Not finding any customers

[Mammagirl]

I passed my OFSTED inspection 2 months ago. Since then, I have been advertising everywhere but I have not been able to find any customers. Nobody seems interested.
I am a qualified and experencied Early yrears practitioner. I am also fluent in French and I tried to sell my childminding business as a bilingual early years setting. I tought, it will help me to find customers but very fews parents contacting me and then ghost me.
I live in a busy area (South East London) with lots of schools around. I was not expecting it will be so difficult to find customers.
Also, I have absolutely no help from my local council and feel very isolated. I had some big plans to hire some assistants but I am starting thinking the whole idea of trying to work for myself seems to seriously sucks. I feel silly, I had so much hope with this business and feel very depressed it’s not working out.
Everybody was telling me their is a huge demand for childminder in my area and it will be soooo easy to find customers.
Maybe I just really don’t get it. What parents are looking for? Why is here so many people complaining about the lack of childcare but then I din’t find any customers? I am obviously doing it wrong but I don’t understand what?

Both of my children are under 5, so it means I can only look after one child at the moment. 8 pounds an hour is already under minimum wage, so I don't feel it is worth it to work for less than that.
My friends akready talked about me to some local mums they know. One of my best friends also wrote me some good reviews on some childcare website as I look after her daughter sometime.
One tutoring agency proposed me to work for them doing French and Spanish lessons at the weekend. So I will probably do this for the moment, advertise a bit more and then move on from childminding if nothing have changed before Christmas but thank you for your advices.

Some people would put off by the ChatGPT style. I hate it. Try asking your husband to edit what you have written yourself.

But if you have one child at £8ph while you have your own children, you’re effectively not paying for childcare while working. Surely you’ll end up with more money than you would if you worked and paid for childcare?
if you find someone who wants full time childcare you’ll be earning £400pw gross.

Do you go to toddler groups? I got a good idea of which childminders I would and wouldn’t use from seeing them interact with children at toddler group.