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!
3 Places To Register Your Photo Booth Business
How To Start a Photo Booth Business1. Yelp.com – Yelp has a free profile that will give you a powerful backlink right to your website. Setup takes a few minutes, and you can do it from your phone. Make sure to select the categories and areas you serve.
2. Google My Business – This is a big one a lot of people neglect. It will take about 10min to setup and once you do your customers will be able to find you on google maps. One of the key things to keep in mind is that you have to wait for a verification card to come in the mail ONLY once verified will you show up on maps. What we did before we had an office was get a UPS mailbox at the UPS store this allowed us to get a street address instead of a PO box and so it seemed to google that we had an office location.
3. Wedding Wire/The Knot – These are great wedding planning websites, and they have a big share of the market getting listed on here with a complete profile is imperative to your Photo Booth Rental Business. Make sure to upload your logo and pics from your booth and don’t forget pictures of the actual photo booth you have; most people leave this out. Setup will take about 7 minutes per a website and provides a solid backlink.
Photo Booth International: Podcast Announcement
BlogWe can, with a lot of confidence pride ourselves as being the most outstanding- service and otherwise-fastest growing photo booth sales establishment in the world. At Photo Booth International, we consider ourselves as a top-notch photo booths provider as well as offer the most comprehensive after sale got service. These have catapulted us from being the small photo booth for hire business we were, to the fairy known enterprise establishment we are today.
In a short period of fewer than four years since we started, Photo Booth International had grown from a company that began booking its first clients even before we had built our first booth into the business we are. Our stock levels do not go below ten booths at any given period.
Photo Booth International promises to turn your company activations and products exhibitions into a fun-filled affair for both of your staff members, and most importantly for your potential clients. We ensure fun matters through our consistent supplying of outstanding photo booths that are manufactured with quality in mind. Our booths are made with first-grade equipment that assures pictures taken in our booths give out lab-quality photo prints.
We provide an array of different service options towards your journey in owning your very own photo booth for all of your events and branding the activations to your specifications. Owning a photo booth has never been easier. We have partnered with some of the best financial institutions in the state, and you can now be able to own your very own booth through the most flexible credit facilities. With financing, you will be able to own your photo booth which can be paying for itself as you put away the savings.
Running a photo booth could be a lucrative business as it has been proven time over by most of our clients who keep expanding their businesses. Assuming you start off with a single photo booth that lands at least two events in a week that you charge $500 per event you make a tidy sum of $52,000. As your business’s popularity grows, four events in a week make $ 104,000. This amount significantly increases as your demand in service delivery increases per week. Ready to start? see our blog about how to start a photo booth business.
At Photo Both International, we make sure that we play a part in your growth. Our after sales services are well pronounced to ensure that you remain relevant in the industry. We ensure that our training videos are updated at least on a monthly basis where all of our clients have the login details to access them. Our sales representatives are also thoroughly trained to make sure that as our client, you get the best of our services.
As part of our clientele, we like sharing our success story to make sure you understand that making a six figure business is not as hard as it has always been made out to be. All you need to do is; identify a thorough marketing strategy; you have your staff members consistently trained on how to handle your clientele; being in control of your business all the time; and eventually, ensuring that discipline is the key guides all members in your business.
Please be sure to look out for a Photo Booth International Business Podcast on iTunes for more information on our company.
Preparing for Events
How To Start a Photo Booth BusinessWhen working events with your photo booth, it is easy to become unorganized and frantic. Events can quickly become a nightmare if you simply forget even a few things. Of anything, you definitely don’t want to ruin your client’s big day! Photo Booth International has taken notes and critiqued these events, while also interviewing Photo Booth Dallas’s attendants and broke it down into three sections. These sections cover preparation for the event, working the event, and following up with the client after the event. We have made sure to expand each section, into three separate articles, to ensure that we are thoroughly walking you through each properly.
Preparation Preparation begins with the booking process.
If you don’t plan the event accordingly it could cause terrible repercussions. Jazmine from Photo Booth Dallas, LLC gave us some tips and tricks to making sure that your event goes smooth. “Always confirm the venue address, one wrong digit can ruin everything”, She warns, “Make sure to confirm the type of booth service they will be getting and make sure it matches the contract.” You want to make sure that you have everything noted and documented that way you leave a paper trail and you can tie up all your loose ends and cover all your bases. The best way to do this is with a contract that includes both parts of the party. (I.E you and your client).
After the initial booking you will want to stay in contact with your client.
“Communicate more than you feel is necessary with your client and attendant, to ensure that your client’s expectations will be met.” Jazmine advises. You want to be sure that you are making room for any unexpected errors or delays that could occur, you always want to anticipate the worst case scenario. Photo Booth Dallas does this by making sure that the payment is taken in full at least 7 days before the event, to avoid any late payments or having to “chase” your clients. You will also want to make sure to test the client’s layout as well as all of the other photo booth components several days before working the event, this ensures that if anything is wrong you will have time to fix it so your event can run smoothly. Make sure that you have a good contact name and number for the day of the event, someone who will be easy to access. “If the Bride booked the booth, she won’t be able to answer the call if you need instructions so ask for an event coordinator or a family member.” Jazmine explained. You will also want to make certain that you have clear parking and loading details before your event so that you can save time and any frustrations.
Photo Booth Attendants
Once you have the equipment and information prepped, you will need to make sure to prep your attendant. Be sure that they are familiar with the booth components and technical solutions to the more likely issues such as paper jams, refilling the ink and paper, and correcting the photo booth software settings (sometimes it resets). Your attendant is representing your company so you want to make sure that who you chose to send out to work the event is well mannered, well groomed, and very polite. Your attendant should be fun, someone who will attract guests to the booth. You want your attendant to blend in well, Photo Booth Dallas requires their attendants to wear all black to be sure that they do not stand out. The attendant should be energetic and have an all around great attitude. The best attendants are the ones who are enjoying the event. You also want to make sure that your attendants do not consume any alcoholic beverages while working the event, even if it is offered, it could set a bad image for your company. Be sure that your attendant stays in contact with the point of contact throughout the night. “Sometimes the birthday girl will get carried away with their friends and won’t take a single picture, usually toward the end I will find the mother, father and birthday girl and ask if they would like to take photos before the event ends,” Zach Perrine of Photo Booth Dallas tell us, “ they usually appreciate that because they had genuinely forgot to photograph themselves.” The above stated are things that simply cannot be overlooked, be sure to thoroughly explain to your attendant what is expected and what is not accepted.
Proper preparation for an event is critical to a successful photo booth business.
The way your company conducts themselves while booking, preparing and working an event reflects on the way you run your business. If you are late and your attendant doesn’t know how to change ink and paper, there’s a problem. Clients are more likely to repeat their booking if their expectations are met so be sure that you are planning accordingly and assuring that your company is represented with high standards at every event.
A Guide to Success: Photo Booth Start-Up
A series on Starting a Photo Booth Business