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Your Personal Financial Picture and Loan Repayment

Jonathan Lamb, our expert child care banker details how important your personal financial picture is in relation to loan repayment. ...

Your Child Care Business’ Online Reputation

When speaking with child care business owners about marketing, owners often indicate that they do limited marketing and most of their enrollment comes from “word-of-mouth”… ...

You Have a Claim – Now What

All child care owners hope they will never have an incident in their child care business that would result in an insurance claim. ...

Worker Compensation Insurance

Our insurance expert, Donna Marcus, does an excellent job - once again - of explaining the complexities of worker compsentation insurance in a manner that everyone can understand. ...

Why Do You Need a Loan?

So, you are thinking about applying for a loan. The first place to start is - why do you need the money? Jonathan Lamb our expert child care business lender provides ...

What to Expect When Your Are Expecting to Get An SBA Loan

Jonathan Lamb, our expert child care banker, shares some sage advice on "What to Expect When You Are Expecting to Get an SBA Loan" ...

What Kids Need in a Childcare Building

What do kids need in a childcare building? Creating an excellent environment for kids is easier than you think. Don’t resign yourself to a mediocre… ...

What is the SBA

In this video, Jonathan Lamb, our expert child care banker explains what the SBA - Small Business Administration is and the role the SBA plays in guaranteeing loans for child ...

Value of Preventive Maintenance

Preventive Maintenance – A Cost or a Savings? Preventive maintenance is planned or scheduled maintenance with the goal of preventing breakdowns and failures by keeping… ...

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Tuition Rates – Calculating For Profit

When I ask child care owners "how they established their tuition rates for each age group." A common response is, "we based our tuition rates on what other child care centers in the area charge." Taking into consideration the average tuition rate in the market area is important. However, the calculation of ...

SMART Goals

The first step to achievement is setting a goal. Goals are great – SMART Goals are the best. SMART goals help you to clarify your… ...

Recession Proofing Your Child Care Business

No child care business owner wants to consider or discuss the likelihood of a recession. However, good and bad economic times are part of normal economic cycles. Not counting the steep but very brief economic downturn during the COVID pandemic, the last recession in the U.S. was from December 2007 to June ...

QuickBooks Online Video Tutorials

Learn how to set up your small business for success with these QuickBooks tutorials: Create custom invoices, track expenses, and view statements and performance reports anytime, anywhere. Get started with QuickBooks Online and find out how our key features can be tailored to meet the needs of your small or medium business, ...

Profit and Loss Statement

Child Care Financial Management – Profit and Loss Statement – Workbook ...

How to Increase the Value of Your Child Care Business

Most business owners have a large portion of their net worth tied up in their business. The same is true for the owners of child care businesses. It is estimated that their business represents 50% to 80% of their net worth. Child Care owners are often planning to fund a substantial portion ...

Quick Wins

Your Personal Financial Picture and Loan Repayment

Jonathan Lamb, our expert child care banker details how important your personal financial picture is ...

Why Do You Need a Loan?

So, you are thinking about applying for a loan. The first place to start is ...

What to Expect When Your Are Expecting to Get An SBA Loan

Jonathan Lamb, our expert child care banker, shares some sage advice on "What to Expect ...

What is the SBA

In this video, Jonathan Lamb, our expert child care banker explains what the SBA - ...

Taking on Debt

Our child care expert banker, Jonathan Lamb, provides informative things you should consider before taking ...

Renegotiate Lease or Loan

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RE Sale Lease Back – Refinance

Child care business owners often have a substantial portion of their net worth and available ...

Playground Safety – Quick Win

In this Quick Win, Donna Marcus, our child care insurance expert, shares some great tips ...

Personal Guarantee and Collateral

In order to make a loan, the borrower must provide a personal guarantee and collateral. ...

Out of Pocket Cash Purchases

Jonathan Lamb, our child care financing expert, shares some ideas about when you should pay ...

Leasing

Jonathan Lamb, our expert child care banker discusses how child care business owners can use ...

Lease or Buy Big Ticket Items

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Involuntary Exit – 5 D’s

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Construction Costs & Insurance

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Roadmaps

How Much is it Going to Cost?

The first question everyone has when they start planning a new childcare building or remodeling project is, "How much is it going to cost?". We go into detail in each video with an explanation because that is a very difficult question to answer.  Even for people in the real estate and ...

Build It Better, Sell It For More (Release Spring 2023)

Build It Better, Sell It For More™ is  "A Child Care Owner’s Guide to Building a Profitable Business, Maximizing Value and Exiting Strategy Planning”. The book and companion course written by Donna S. Dailey will be released in spring 2022. ChildCareOwner.com members will receive a FREE advance, autographed copy of ...

Exit Planning For Child Care Business Owners Roadmap

COVID-19 has disturbed many things in the Child Care Industry.  As child care owners begin to recover from being closed and lower enrollments, many are starting to refocus on the future. Before COVID-19, many child care owners had their Exit Strategy in place and looked forward to the day they ...