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Small Business Q & A: Sassy Sitter

New Northeast Cobb business provides expert child care and encourages children to explore, create, and have fun.

Angela Kirby, 43, applies 24 years of parenting five children and experience as a preschool teacher to her new business Sassy Sitter in Northeast Cobb.

Q. What's the best thing about your job?
A. I get to enrich the lives of young kids. Two-year-olds can be amazed by the puppets and seeing the expressions on their faces is priceless.

Q. What is the best thing about Northeast Cobb?
A. The school district is the greatest. And, beside the schools, there are many parents' groups. For instance, Cobb has a wonderful foster program. There are about 100 families that care for 300 kids. Sassy Sitter offers the group a discount.

Q. Why did you choose to open your business in Northeast Cobb?
A. We're swamped with kids here. I plan to open more child enrichment centers in the Atlanta area.

Q. Why did you pick this kind of business?
A. I have a background in teaching art and culture to children. I opened my first preschool in 1998.

Q. What are some of the services you offer that people don't know about?
A. All of them, Kirby said on a laugh. We just opened and the community doesn't know about us yet. We have three programs, weekday mornings there is Muffin Mingle for two to six-year-olds; Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons we have programs for two to ten-year-olds.

The newest offering is karaoke at our pizza parties on Saturdays. One of the kids at the last party suggested it. It's going to be fun.

Q. How long have you been in business?
A. Sassy Sitter opened this July. We opened with a Saturday evening pizza party.

Q. How did your business get started?
A. I tweaked what I had been doing at my home. As a small business owner you have to adapt your programs to what the community wants. I am committed to keeping everything affordable.

$15 for a four-hour session is better than bringing a sitter to your home. Here, children are doing something different, experiencing new things.

Q. Do you have advice for anyone who'd like to start a small business in this area?
A. Research what you're going to do. Learn about your competition. Ask yourself: Are you offering a unique service? Are clients going to be convinced that they're going to get their money's worth? And, like what you do.

Q. Is there anything else you'd like our readers to know?
A. I think more people should be small business owners. Don't charge a lot of money, keep services and products affordable and it will help the economy in the long run.

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The Sassy Sitter is located atΒ  2520 Shallowford Rd in Northeast Cobb. For more information, visit the website www.SassySitter.com or contact
Angela Kirby, owner, at 678-478-3002sassy@sassysitter.com

Look for the Sassy Sitter activity booth at the East Cobber Parade on Sept. 10.


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