The Basics Of Starting A Child Care Business

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

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.

Starting a Child Care Center is a practical, comprehensive, and motivational entrepreneurial guide. Starting a Child Care Center utilizes a uniquely designed step-by-step, hands-on approach to business formulation. Worksheets are included for the purpose of providing assistance in preparing a business plan. Crucial business development and management information is provided in an easy-to-understand format. Upon completion of the book, the entrepreneur will have a detailed business plan for starting a child care center and will be inspired to take the entrepreneurial challenge.

The basic information family child care providers need to run a successful program in a warm, welcoming setting for children and their families

If you want to start a daycare, then get this guide now. In this step-by-step guide, you will discover the secrets on how to start, run, and succeed in your own daycare. - Have more time with your own kids while having a daycare business. - Very affordable way to start a profitable business. - Step-by-step and easy to use blueprint to start and have success in your own daycare. - How to stand out from your local competitors. - How to set your rates the right way. - How to advertise and grow your daycare business. - How to make your day care stand out and succeed for the long run. - And much more. HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.

Are you thinking of opening a childcare business? This guide will show you how to plan, set up, and run your business from start to end. In a childcare center, instructors concentrate on the physical and emotional well-being of their children. In order to provide a deeper understanding of the pupil, teachers in the centers must incorporate a connection with their students that benefits their interests and needs, while at the same time moving them towards a higher collection of principles. This kind of teaching with a loving connection would enhance the spiritual and incidental learning of the pupil. By reading How to Open and Operate a Childcare Center you will learn: The available types of childcare How to start a child care business How to prepare a business plan Child care facility design How to obtain a childcare license Childcare safety and protection Childcare insurance How to staff your childcare center Which mistakes to avoid How to support your staff How to communicate effectively with parents How to market your childcare center How to run your childcare center and more! Buy your copy now and learn how to start and run your own childcare center!

"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"--