Genevieve Thiers Speaks at Microsoft Small Business Summit
Monday, March 31, 2008FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Chicago, Ill.) - On Thursday, March 27, Genevieve Thiers, founder and CEO of Sittercity.com, America's largest and most trusted online resource for caregivers, participated in a live teleconference for the Microsoft Small Business Summit series. The Microsoft Small Business Summit is a free online event that promises to provide hours of valuable small business programming each day. Attendees to the virtual event get tips, advice and secrets from experts.
Thiers was a guest on "Startup Day," and discussed how she broke the mold in an entire industry by being the first person to take the task of finding a babysitter online, with her launch of Sittercity.com in 2001. This session was delivered as streaming video and audio broadcasts that could be viewed on personal computers as it happened live. Immediately following the live broadcast of this Microsoft Small Business Summit, the session for the day was re-broadcast and recorded, and is now available for viewing on-demand online.
For more information on this Microsoft Small Business Summit, visit http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/summit/guests.aspx.
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.