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
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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!
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BlogAre 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.
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