I'm thinking of starting a small child care business. Need web pages about financing and legal issues, from OH

I know what kind of certificates I need to get. Need help in getting clients and good pricing. I want to target middle-lower class families that don't qualify for child care help through the state because they make too much, but in reality, can't afford it otherwise. Any and all pointers would be helpful, thank you.

The first step is to prepare a business plan. Even if you will not be applying for a bank loan, a business plan helps you to think through your business - what it needs, who it will benefit, how much it will cost, and what is its potential. Here are free business plans on childcare business that you may want to look into:

http://www.sba.gov/library/pubs/mp-30.do...
http://www.misbtdc.org/documents/BPWORKB...
http://www.misbtdc.org/documents/CDCPLAN...
http://sbdcnet.utsa.edu/sbic/bplans.htm

You may want to read the free article "How To Start Your Own Day Care Center" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol40/daycar... It covers various aspects of starting and running a daycare center including the demand for daycare centers, how to start this business, shoestring strategies, how to operate a daycare center, tips on caring for the children, income potential, how to manage your daycare, marketing your business and other additional income potential. There are so many things to learn about the business that the first step is to read everything you can find.

For in-depth information, I suggest checking out the following books:

- Start and Run a Profitable Home Day Care
- The Daycare Provider's Workbook
- Start Your Own At-Home Child Care Business
- So You Want to Open a Profitable Child Care Center :
Everything You Need to Know to Plan, Organize and Implement a Successful Program

It is also important that you learn the tax rules affecting daycare centers, especially if you are going to open one from your home. Here is the IRS page on child care centers: http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/indu...

As for the licenses and requirements in your state, the Administration for Children and Families provide a state by state listing of contacts for licensing and regulations governing child care businesses:
http://www.nccic.org/statedata/dirs/rego...

In Ohio, contact this agency:

Ohio Department of Job & Family Services
Bureau of Child Care and Development
255 East Main Street, 3rd Floor
Columbus, OH 43215-5222
Phone: 614-466-1043
Fax: 614-466-0164 or 614-728-6803
Web site: http://jfs.ohio.gov/cdc/
E-mail: childcare@odjfs.state.oh.us

To get your clients you would need to produce a web site and of course promote it on the web.

This is a very specific niche site because you will only target a certain group of people in a certain area. Before you begin, I would suggest you research good keywords for search engine optimization. Go to http://www.keywordtracker.com or http://www.overture.com to do this research.

To give you an idea, you would first search for child care business, then you may want to refine your search to child care business Columbus OH. Be specific because your clientel will be specific when they use keywords to search for your business.

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Best of luck.

Allen Lundy