Start Your Own At Home Child Care Business

Starting a home daycare takes more than just a love of children, it also takes an understanding of the business. Child care is a much sought-after service today. If you love working with children and want to run your own business, a home daycare could be the perfect choice. Providing quality child care and making a profit isn’t child’s play. Caring for children is as challenging and multifaceted as parenting itself. In addition, you need to master record keeping, licensing requirements, and all other tasks associated with running a small business. This book, an international best seller, will help you get started right and keep your daycare running smoothly and successfully.

This step-by-step guide to some of the difficult issues that surround the establishment of a home-based child-care business--including licensing, insurance, and zoning--explains how to develop clientele, increase business through advertising and promotion, daily activities, where to obtain free supplies, and more.

Book CD-ROM. There are nearly 12 million children under the age of five in child care each week in the United States. The trend is to move away from large operations and turn to the small services. This increase in small day care operations creates a huge opportunity for someone who loves children and wants to create a business dedicated to their care. A child care service makes a ideal part -time or home-based business with low start-up costs. You need an office but no costly specialist equipment. All that is needed to get started is an approved facility and a desire to succeed. This book with CD-ROM contains all the relevant forms as well business plan to adapt to your own use.

"The experts at Entrepreneur Press guide readers through the steps of planning, starting, and running a successful child-care business. This guide has been revised with the latest trends, facts, and figures, along with an updated list of resources to help readers create a stable and enriching environment for child development, as well as a sound and profitable business. Readers learn how to: choose the type of child care program and services to offer; acquire the right licensing, permits, insurance protection, and state-specific child care licensing; analyze the market, asses the needs of the community, and match services to fit those needs; find the right location, or decide to operate from home; comply with safety regulations and child-care provisions of the Disabilities Act; consider zoning laws, space requirements, and legal determinations of offsite properties; calculate startup costs, get funded, manage finances, create a business plan, and account for the day-to-day operating costs; stay competitive in the market with low-cost marketing tactics; find, hire, and keep good employees in a high turnover industry; set policies, hours, and staff responsibilities; plan a program, communicate rules and policies to parents, and integrate nutrition"--

In this book, NeighborSchools Home Daycare Specialist explains how to get started with opening your own daycare at home. She explains all the steps you need to take to begin a new career as a home daycare owner and make real money with a successful childcare program.

As more families shift to both parents working outside the home, the demand for high-quality child care continues to rise, creating ample opportunity for entrepreneurs like you. Now that you've identified the market need, what's next? How do you set up something as complicated as a child-care center? The Basics of Starting a Child-Care Business, the first book in The Business of Child Care series, walks readers through each step of planning, developing, and launching their own child-care business. Regardless of the scale--joining an established franchise, creating an on-site center at your office, or hosting a program in your home--entrepreneurial expert Marnie Forestieri, CDA, will guide you from start to finish: Understand the economics of the child-care business Write a comprehensive business plan Prepare a thorough financial plan Develop efficient operations for smooth day-to-day functioning Master marketing to promote your business to potential customers Provide excellent quality control and customer service

Have you been dreaming of running your own business in your home? Have you always loved kids and wished you could make money caring for them? Do you wish you knew the steps to take to open and operate a really successful daycare in your home? You can do it! Check out How to Start and Run a Successful Home Daycare to find everything you need to know about family child care. Christina will take you through the actionable steps to decide if home daycare is right for you, to see if you have what you need to get started, and to build your business the right way for success.Christina has had a very successful home daycare for over 23 years and she's ready to share her knowledge and information with you in an easy to follow guide with everything you need to know. She shares contracts, policies, menus, and forms you'll need as well as information on what to expect. Christina even shares the good, the bad and the ugly of daycare so you can decide if it's a good fit for your family BEFORE you make an investment of time and money into a business.Pick up your copy of How to Start and Run a Successful Home Daycare today and find out how to bring a successful child care business into your home.