terrydoo73
03-12-2009, 10:24 AM
Some of you I know have your own websites and I was just wondering if you found them useful in your daily business. I am based in Northern Ireland and have my own website but it is never visited so am trying to assess whether to keep it up and running or not. I think the problem over here is computer literacy - other childminders do not advertise themselves on the web and when you try to encourage them to even come on to chat on a site such as this they wouldn't have a clue how to do this.
I was thinking of trying to provide courses for local childminders to see the usefulness of the world wide web but it would be difficult to get people genuinely interested in such an idea. I do have a website which was set up as an agency type thing - where childminders could source parents and visa versa - we do not have a childcare link type thing that you have in England so this was where I thought I could fill a gap.
Any suggestions to help me promote such an idea or improve on availability of vacancies would be helpful.
I was thinking of trying to provide courses for local childminders to see the usefulness of the world wide web but it would be difficult to get people genuinely interested in such an idea. I do have a website which was set up as an agency type thing - where childminders could source parents and visa versa - we do not have a childcare link type thing that you have in England so this was where I thought I could fill a gap.
Any suggestions to help me promote such an idea or improve on availability of vacancies would be helpful.