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!
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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
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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!
4 Ways to Make Money(Photo Booth Business)
Blog, How To Start a Photo Booth BusinessIf you are going to make money in the photo booth industry, there are a few things to keep in mind. First, it is a rapidly expanding industry so the time to get in is NOW, not 5 years from now.
Photo Booth International discusses 4 ways of making money with a photo booth business, and what you can do TODAY to start moving towards getting your slice in this exciting industry.
This one is a classic and where many aspiring entrepreneurs find the most success.
There’s a ton of other ways of making money with photo booths, but weddings are the niche where many individuals find the most success. It is because people generally have higher budgets for weddings, and are willing to invest in them to make them truly special. Most importantly, they also want to make their wedding day memorable (who doesn’t?) And what better way to record the memories than by having a photo booth at the venue? It would help memorialize the special day forever in the form of lovely pictures.
There are a lot of different methods of acquiring wedding clients for photo booths, but here are a few of the top ones:
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Corporate events are great because you will often get recurring business from the same client. It is because corporations often have a nice sized budget for different parties and events that they are hosting and organizing, and your photo booth is a great opportunity for them to get their brand in front of a ton of people.
The advantage of owning a photo booth business is that you will have easy branding options to offer your clients. For instance, when the attendees get pictures of themselves clicked at the photo booths, they would obviously want to hold on to these studio-quality images of themselves. And guess whose logo is on that image? Your corporate clients’ of course!
A great medium that is working very well right now for securing corporate clients is actually a social media platform – Instagram. It’s one of the simplest and most effective strategies to generate new customers for your photo booth business. Just make sure that you add posts that showcase a ton of corporate settings with your photo booth. And in order to make it easy for the right types of individuals to find them, use the appropriate hashtags.
Another point to keep in mind here is that you will also have the opportunity to do charity events. This might sound like something that doesn’t pay, but it can if you reach out to corporate sponsors to sponsor the booth. You can still do all the custom branding for the sponsors of your booth. It is definitely something worth pitching to the charity event coordinator if you don’t want to work for free. A lot of people see success with this strategy.
Charities can also be a great way to improve your own brand visibility. It will help demonstrate to your business partners and clients that you have goodwill in the community, which in turn can help strengthen your brand image.
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Photo booths are quickly becoming a staple at basically every kind of party. Whether it is bar mitzvahs, quinceaneras, backyard parties, DJ events, Halloween and other costume parties, birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, baby showers, the sky is really the limit when it comes to opportunities for hosting a photo booth at parties.
Regardless of the types of events or parties, the same universal marketing principles apply when you’re attempting to gain a customer base for your photo booth business. Make sure you have a tremendous online presence – your website is in great form, displays the most accurate and up-to-date business and contact information, and is actually functioning! However, if you’re still facing trouble attracting visitors or generating traffic, then consider running some ads on Google.
And of course in this day and age, when one is discussing online presence, social media presence is a part and parcel of the game. Without a doubt, having a strong social media marketing strategy can have a strong impact on your success and visibility in your local community. No matter what the medium, it’s important to create engaging content that will not only attract visitors to your profile or website but will also compel them to share it with colleagues, friends, and family. It will help generate a cycle of free publicity that your business could sure use to attract newer clientele. Also be sure to participate and engage in local discussions in your business community including client, partner, and vendor networks.
Don’t feel limited by the restrictions on public gatherings and events driven by the need for social distancing due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Thankfully the digital age, with its rapid advances in technology, has opened up new possibilities and avenues for social interactions, with virtual events.
If done effectively, a virtual event can serve as a great marketing tool, increasing the visibility of your photo booth business even as it promotes socializing and fun activities in a virtual setting. For a wider customer outreach, host a virtual event with a virtual photo booth, which is nothing but an online webpage or application that allows guests to click pictures with exciting photo editing features and fun digital props and share them with one another. In addition you can create lovely virtual backgrounds according to your theme and brand. Besides taking timed selfies and videos, participants can also post individual pictures and group photos on the webpage or app with interesting taglines and comments. All participants need is a PC or smartphone with a camera and access to the internet to tune in.
