@MarkandLouise I jumped into help (Thank you for the tag @Colin) Your listing link is now in your forum profile. If you click your user name you will see it there and others will be able to as well
The tips by @Nagy26 are brilliant and have been recommended, follow those to the letter. Your heading needs changing immediately. Cookie is a cutie and what a good age!
Best of luck!
Welcome @MarkandLouise If you add to your listing how long Cookie can be left at home alone for that is something potential sitters would like to know.
Agree with Smiley about the heading, something like “Walk to pubs in nearby villages” would attract my attention big time – many people wanting to visit Britain/Ireland would love to stay somewhere they can live like a local and walk to the pubs, it’s practically a cliche – plus the first few words are all anyone sees in list views.
We all know you need a housesitter/petsitter, those aren’t the words you want to start with. Say something right up front that makes sitters want to stay at your place. Don’t headline something that’s true of every sit: you need a sitter. We know.
Okay, now your listing shows up for me as Come and visit a beau…
Only the first few words – like five, tops – appear in the app search. That real estate is incredibly valuable. Tell me, in five words or fewer, why I’d want to take your sit instead of someone else’s.
Walk. To. Pubs.
I cannot express strongly enough how many US sitters would swoon at that. My husband would be like, “Can I come with you?” In the US, the idea of being able to walk into a picturesque English village, to the local, to the shops…it’s exactly what many sitters would consider their ideal sit. Don’t throw that advantage away.
Maybe Walk to pubs, near Cambridge? That would be huge for many, many people.
Hi @MarkandLouise, Cookie is one cute pup! I, too would want to know more about Cookie’s incontinence and any other health issues or medication she may be on. With her needing toilet breaks often, that doesn’t allow for sitters to go out for very long, which may not be an issue where the sits are for only a couple of days. Because of their brevity, some sitters will look for sits that fill a gap which yours might do. In relation to your second set of dates, it may be more attractive if it covered the whole of the Bank Holiday weekend and not just the Saturday and Sunday.
I would move the information on your location from your Introduction into the Home and Location section where it really belongs. I would also remove some of the photos of the attractions of Cambridge as I don’t think they are all necessary.
You mention being close enough to Cambridge for a day trip but also that Cookie needs to be let out often. If you add to your listing how long Cookie can be left at home alone for that is something potential sitters would like to know. Alternatively if Cookie can’t be left alone for long would sitters be able to take Cookie out for the day with them ?
Someone travelling by public transport might find it difficult to arrive on 4th May ( train strikes planned ) and leave on 6th ( bank holiday train schedule ) can you extend the dates by a day either side ?
What a cute dog & nice looking sit. I think the only blockers now are the super short dates. It’s a lot of work for any two day sit especially amidst a BHW, can you stretch these at all as @Silversitters says? UK roads are hideous on holidays and only sitters with a car will even contemplate the effort for just two days at yours. Ditto to how long can Cookie be left needs adding @MarkandLouise and/or if happy to be joining the sitter at the pub or on the bus etc? #shamewedontsittheuk
