How should u charge someone when babysitting? and what would be the perfect flyer?

Question

i can only babysit on saturday like after 3, and i only want to babysit kids from the age 5 and up....i was wondering on the charging business, like does it matter on how many kids u babysit or the hours u babysit, and like what all should go on my flyer, should i put personal business so that people may feel comfortable with me, or what?

Answer 1

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OK, here's the receipe for this.

What you'll need is 200 (like two 100 packs) of index cards, a small set of acrylic paints, a cheap fine-tipped paint brush. If you go to Walmart you can get all of this for less than $10. Ask Ma and Pa for the dough.

Here is the "copy" (the writting) that you use. Take one index card and put the following down in your best casual handwritting:

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BABYSITTING (center this title)

Hi, I'm one of your neighbours and I'm looking to get some babysitting jobs here in the near future. My place is just down at (insert crosstreets). My rates are (insert hourly rate) per hour and I can work (insert days/times you can work). If you would like to know more about this, please call me at (insert phone number), (insert times/days you can be contacted) or email me anytime at (insert email address) and we can talk about the particulars. Thanks for your time. (sign your name in a legible way so they know your name).

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Write this out on an index card, and work out the spacing and how many words fit on a line and then center it on the card so it looks well layed out. When you have a card that looks right put this in front of you and copy it out onto the rest of the index cards right below the master copy.

With the acrylic paint, paint a little flower in each corner. Nothing too artsy, just enough to show the person you took some time and thought to do this. This is important (along with handwritting it) in showing to the person this isn't junk mail but a personal communication from one neightbour to another. If you use Xerox, you'll loose a lot of people close to you in your neighbourhood, because people have been programmed to throw junk mail out.

Then, starting at your house as the center, work your way around your immediate neighbourhood. 200 index cards should get you enough contacts to keep you in business. If you still need more, do 100 at a time.

Slide them in the crack between your neighbour's door and the frame. That way they have to look at it the next time they open their door. Things like this can get lost in the junk mail and the bills if you just throw it in the mail.

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hey and if this works, kick me $5 via paypal, would you? Need to justify this out-of-control Y!A habit somehow. And yeah, I don't know much about charging with baby sitting. Marketting yes. Actual babysitting, no.