There’s no dearth of exciting things to do with a virtual photo booth. Feel free to plan and organize any type of entertaining activity like games, contests for best prized photo, and competitions, which can only add to the fun and adventure quotient. Besides, you can tailor the agenda of the event to the marketing objectives of your photo booth business, which can help generate more business.
The best part about hosting a virtual event is that guests from all over the globe can participate, making it a truly international event. More importantly, with a virtual photo booth, the event will generate a ton of guest photos that you can proudly display on your website – will serve as a free but equally effective advertising campaign.
During this ongoing period of explosive growth in the photo booth industry, it is more important now than ever to get in and establish your brand in the market. As is the case in any industry that experiences a similar surge in demand and growth, it’s highly likely that in a period of 5 years, the photo booth business may have a higher barrier of entry than it does currently. Get in now, while it is easy, so you will be strong enough to push off new competition and sustain your business in the long term, when that time arrives.
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How to Get Ahead During Quarantine
BlogThe last year has been a difficult one for everyone, especially business owners all over the country. We’ve seen things simply slowing down, or stopping because of the global panic created by the pandemic. For a business owner, this has caused a lot of fear and anxiety.
The good news though is that it is the perfect opportunity to place yourself ahead of your competition. As things start getting back to normal once again, it is the apt moment to TAKE ACTION. The only question is, take action on what? Right now, every business owner is faced with a decision:
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At Photo Booth International we are determined to come through this experience stronger than ever before, and we want to see each of you succeed as well. And our photo booths for sale can help you do just that: get a roaring start on your business.
The fact of the matter is a lot of us have more time right now. Let’s use that time to improve ourselves and our business for when this panic eventually goes away. Here are 10 things you can do RIGHT NOW to make sure this is a positive experience for you and your business.
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Don’t waste time on things that are not moving your business forward.
Don’t binge watch Netflix. Stop spending all of your time glued to the news. This is a time to prepare while competitors are busy being paralyzed. Everything has changed, so why wouldn’t you? Set some new goals. You have an opportunity to spend your valuable time in the areas that are still working. Double down and lean into those even more. You have to be able to adapt and part of that is the ability to look at what is not working and get rid of it.
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Audit your company processes. (We prefer to use evernote.com to house all our processes.)
Take a look at your company process from the first step to the last. A business primarily revolves around products and services and their effective marketing. How can you improve your product? What new services could you be offering? Have you considered starting or expanding your photo booth business? It doesn’t require an exorbitant amount of capital and is highly profitable. Get started by choosing one or two of our photo booths for sale and as the demand rises, you can expand your business.
Furthermore, ask yourself: if the product you deliver to customers is solid, then how could you promote it better? What can be added to take things to the next level? Can things be simplified? What areas are taking too much time, money, or effort?
Learn a new skill. Do you know about Facebook ads or Google Ads? Just one new skill can increase your business revenue. If you haven’t gone through Course yet, now is the time to take action on that.
This is the perfect time to upgrade your skills. Do you have a website? Is your website efficient and professional?
Are your social media accounts optimized for success? Are you using LinkedIn properly? Do you have an eye-catching business page? Are you networking with prospective customers like event planners and sponsors and posting engaging content that attracts potential clients? Learn just one new skill you can apply to your business to take it to the next level.
Have you ever said to yourself, “I’m not tech savvy” or “I’m not good with that”? Well this is the time to get good at it. You can do anything you put your mind to.
Online business registry. Are you listed on all the major business and industry databases?
If you want to be seen, you have to show up. You have to be everywhere. The more exposure you have, the more business you’ll get. Now more than ever you’re going to need mass exposure in all areas. Putting all this in place now will ensure that you are ahead of the rest, going forward. Social media, industry registries, website, YouTube, etc. – find them all and get on there.
Optimize your Google My Business account by adding photos and details.
