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Congrats to the following sitters for being the first contest winners of 2008!

$300 TALIA M.

$150 SARA N.

$50 SOFI J.

For your chance to win, log in to your Sittercity Dashboard and refer parents by entering their email addresses.

How was she? Did he sleep? When did she eat? These are just some of the questions parents ask when they come home. But instead of quizzing you at midnight when you're exhausted and, well, not at your most coherent, what if parents could log in to a website or check their mobile device while they are away to see when their baby ate or slept?

With Babble Soft, they can. You use the site's web tools, like Baby Insights, to keep track of a baby's feeding, sleep activity, diaper changes and medicine doses for parents to check at any time. All you need is access to the Internet and you can easily set up an account for your families as a value-added part of your sitter services.

Special offer: Get 25% off any subscription purchase at Babble Soft with code BSFTSC25.

If you have an email address, you've seen those transparent emails with tales of lottery winnings and the promise of no-effort riches. But a sneakier scam is popping up on the Internet: the nanny scam. To go along with our comprehensive Safety and Security Library, we got our creative juices flowing and came up with a nanny scam-prevention video, starring -- you guessed it -- some of our very own Sittercity staffers. It's got a daydreaming detective, an unsuspecting nanny, a few brilliant shots of our office and, of course, important scam prevention tips.

And the Oscar goes to... Sittercity's Silence of the Scams.

With Sittercity's new care types providing you with more opportunities to expand your caregiver services, VistaPrint can help you gain and retain all of that extra business. Here are just a few products that can help:

• Free business cards (250): Get new cards to include all of your care offerings (there are cute house themes for housekeeping!)
• Car door magnets: Get the word out without saying a word
• Custom printed postcards: Let current clients know you've expanded your services
• Free pad of personalized sticky notes: Leave little reminders for clients about your new offerings

Visit VistaPrint today to take advantage of these and other business-boosting offers