Genevieve Thiers to Speak at Bubbles Academy
Tuesday, April 22, 2008FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Chicago, Ill.) - Genevieve Thiers, founder and CEO of Sittercity.com, America's largest and most trusted online source for caregiving, will speak on a panel at Bubbles Academy on Saturday, April 26, 2008. The discussion topic will cover child care for your family, and will address how to search and interview for a babysitter or nanny.
Bubbles Academy, known as Chicagoland's institution to inspire children with positive learning experiences, offers many different family oriented programs, one of which is the educational discussion panels. Along with Thiers, the panel will include Dana Micheli, Owner of Neighborhood Nannies, "super sitter" Suzanne Marlatt from Sittercity.com and several Bubbles Academy nannies. The panel will be moderated by Bubbles Academy Teacher and Mom's Group (Triple B) Coordinator, Kim Schiefelbein.
The panel will be held at Bubbles Academy, 1504 North Fremont, in Chicago at 2:00 p.m. For more information or to reserve a spot, call 312-944-7677.
About Sittercity.com
Sittercity.com®, the inventor of online caregiving, is America's most trustworthy source for child care and pet care, dedicated to making the process of finding a caregiver fast, easy, safe and fun. With access to hundreds of thousands of sitters nationwide, including babysitters, nannies, petsitters, housesitters, senior companions and tutors, care seekers can find a wealth of qualified caregivers in their area by using Sittercity's four-step screening process, which includes references, parent-to-parent feedback, personal interviews and free access to background checks. Registration for sitters is free, and parents pay as little as $8 per month for a membership, which gives them unlimited ability to post jobs, and search, contact and hire sitters in their areas. A true pioneer in its field, Sittercity.com has been featured by hundreds of media outlets, from the Today Show to the Big Idea with Donny Deutsch to the Wall Street Journal. Sittercity won first place in the 2007 UPS Small Business "Out of the Box" contest as well as a 2007 International Davey Award. Sittercity also won the U.S. Small Business Administration Champion Award in 2006 from President Bush, a 2006 Stevie award, received a Webby Worthy Award in 2005 and won the 2005 Women's Business Development Center Rising Star Award. For more information, visit the company Web site at www.sittercity.com.