Check out major employers in your area. Often they will let you post on bulletin boards in their staff room area. Let ministers at local churches know that you are a new daycare in the area and open to a child needing care to start right away should there be an emergency. Some grocery stores and corner stores have message boards you can post on. A site similar to kijiji I use is here is called www.usedottawa.com If you go there and then look at the bottom for changing the location there may be a site for your area. Then look under services to place an ad - again just like on kijiji.

In the nice weather go for walks to the park and always have info cards to pass out. One time I was so deparate I put a sign on the back of my wagon and every day went to a different park and through a different area hoping for maximum exposure like up and down a major road - provided there are sidewalks of course.

I have done flyers in subdivisons near by I knew had lots of little kids but that rarely works these days since most get their mail through superboxes and rarely open their mailbox on their house.

It just takes time and far more than we wish.