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Summer is the perfect time to increase your marketing efforts to reach current and prospective clients who can benefit from your pet-sitting services when they travel this summer.

Pet sitting was recently named the number 1 home-based business by Small Business Opportunities magazine.

Download the 2013 Pet-Sitting Industry Forecast to learn more.

More and more pet owners are demanding credentials from service people who enter their homes - including pet sitters.  A new PSI partner offers background checking at special rates, including self -background-check reports to verify your clean record.

Learn the WHYs - and WHY NOTs - of solving feline behavior problems, including behavior motivations and correction advice.

As a business owner in the pet-care industry, do you know how to correctly classify and manage your staff? Do you know what differentiates an independent contractor from an employee?