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Early Childhood Business Made Easy
Early Childhood Business Made Easy: Preschool, Childcare & Play Cafe Success Strategies
Transform your preschool, childcare center, or play cafe from chaotic overwhelm into a profitable, time-freedom business. Host Kelley Peake, former KinderCare executive and owner of multiple seven-figure early childhood businesses, shares proven strategies for enrollment growth, team management, marketing that works, and operational systems that actually stick.
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- Early Childhood Business Made Easy
85: Thriving not Surviving: Achieving Harmony in Your Early Childhood Business
Send us Fan Mail Are you feeling overwhelmed, like you're constantly walking on a tightrope trying to balance the needs of your early childhood business with…
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84: Discover the Game-Changing Strategies to Skyrocket Your Early Childhood Business's Bottom Line
Send us Fan Mail Hey there, early childhood business owners! Welcome to the Early Childhood Business Made Easy podcast. I'm Kelley Peake, and today, we're…
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83: Happy Families, Thriving Business: The Secret to Cultivating Loyalty in Your Early Childhood Business
Send us Fan Mail Today we're diving into a topic that gets me all fired up: keeping families happy. To ensure that you are profitable and able to live a…
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82: Unleashing Success: The Power of a Strong Team Culture in Your Early Childhood Business
Send us Fan Mail Have you ever wondered why some early childhood businesses thrive while others struggle to keep up? Well, the secret lies in the power of a…
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81: Time is Money: How Early Childhood Business Owners Can Reclaim Their Time and Achieve Greater Success
Send us Fan Mail Picture this: You're running an early childhood business, juggling countless responsibilities, and constantly feeling like there's never…
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80: Unlocking the Power of Connection: 3 Steps to Thrive in Your Early Childhood Business
Send us Fan Mail In today's episode, we're diving into the crucial topic of staying connected with the families you serve. Building strong relationships with…
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79: Unlocking the Power of Appreciation: How Early Childhood Businesses Can Boost Retention and Build a Stronger Team
Send us Fan Mail Are you struggling to retain your best employees and keep turnover rates low in your Early Childhood business? Do you want to create a work…
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78: Marketing Made Simple: A Step-by-Step Guide to Attracting More Parents to Your Early Childhood Business
Send us Fan Mail Are you struggling to attract parents to your Early Childhood business? Do you feel like your marketing efforts are not producing the results…
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77: Retaining Families in Early Childhood Business: 6 Strategies for Long-Term Success
Send us Fan Mail Do you find yourself struggling to retain families in your EC business? Do you find yourself constantly losing revenue and trust from the…
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76: Leadership Development: Empowering Your EC Team to Succeed
Send us Fan Mail Are you struggling to build a strong team in your Early Childhood business? Have you invested in your team members' professional growth and…
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75: Unlocking the Secret to Work-Life Balance: Strategies for Early Childhood Business Operators to Boost Productivity and Find Fulfillment
Send us Fan Mail 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…
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74: Unlocking the Secrets to Financial Success: 5 Expert Strategies for Your Early Childhood Business
Send us Fan Mail Effective financial management is essential for the success of your early childhood business, and by following these expert strategies, you…
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73: Level Up Your Social Media Marketing: 10 Proven Strategies to Dominate Your Early Childhood Competition
Send us Fan Mail 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…
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72: Building a Dream Team: 4 Proven Strategies for Success in Early Childhood Business
Send us Fan Mail 📣 Attention all early childhood business leaders! Are you looking for ways to build a successful team that can provide high-quality care and…
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71: The Winning Formula: 5 Traits of Successful and Confident Early Childhood Business Operators
Send us Fan Mail 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…
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70: Unlocking Your Business's Potential with Quarterly Goal Planning
Send us Fan Mail 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…
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69: What Are the Secrets to Captivating and Closing Parents During a Tour of an Early Childhood Business?
Send us Fan Mail Are you looking to create an unforgettable parent tour and convert potential customers into paying customers? With so much competition in the…
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68: Building a Dream Team: Attracting and Retaining Quality Team Members in Early Childhood Education
Send us Fan Mail Are you struggling to attract quality team members to your early childhood business? Have you exhausted all the usual resources but still…
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67: Your Secret Weapon to EC Biz Success Year After Year
Send us Fan Mail Have you ever had difficulty staying motivated, making decisions, or setting goals for your preschool, play cafe, childcare, enrichment…
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66: 3 Ways to Conquer Your Day EC CEO
Send us Fan Mail 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…
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65: Amazing Time Saving Strategies To Try Right Now!
