Send us a text Do you find yourself struggling to retain families in your EC business? Do you find yourself constantly losing revenue and trust from the families you've worked so hard to build relationships with? When families leave your EC business, it can be a frustrating and stressful experience. Not only do you lose revenue, but you also lose the trust and loyalty of the families you worked so hard to build relationships with. So, what can you do to retain families and keep them coming back?...
May 15, 2023•25 min•Season 1Ep. 77
Send us a text Are you struggling to build a strong team in your Early Childhood business? Have you invested in your team members' professional growth and development, but still find that they lack leadership skills and struggle to work together effectively? Do you want to learn how to create a culture of collaboration and continuous learning that leads to improved team performance, higher employee retention rates, and a more positive workplace culture? If so, great! Today, we're talking about a...
May 05, 2023•27 min•Season 1Ep. 76
Send us a text STOP sacrificing your own family to make a difference in the lives of other families. As an Early Childhood business operator, it's easy to get caught up in the day-to-day demands of your business. There are always new challenges to overcome, tasks to complete, and deadlines to meet. But, as much as you love your work, you can't help feeling burnt out and unfulfilled. Today, I'm so excited to dive into a topic that I know many of you can relate to - finding that elusive work+life ...
Apr 29, 2023•23 min•Season 1Ep. 75
Send us a text Effective financial management is essential for the success of your early childhood business, and by following these expert strategies, you can position your business for long-term growth and stability. By understanding your cash flow, creating a budget, investing in quality education and training, diversifying your revenue streams, and leading with an abundance mindset to streamline operations, you can achieve financial success and long-term growth for your early childhood busine...
Apr 22, 2023•24 min•Season 1Ep. 74
Send us a text Love it or hate it, social media is a necessary part of marketing your early childhood business. Social media is an incredible way to connect organically with your audience, stay top of mind, and establish credibility. We know we should be doing it. But sometimes we drag our feet because it can feel…. well, like a lot. You can transform your social media game and achieve real results with practical strategies. As an early childhood business, you can unlock the full potential of yo...
Apr 14, 2023•21 min•Season 1Ep. 73
Send us a text 📣 Attention all early childhood business leaders! Are you looking for ways to build a successful team that can provide high-quality care and education to the children in your care? Are you struggling to build a successful team in your early childhood business? Are you facing obstacles that hinder your team-building efforts? ✨4️⃣✨ The good news is that by implementing the four proven team-building strategies, you can create a dream team that provides high-quality experiences. By e...
Apr 08, 2023•18 min•Season 1Ep. 72
Send us a text Are you an early childhood business operator looking to take your business to the next level? Do you want to know the five essential traits of successful and confident early childhood business operators? If so, then you won't want to miss this episode! We'll be diving into the key qualities that set successful early childhood business operators apart and provide practical tips on how to apply these traits to your business. So, tune in and get ready to take your business to new hei...
Mar 30, 2023•20 min•Season 1Ep. 71
Send us a text Are you tired of working hard but not seeing the results you want in your early childhood business? Do you feel like you're constantly putting out fires and never making progress toward your long-term goals? It's time to face the hard truth: without a proper goal-planning process, your business will never reach its full potential. Don't let another quarter go by without taking control of your future. We explore the benefits of this strategy, including increased clarity, focus, and...
Mar 24, 2023•18 min•Season 1Ep. 70
Send us a text Are you looking to create an unforgettable parent tour and convert potential customers into paying customers? With so much competition in the early childhood business industry, it's crucial to make a lasting impression and convert parents into paying customers. If you're not effectively engaging parents and communicating the value of your facility, you risk losing potential business and struggling to meet your enrollment goals. To create an unforgettable parent tour and convert po...
Mar 15, 2023•24 min•Season 1Ep. 69
Send us a text Are you struggling to attract quality team members to your early childhood business? Have you exhausted all the usual resources but still can't find the right people for the job? Attracting top talent is a challenge for any business, but when it comes to early childhood businesses, it's a race against the clock. With high turnover rates and a limited pool of qualified candidates, it's crucial for early childhood business owners/managers to know how to set themselves apart and brin...
