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I've learned to never get into anything just for the money. You really need to enjoy what you are doing no matter what.
I absolutely dispise the photo booth business and if it was not for my sister wh has basically taken over the whole thing I would almost certainly be getting rid of it.
I got the marketing and sales part down pat. It gets 3x more business then I can handle.
We have to turn down more work then we accept.
This is even after 3 significant price increases across the board.
But I simply hate it.
Almost 100% impossible to find good help.
These booths are not for dummies. It requires some pretty heavy technical know how. You have to have basic knowledge of photoshop and networking.
Tge problem is 90% of the people who are smart enough to run a booth without having to be babysat are smart enough to have real jobs that does not require them to be working every single weekend like the photoboiths.
y biggest miscalculation was the quality of personnel this business requires.
I thought I would have been able to hire the McDonald's crowd to do these gigs but that is not the case..
So at the end of the day in stuck turning down over 70% of potential gigs because I can't find enough decent people to run the events .
I absolutely dispise the photo booth business and if it was not for my sister wh has basically taken over the whole thing I would almost certainly be getting rid of it.
I got the marketing and sales part down pat. It gets 3x more business then I can handle.
We have to turn down more work then we accept.
This is even after 3 significant price increases across the board.
But I simply hate it.
Almost 100% impossible to find good help.
These booths are not for dummies. It requires some pretty heavy technical know how. You have to have basic knowledge of photoshop and networking.
Tge problem is 90% of the people who are smart enough to run a booth without having to be babysat are smart enough to have real jobs that does not require them to be working every single weekend like the photoboiths.
y biggest miscalculation was the quality of personnel this business requires.
I thought I would have been able to hire the McDonald's crowd to do these gigs but that is not the case..
So at the end of the day in stuck turning down over 70% of potential gigs because I can't find enough decent people to run the events .
And my 50% partner turned out to be a dud.
I am basically 100% now once his debt gets paid off.
I think I'm going to give the whole thing free to my sister when all is said and done because I don't want to deal with it anymore
I am basically 100% now once his debt gets paid off.
I think I'm going to give the whole thing free to my sister when all is said and done because I don't want to deal with it anymore
wow....so what you are saying is that you have enough equipment to take on more business, just not enough manpower to run the booths? (I believe you have 2 booths?)
I know i'm not saying anything you don't already know....but what about hiring college kids? They are usually smarter than the avg mcdonalds worker and looking for money without 9-5 jobs.
Also, what about paying your help/employees more? If you did across the board increases, you can bump up the pay for the workers?
I know i'm not saying anything you don't already know....but what about hiring college kids? They are usually smarter than the avg mcdonalds worker and looking for money without 9-5 jobs.
Also, what about paying your help/employees more? If you did across the board increases, you can bump up the pay for the workers?
They get paid $50 an hr plus travel but it takes a special person to run these things. The one thing I don't have is company vehicles so the people that do these events need at least a mid sized suv which eliminates most of the college crowed.
Plus I have to trust them and that's the part I have the most difficult time with.
I am out of town for my real job almost 50% of the year to begin with so my sister runs this thing almost full time. To be honest she deserves the business and actually enjoys it so I'm probably about to surprise her with a 100% paid for business that has the ability to make lots of money. The profit margin is crazy.
Yiu can charge $900 for a 4 hr event that cost about $250 in labor and $25 worth of paper and toner.
Do 3 events like that on a Saturday and do the math.
But it's a headache that I don't have the will to or time to deal with and I'm not being fair to my sister who is doing most of the hard work since my partner bailed out.
Probably 75% of the weddings I've been to in the past few years have had a photo booth. I remember there being someone there explaining how it works and handing out silly props like big glasses and necklaces, but I think the photos just popped right out, no photoshopping. I could be wrong...
Yea that's what we do. The photoshop part comes in before the event starts. We custom am design the templates for the weddings and corporate events before the event takes place. Those photos that come out of the booth have been designed with photoshop if its a high end photo booth company
thats crazy chop....if you could find 2-3 reliable people then you could be making some mad bank. (might even be worth getting a company van....I thought you did get one)
if someone works for you 2 events a weekend (2 on sat, 1 sat/1 sun), they make $500/wk = $26,000/yr for working one day/week.....that is amazing you have had a hard time finding someone competant willing to do this
if someone works for you 2 events a weekend (2 on sat, 1 sat/1 sun), they make $500/wk = $26,000/yr for working one day/week.....that is amazing you have had a hard time finding someone competant willing to do this
