Your Day Care Business Plan

StickyMay 9, 2020Starting A Daycare Tipsbusiness, funding, help, plan, ventureadmin

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Many times people who want to start a new business chaff at the idea of having to write a business plan. The idea of going through a tedious process of documenting the business aspects of something that is really your dream that you want to make come true seems tedious and unnecessary. After all, you know at a gut level what you want to do so the thought that you have to get that all on paper at a fairly detailed level seems to be a nuisance.

This may have been your reaction when you begin to plan your new day care that you want to open and perhaps your banker or someone at the small business association told you that creating a business plan was crucial to getting your day care out of the dream phase and into the realm of reality. But there are some very good reasons why you should give the process of creating a business plan for your future day care some serious effort and some patient tender loving care because it really is a major key to your future success in running your day care.

The timing that most people who want to start a day care business encounter the need for a business plan is in seeking funding. It takes Continue reading Your Day Care Business Plan →

Why Start Your Own Day Care Center

StickyMay 5, 2020Starting A Daycare FAQsbusiness, challenges, financing, skills, workadmin

Have you ever heard of someone doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons? Most of us can think of someone who has been guilty of that. There are a lot of questions you ask yourself when you start the planning for setting up your own day care center. You have to spend time on issues like location, financing, market share and licensing. But there is one fundamental question maybe more important than all of those things. And that is the question, why are you doing this?

The objective you are looking to achieve in doing all the hard work of starting a day care center will be a big factor in when or if you consider your hard work to be a success. In any big operation whether it is starting a business, going on a diet, invading a country or learning a skill, you have to know in advance what your definition of “winning” is so you know when you have arrived and when you can call yourself a success. And what winning looks like to you when you build your own day care Continue reading Why Start Your Own Day Care Center →

The Five Must Haves To Start A Day Care

StickyMarch 31, 2020Starting A Daycare FAQsadvertising, children, customers, money, promotionadmin

Whether its going on vacation or building a new business, before you start on any of life’s adventures, you have to know what you must have. And starting your own day care is a great adventure because there is risk, there is excitement and there is opportunity for great success and victory. So the very first thing you will set about learning are the “must haves” of starting your own day care center. Once you have that list underway, you can fill in the blanks as you go and before long your day care business will be becoming a reality before your eyes.

The list of “must haves” to get your day care started may become quite long and complicated. But to get the process started, below are five “must haves” that will make your top ten categories list to start looking into right away.

1. You must have a space.

The physical location of your future day care is going to have a big impact not only on how successful you will be but on how many children Continue reading The Five Must Haves To Start A Day Care →

If You Build It They Will Come

StickyMarch 22, 2020Starting A Daycare Infoarea, build, business, market, researchadmin

Just like any business, there is basically one central event that will mean the difference between success or failure in starting your own customers. It isn’t a difficult issue to figure out either. You have to find customers. And for you, customers are parents who need a quality day care that they feel they can trust to put their children in as they go off to work. The title we chose for this article is a famous quote from field of dreams where the voice tells Kevin Costner to build a baseball field for ghosts to play on with the encouragement, ‘If you build it, they will come.” While that is an inspirational line, you need more than that before you take the plunge of building a day care center.

Starting a business is costly. Before you collect a dime of income from parents, you have to set up your day care center, pay licensing fees, hire workers, buy supplies and invest in many other ways so that when the doors of your day care open, it is a happy, professional and welcoming Continue reading If You Build It They Will Come →

Because You Can Do It Better

StickyMarch 10, 2020Starting A Daycare Tipsbusiness, care, facility, motivation, valuesadmin

There are a lot of reasons that people decide to start their own day care. For some its strictly a business venture. For others the motivation could be a background or academic training in child care and finding a way to use that expertise outside of public schools and pediatrics. But for many and perhaps for you, the motivation is quite simply that you know you can do it better than people who run day care centers that you have used.

One of the most heart wrenching things a parent has to do is to drop off your child at a day care center and to leave them in hysterics because Continue reading Because You Can Do It Better →

More Than A Day Care

March 27, 2020Starting A Daycare Tipscare, children, day, success, teamworkadmin

“Walk a mile in my shoes” was a popular song long ago which advocated that to understand someone else’s point of view, try to see the world through their eyes. In running a day care, sometimes it helps if we stop and try to understand how your customers view you and view the experience they are having using your service. And, of course, the “customers ” of your day care are the children who are in your care and the parents who entrust those little ones to you for several hours each day.

To us a day care is a place to work and a business. At the day care worker level, there is a joy in working with children but it’s a job similar to teaching or other children related occupations. But to that child who Continue reading More Than A Day Care →

Discipline At Day Care

March 18, 2020Starting A Daycare Tipscare, children, discipline, parents, rulesadmin

When you first though of starting your own day care, the images of being with children, loving them, and having fun with them is one of the big attractions to making that kind of day care become a reality. But it doesn’t take long to realize that in any social setting and especially one where children are involved, there must be a system of discipline.

The tricky part of putting into place and then enforcing discipline in a day care setting is that you are put on the spot when you must discipline a child or several children. After all, these are the children in your care Continue reading Discipline At Day Care →

Daily Life In Your Day Care

March 14, 2020Starting A Daycare FAQsactivities, care, materials, schedule, spaceadmin

How do you view the daily schedule that you maintain in your day care? How the time is used while you are the primary caregiver for those kids will say a lot about whether you see day care as essentially professional babysitting or as a time when the kids in your charge can grow and mature together. Now, we know that day care is not school. So you are not expected to run a curriculum and show substantial intellectual improvement in the children you care for. For the parents who leave their children with you there are only a few requirements and those are

* Is my child safe with you?
* Do you know how to handle emergencies if my child has one?
* Is my child getting socialization skills?
* Is my child having happy and having fun at your day care?

For working parents, there is some guilt that comes with putting their children in day care. So if their children are having a positive experience Continue reading Daily Life In Your Day Care →

A Day Care Starter Kit

March 7, 2020Starting A Daycare Infocare, day, determination, kit, owneradmin

When you make the determination that you are ready to start the process of owning your own day care, the first thing to recognize is that you are not going down uncharted paths here. The steps you will need to take to set up your day care are pretty much cut and dried. And while for you each step along the path to finally turning the key and opening the door of your shiny new day care is an adventure, it is an adventure many have had before you.

That is why there are already a number of good day care starter kits available to guide you on the path. Probably the most useful thing a day care starter kit will give you is a check list not only of what things you wil Continue reading A Day Care Starter Kit →

The Grown Up Work Of Running A Day Care

March 3, 2020Starting A Daycare Infochildren, facilities, invest, medical, requirementsadmin

For anyone who enjoys working with children, starting a day care can be a fulfilling and rewarding career. Not only will you be doing what you love to do which is caring for the very young, you are making a good living at it. The size of the day care you start can be as small as hosting a half dozen kids in your home to running a big institution with dozens of kids. The size of the day care is something you have to decide based on what your objectives are as a small business owner will.

But notice that we used that phrase, “Small business owner”. A day care is a business. And as long as you see that and don’t think of your new Continue reading The Grown Up Work Of Running A Day Care →