Best way to market a wedding sitter service

Hello, I have a question about on-site sitter service. I have nanny and sitter agency in Houston texas that provides care to kids in homes and hotels.What is the best way to get potential clients to know about my service and eventually use it.

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Permalink Reply by Glen Shevlin on February 19, 2010 at 10:00am

Forums like this can help a lot, track down the favorite wedding venues and reception sites around town and get friendly with the booking managers/wedding coordinators,

Set up a website , use google local business center to set up local responces( its free and pretty easy to use)

Join forums for business and the local board of trade, post flyers in churches, and where ever they can go.

Market to wedding planners, children at ceremonies and receptions are an issue that never ends.

Now before you go out and get all that business sit down and determine how you are going to provide your services, ie., how are you going to baby sit children at an outdoor garden wedding, what sleeping arraingments do you need for a reception ina hotel... Think of everything that you can and plan how to deal with it.Put that in writing and use it as part of your business./ marketing plan , those questions will come up and having a good answer will go a long way towards building your reputation and getting refferal business.

Glen

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Permalink Reply by Happy Helpers Wedding Sitters on February 20, 2010 at 12:13am

Thank you for your advice. I truly appreciate it. I just added my biz to Google Local center.. I never even heard of it before. Very good advice!!!

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Permalink Reply by Sandra Aaron on February 27, 2010 at 10:32pm

Definitely start networking with wedding planners and venues.

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Permalink Reply by Happy Helpers Wedding Sitters on March 1, 2010 at 12:10pm

Thanks a lot for your information. I appreciate it.

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Permalink Reply by STL Wedding Sitters on March 1, 2010 at 12:07am

I own an on-site wedding sitting service in St. Louis and do most of my advertsing through networking. I joined Association of Bridal Consultant which has opened many networking opportunties. I also joined a couple Meetup groups relative to the wedding/bridal industries and small business owner. Joining networking groups is super important. I have found other wedding folks are really happy to share your info with others.

Get your name out there as much as possiable throught social media networking like; facebook, twitter, linkedin, etc.

Our specialty is just that so folks are really interested in us. Get on preferred vendor lists with local vendors and venues. Most likely you'll be the only wedding sitters on the list. :)

Good Luck,
Amber

STL Wedding Sitters
www.stlweddingsitters.com