Family Child Care Business Planning Guide

Family Child Care Business Planning Guide
Author: Tom Copeland
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Total Pages: 93
Release: 2008-10-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1605541680

Family child care providers will learn how to formulate and use a business plan. Includes a step-by-step guide to write a business plan and information on how to effectively use it.

Family Child Care Marketing Guide, Second Edition

Family Child Care Marketing Guide, Second Edition
Author: Tom Copeland
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2012-08-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1605541125

Proven marketing tips for family child care owners from Tom Copeland, renowned tax and child care business specialist.

Family Child Care Contracts and Policies, Third Edition

Family Child Care Contracts and Policies, Third Edition
Author: Tom Copeland
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2006-05-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1605541699

The completely revised and expanded version of this best-selling business classic gives home-based child care providers the most updated tools needed to establish and enforce contracts and policies, build trust between provider and parent, and demonstrate provider professionalism. This new edition includes a CD-ROM with customizable worksheets and forms for creating a policy handbook and contracts designed specifically for your business.

Family Child Care Homes

Family Child Care Homes
Author: Linda J. Armstrong
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2011-07-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1605543373

Create a warm and inviting place where children feel at home. Discover the many ways your home can provide comfortable places where children love to learn and love to be. Filled with no- and low-cost ideas, this book demonstrates many unique and practical possibilities for your home's indoor and outdoor spaces. Chapters are packed with colorful photographs and provide examples and tips for designing learning zones, selecting items, organizing materials, and more. Checklists, resources, and questions are included to help you evaluate your setting, implement changes, and create a place that feels like a second home to the children in your care.

Start Your Own Child-Care Service

Start Your Own Child-Care Service
Author: The Staff of Entrepreneur Media
Publisher: Entrepreneur Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2015-07-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1613083084

START YOUR OWN CHILD-CARE SERVICE AND GET PAID TO CARE FOR KIDS As the number of working parents grows the number of children who need quality childcare grows along with it. That need is creating a tremendous entrepreneurial opportunity for people who love children and want to build a business caring for them. This guide has the latest trends, facts, and figures, along with an updated list of resources to help you create a stable and enriching environment for child development, as well as a sound and profitable business. 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

The Basics of Starting a Child-Care Business

The Basics of Starting a Child-Care Business
Author: Marnie Forestieri
Publisher: Business of Child Care
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780876598375

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

Child-Care Services

Child-Care Services
Author: The Staff of Entrepreneur Media
Publisher: Entrepreneur Press
Total Pages: 1122
Release: 2015-07-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1613083173

The experts at Entrepreneur provide a two-part guide to success. First, find out what it takes to start a family-style child-care center in your home, a large center at a commercial site, or a niche business like child transportation. Then, master the fundamentals of business startup including defining your business structure, funding, staffing and more. This kit includes: • Essential industry and business-specific startup steps with worksheets, calculators, checklists and more • Entrepreneur Editors’ Start Your Own Business, a guide to starting any business and surviving the first three years • Interviews and advice from successful entrepreneurs in the industry • Worksheets, brainstorming sections, and checklists • Entrepreneur’s Startup Resource Kit (downloadable) More about Entrepreneur’s Startup Resource Kit Every small business is unique. Therefore, it’s essential to have tools that are customizable depending on your business’s needs. That’s why with Entrepreneur is also offering you access to our Startup Resource Kit. Get instant access to thousands of business letters, sales letters, sample documents and more – all at your fingertips! You’ll find the following: The Small Business Legal Toolkit When your business dreams go from idea to reality, you’re suddenly faced with laws and regulations governing nearly every move you make. Learn how to stay in compliance and protect your business from legal action. In this essential toolkit, you’ll get answers to the “how do I get started?” questions every business owner faces along with a thorough understanding of the legal and tax requirements of your business. Sample Business Letters 1000+ customizable business letters covering each type of written business communication you’re likely to encounter as you communicate with customers, suppliers, employees, and others. Plus a complete guide to business communication that covers every question you may have about developing your own business communication style. Sample Sales Letters The experts at Entrepreneur have compiled more than 1000 of the most effective sales letters covering introductions, prospecting, setting up appointments, cover letters, proposal letters, the all-important follow-up letter and letters covering all aspects of sales operations to help you make the sale, generate new customers and huge profits.

The Ultimate Child Care Marketing Guide

The Ultimate Child Care Marketing Guide
Author: Kris Murray
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2012-02-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1605541702

Built around the four pillars of marketing—metrics, market, message, and media—this comprehensive resource is filled with guidance and advice from an experienced child care business coach and marketing consultant. The Ultimate Child Care Marketing Guide helps child care center directors and family child care owners manage and grow their child care business, find and retain the best customers, and keep their program fully enrolled. Filled with tools, exercises, and case studies, this resource will help early childhood professionals create a marketing plan, analyze strategies, improve customer and staff retention, and more.