Some Advertising Suggestions for in Home Day Cares

If you run your own in home day care you are probably eager to try and come up with new ways to advertise your business, while not breaking the bank. For most people who have decided to start an in home day care they are doing so on a very strict and tight budget. Following is a list of ideas and suggestions that you may find helpful in advertising your in home day care business.

1. Advertise online- There are plenty of both free and paid places to advertise your day care services online. One free site to advertise is Craig's list.com. There it will be seen by lots of people online. There are also plenty of websites where you can add a banner or link that can display your blog or website with all of your business information. Our site also offers advertising here, for $5/mo, you can place your ad on our site. We work hard and promoting all of our daycares listed.

2. Create business cards- creating your own unique business cards on your home computer is very easy to do. You can than take them to your local library and ask if you can leave a stack on the counter. Some of your local restaurants may also allow you to leave some of your business cards in their place of business.

3. Visit your local hospital and see about giving away a free business gift bag to all new moms. If you are able to invest some money in creating a few gift bags you can include your business card, and maybe a magnet, or pen with your day care name and logo on it. Make sure that your phone number is on everything so that they will have no problem contacting you.

4. Create a website- Many think that creating and maintaining a website is a long drawn out process, but it really is not. You may be surprised at how many people end up contacting you as a result of your website. You will want to avoid using a free site because there will be too many ad's an this may detract visitors. Instead you can find very inexpensive hosting on Godaddy.com as well as some pretty reasonable website packages. If you are looking for a website that it is a little easier to set up than you can visit wahmdrive.com. They have a great website package and is probably the easiest one you will find.