Giveaway: Sittercity.com
November 5, 2008 by Deb
Filed under Giveaways, Special Deal, website
With my family living over 2 hours away and my husband’s parents not in the best of health, one of our biggest struggles over the years has always been to find babysitters that we trust to watch our kids – either on a daily basis or just every once in a while. Over 7-1/2 years, we’ve had 6 different daycare providers and until this year, we’ve never had a ‘regular’ babysitter for those times when we need someone to watch our girls on an occasional evening or weekend afternoon.
I only wish that we’d known about Sittercity.com back when we first became parents and lived in a city with no family and almost no support network whatsoever.
What it is:
Sittercity offers a huge network of babysitters in every state and community, literally right at your fingertips. As America’s largest and most trusted online sitter network, Sittercity makes it fast, safe and simple to find the perfect sitter with hundreds – even thousands – of babysitters and nannies right in your own neighborhood. You can find the perfect sitter with Sittercity’s four-step screening process and detailed sitter profiles that feature background checks, reviews from other parents, references, distance from you, availability schedules, photos, training and certifications, and more.
All sitters are 17 or older with a wide range of skills and specialties – your perfect sitter is just a click away!
Here’s a great deal for you:
Get 10% off your membership with promo code Sitter10!
Want to try it?:
Courtesy of Mom Blog Marketing, I have the opportunity to offer a free 12 months of Sittercity membership (a $95.88 value) to a lucky reader! If you’re looking for babysitters and interested in trying out Sittercity, here are the rules:
- Enter by visiting Sittercity to see how many sitters are available in your area and leaving a comment here to let me know that number. Please don’t just say ‘choose me’, or your entry will be discarded.
- The contest will run until Sunday, November 16th at 11:59 pm EST. The winners will be selected through random drawing, contacted by e-mail, listed on this post and also submitted to PRIZEY.Fetch. US entries only, please.
- Please leave a valid e-mail address or other way to contact you! If you don’t wish to leave your e-mail address, please make sure that you leave a unique name and check back with PRIZEYWinners to see if you won. If any of the winners haven’t responded within 3 days, an alternate winner will be chosen by random drawing.
- If you’d like an extra entry or three, you can either:
- Subscribe to my RSS feed (click on the orange icon in the upper right sidebar) or subscribe via e-mail – leave me a separate comment to let me know.
- Mention this contest on your blog with a link back to this post, and leave a separate comment with the link to your post so I can find it.
- Either Twitter about, ‘Stumble’, ‘Digg’ or ‘Kirtsy’ this post – leave me a separate comment with your username at whichever site you chose (one extra entry).
So that’s a total of 4 comments/entries if you do all of the extra entry options.
Good luck! 
THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED – the random number generator has chosen comment #4 as the winner:
Congratulations to Sara (no blog) who said, “Within 50 miles – 18,050 Non-smoking sitters within 5 miles with their own transportation – 506 I actually just checked out SitterCity this weekend and would love to join!“! I will be e-mailing you shortly to work out the details.
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Wow! Think I’ll have to give it a try. They even have background checks on file!
3550!
I could really use this! I have heard about Sitter City, but have never looked at it. I can’t believe how many sitters are on there!
Blogged about you!
http://www.contests4mamas.com/2008/11/one-years-membership-to-sittercitycom.html
Within 50 miles – 18,050
Non-smoking sitters within 5 miles with their own transportation – 506
I actually just checked out SitterCity this weekend and would love to join!
lovingmyfellas @ gmail [dot] com
Just tweeted about you – lovingmyfellas
Blogged about you, too!
http://lovingmyfellas.blogspot.com/2008/11/sittercity-giveaway-on-just-moms-take.html
147 sitters!
I’m a subscriber
I never knew about sittercity.com. WOW… Impressive…
There are 3195 sitters w/i 50 miles and out of that 2448 are non smoking with their own transportation AND out of that there are 143 within a 10 mile radius… I love it!
I was surprised to learn that there were actually 575 sitters found in my area. I really didn’t think it would be that high. That is pretty neat!
I stumbled this post under username “shelnew192″
Holy cr*p, there are 25,517 sitters in my area. I need this service. Maybe now I will find a responsible sitter that wont leave me high and dry. My email is
verypissedoff at verizon dot net
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Hi Deb – apparently, there’s 105 ppl around us in SitterCity
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62 sitters in our area! (Yes, we’ll be moving back to the US soon.)
18,329
Always been curious about this site!
There are 6,420 sitters in my area!! I cant believe it, I can seriously cry right now. I’m new to the area I live in and its always been a such a struggle to find someone trustworthy of watching my son. Its been extremely hard for me and my fiancee to both work at the same time since we would either have to work around our sons school schedule or each others work schedules. Not having a sitter has resulted in me having to quit my permanent job and forcing my fiancee to start 2 part time jobs. This is an awesome giveaway and I truly hope I win.
Thanks you so much,
Erica G.
msrica03@aol.com
I really really want this…I subscribed!
Thanks,
Erica G.
msrica03@aol.com
I also blogged!!
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=325423037&blogID=448585102
Thanks,
Erica G.
msrica03@aol.com
18,201! My goodness…who knew??!!
I subscribed as well!
There are 131 in my area. i really need this.
I am a subscriber.
62 sitters within 10 miles – no category selection. Cool! I have six kids and could really, really , really use this
26, 158!
1,918 within 50 miles. Thanks for the giveaway!
I’m already a subscriber.