Send us Fan Mail 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…
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64: 4 Creative Ways to Connect with Potential Families, Increase Visibility and Lose the Marketing Guilt
Send us Fan Mail Are you looking for innovative ways to reach potential preschool, play cafe, childcare, enrichment programs, and other Early Childhood…
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63: Onboarding Your Secret Weapon for Preschool, Play Cafe, Enrichment Program Team Members That Will Stay With You
Send us Fan Mail During a time when businesses are struggling to retain talent, creating a strong onboarding process for new team members is imperative. By…
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62: Stop The Hustle In Your Preschool, Childcare, Play Cafe, or other Early Childhood Business & Find Gratitude with More Work+Life Balance
Send us Fan Mail ✨💛 You can have a really amazing personal life, full of family, space and downtime, as well as a thriving Early Childhood business, where, of…
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61: Got Chaos? These 3 Strategies Will Help You Control It
Send us Fan Mail Want to accomplish your business & personal goals AND have more time+freedom? Evaluate how your week is going. Is it chaotic with a…
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60: Part Of Planning For A Strong 2023 Means Your Team Culture Is As Strong As Can Be!
Send us Fan Mail 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…
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59: Dream+Do for the Best 2023 - Come Plan with Me!
Send us Fan Mail 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…
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58: 2023 is just around the corner. But in order to fly forward we must look back. How did you do in 2022?
Send us Fan Mail 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…
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57: 5 Strategies for Leading Your EC Business As the CEO You Are Meant to Be
Send us Fan Mail 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…
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56: 3 Ways to Ensure Your Student Portfolios Are Talked about for Years to Come
Send us Fan Mail 📙 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…
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55: Parent Volunteer Double Win - They Save You Time & Money While Building Relationships
Send us Fan Mail 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…
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54: Build a Team of Rockstars That Ensure Inquiries Become Enrollments
Send us Fan Mail Quality customer service is essential for any business that wants to retain its customers and grow its client base. Unfortunately, for many…
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53: Is Your Website Frightful? Is It Time to Unfrakenstein Your Site?
Send us Fan Mail When you look at your website… Is it frightful? Does it look more like the work of Frankenstein rather than a professional business that…
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52: Why Hosting Memory Making Events For Parents Will Grow Your Bottom Line
Send us Fan Mail Hosting special annual events is a great way to create a community atmosphere for your kiddos and their families. When your team and parents…
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51: Grow Your business By Selling In a Way That Feels Aligned Even If Outside of Your Comfort Zone
Send us Fan Mail 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…
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50: 3 Simple Reminders That Will Turn Tours Into Enrollments
Send us Fan Mail There are potential families visiting, emailing and calling every day. The need for high quality preschool or a fabulous birthday party…
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49: 5 Ways to Make Sure Your Inquiry Becomes a Tour
Send us Fan Mail According to new research published on HubSpot, 82% of consumers look for an immediate response from businesses on marketing or sales…
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48: Finding More Time Freedom Is Easier Than You Think
Send us Fan Mail As an early childhood business owner/manager, it can be very overwhelming and stressful with all of the daily tasks needed to operate a…
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47: Got Stress? These 3 Mindfulness Tips Will Calm It
Send us Fan Mail It's that time of year again! The leaves are starting to turn, and school is back in session. For early childhood businesses, that can only…
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46: Leading Your Early Childhood Business Like The CEO You Are Meant to Be Into a Fabulous Fall
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the final week in our 6 Weeks in 6 Days Back to School Challenge. Here on the Early Childhood Business Made Easy podcast we have…
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45: Stop the Turnover By Doing These 3 Things to Nurture An Amazing Team That Will Not Want to Leave
Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to our 6 Weeks in 6 Days Back to School Challenge. Here on the Early Childhood Business Made Easy podcast we are spending this…
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44: Your Proven Plan for a Fabulous Open House That Enrolls On the Spot
Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to our 6 Weeks in 6 Days Back to School Challenge. Where we hope to help you get your program full this fall. Here on the Early…
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43: How to Take Your Marketing from Blah to BAM!
