Hurray!… You’ve finally created a website for your home daycare business!

Ok, now what? How do you go about advertising your new website without breaking the piggy bank wide open? It’s not at all hard to do if you know where to start.

Listed below are 8 free ways to begin driving traffic to your cozy little home on the web:

1.) Classified Ads

Free Online Classified Ads are not just for used cars and yard sales, they also offer an easy no-cost solution for promoting your home daycare business online.

2.) Daycare Directory Submission

This is another free and easy way to get qualified traffic to visit your website. When you think about it, who would be more qualified than a prospect that’s willing to search through an online daycare directory? Make sure that you’re there to be found!

3.) Email Signature File

Creating a signature in your email program is a simple and easy way to promote your website. Remember, emails get forwarded all the time, so take advantage of this free exposure. Take your email program for a spin to see what it can do.

4.) Forum Signature File

Much like an email siggy, most forums allow you to add a signature line to your profile that will be added to the bottom of each of your posts. Utilize this feature to include a link to your website. The key here is to never blatantly advertise, but let your signature do the work for you.

5.) Press Releases

Send a press release to your local newspaper announcing the launch of your new website. This is an excellent way to gain publicity and exposure for your home daycare business and stand out in your community giving you a distinct advantage over your competition.

6.) Search Engines

Be sure to submit your website to all the major search engines. They are still one of the most effective ways to bring targeted traffic to your website. This process can be a little slow in the beginning, but don’t get discouraged. The end results will be well worth the wait.

7.) Social Networking Sites

Think Facebook, MySpace, and the many other social networking sites out there are for the teen scene only? Au contraire, mon amie! Think again. If you’re a member, be sure to link back to your website.

8.) Voice Mail

Most of us have answering machines or voice mail services nowadays. What better way to put your marketing on auto pilot than to direct prospects to your website to learn more about your program while you’re juggling morning snacks between twin 9 month olds, 4 toddlers, & Fido.

Bonus Tip:

Invest in you own domain name. Not only does it make you look more like the professional that YOU know you are, but it’s also easier to verbalize, print, and remember for both you and your prospects. It’s a win-win.

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Of course, in setting up your facility, you would think about the children. You will think about the place where they can conduct activities, games, a place where they can eat, and an area where they can rest. Yes, you have thought of all of these, but did you ever think about a place where you can work without any distractions and disturbances. For you to effectively manage your business, you need an area where you can conduct operations for your business. In this area, you can deal with paperwork, regulatory issues, taxes, advertising, etc., this area is your control center, you can do all the things regarding the operations of your daycare center.

If you will be conducting your business at home, you need to separate business needs from personal life and needs. If you mix things up, your business will suffer at the long run. Do not mix calendar, tasks, appointments and other things, to avoid problems. Separate things, like you need to have separate telephone lines, separate bank accounts and so on. You need to make sure that equipments are separate from business use and personal use. You need to have desks and computer that are intended for business alone.

Make sure to organize your time. Being organized can help you obtain success with your business. It is best to create schedules for the activities that you will conduct each day. If you have staffs working with you, you have to assign them the tasks that they need to do each day. Dedicate and allocate time for handling the operations of the daycare and buying stocks for your facility. But, you need to allocate time for rest as well, since having such facility is a tiring business.

Having such business, you need to have lots of clients, in order to win lots of clients; you need to continually advertise your business. Creating brochures and business cards and distributing them to every home in your neighborhood can help your business be known. Providing quality service is the best thing that you should do, since happy client can refer you to others.

For more info see: Start a daycare business

Dolson McArt – Author of: Ways on How to Effectively Manage Your Daycare

In general there are a few common marketing themes that you want to keep in mind in order to start a daycare. Number one is you want to keep all efforts very focused in a three to five mile radius of your home. Most of your kids are going to be coming from your neighborhood. Also, you want to show your location on all of your advertisements via a simple and easy-to-read map. The most important thing here is to point out your daycare’s location relative to the parent’s home or job. The more convenient/close it appears the better.

Number two is to create “urgency” and legitimacy right from the beginning with your ads (I talked a lot about this in my book and the other articles). In other words, you want to let the parents know that a rare vacancy has popped open. Say something like “Spot just opened for 12-24 month old” on all of your ads. Wording your ad like this implies a couple of things – the spot won’t stay open for long. And that you have customers, which seems to imply that other parents trust you so you must be ok.

Number three is consistency. Whatever marketing tools you decide to put into place, you have to be patient enough to see if they will work or not. They all take time, some more than others, but I certainly learned that you have to give them enough to see if they are working or you will just waste your time.

Last word, I have to admit the marketing aspect was a good kind of challenge for me. It was fun and exciting to see what worked. It was one of the aspects of the daycare that really felt like a business. We had to get clients and do it in the most cost effective way so that we would still make a profit. Getting the phone to ring felt really great and was rewarding. So use your creativity, with the idea of getting in front of as many parents as possible with the least amount of effort or cash to reach them.

Tania Rauth wrote a book on how to start and run a home daycare. More info at starting a daycare or how to run a daycare