Hi Kathy and everyone,
I am a WAHM. I have been married for 25 years and have 4 wonderful
children, 21, 16, 9 and 7. I have a homeday care. I got your book two
days ago and have read through it almost twice. I have been working
on my list of things I could do and the fact that I already have a
homeday care and site seems to be coming back around. I would like to
get out of the daycare business in the near future (if I can get
something else going that will give me more time with my family and
more money). We are planning to move to a little town in Colorado as
soon as we can afford to build a house on the land and figure out how
to make a living since it is at least an hours drive to the nearest
big city. My husband and I are in our 40's and he is getting closer
to 50. We do not want to be working long hours for the rest of our
lives but would like to enjoy our family more and be able to travel.
My daycare is successful but I run a 24/7 daycare. I keep kids any
hours parents need, and that can mean late nights and weekends. So
even though I am here for my kids, I have other kids here as well. I
love children but I am about ready to move on from this period in my
life. My website that I have created for my daycare gets compliments
all the time. But it is not what would fall under the heading of
a "professional" website in the fact that it has lots of cutsie stuff
on it. But it works for me because of my business, it is a daycare.
www.mtckc.com I have even had people who found it in New York and
even though they couldn't call me for daycare they wanted to tell me
how much they loved my site. I found that funny.
What I was thinking is having a daycare site with information for
parents and daycare providers. Providing e-books on information on
how to create your own daycare web page, starting a daycare, stuff
like that. I was thinking about taking my index page that I have now
since I already have a domain name and pay for my website monthly,
and making that page something like www.mtckc.com/daycare and then
making my index page the start page of my new internet business. Do
you think that would work? I would do it more professional and also
have room to have advertisers and such like you suggested on those
pages. I am not really sure how to go about all this but since I
already have part of the "work" done that you suggested I thought it
would be neat if I could keep what I have instead of getting another
one.
Thanks for letting me ramble on. I am excited about this. Also, my
husband has a website that he started years ago for bass lessons and
he has asked me to work on it forever and I just felt incapable of
doing it. But I want to make it the way you suggested and get him
rolling on there!
Thanks for the e-book and all the help to push me forward to the
place I need to be going.
Terri