| Child Care is a highly competitive, yet an extremely
important service. When both parents are working, they need to find
a highly qualified, reasonably priced child care provider. Often
times parents don't know who they can trust, where day care
facilities are located, or who has the best deal. The outcome from
all of this uncertainty is a great business opportunity.
To
begin, all you have to do is research any/all child care providers
in your city. Create a 3 ring binder with a page for each provider.
On each page, find out as many details from each provider as you can
such as:
- Name
- Company Name
- Address
- Rates
- Hours of Operation
- Part
of town (NE, W, SW, etc)
- Print out a map to the facility
- References of past clients with their contact info
- Agenda/Events, etc
- Number of children per care taker
An
even better idea is to setup a website that will let parents search
through your research easily for a small access fee.
How to
profit from this service:
- Charge Child Care Providers to be listed in your directory
- $50 per month per provider is a reasonable advertising fee (free
for parents to review)
- Child Care Providers get listed for free and charge parents
a one time fee to read through your listings. $10 would be very
reasonable considering the time you would be saving parents
- Both
1 & 2 combined
If you
choose option 3, and had just 20 Child Care Providers paying you $50
per month and 150 parents using your service each month (both
reasonable estimates) you would be making about $2,500 per month.
Placing some classified ads, Internet ads, flyers and bulletin
boards should get you all the clients you can handle. Talking with
parents at local parks and by joining parenting groups is another
good way to market this type of
business.
Check
Out http://www.greatcare.co.uk/
for an example.
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