Child Care

How can you profit from the boom in child care services?
Here are a few suggestions.

1. Provide Child Care from Your Home

Would you like to provide child care services from your
own home? If so, here is some advice obtained from an
experienced child care provider:

• There may be laws in your area that limit the number of
  children (other than your own) that you can care for from
  your home. It could be just five or six children.
• Don’t do half days. If someone drops their child off
  just for the morning and someone else drops their child
  off just for the afternoon, it still ties you down all day.
• If you’re going to be tied down all day, you might as well
  get paid for it. Charge for full days and full weeks.
• Keep in mind that with a limit to the number of children
  you can legally care for from your home, accepting a
  child just on Wednesdays will mean that you are not
  able to take another child from Monday to Friday (because
  then you’ll have one child too many on Wednesdays). This
  limits your income.
• Be extremely safety conscious. Children are precious.
• You really must love children to successfully provide
  child care services from your home.
• Structure and routine are very important. Keep to a
  schedule of regular nap and meal times for the children.

2. Provide Value-Added Child Care

You can add value to your home based child care services.
In this way, you will be able to set yourself apart from
your competition and charge higher fees.

If you live on a farm, you might offer horseback riding
instruction.

Could you offer a sports camp, craft classes, music
lessons, computer training or other activities for
children?

3. Run a Home Based Child Care Referral Service

Another way to profit from the boom in child care
services is to operate a child care referral service.

Advertise to find child care workers and babysitters.
Screen and interview them. Then, provide parents with
suitable matches for a fee.

These are just a few ways that you, too, can profit from
running a home based child care business.

RESOURCE BOX:

J. Stephen Pope, President of Pope Consulting Inc.,
has been helping clients to earn maximum business
profits for over twenty-five years.

For more information about child care businesses, visit
http://www.yenommarketinginc.com/daycare.html

For profitable Work at Home Small Business Ideas,
visit: http://www.yenommarketinginc.com/

Tags: CHILD CARE, DAY CARE, BABYSITTING

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