Category Archives: Daycare Website

8 Free Ways to Advertise Your Home Daycare Website

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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. Continue reading →

Starting a Home Daycare – Marketing Part 1 of 4

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One of the biggest challenges I faced when I started my home daycare was marketing. This came as a really big surprise to me as I never thought I would need to do any marketing at all. After all I was well known in our community, had a ton of friends with kids, had a nice little house, I’m out going, etc. And most importantly I had several moms encourage me to start a daycare with the promise that they would enroll their children with me.

When the dust settled (and I had quit my job), got my license in place, organized the house, etc none of them actually enrolled! It dawned on me then and there that I would have to get more serious about getting the word out. Continue reading →

Starting a Home Daycare – Marketing 4 of 4

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In the other 3 articles I discussed mailers, door hangers, car signs, etc. In this last segment of marketing you home daycare (4 of 4) I discuss more general topics of focus, urgency consistency.

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. Continue reading →