Meet and greets, do you think it's a waste of time?
Of all the people that wanted a meet and greet ahead of time, not one followed through with a stay. I think it's an incredible waste of time. All the people I sat for did not request that. Everything worked out great for both parties.
I think a way to prevent time wasters is charging the dog owners for the time of the meet and greet even 5 dollars a small amount to weed out the time wasters, they have to put in the paypal account before the meet and greet. What does everyone else think? I'm sitting here with a million emails and texts and then setting up these meetings, and not one has panned out, time is money. We are all here doing this to earn extra money. I'm a writer I can be writing an article, and not wasting my time like this, it's so annoying! I think Rover should charge something, it would be great protection for them too, because you can just meet them and then book the stay outside of Rover, and I bet a lot of people do that, I wouldn't but I bet some do. It's a silly concept to just go and meet someone, and waste all this time, and not be compensated for it. You can't do that at a kennel, if you're meeting someone privately some people talk and waste time, I don't know about anyone else, but I don't have the time for that, and on top of it, not one of these meet and greets even resulted in any of them actually showing up let alone actually booking a stay!
What if you look at as an investment in building your book of business? I’m new here (ISO sitter) and I’ve had one charge for Meet & Greet and it was a walk price. Everyone else came for free, which is appreciated. It’s still a business and takes money to make money. You’re welcome to write instead!