Genevieve Thiers Speaks at Loyola University
Founder of Sittercity.com Speaks to Marketing Entrepreneurial Class
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Chicago, IL.) - As a noted young, entrepreneurial dynamo in Chicago, Loyola University’s School of Business Administration invited Genevieve Thiers, founder and CEO of Sittercity.com, America’s first and largest online source for caregivers, to speak to their group of future entrepreneurs.
Thiers was tapped to offer tips on ways to market yourself as an entrepreneur, public relations tactics, brand-building and general entrepreneurship issues.
Thiers discussed her entrepreneurial spirit, which was born when she attended college in Boston. While in school, Thiers worked her way through school babysitting for more than 30 families. One fateful day, Thiers saw a pregnant woman slowing climbing the nearly 200 steps to Boston College's upper campus to post flyers for a babysitting job. Horrified, Thiers asked the mother-to-be for the flyers, sent her home and posted them herself. While papering the university, Thiers had an epiphany. What if there was one central place where parents could meet all of the sitters and nannies in that city? And with this, Sittercity was born. With many “no’s” and doors slammed in her face, she ventured on to make a name for herself as a powerful business owner and an innovator in her field.
Video clips from Thiers’s speaking engagement will be available on www.loyola.edu.
For more information on Sittercity.com, visit www.sittercity.com.
About Sittercity.com
Sittercity.com®, the inventor of online caregiving, is America’s largest and most trusted online source for child care, pet care, senior care, housekeeping, housesitting and tutoring. As a network of hundreds of thousands of caregivers nationwide, Sittercity helps families and individuals find the perfect in-home care provider quickly, easily and safely by using the company’s four-step screening process, which includes checking references, reading caregiver reviews, conducting interviews and utilizing free access to background checks. Sitter profiles also come with photos, experience, training, safety skills, availability calendars, reviews and more. Registration for sitters is free, and care seekers 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 has also received twelve national awards, including a U.S. Small Business Administration award in 2006 from President Bush, and three international awards, including first place in the prestigious UPS "Out of the Box" Small Business contest. For more information, visit the company Web site at www.sittercity.com.
