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.
You'll Learn How To: ✨ Increase preschool enrollment and retention without expensive ads ✨ Hire and keep great teachers in a competitive market ✨ Grow play cafe traffic and party bookings consistently ✨ Structure your services for maximum profit (without raising tuition) ✨ Build systems that free up your time instead of stealing it ✨ Market to modern parents who value quality over price ✨ Scale your early childhood business without burning out
This Podcast Is For: → Preschool owners and directors drowning in daily chaos → Childcare operators struggling with staffing and slim margins → Play cafe and enrichment program owners wanting more bookings → Working moms building early childhood businesses while raising families → Anyone who started their EC business to make a difference—not to work 60-hour weeks
Kelley doesn't teach theory. She shares real strategies from 25+ years operating Peake Academy (boutique preschool), Play Boutique (indoor play cafe), and coaching hundreds of early childhood businesses through her Shine Membership and CEO Mentorship programs. Every episode delivers actionable systems you can implement this week.
Popular Topics: Early childhood business operations, preschool marketing strategies, childcare enrollment systems, play cafe revenue growth, hiring and retention for early childhood, parent communication frameworks, pricing strategies for preschools, operational efficiency, work-life balance for childcare owners.
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Early Childhood Business Made Easy
49: 5 Ways to Make Sure Your Inquiry Becomes a Tour
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 chances of getting people to set up a tour with you to check out your preschool or play cafe.
If you receive a phone, email or walk in inquiry, it's important to know how to turn it into a tour. This means being able to properly handle the inquiry and maximize the chances of getting the person to set up a tour with you.
Today we are going to talk more about a winning inquiry process.
- Why it is so important to make focusing on your inquiries a priority?
- 5 ways you can make sure your inquiry becomes a tour.
- The basic strategy for a successful inquiry.
We will also share some tips on how to create your own Scheduling Strategy.
Plus, we will also share some tips on how to train your team to handle an inquiry when a parent comes in unexpectedly
Be sure to check our free resource, the New Family Checklist. The form helps guide you through this process of obtaining great details about the prospective family that you can use in follow-up communication and personalize your engagement with them moving forward.
Are you ready to successfully turn your inquiries into tours?
Let's dive in!
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