Send us Fan Mail We are in the middle of our 6 Weeks in 6 Days Back to School Challenge. Where we hope to help you get your program full this fall. We are…
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42: The Ultimate Plan to Attracting and Build a Winning Team
Send us Fan Mail Last week we officially kicked off our 6 Weeks in 6 Days Back to School Challenge. Where we hope to help you get your program full this fall…
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41: 3 Key Systems to Help You Focus on Growing Your Enrollment
Send us Fan Mail Summer is officially here and in full swing! For some of us, we have summer camps and special events happing, others take the summer off…
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40: 3 Reasons Outsourcing Your Financial Help Will Save You Time & Money
Send us Fan Mail If you're looking for a way to save time and money, outsourcing your accounting needs is a smart choice. With the help of a good accountant…
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39: Got Systems for Your EC Business? If Not, Let’s Solve That Today!
Send us Fan Mail Are you looking for ideas to help run your early childhood business on a day-to-day basis? If so, you're in luck! In this episode of Early…
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38: The Ultimate Guide to Early Childhood Business SOPs
Send us Fan Mail Consistency is the key to providing a quality experience. But how do we ensure that and what is the key to making sure our team is on the same…
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37: Feedback and Follow-up Tips That Will Motivate Anyone on Your Early Childhood Team
Send us Fan Mail Keeping your early childhood business team motivated is a must. After all, they are at the forefront of your school or center. How can you do…
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36: 3 Clever Solutions to Get Others to Spread the Word About Your EC Business with Your Reoccurring Referral Plan
Send us Fan Mail Marketing strategies have evolved a lot in the last two decades, however, even in 2022, nothing beats great word-of-mouth when it comes to…
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35: 3 Easy Wins to Get Ready for Fall Before School Is Out for the Summer
Send us Fan Mail Getting ready for fall before school ends might seem like a crazy idea, but trust me, prepping before your summer vacation will save you a…
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34: 3 Ways to Ensure Your Summer Camp Team Creates a Magical Summer Experience for All of Your Campers
Send us Fan Mail As a child, I absolutely loved summer camp. It was the best time of the year; I could hang out with my friends, engage in lot of fun…
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33: The 2 Must-Haves to Create Loyalty Building Engagement in Your Parent Attraction Strategy
Send us Fan Mail Hello everyone, Kelly here! I’m so excited for this week’s episode! Why is that? Simply because I’ll be sharing with you the best way to make…
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32: How to Use a Compelling Parent Audience Builder to Grow Your Early Childhood Business
Send us Fan Mail Hello everyone, Kelley here! It’s week three of the Marketing Makeover month, which means it’s time to talk about the Parent Audience Builder…
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31: How to Develop a Messaging Strategy that Resonates with Your Preschool Parent Audience
Send us Fan Mail Hey everyone, Kelley here, and I’m back with a brand new episode! But wait, before we start, let me ask you a question: Are you struggling to…
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30: Achieving Success in Preschool Marketing: How to Create a Compelling Marketing Strategy that Engages Customers and Boosts Enrollment
Send us Fan Mail One of the most important things you can do to promote your early childhood business is give it a marketing makeover Because, as you might…
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29: 5 Communication Strategies For Growing Your Preschool Enrollment
Send us Fan Mail It can be difficult to attract new students to your preschool program, as there are many other schools and centers competing for the attention…
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28: 10 Meaningful Ways Preschool Owners/Managers Can Celebrate Their Teachers
Send us Fan Mail As Teacher Appreciation Week approaches, it's important to take a moment and come up with a meaningful strategy to celebrate the hardworking…
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27: 5 Things Preschool Owners Can Do to Avoid Complaints from Parents
Send us Fan Mail Complaints from parents are the worst. I’ve dealt with them and I’m sure you have too. There will always be someone who’s not happy with your…
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26: 3 Simple Secrets to Keeping Your ECE Team on the Same Communication Page
Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode of Early Childhood Business Made Easy, I broach the subject of communication. Communication is a top priority for…