Website Help Please

[yodaone]

I created a website and it's been live for about 6 weeks now. I've had a few serious calls/e-mails but only one client so far. I originally did the tiered payment based on pick-up, but recently took that off because I know my prices are higher than other daycares in the area. Most daycares around me charge about $175/week. With the tiered rate based on pick-up time I had my top price at $230. I recently just changed my cost to a flat $190/week. Would anyone be willing to look over my site? Any suggestions for getting the word out there I would greatly appreciate any feedback! Here is my website: www.lilsproutsdaycare.com

[MsLisa]

I really like your website! It has a very nice flow and feel to it.

Only thing I could think of was to get rid of that main slide show of pictures on top. The ones that slide. Replace the girl in the tunnel with that adorable little boy smiling. You have plenty of photos otherwise. Well done.

[yodaone]

Thank you MsLisa!
I was wondering about the slide show as well... I'll just take that off

[CalCare]

The slide show worked well on my cell phone. I liked it The rest looks good too. Usually on childcare websites and on cl ads I always see so many spelling errors and misuse of quotation marks it drives me 'crazy' . But, your website didn't have any issues that I noticed. I am no English language expert, but it looks terrible on websites and ads. Your website looks great.

[childcaremom]

I created a website and it's been live for about 6 weeks now. I've had a few serious calls/e-mails but only one client so far. I originally did the tiered payment based on pick-up, but recently took that off because I know my prices are higher than other daycares in the area. Most daycares around me charge about $175/week. With the tiered rate based on pick-up time I had my top price at $230. I recently just changed my cost to a flat $190/week. Would anyone be willing to look over my site? Any suggestions for getting the word out there I would greatly appreciate any feedback! Here is my website: www.lilsproutsdaycare.com

I like it!

Re tuition. I would expect to pay higher for what you are offering. I don't know what the others are charging but I think that if you are charging more that would be ok, especially for the price difference in organics.

[jenboo]

I'm in love lovethis
It looks fabulous.
I'm iffy on the slide show as well.

[spedmommy4]

The website looks amazing! Are you using a program to track your hits? I embedded Google Analytics into my website. (free) Google tells me how many visitors my site had, where they are from, and how long they stayed. Google makes it really easy to copy and past the code into your website.

With my own website, I registered the URL with everyone I could think of. Lots of great recommendations in this article. https://www.daycare.com/news/adverti...r-daycare.html
I linked my website to my Craigslist ads, my Yelp page, my Pinterest page, my Google page, my yahoo page, my Angie's list page, etc. My business comes up in the top 10 now when you search preschool or childcare for my area but, I found it does take a little bit of work to get your website noticed on the internet.

This is my website, if you want to take a look www.milestonesearlychildhood.com

[lovemydaycare0912]

I loved it. Nice and clean.

[Unregistered]

The website looks amazing! Are you using a program to track your hits? I embedded Google Analytics into my website. (free) Google tells me how many visitors my site had, where they are from, and how long they stayed. Google makes it really easy to copy and past the code into your website.

With my own website, I registered the URL with everyone I could think of. Lots of great recommendations in this article. https://www.daycare.com/news/adverti...r-daycare.html
I linked my website to my Craigslist ads, my Yelp page, my Pinterest page, my Google page, my yahoo page, my Angie's list page, etc. My business comes up in the top 10 now when you search preschool or childcare for my area but, I found it does take a little bit of work to get your website noticed on the internet.

This is my website, if you want to take a look www.milestonesearlychildhood.com

I like your site! Did Blackcat write your handbook? It looks like a copied and pasted version of hers?

[spedmommy4]

No and sort of. I had my own that was about 16 pages long. I used all my original policies and added some modified versions of her more stringent policies. (Like health and toileting) I was having a TON of problems with parents way back when I started and ended up chatting with her over the forum about handbooks. But . . . .I loved her format so much- with the colored highlighting of important policies - I ended up using a program to recreate that with mine. It has helped a lot to have the important policies in bold colored print.

[thrivingchildcarecom]

Hi Lisa,

I actually love your site! One thing, and I know some will disagree with me but I never put my rates on the website or on any of my ads and not even on phone inquires either. Some providers will disagree because they don't want to be bothered with clients who cannot afford their rates. But in the past whenever I would give out rates to perspective parents they never would even come in. In my area their are so many providers I know that I need to stand out, not based on my price but rather based on my business as a whole. When parents do inquire as to rates, I give them the average hourly rate, but tell them when they come in I will provide them with a tuition worksheet that breaks down the tuition. I also notice that NONE of the local preschools list their rates on their websites either.

[daycarediva]

First page- I would remove the slideshow (it made the page jumpy on my desktop)

I would change bi-yearly evaluations to bi-annual

otherwise, I love it!

[Blackcat31]

No and sort of. I had my own that was about 16 pages long. I used all my original policies and added some modified versions of her more stringent policies. (Like health and toileting) I was having a TON of problems with parents way back when I started and ended up chatting with her over the forum about handbooks. But . . . .I loved her format so much- with the colored highlighting of important policies - I ended up using a program to recreate that with mine. It has helped a lot to have the important policies in bold colored print.

I like your site! Did Blackcat write your handbook? It looks like a copied and pasted version of hers?

Spedmommy and I collaborated on those things that were similar between our programs/beliefs etc for but other than format, Spedmommy's handbook is her own.

[yodaone]

Hi Lisa,

I actually love your site! One thing, and I know some will disagree with me but I never put my rates on the website or on any of my ads and not even on phone inquires either. Some providers will disagree because they don't want to be bothered with clients who cannot afford their rates. But in the past whenever I would give out rates to perspective parents they never would even come in. In my area their are so many providers I know that I need to stand out, not based on my price but rather based on my business as a whole. When parents do inquire as to rates, I give them the average hourly rate, but tell them when they come in I will provide them with a tuition worksheet that breaks down the tuition. I also notice that NONE of the local preschools list their rates on their websites either.

Thank you! What is on your tuition worksheet... I'm curious :-)

[yodaone]

The website looks amazing! Are you using a program to track your hits? I embedded Google Analytics into my website. (free) Google tells me how many visitors my site had, where they are from, and how long they stayed. Google makes it really easy to copy and past the code into your website.

With my own website, I registered the URL with everyone I could think of. Lots of great recommendations in this article. https://www.daycare.com/news/adverti...r-daycare.html
I linked my website to my Craigslist ads, my Yelp page, my Pinterest page, my Google page, my yahoo page, my Angie's list page, etc. My business comes up in the top 10 now when you search preschool or childcare for my area but, I found it does take a little bit of work to get your website noticed on the internet.

This is my website, if you want to take a look www.milestonesearlychildhood.com

Yes, I do have a tracker on my site and it does show me great information... I have been linking my site whenever I post to CL or on my Facebook page. How do you know if your site is actually registered with say google, yahoo, etc. This may sound crazy, (I'm not very good with the tech stuff) I think my website is registered... I'm just not sure?