Google processes around 5.8 billion search queries per day! Everyone uses Google which means you have to stand out among all search results to reach your target audience. Take a look at what successful companies are doing and model your ads off of their success. Quality photos and detailed descriptions will be just the first steps. The more you refine and optimize, the more you’ll gain visibility and be able to distinguish your business with an edge.
Learn how to edit videos. Every single business on earth needs video content. It’s time you learned a little bit about how to edit it.
Advancing technology has led to cutting-edge photo booths for sale alongside simple to use, free editing apps and software. Combine that with a YouTube tutorial video for that app/program and you’ll be a pro in no time. You won’t have to spend money on a video editor ever again. A good free video editor we recommend is Shotcut. You should find mostly all the features you will ever need and you can’t beat the price!
Take it to the next level by creating quality company graphics on Canva.com.
Quality logos and graphics separate the professional from the amateur. Everyone wants to do business with a professional. Now’s the time to put your ideas into action. You don’t have to be an artist to get artist quality logos, flyers, info-graphics and more.
Learn absolutely everything about your software and master it.
It is now time to start exploring all the capabilities of your software(s). If something is confusing, get help. Search the internet, contact their support, or ask a professional to get ahead. You want to become a master at what you do. You’ll save time and energy while maximizing your investment in that software.
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It’s time to put things into motion now. If you’ve always wanted to start or expand your photo booth venture it’s time to implement it. As businesses are starting to normalize operations, you’ll be happy you completed the background work, setting the stage for success.
Photo Booth International features a wide variety of photo booths for sale, each in distinct styles and sizes and with advanced functionality and features. Ranging from portable mirror photo booths and LED booths to mini photo booths and iPad kiosks, you’ll find everything you’ve ever wanted in our one-stop shop. Our photo booths are very popular and serve diverse needs. No matter what the type of event, they tend to attract huge crowds and make it a smashing success.
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Bridal Show Tips to Dominate Your Market
MarketingHere are some bridal show expo tips to crush it in your market. Check out our guide!
The first step that you want to do when you are doing a bridal expo actually comes before you do the expo its-self… That is to prepare! There is a checklist of questions that will really set you up for success so that you can outshine the competition every time. Sometimes these questions can even dis-qualify the show because it is going to be a waste of your time. It is much better to figure out that you are going to waste your time before you waste it right?
Ask yourself:
How many people will be there?
Obviously, you want to go to shows where there are going to be a lot of people. The law of average states that there will always be a certain percentage of people who will say yes to you, the more traffic you get to look at your booth the better.
How much are the ticket prices?
The higher the ticket price, the more qualified the people there will be. If they are willing to invest extra to go to a premium Bridal Expo, they are going to be much more likely to invest extra in a premium photo booth for their wedding! Higher ticket prices equal people with bigger budgets.
Where do you live?
If you live in a wedding destination area where a ton of people are flying in to have their weddings, they probably aren’t going to fly out months in advance to go to a bridal expo. This isn’t applicable for all areas but should be mentioned for the places where it is.
Does this venue fit with my brand?
Again, every element of your business needs to fit in alignment with the branded experience that you want to share with your customers. That includes the venue. If you are a minimalist company, you don’t want people’s first experience with you to be filled with clutter. If you charge a lot for your booth, you probably don’t want to be in a place where people are extremely budget minded, or vice versa. There are a lot of people out there who will think that your service obviously isn’t very good if you don’t charge enough for it!
Who are the other businesses who have gone to the show in the past, and how often are they returning?
If there are a ton of big players showing up, and they are returning again and again, it is likely that they are getting a great return on their investment for being there.
What kinds of brides will be there up?
This is going to determine how you set up your display, and prepare. What is it that my audience likes? What will they be looking for?
Once you have decided that the show is worth your time, consider these important tips:
Get a list of other booths that will likely be there. Do your research and find out what their strengths and weaknesses are. Capitalize on their weaknesses but emphasizing that you are strong in that area. Don’t mention them by name, the customers will make the connection. Also make sure your strengths really shine as well, especially in areas where your competition is weak. It is important to make sure you show how you are better than your competitors.
