Business, Marketing, and Life Advice for Play-Based Business Owners

Listen on the podcast in Profitable Play Podcast Episode 320 HERE

Valentine’s Day is the perfect opportunity for play cafe owners to spread love while boosting their bottom line. Whether it’s hosting a parent-child craft workshop, offering a “Date Night Drop-Off” service, or creating Valentine-themed play dates and retail bundles, there are plenty of creative ways to celebrate the holiday with your community. In this blog, we’ll explore 16 SWEET,...

Listen on the podcast in Profitable Play Podcast Episode 320 HERE

Valentine’s Day is the perfect opportunity for play cafe owners to spread love while boosting their bottom line. Whether it’s hosting a parent-child craft workshop, offering a “Date Night Drop-Off” service, or creating Valentine-themed play dates and retail bundles, there are plenty of creative ways to celebrate the holiday with your community. In this blog, we’ll explore 16 SWEET,...

Ever curious about what your fellow indoor playground owners (and soon-to-be owners) are listening to?

Kind of like when we were in school and we were always peeking over in the library to look at what our friends were studying up on before the big test?

Well, now's your chance!

Over on my Instagram I counted down the 10 most listened-to episodes of the profitable play podcast, and I wanted to share them with you here as well!

(But psst-- if you don't follow me on IG yet, now's a good time...

To celebrate my milestone of reaching 300 Profitable Play Podcast episodes-- I did something a little different.

I dedicated my 300th episode to rounding up some of (what I consider to be) my BEST pieces of advice, that (and here's the catch)-- almost NO ONE takes or implements.

Because I have been doing SO much 1:1 consulting as I prepare to take a break to welcome our third child into the world in a few short weeks, I’ve been noticing a few things.

I’ve been noticing that...

  LISTEN To This Content On The Profitable Play Podcast Instead.

Now that it’s the end of June and we are fully in the summer swing of things- it’s happening again.

The summer slowdown in the indoor playground and play cafe industry.

And yes, I realize that for some of you owners– summer is BUSY season especially if you’re in a southern state or country where it’s too HOT to be outside right now.  But for the majority of owners I...

You may have noticed that I’ve been covering some HEAVY topics on the Profitable Play Podcast lately.

We’ve talked about regulating our nervous systems to prevent a lot of the health issues brought about by chronic stress which is unfortunately not uncommon for indoor playground owners. 

We’ve talked about handling conflict with customers and within our own teams, and most recently we’ve talked about navigating divorce as a business owner. So, like I said,...

Since we are already nearing the halfway point of 2024, today I want you to ask yourself a couple of questions that I have gotten in the habit of asking MYSELF if I’m feeling a little distracted or unmoored in my work or personal life, because it always brings my goals and perspective back into focus.

And I have gathered these questions over the years from various sources, so while I will try to give credit where it’s due, I truly have no idea where I first heard a few of...

When I first entered the family entertainment and indoor playground industry, the “norm” was for play spaces to just have set open-play hours where customers could come-and-go as they please without reservations. Our open-play hours, for example, typically from 8am-4pm on weekdays and 8am-12pm on Saturdays. During the weekday evenings and weekends we of course did classes, parties– all that good stuff– but here I want to focus JUST on open play hours....

One way to get a revenue boost and increase in foot traffic and online awareness for your indoor playground business in the spring time is hosting a Mother’s Day “Sip-and-Shop” event. 

I gave some tips on these vendor events on my YouTube channel a few years back in 2021, but I am going to add some updated suggestions and tips here in this article.

If you prefer to listen, you can get this content on the Profitable Play Podcast episode 278!

First, what IS a...

Something that I've always found as a business owner is that the stronger I end a year, the more powerful my launch into the new year is.

So even though we’re still in the first half of December, technically, I wanted to give you some action items to be sure you complete BEFORE the end of the year.

Now I know you’re busy– you’re probably juggling running your play space, attending all your kids’ holiday events, buying and wrapping presents, maybe hosting,...