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I prefer to interview as early in the week as possible as well, since I do major housecleaning on the weekend, and definitely after daycare hours. I try for about 1/2 hour after I close so that I have time to sweep, vacuum and clean myself up. Forget dishes and other things, people know you have been working all day long, but you want your house to be a clean and neat as possible for interviews because first impressions are important.
If somebody doesn't show up for an interview I don't chase after them because I figure I didn't want anybody that would be disrespectful like that as a client. Keep going FunnyFarm, you'll find the right clients. Sometimes it feels like it's never gonna happen, then the right family finds you.
Frederick Douglass
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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I do my interviews mainly on weekends. I don't like evenings as I have young kids of my own and they are hungry and want my attention after daycare hours. I once booked an evening interview, thinking that my husband would stay with the kids and feed them...well he had forgotten to tell me he had a meeting that evening and I ended up on my own with two hungry kids while interviewing...fun times! I prefer a Saturday late morning. I do all my cleaning in the morning before the interview and then it's done for the weekend as well. I am fresh, my kids are fresh and my husband is there to take them outside if they get rowdy. As for advertising, I find most people through Kijiji or Daycare Bear and some through CCPRN here in Ottawa. I find it's slow in summer as everyone is on holidays. I have been advertising for over a month and had pretty much no repsonse (mind you I am looking for an over 2 year old)...but I am not panicking as the space is for November and I know things will pick up in September.
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