I started in Dec. Of 2012 ( bad time of year but that is when the house we bought was finalized and purchased). I am in a fairly small town and really a lot of people know me from the job I had before I started child care.

I have put classified ads in the paper, signs around town- with the tear off strip, I have a magnetic sign on my car now, just put up a sign on my porch, child care facebook page and I have gotten calls from word of mouth.

I just filled my last part time spot by word of mouth. I will be licensed in about one month and then will have 2 more spots to fill. I plan to take a bigger ad out (local paper) and have an open house to fill those spots. Oh, and also call people on my waiting list.

I have filled spots and gotten calls from the classified ads each time I put them in. I also have a waiting list from these ads. Craigslist doesn't work around here. It's out of a city 60 miles away. I live in a very rural area.

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