Need help, advice, tips !!!

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Do you have a penalty in your contract for late payment? Mine is $30 per day. We go through the main points before parents sign the contract (including payment). When a parent has forgotten to bring the check I remind them that they can still transfer the payment by Interact as soon as they get home and offer the option of postdated checks for next payments. Most of my parents do postdated checks and I remind them when I am about to run out of them. I never have had to enforce the late payment penalty. If I ever am in that position I will charge the $30 fee and not accept the child in care on Monday (they pay on Fridays in advance) until payment has gone through.

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If you don't already have a proper website set up, I would strongly recommend getting one up and running. Most of the people I've interviewed have said that that was a big factor in whether or not they even wanted to interview someone. They felt it was more professional. Just make sure you keep it informative, but concise and get some past clients to leave testimonials for you to add on.