Don't be child friendly.  Get family smart!

The old goal was to make your business "child-friendly."   Businesses wanted to let parents know it was okay to bring along their children.  The fact is, most businesses would prefer NOT TO HAVE children in their environment because it is detrimental to the sales process or raises anxiety and lowers throughput in waiting and service environments.

Now it's time to get "family smart."   If children are going to be brought to your business, have a strategy to accomplish your goals.   This is where Something For Kids excels.  A toy bin or playroom can ruin your process not help it.  We understand and cater to your desire to meet sales and waiting time objectives.

Understanding the Parent/Customer Conflict will help you conduct business.  Click on the button to learn more.

As a parent on a shopping experience or in a waiting room it became painfully clear to us that toys in businesses could be done better.   Understanding what to do and how to go about it was a little more complicated.  We identified 4 types of approaches businesses have taken to appease/control children to better the businesses environment or increase the chance of making a sale when children were present.  Some people bring in used toys from home, some buy them, some spend a lot of money on expensive structures and play rooms and of course, some businesses do nothing.

Is a child pushing a toy across your waiting room or your show room a good idea?  We think NOT!

A secondary problem was easy enough to identify too.  Plenty of businesses were willing to buy toys for their customers children but very few appeared interested in taking care of them.  Beyond the obvious problems we found the majority of toys we surveyed were excessively worn or broken.   Want to find more about bad waiting room toys and bad play room ideas.

The Legal Lynx says, “surely, none of your toys are on product recalls or fail a simple choke test. . . right?”

After studying businesses, defining goals and reasons for having toys around offices and showrooms, we came to one simple defining conclusion, we couldn't sell toys.  The poor condition of toys and mounting safety issues would continue no matter how we shaped our plan unless we implemented a service which took care of the toys too.

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Click here for a pdf file on managing children in your business and employing waiting room toy strategies.