Hi @Lauraa I am going to have to take this one away with me and have a look into it with marketing. Just for transparency, as it is the weekend the wider team won’t be online but I will drop them a message and as soon as I have a reply I will send you a direct email.
Thanks for your patience and have a great weekend
Lucy
I’m a sitter with THS going on eight years now and have a lot of great reviews so I’d like to just give you my feedback on sending out an invitation. I really appreciate it when I’m invited to a sit with a personal email. For instance - “I’ve read your profile and you have great reviews”, etc. I just received an invitation tonight to a sit which is a year away with no personal email. I could have just hit the “decline” button and been just as impersonal as the homeowner who just sent the invite with no personal message but that’s not me. So I sent her a nice personal message saying I’m not interested. It means a lot to me as a sitter to have a personalized email along with the invite.
We too sometimes get invitations to sit with no text at all. I’d never accept an invitation like that, but I too usually do a polite reply. I can’t imagine sitters applying for a sit without writing anything, so why does it happen with invitations? Would the system even let sitters apply without an accompanying message? Maybe the current Great Overhaul can include a feature where you can’t apply OR invite without writing something first…
I’m struggling to find sitters for mid March. Our past sitter is not available and I’ve had only one application (and then they went for a longer sit). I’ve tried inviting sitters but each one has declined. Any advice on how to find sitters?
The problem isn’t finding them. They’re right here, 10s of thousands of them ready to go. I listed 4 dates for 2026 and filled the application ques within an hour, and got sitters for all the dates within 24 hours.
Now I’ve got an extremely desirable sit with waterviews of the Saronic Gulf in Greece. There are things you can’t change in order to attract sitters but there are things you can.
One of which is that if the sit is too short it might not be worth the time, effort and expense for the sitter.
There are several other things you can do to make your listing more appealing. Post the profile link let’s put it under a microscope.
@LizzieRow We’re unable to offer advice until we see your listing. Follow the steps in the link below and members will offer suggestions.
I am a sitter not a homeowner and I don’t know if this strategy could work , but here it goes.
If possible, you could look at other pet owner’s listings that are near your area and see sitters that have sat for them. If they sat for the same kind of pets you have, maybe they would want to come back to the area. You can look at their calendar to make sure they don’t have a THS sit already scheduled at the time you are needing a sitter.
Thanks Steve - I’ve listed it now so hopefully you can comment.
Looks good to me Lizzie, the only question I would likely have is we usually don’t do double beds (too small) so would want to know if possible to use the single as well. That is just being particularly picky though. Good luck.