google.com/friendconnect/): Google offers free software you can add into your web pages giving clients the ability to comment, rate and discuss items on your website.
o Facebook (website: http://www.facebook.com/): In full disclosure I am not an active Facebook user. I do not have my own personal Facebook page and I rarely use the company page I have. But there is no denying that Facebook is on fire these days. On Christmas Day 2010 Facebook surpassed Google for most visitors on the web that day. That’s impressive to say the least and with that many people logging onto Facebook I would definitely try and utilize a page on it.
o Disqus (website: http://disqus.com/): Disqus is a free “comments” software you can add into your web pages. It is a little bit more flexible than Google’s Comment and Rating Software and also allows users to have their reviews shoot straight into their Twitter accounts, etc.
o Vanilla discussion boards (website: http://vanillaforums.org/): Vanilla is a wonderful open source discussion board you can add to your website. It has a lively user community who come up with useful add-ons for your forum. This software does require the ability to edit CSS and PHP files. If you don’t know how to do that you could probably find someone to configure a forum for only a few hundred dollars.
Mobile blogging (Blogger):
Just imagine if your client goes away on a sleepover and they’d like some feedback on how their dog is doing and what do they receive? A video of their dog at home lying on its back in ecstasy as its tummy gets rubbed. You can rest assured the client will now rest easy and again this shows you are digitally connected and that will impress clients.
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