Here are some of our photo booth success stories from the month of September!
Another month has gone by and we couldn’t be happier with all of the progress that we have been seeing with all of the PBI Family members. As you know, our exclusive Facebook community has been popping from all of the activity that you guys have been up to. We would like to highlight some of our favorite stories and photo booth success we noticed this month!
Our Top Contributor This Month in the Facebook Group
Congrats To Zoraida C Alvarez For The Top #PBIfamily Contributor Of The Month Of September. Who Will Win This Month?
Zoraida is new to the PBI Family but she is doing well already with her business, Pics and Tales Photo Booth. She is continuously gracing us with great news about her business inspiring new and old members alike. We are happy to see her utilizing the group for help in her own business, and giving help to others. We are happy to have you in our family, and wish you even more success with your photo booth business!
Oh Snap, All Snap is Here! Congrats Guys on Your New Branding.
First Gigs with their New PBI Photo Booth Equipment
Thanks for sharing your first gigs guys! We know that the first few gigs are a really exciting milestone. It proves to us that this concept can really work. Keep working hard and you can grow your business to be as big as you want.
Kristel and Michael Rogers had a great first gig this September. Congrats guys!
Tharaneka Sparrow was also kind enough to share their first event with us as well! We look forward to seeing the rest of your success to come!
Winner of Our Media Kit Prize Raffle!
EddyGee won our Media Kit Prize from our raffle. Enjoy!
Make sure you sign up for all of our contests so you can be our next winner. Find out about them in our Secret PBI Family Photo Booth Success Facebook Group!
September Big Wins
#PBIFAMILY
We like to acknowledge people when we see them making strides or having particularly big wins. This month have have two.
First we saw Alejandra Charles head out for a 3 event night. He was running 2 weddings and 1 quinceñera. That truck looks packed.
The other good thing we saw was that Brian Burns did $6100 worth of business.
We wish you all even greater success this month as you keep developing and growing your businesses!
How to Get More Customer Reviews For Your Photo Booth Business
StrategyGet Social Proof with Customer Reviews
In this article I am going to be writing about how to get more customer reviews on Yelp, Google, Facebook, and everywhere else. As I am sure that you are already well aware, customer reviews are an integral element for modern business, especially a gig based business like ours. A common habit for so much customers is to find a service, then instantly check Yelp for reviews. It is just a reality.
The good news is that just a few reviews can help guide someone’s decision to go with us, as long as they are good ones obviously. The good news is that getting reviews is probably a lot easier than you might have thought previously.
Here is Secret #1 in Getting Customer Reviews.
Too often people in the photo booth industry spend more time focusing on getting clients than they do thinking of ways to really impress the clients that they already have. Wow them into leaving you a review. My general attitude is to deliver as much value as possible. If I am going to be there working anyway, I might as well spend that time being the best version of myself possible. This especially includes presentation and interaction with the customer. It isn’t just you either. Your business should be branded, period. This includes every interaction your customers have with your business, from your initial contact, to every email, to every phone call, to the event its self. Your business needs a “feel” to it.
Go Above and Beyond
This is what I really believe to be the holy grail, and it takes very little time. It is called, over-delivering. I like to, without exception, deliver something for “free” for every job that I do.
It is usually something that is free, and only takes me a minute or two to do, but people love it when you do something free for them. I think that this is especially true in our industry since a photo booth rental is not a cheap thing. Delivering something free confirms to people that they made the right decision in hiring you. It also gives a client something to brag about to their friends when recommending you or leaving you a review.
Another nice thing about doing something free is that people will subconsciously feel like they owe you a favor. Which leads me to my next point…
Use your Followup Email Correctly
When you deliver the images to your clients, they will be at the height of their excitement about your services. Never beg for reviews, but add a little link for them to click at the bottom. You will be surprised how many of your customers will leave you a stunning, rave review.
You get special bonus points if you offer your “free” thing to them in this section.
“I decided to include a special album of selected photos that I processed the images for you since I had such a great time witt you guys. By the way, if you had fun with my company, if you would please leave me a review here ;).
What Is A 360 Photo Booth?