Here are some questions that can help you really dig into your competition to see how you can outshine them.
How can you stand out, how can you really shine?
What does their booth look like?
How can you make yours look better?
What is their pricing?
How are their booth operators?
What kinds of backdrops do they have?
What kinds of prop options do they have?
How good are their graphic designers?
How good is their image quality?
Here are a few concepts to help you boost your sales pitch, consider these strengths that you can mention to people.
The secrets and tips for picking the best location at the bridal show.
A good second option is to locate your booth near a large predominant, high-end vendor. It is best if they have a similar brand identity as yours because they will be pulling in people who are your ideal customers. These large vendors will pull in a lot of traffic which you can use to your benefit!
Another good place that is slightly counter-intuitive that seems to work well is to be near the bathroom. This area obviously also gets a lot of traffic, just make sure to get them as they leave the toilet, not on their way! You don’t want them to have to hold it while you are trying to pitch them on a photo booth! That doesn’t create a very good first impression.
IMPORTANT FOR FIRST TIMERS
Make sure you get an end-cap for your booth. It will cost a little bit more usually, but it is completely worth it. You don’t want to be too crowded, especially if you are going to be pulling in prospects to take photos (which we suggest.) You really don’t want to be boxed in, an end-cap is necessary for our industry at bridal shows. Don’t make this mistake!
Remember that most of the people who go to these shows are women, so make sure that your display caters to their desires. You want it to have a feminine air. This will be different in different parts of the country and world. Basically, you want to make your booth look gorgeous though no matter where you are.
It is worth repeating to remember your brand identity from a previous section. Remember the colors, the emotions, YOUR LOGO, and all the other components. It is all very important because this will be most of the people at the expos the first impression of your company. Show them what to expect.
Here are some pro tips on how to create a great looking, low budget display that will convert foot traffic into deposits.
Go to your local mall and gather ideas from the displays there. These are often extremely low-budget displays, designed by professionals. You can take inspiration from these displays without paying the huge amounts of money that the different stores had to pay designers to create them!
Some ideas to start with are thinking of balloons, post it notes, and ropes. Get creative with a small budget to create something unique. Another great resource for gathering ideas is to watch YouTube.
Another great use of YouTube is to research your competitors. Look for footage of what their booth looks like. Don’t watch the professional video that makes it look super glamorous either, look for the real footage of what it really looks like for people who are walking by, and make sure that yours looks better! This research can also help you to avoid other mistakes, such as looking to make sure there will be enough light at the expo.
People come to trade shows to get a discount, how to do one properly to make sure you get the profit margins you need.
Be careful with what kind of a discount that you give. Do not make it arbitrary, because you are putting yourself on the hook for a lot of work. You want to make sure that the work you are signing up for will be profitable.
So how do I do a discount and still maintain my margins you might be asking…
Here’s how:
Offer a special package that is your super deluxe, and pack it full of as much low-cost to you, but the high perceived value to the customer as possible. So instead of giving your 800-dollar rental at 20% off, give them a 1600-dollar rental at 50% off! Which one sounds more attractive to you? So how do you double your perceived value for a low enough cost to slash the rate in half?
What kind of addons can you add that are at a low cost to you?
Here are some suggestions:
All of this put together will cost you under $20 if you are servicing your own event, and add $800 in perceived value. That way you don’t dip into your profits by offering steep discounts when trying to get customers at trade shows.
Your Printed Materials Matter
Your printed marketing materials are really important. You want yours to stand out because many of these brides will carry home an armload of pamphlets, what will make her fall in love with yours? What do your competitors’ pamphlets look like, how can you do it better? Can you create yours on a different paper or a different shape?
If you want to do different trade show discounts you can just throw a special discount bookmark in each one for people to show to you. Get people excited about these pamphlets. Show them why you are the only option that will satisfy their desires.
If you pull them in and take a picture with them you get bonus points, because they will want to keep that awesome photo and remember how amazing you were.
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