So I have recently had 3 daycare spots open up and want to advertise for them. I was wondering what forms of advertising you all use (if any) besides the usual ad in the paper. I really want to get the word out, as this puts a big financial burden on my family. Any suggestions are welcome! Thank you in advance

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I have had more calls from Craigslist than anywhere else.

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Ditto to this^

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If you don't have a Facebook page for your daycare, it's really given me a lot of business. Mostly referrals from past & current clients, but they still contact me through our FB page. Just invite everyone you want to, and it will get your page out there and seen.

And CRAIGSLIST !! More than 50% of my current clients are from CL.

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I have my information in everything you can think if

And all for free

Yellow pages
Yahoo local
Yext
Yelp
Yellow bot
Manta
LinkedIn
Google
Daycare match
Mom trusted
Angie's list
Bloglines
Merchantcircle
Map quest
Daycare bear
All about day care
Daycare.com
City squares
Craig's list

I do not have a Facebook or any form of social media.
I only have my website.

I'm sure I forgot some, but as mentioned before all of those were FREE

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Wow thank you for the additional ideas I didn't know about most of these! I also get tons of calls from Craigslist.

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Craigslist and as much online visibility as possible. If you have a website, submit it to Google, Yahoo and Bing to be indexed so they crawl it for content. It takes time, but if you get yourself listed and keep fresh, quality content on your page you will rank on Google.

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Yes! Online visibility is a must! I have gotten compliments on my website and even on my CL ad because of the pictures and details that I put on the site and in the cl ad! It just looks more professional in my opinion.

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