Hello World

Welcome to the best kept secret on the web, the blog where we walk you through setting up an online based babysitting business. What you need to know is:

1. Our content will always be free
2. We will walk you through step by step
3. Our content will always be free
4. You can contact us and we will do our best to answer your questions
5. We practice what we preach (we used the same advice to create our website need-sitters-now.weebly.com)

So why would we give out this information for free? I know we should sell this stuff and make as much money as possible. You’re probably right. But for us this was our big break, and after months of spinning our wheels trying to create the perfect online business, we are so glad to get it right. We give this to you because we don’t want you to make the same mistakes, wasting hours of valuable time, to get to a place we already know how to get to.

So it is our privilege to walk you through this process step-by-step. Maybe you’re a college student who has been babysitting for years, or a stay at home mom trying to mobilize more babysitters in your community. Whoever you are, we hope you succeed, we hope you surpass us, and we wish you are the luck in the world!

Helpful Hints

Need more specific instructions feel free to email us at csmithevans@gmail.com and we promise to get back to you. We have also added a list of our favorite links to help you build your site, including links to the sites we mention in our set up instruction. Leave us comments and help us grow to better serve you.

Advertising

The last step is finding both sitters to take the jobs (unless you are working alone) and parents to pay for your services. Advertising can be done with a small paragraph telling what you are selling, your website address, and why you are better than everyone else. If you are only going to serve the local population brag about how you are connected to the community. If you’re going national, say you’re a national chain. By the way, we recommend advertising locally first then trying your hand at nationally.

How it works

• Parents come to your website and schedule themselves for the times they need a sitter. Consider this a request, not a command.
• You find a sitter through that phone list we told you to create and see who can take the job or if your all alone just look at your schedule.
• Before the parent pays you send a copy of the sitters resume and your terms and conditions to the parents. Please remember to tell the parents that they should only pay after they have received confirmation that a sitter will take the job. Also let them know that the payment must be received prior to the start of services.
• And that’s it! Please call or send an email after thanking them for using your services, it’s just professional curtsey.

Why you need order forms and a scheduler!

This is how your customers know how to reach you when they need a sitter and what times they need them. Lucky for you all of this is free through the wonderful site mentioned above.

Add content

Click on the elements tab and just drag down and drop in what you need. Very easy! Everything is pretty much drag and drop on this site so be creative and add whatever you think you need. If you need more of a guide look at our website at need-sitters-now.weebly.com. Proceed to create pages and link them together then publish and type in a web address/url that you want to use. That easy!

Creating a Background

Now you need to choose a template for you website. This determines the layout of your website and the background colors. Just scroll through their list of premade templates and click the one you want.