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Great idea about the events! I think that at Christmas this could be huge because that time of the year is usually when all the after-hours events start.

Childcare agencies are companies that recruit, select, agglomerate, and supervise childcare providers (nannies, babysitters, etc.) so whenever a family needs a childcare service in their home they have a huge network of candidates from which to select. The engagements can vary from just a couple of hours to long-term relationships of years, but what we are aiming at is what is called backup care, "emergency services" just for a couple of hours, which is the most needed service from employees that work on big corps. Now it makes sense?

I think what you are saying about not trying to scale yet makes sense, we want to find at least our first customer to get as much feedback as we want so we can improve our product.

Thanks for your advice!

Sure it would be great to connect. Here is my email: daniel@enginehire.ca Send me an email and there we can decide how to connect.

Thanks for your help!

Hey, thanks for your comment!

I didn't get what you were saying. What you mean is that you would work in something like this but only if you get a better offer than just being paid on commissions?

So far we only provide our software to childcare agencies, but with this new idea of finding corporate clients, in the end, what we are doing is helping them acquire new customers. Does it make sense?

My friend, thanks for your ideas, they gave me so much to think about!

Currently, we don't have that kind of budget to sponsor an event, but what I'm thinking is that we can make an MVP of this idea. For the moment we just want to acquire our first company so we can get feedback from working with them. What we can do is target any company and then start reaching out to employees to offer them x amount of hours on our platform. After a couple of them make bookings, then we can talk with the HR department and show them that there is a real need for childcare among their employees. What do you think?

Yes, that is correct! Let me explain better:

As you said, we provide software to childcare agencies to manage care providers (nannies, babysitters, etc) and connect them with service seekers (families). These agencies recruit, select, and agglomerate childcare providers so whenever a family needs a service in their home, they have a huge network of candidates from which to select, all of this using our software.

Now, by selling our software, we now have more than 200 childcare agencies across the US, which all combined represent a huge amount of childcare providers!

Then, we thought! We have a huge network, so how can we acquire customers (families)? The market is huge, who doesn't need to take care of their children? I bet we can advertise and find a lot of families looking for childcare! But wait, childcare is expensive, and not all parents can afford it, so let's speak with the companies they work for and see if they want to subsidize part of the cost of childcare.

And there is where we are at, we are trying to reach out to companies that could be interested in giving childcare as a benefit for their team members, without any luck.

I hope that this makes more sense :)

We will have to pay only on commissions, do you think that we will be able to find an experienced sales professional willing to work only on commissions?

Great idea! Thanks for the advice!

Do you know of any famous HR conferences in the US?

The problem is that we are having a hard time reaching out to companies that could offer childcare services as a benefit for their employees. We see companies as a customer acquisition channel: The final user are the families who need help taking care of their children at home, but it's in the companies' best interest to keep their employees' families happy, and what better way than supporting them with childcare?