Sittercity Offers an Online Database of 50,000 Babysitters to Help Parents Ring in the New Year
November 15, 2005FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Chicago, Ill.) - Tired of shelling out big bucks to find last-minute childcare for the holidays? If you're a parent with plans for New Year's Eve, the best time to start looking for a sitter is the week after Thanksgiving according to Genevieve Thiers, founder and CEO of Sittercity, the country's largest online parent-babysitter matching service. And it's just become easier to find one.
"With a secure database of more than 50,000 sitters, Sittercity has changed the way parents connect with sitters," said Genevieve Thiers. "Sittercity has made finding the perfect sitter simple, safe, fast and affordable." For less than the cost of a nice dinner out, parents can join Sittercity for $39.99 for the first month and just $5 a month after that. Accounts may be canceled at any time. Best of all, Sittercity maintains specialized lists of hundreds of holiday sitters, that make finding holiday care a pleasant reality, instead of a nightmare.
Sittercity is dedicated to ensuring safe child care experiences for parents and sitters. Each sitter profile comes complete with references, parent feedback and contact information to make the screening process safe and easy. Sittercity recommends that the parent and the sitter interview each other on the phone and in person before a job. In addition, Sittercity provides online resources for parents to conduct their own background check on any sitter.
So go out to celebrate--but book your Sittercity sitter first at www.sittercity.com!
About Sittercity
Sittercity.com is the largest, most easily accessible database for babysitters and nannies. Sittercity is a woman-founded, privately-owned, corporation that was founded in 2001 and is the inventor of online child care. Headquartered in Chicago, IL, Sittercity now serves 15 cities including Boston, Chicago, Cleveland/Akron, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Minneapolis/St. Paul, New York, Providence, San Francisco, Seattle, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Denver, Los Angeles and Portland.
