--- title: "Nobody's Booking Me Yet — How Long Did It Take You? - Rover Pet Sitting Hub | SideHustlr" description: "Got approved 3 weeks ago, profile's filled out, rates are competitive for my area, and still zero bookings. Is this normal? How long did it take everyon..." lang: en json-ld: | [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "DiscussionForumPosting", "@id": "https://sidehustlr.ai/forum/rover-pet-sitting/nobodys-booking-me-yet-how-long-did-it-take-you-4fd99c9f", "url": "https://sidehustlr.ai/forum/rover-pet-sitting/nobodys-booking-me-yet-how-long-did-it-take-you-4fd99c9f", "headline": "Nobody's Booking Me Yet — How Long Did It Take You?", "text": "Got approved 3 weeks ago, profile's filled out, rates are competitive for my area, and still zero bookings. Is this normal? 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Owners request you, you can't go pitch them, so a new profile with no reviews is basically invisible until someone takes a chance on you. Took me almost 5 weeks. What worked: I dropped my intro rate for the first 3 bookings and said so in my profile, and I made myself available fo...", "datePublished": "2026-09-06T13:00:00+00:00", "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "EmilyPetCare", "url": "https://sidehustlr.ai/u/EmilyPetCare" }, "interactionStatistic": [ { "@type": "InteractionCounter", "interactionType": "https://schema.org/LikeAction", "userInteractionCount": 0 } ] }, { "@type": "Comment", "@id": "https://sidehustlr.ai/forum/rover-pet-sitting/nobodys-booking-me-yet-how-long-did-it-take-you-4fd99c9f#comment-a8f8f59c-2883-47d6-9cf3-ce082934a7f3", "text": "Response time matters more than people think too. 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What worked: I dropped my intro rate for the first 3 bookings and said so in my profile, and I made myself available for same-day / last-minute requests since that's when desperate owners search. 0 ![SarahSits](https://api.dicebear.com/7.x/avataaars/svg?seed=SarahSits) SarahSits · 13 days ago Response time matters more than people think too. I've read that Rover's search ranking leans on how fast you reply and whether you've ever declined or cancelled, so I set notifications to buzz my phone and just committed to answering within the hour. Bookings picked up noticeably after that. 0 Login to join the discussion Login to Reply [![SideHustlr - Earn more. 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