July 7, 2010
Wow, we reached 50,000 members in the first week of July 2010.
We are stoked and look forward connecting more and more UK families with Mrs. Doubtfire’s on their own doorstep and strengthening our UK wide childcare coverage over the coming months and years. We pride ourselves in providing an affordable and easy to use service for our 30,000 carer candidates and 20,000 parents and this mini milestone means a lot to us. At this rate we may even reach our next 50,000 by the end of the year. Imagine that.
We’d like to thank our loyal customers, our investors and the team for their continued support (and hard work) and we are proud to be a Smarta100 winner this year. Watch this space for stacks of Findababysitter.com world domination news over the coming months.
We continue to focus on providing a free service to help childcare candidates find local employment and to provide a highly competitive and flexible service for our parents. As ever we welcome your feedback and look forward to enjoying your continued support.
To celebrate our modest milestone and thank our loyal carers and parents (and welcome our growing number of new members) we’d like to give you the chance to win one of five £50 vouchers to spend at your favourite high street store M&S (prize as voted for by our Facebook fans).
To be in with a chance of winning all you need to do is login to your account or create a free childcarer profile or sign up as a parent before the end of July. Everyone that signs-in or signs-up in July will be automatically entered and we’ll pick five winners at random and will contact them via their registered email address next month.
Please tell your friends too!
February 24, 2010
Win £250 to spend at M&S and £75 of daily FAB prizes up to Mothers Day – The funny things kids say about their mums (or dads)
Share the priceless, cute and funny things your little monsters says about mum and win one of three daily £25 FAB Ultra Access Prizes and the main prize of a £250 voucher for mum to spend at Marks and Sparks.
To be in with a chance of winning all you need to do is tell us the funniest thing your little monster has said to mum or said about mum (or grand mum, dad or grandad).
To enter simply send your little monsters funniest or cutest quote with his or her first name (or nickname) and age e.g. “Fraggle got wobble tummy” Dotty aged 2 (Fraggle is her granny).
Post your entry on our Facebook page, tweet your entry to @childcareuk on Twitter (please use the hash-tag #fabmum), post it as a comment right here on Fablog, or you can email us here. If you want to melt the judges hearts you can optionally include your own little monster photo with your entry on our Facebook page or as a link accompanying your entry.
Up to three daily winners will be selected from Monday 1st March up to Mothers Day on Sunday 14th March. Daily winners will each win 60 Days Ultra Access to Findababysitter.com (worth £25) and the funniest little monster quote will win the main prize of a £250 voucher to spend at M&S. Send us your entries any time and enter as many times as you like. Terms and conditions apply, click here.
More info and terms and conditions are available over on Findababysitter.com.
Submit your entry by posting a comment right here!
Good luck – The FAB team
January 27, 2010
Firstly, thanks to everyone that completed our end of year survey. Congratulations to Melanie Rivera who won the draw for a £250 Marks and Spencer voucher. Happy shopping Mel! Watch this space for exciting new features over the coming months.
Moving in to 2010 we’d like to dedicate Fablog to our childcarer community and childcare advice. Between all of the FAB Live in Nannies, Live out nannies, Part time nannies, Childcarers, Babysitters, Au Pairs we’ve calculated there is a million trillion hours of childcare experience (ok we made that up) and we’d love you to share just some of it here. We’d love to hear your childcare tips and advice. If you have something you’d like to share or something you want to talk about please write a few words here. Drop us a line here, by email, Facebook or Twitter if you’d like to write your own guest post.
Update your FAB profile and help FAB families find you – a few extended tips from today’s FAB News newsletter.
1. Our FAB mums told us (in a recent survey) they’d love to see more FAB profiles with fantastic profile photos, and truly personal descriptions. It’s not mandatory, but we agree a well written and passionate profile, with a (flattering) photo means a lot to mums. If you have your own kids or pets let’s see them too – show your family side. To update your profile login to FAB and click on My Profile.
2. With Valentine’s Day just a few weeks away don’t forget to update your availability and tell us where you can work so we can help to connect you with FAB families in your area. To update where you can work login to FAB, click on My Profile and then click on the Where I can work tab – then enter the area you can work in e.g. Manchester or Birmingham and click ‘Add’. You can add as many areas as you like as long as you can travel there for a FAB job.
And a final thought – if you are a FAB parent reading this you are most welcome to contribute here too.
And finally, finally, if you missed our newsletter today don’t worry it will be with you tomorrow – including half price 30 day premium access for parents and much more.
See you soon!
The FAB team
Let’s hope for a clear majority, but we won’t mind sharing a prize.