Mar 09, 2023•16 min•Season 1Ep. 68
Send us a text Have you ever had difficulty staying motivated, making decisions, or setting goals for your preschool, play cafe, childcare, enrichment program, or other early childhood business? Do you look at other successful business owners and wonder how are they doing it all and still finding success even during the dark times? Finding your why is the secret to uncovering a clear understanding of your mission and purpose that will help ensure success year after year. It truly is your secret ...
Feb 11, 2023•25 min•Season 1Ep. 67
Send us a text Have you ever felt like your day as an Early Childhood business owner/manager is spiraling out of control and there’s no way to get it back on track? If so, you’re not alone. Many preschool, play cafe, childcare, enrichment program and other EC business owners/ managers experience days where they are struggling to stay motivated and organized amidst all their responsibilities. But the good news is that there are strategies you can use to take control and make sure your days are pr...
Feb 07, 2023•24 min•Season 1Ep. 66
Send us a text Are you looking for more work+life balance? More time+freedom and making your life more manageable and fulfilling. There are ways to save time and manage your workload effectively. With the right tools and strategies, you can balance the demands of work, family and even find some much deserved time for yourself. If you're able to successfully manage your daily tasks, you can focus on what really counts — your team, the families you serve, and creating a time+freedom lifestyle for ...
Feb 02, 2023•23 min•Season 1Ep. 65
Send us a text Are you looking for innovative ways to reach potential preschool, play cafe, childcare, enrichment programs, and other Early Childhood business potential families and improve the visibility of your EC business? If so, then listen on! We will be exploring creative ideas on how to engage with prospective families and build brand loyalty. From leveraging digital marketing techniques like email campaigns, websites, and social media to tried-and-true methods such as word-of-mouth and e...
Jan 23, 2023•25 min•Season 1Ep. 64
Send us a text During a time when businesses are struggling to retain talent, creating a strong onboarding process for new team members is imperative. By implementing a strategic onboarding program, you can build new team members’ confidence, increase engagement, and create an environment that retains talent for years to come. A good onboarding experience can also increase a new team member's job satisfaction, commitment, and productivity as it improves their retention rates. Studies have shown ...
Jan 13, 2023•23 min•Season 1Ep. 63
Send us a text ✨💛 You can have a really amazing personal life, full of family, space and downtime, as well as a thriving Early Childhood business, where, of course, you put in the time and you put in the work, but you don't need to work yourself to death. It absolutely is possible for you to stop sacrificing your personal life and live the life you want, and it absolutely is possible to create a thriving, profitable, Early Childhood business that makes a difference in the lives of others withou...
Jan 07, 2023•22 min•Season 1Ep. 62
Send us a text Want to accomplish your business & personal goals AND have more time+freedom? Evaluate how your week is going. Is it chaotic with a never-ending to-do list or do you have clarity around daily activities that are moving your goals forward? Be honest… have you ever envisioned your Ideal Week? If you would have asked me to envision my ideal work week back in the early days, I probably would have laughed -- because I was so far off from having one. Even being my own boss, my work ...
Dec 30, 2022•25 min•Season 1Ep. 61
Send us a text Team culture is often an overlooked, yet important factor in any team's success. Yet when it comes to planning for a strong 2023, having a strong team culture can be the difference between success and failure. With this approach, your team will be ready to take on any challenge and succeed. It also provides the necessary leadership and guidance to ensure everyone is working together, with a clear plan of action. By focusing on these key elements of - communication - trust - leader...
Dec 17, 2022•23 min•Season 1Ep. 60
Send us a text It’s the end of the year and it feels like everyone is talking about annual planning… myself included. Thinking about the next year might be the furthest thing from your mind right now. You might be just hoping to make it through the holiday programming, massive schedule changes, and trying to make sure everything happens during this busy time. And for those of us who love a good planning process, we are gathering our favorite markers, color-coded sticky notes, and fresh new plann...
Dec 09, 2022•19 min•Season 1Ep. 59
Send us a text 2023 is just around the corner. But in order to fly forward we must look back. How did you do in 2022? What were your wins in 2022? Did you struggle in 2022? I know you had lots of fires to deal with, we work with kids! But what I am getting at is what were the big things? Hiring was difficult for all of us. How about your team? Because of the hiring issues, did you find some amazing team culture success because we had to depend on one another unlike any other year? How was your e...
