The Online Club That Empowers Center Owners To Succeed!
Empowering Center Owners to Succeed! Owning a Child Care Center is a very rewarding business and it takes a very creative individual to operate a child care center. As a Center Owner of Over 10 years, I know first hand that it takes plenty of energy to manage a childcare center and a ton of … Read more
Expansion is Exciting…
It has been two week’s since I have written a blog post on the Child Care Business Owner blog. In fact, I have been so busy working on expanding my Child Care Business, enrolling children in my Summer Camp and preparing for our upcoming preschool graduation. About a week ago, I was presented with an … Read more
FIVE ESSENTIALS FOR COLLECTING TUITION by Karen Marx
The following post is a Guest blog post by Karen Marx of Timely Tuition, LLC. Collecting tuition may be one of your least favorite jobs. But without enough money coming in, you can’t do all the other things you love. Here are 5 tips to make collecting tuition a little easier: 1. Give yourself permission: … Read more
Marketing Your Child Care Business on Facebook
Social media in 2010 will cease being the shiny new object and instead, become part of the everyday lexicon of business. ~Charlene Li, Altimeter Group I first learned of Facebook in 2009 by a relative. She recommended that I join Facebook to connect with other family members. ” I must say that I was a little … Read more
Your Staff Members Are Not “Perfect”
One the most challenging things that I have ever done was to supervise employees. In fact, to get away from supervising staff (in the past), I have even hired an Assistant Director to directly work with my staff. However, I must say that as a Center Owner, I can never really get away from supervising … Read more
How to Turn Your Staff Meetings Into a Sharing, Mentoring and Training Session
As I finished up my weekly staff meeting today, I realized how far I have come with leading staff meetings. My first staff meeting was held in the spring of 2003 and I thought the purpose of a staff meeting was to address issues. In fact, I hated conducting staff meetings. Moreover, I thought that … Read more
Getting Your ChildCare Business Organized For a Great Year!
Throughout the month of January 2012, I have been preparing my center for Annual licencing Visits and it is time for us to renew Accreditation. I know it may sound like a lot of work, however, I have decided that my staff and I must get organized in order to accomplish successful licensing visits and … Read more
How to Get Your Parents and Staff to Buy Into your Vision
One of the toughest task of a leader is to get the people who follows him or her to catch their vision. Have you ever tried to implement changes in your childcare business and they were rejected by parents or staff? Those changes could have included: tuition increase, new curriculum, your goals for the year, fundraiser … Read more
Record Keeping and Tax Tips For New Child Care Providers
Your goal should be to have receipts for every penny of your expenses.~Red Leaf National Institute As I write this blog post, we are less than 35 days away from a new year and this is a great time to tidy up your record keeping practices. According to Redleaf Institute, it is important that you become … Read more