BlogThe 360 Photo Booth by Photo Booth International will be available in the beginning of January for purchase. It is one of my hottest and most talked about new photo booths to date. Why is that? It is a completely revolutionary design, leaving a lot of people wondering: What is a 360 Photo Booth? Why do I need one? and Where can I get one? This article will answer all 3 questions.
What is a 360 Photo Booth?
A 360 Booth is a photo booth that can takes a photo by spinning 360 degrees around the person it is taking a picture of. Pretty cool right? It generates a spinning image of the people it is photographing. This works from people standing on a platform that has an arm spinning around it holding the camera. These are perfect for wedding, and corporate events. Imagine the bride and groom getting a 360 degree clip for their wedding video.
Why do I need One?
You need a 360 Photo Booth because it is yet another service that you can offer your customers. It also is a big differentiator when they are choosing a company to work with. It isn’t like anything that their friends have done, and everyone wants to be unique… Especially weddings.
This is a major step in the photo booth industry, and it is important to be one of the first people in your city with one of these. You don’t want to be trying to catch up with your competitors. It is best to keep them trying to catch up to you.
Where can I buy a 360 Photo Booth?
You guessed it, Photo Booth International is bringing your our very own 360 photo booth in the beginning of January. Get ready to take your business to a whole new level in 2020.
You can go ahead and get pre-approved for financing by clicking here for those of you who want to get the process started right away.
If you have any more questions about the PBI 360 Booth, or to reserve one of the first available; please just give us a call at 855-474-6868.
You can also click here to receive a quote.
More About Photo Booth International
✔PBI Advantage – At PBI we care deeply about your success. That is why we focus on training to make sure you earn a great income with our devices as much as we focus on designing the best products on the market. We know that your success equals our success, because as you get more successful you will begin to scale your business, and as you scale your business, you will buy more photo booths from us. It is truly win-win. That is why we deliver the industries best training through PBI University to all our customers to make sure that you are always up to date with the best strategies and tactics that can earn you a fortune in the Photo Booth Industry. We are also very active in this industry ourselves with our own businesses, and evolving our techniques with the trends that we keep the PBI Family up to date. You also get access to our Facebook group filled with hundreds of your peers who are already making a killing with PBI and will help you to do the same!
Are Free Events Really Worth It? Josh Pather
Photo Booth Business AdviceAre free events worth it? Short answer is YES. Here is how you can leverage doing free events to equal big dollars. You can keep reading or watch my YouTube video I made here.
Rather read? No problem. Here are the takeaways. Are free events worth it?
What not to do:
The people who don’t benefit from doing free events aren’t maximizing their options. Don’t just do your logo. That isn’t going to be enough to really push the needle when it comes to bringing you customers. You are going to need to step things up a notch to bring in the money in 2020.
What to do:
When you talk to the event coordinator, tell them that you need them to do a blog post, or an article on their website about your company. It will give you a back-link to your website. What this does for you is boost your site’s SEO. It will help to build credibility. That is what Google is looking for. Because the charity you are doing the event for is likely a high reputation business, it will add some of their reputation to you. Make sure that the article and link stays on their site even after the event.
Here is how you can make money.
Think of creative ways to leverage the partnership. This will be unique from organization to organization. Do they do holiday parties? Tell them that you will do this one for free, then ask them if they would be willing to book you in the future for two of their internal events. I have done that lots of times. Just because they need one event for free, doesn’t mean that they won’t pay you for another one in the future.
The nice thing about doing charity events is the people you will network with. I can not tell you how many customers that I got this way over the years. People who go to charity events are not cheapskates. I know that a lot of you complain to me about people trying to get your photo booth services for cheap. Those are the wrong types of customers to be attracting. It is important to get into the same room with people with a decent budget to spend on a photo booth.
It is surprising sometimes, the situations that can come up when you are in the rooms with movers and shakers. You might run into the type of person who is going to talk about your business all over town. It happens sometimes when someone falls in love with the quality of your services.
Other guidance I have for you.
What else makes it worth it? It is also free advertising. The more places you can get the coordinators to put your logo, the better. It will get in everyone’s minds that are there and when they are ready to do an event, who will they remember? Bring plenty of business cards.
That is how you can leverage free events. Are free events worth it? Definitely.
Are you ready to grow your business? Check out our financing options here!