Dec 07, 2022•17 min•Season 1Ep. 58
Send us a text Your Early Childhood business is going somewhere and the question is where? 🗺 What's the destination? Is it the place that you're choosing to take it to or have you floated somewhere you would rather not be? Or worse, somewhere you feel stuck and cannot get out of? And the ultimate question, are you living the time freedom lifestyle of your choosing? ✨ This ability to envision what is possible for your future and share that with clarity and confidence with your team is what disti...
Nov 26, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 57
Send us a text 📙 Your student portfolios can be a means to share with parents or they can be a way to wow your parents. And when you wow your parents instead of merely sharing with them, that is where the added sales, referrals, and profit come in for your Early Childhood business. 🧡 Create a year end portfolio that will be a keepsake cherished for years to come and talked about today in your family referral process to help you increase your bottom line. Strategize today how you can make this ...
Nov 17, 2022•16 min•Season 1Ep. 56
Send us a text Do you have too much to do and not enough time to do it all? As difference makers working with other peoples most prized possessions in life, we are always short on time; we often find ourselves working late in the evening, at the crack of dawn, or even on the weekends just trying to get it all done. The sad reality is we could work 24/7 and still not get to everything that needs to be done. Parent volunteers in your program can be such a blessing...or a nightmare! When we are cle...
Nov 11, 2022•17 min•Season 1Ep. 55
Send us a text Quality customer service is essential for any business that wants to retain its customers and grow its client base. Unfortunately, for many Early Childhood businesses the day-to-day fires that come up and the daily tasks can take precedence over quality customer service. We all want to achieve great results. But more often than not, we need others on our team to achieve this success. It becomes clear pretty quickly that when working with parents and their children, there isway too...
Nov 05, 2022•18 min•Season 1Ep. 54
Send us a text When you look at your website… Is it frightful? Does it look more like the work of Frankenstein rather than a professional business that serves the needs of today’s busy families? Like the pieced-together Frankenstein, have you pieced together your website, added on pages, or have sections that don’t quite “match” the rest? You probably have a few pages that are from when you first started, maybe a few pages that you created after you got more comfortable. Your site pages might ev...
Oct 27, 2022•15 min•Season 1Ep. 53
Send us a text Hosting special annual events is a great way to create a community atmosphere for your kiddos and their families. When your team and parents work together towards the same goals everyone wins. By offering opportunities for families to create meaningful memories you enable children to demonstrate their experiences, parents to meet and greet one another, and your team to build stronger partnerships with parents. And the biggest benefit? The word-of-mouth marketing generated because ...
Oct 21, 2022•18 min•Season 1Ep. 52
Send us a text Most of us in the early childhood space is serving others and often feel a sense of struggle with sales. But really, this is just a struggle with receiving. Often times, we are used to being the caretaker, the helper, the healer, and the focus on the well-being of others. You may not be used to feeling that you deserve the same level of value when the time comes and you need to talk about charging money for your services. Receiving is not something we're trained naturally to do. A...
Oct 07, 2022•16 min•Season 1Ep. 51
Send us a text There are potential families visiting, emailing and calling every day. The need for high quality preschool or a fabulous birthday party experience is something that many parents are willing to pay top dollar for. But only if they are treated in a manner that makes them feel it is worth it. How inquiries and tours are handled from the very beginning will determine your value in the minds of potential families. If you want to maximize your chances of turning a tour into an enrollmen...
Oct 01, 2022•17 min•Season 1Ep. 50
Send us a text According to new research published on HubSpot, 82% of consumers look for an immediate response from businesses on marketing or sales questions. And this group rates immediate response as important or very important from the businesses they deal with. It's important to know how to turn your inquiries into tours to grow your Early Childhood business. This is because inquiries come in daily, and if you don't know how to handle them properly, you won't be able to maximize your chance...
Sep 23, 2022•16 min•Season 1Ep. 49
Send us a text As an early childhood business owner/manager, it can be very overwhelming and stressful with all of the daily tasks needed to operate a profitable early childhood business. It can be very chaotic when working with busy families to provide quality experiences for their children. How can I find more time freedom in my day and stop sacrificing my personal time? Today we're discussing how to find more time freedom and stop sacrificing personal time as an early childhood business owner...
Sep 17, 2022•18 min•Season 1Ep. 48
