Thursday, August 2, 2007

How To Know If This Is The Business For You

Starting a daycare center can be the best business decision you've ever made. All over the country, women are discovering their business apptitude and are making a great income with their daycare centers.

But how can you know if this is the business for you? You need to answer these questions:

1. Do you like children? Daycare involves working with children for hours and hours. If you don't like children a lot, you have no place in the daycare business. And don't just say that everybody likes children. Liking them and working with them are totally different things. You have to truly love children to make it in this business.

2. Do you want to start your own business? This isn't specific for the daycare business, but is still a fundamental question. If you don't want to be a financially independent business person, you shouldn't start a business at all, let alone a daycare center.

3. Are you prepared to put in some hard work? Daycare isn't the hardest of businesses to maintain, but you still need to put in some initial effort to get it off the ground. If you'd rather spend your time doing something else, I suggest you stick to your day job.

4. Are you prepared to put some money into your business? You don't need a large investment in order to start a day care. But some initial investment is still required. You need to buy toys, books, business forms, and spend a little on advertising. You can get back your money a 100 times over if you do things right, but not without that investment.

If you've answered "yes" to the four questions I wrote above, than you should seriously consider opening your own daycare center. I suggest that you start by using one of these 2 start-up guides: StartingADayCare or StartingADayCareCenter.
They can really help you get off to a good start.

Why Is This Such A Great Opportunity

All over the country women are becoming financially independent and make a great amount of money by starting and running daycare centers. Why is this such a great business to run and why should you start a daycare center yourself?

Here are the answers:

1. Make great money - Daycare centers can be highly profitable. In fact, many women reported a massive increase in income once they left their day jobs and started their own daycare.

2. Be independent - No more being at the beck and call of any boss or executive. You can be your own boss.

3. Work from home - Small daycare centers can be run from the comfort of your home. No more commuting and wasting time in rush hour traffic.

4. Have more free time - Working from home and having your own business means being able to set your own hours. You'll have more free time to do what you want and spend with your family and friends.

5. Doesn't take a large investment - Starting a business can be very expensive. But a daycare is different. You don't need to spend a lot to get things going, which makes it the perfect small business.

6. Doesn't take special training - All you basically need is to be good with kids. Each state requires different level of licensing, but you can usually start with a small number of kids without any great hassle.

7. Working with children - Need I say more? What can be more fulfilling and rewarding than working with kids? They bright up your day. You make money and have fun all at the same time.

If you want to start your own daycare and don't know how to go about it, I highly recommend using one of these start-up guides: StartingADayCare or StartingADayCareCenter. They can save you hours of work and a lot of money.

Introduction

Having and running your own day care can be a reawrding and fulfilling venture. It can also prove the way to financial freedom and prosperity.

This blog is dedicated to all you brave women who decided to become independent businesspersons, to take matters into your own hands and to start a daycare.

Running a daycare can be done right or it can be done wrong. When done right it can be wonderful. When done wrong it may prove disastrous.

This blog includes a selection of the articles I have published on how to start and run a profitable daycare center.

I plan on adding to it from time to time so check it out once in a while.