Time to start a Preschool is now!

If you look around your neighborhood you will find that a number of preschools have come up in recent years. Not very long ago people had to take care of their kids all the time till they became five and went to Nursery in a regular school. Not anymore the preschools give a good option to parents. While children learn and play for four hours in the morning, they can take care of their other important work.

Earlier parents and especially the working parents had only one option that was to keep a maid. But with maid children hardly learned anything and parents were always worried if she was taking good care of their child in their absence. But in the last two decades or so the concept of preschool has become immensely popular in India though it was very popular abroad for ages.

Many world class top preschools in India started operating and as a result thanks to their marketing and performance the awareness about the preschools or play schools as they are often called growing. People started sending their kids aged two to four to these informal schools and found it was worth it. They witnessed remarkable progress in their kid’s cognitive, motor skills and social skills.

If you are approaching this article from an entrepreneur’s point of view here is more information for you which would help you take a logical decision that is whether to go for the playschool business or not. At present India is witnessing a kind of play school revolution. There are more than 33,000 play schools operating in them catering to around 15% of students in the age group of two to four. This leaves a huge potential for opening a play school in India at the moment. The playschool business is growing at a pace of around 22% and this is likely to increase in the coming years.

Yet another factor favoring the new entrepreneurs is the presence of play school franchisees. The top play schools in India are being run by these playschool franchisees. Some of them have more than 500 branches spread across the country. The playschool franchise charges a one-time franchise fees for which they provide play school franchise benefits.

Now let us talk about preparing for starting a preschool. The first thing first; do not approach this business as you would approach any other business. The reason is simple here you would be dealing with individuals who are too small to tell you what they want, their likings and disliking would have to be decided by you as you have been entrusted with the job of nurturing them.

This is the basic difference in building products and building character. Just a piece of trivia the eighty percent of the human brain develops in the first five years. So you can imagine the responsibility you are going to take. If you feed anything to the toddler in this age it would stay with him for the rest of his life.

Now how to go about it? First, the rules of business do apply here. So watch out for the competition in your locality where you would be running your play school. If it has a number of schools already running it would be a better idea to opt for someplace else. Ideally, locate your school which is not more than two kilometers from a locality. It would be better for your school is near to two or three localities.

As this is one business which does not need any registration or legal sanctions you don’t have to bother about them though it would be a good idea to inform the local authorities that you are running such a school in their area.

 Next is hiring the staff and the teachers. Go for trained and well-mannered teachers ideally not too old or too young, say in the thirties or early forties so that they have energy and no fixated ideas on child grooming. Indeed it would be a good idea to conduct a walk in interviews yourself so that you can judge the skills and the personality of the staff that would be teaching in your school. They are the people who would define your school so don’t be complacent.

If you take franchise route that is open a branch of a well-established play school franchise you would get a lot of assistance on this count. Moreover, you would have a readymade curriculum and a brand to attract the parents in your locality.

 However do a few PR activities like baby shows, Diwali Mela, Eid Milan, etc. to connect with your potential clients? It is a good business and play school franchisees benefits are numerous that come once you subscribe to their franchise by paying an upfront franchise fee. If you remain interested, committed and invested you would start making a profit in no time.