November 2025

Setting up in marquee hire? Get a website up as soon as you can. Thanks for reading Spencer

With a VAT cut due today it seems sensible to talk about VAT when running a marquee hire business On a personal note I’m not sure a ‘2.5% sale’ on everything in the UK is going to make much difference but apparently we’re not allowed by our EU friends to go lower than 15%. Thanks. […]

Wouldn’t it be nice if -like Voldemort in Harry Potter you would know if someone ever mentioned your name. Well, now with google alerts you can (at least anything that appears online). Just set up a google alert for your business name and google will tell you whenever it finds a match, this informs you […]

You might be busy with Xmas & New Year functions but once they’re out the way it’s generally pretty quiet until the spring. The perfect time to update and improve your marquee hire website. If you want your website to work for you and generate business rather than just be a tool for existing enquiries […]

Most marquee hirer’s will let someone else look after their website, our speciality is putting up marquees not web design after all. But whoever you are you should still be using google and making it work for you. By using google I don’t mean using their search engine, I mean using their extra tools. You […]

First off if you’ve got marquees up at the moment -make sure you fire up heaters to get the snow off the roof! We’ve got a pub next door (I know, it’s surprising we get any work done!) and their lightweight gazebo is now flatpacked having collapsed under the weight of 8″ of snow -why […]

Lisa from County Marquees made a good point after part 1 -google offer a free tool to research keywords. In my experience this is very useful but not detailed enough to get more specific data (impressions for marquee hire Reigate wouldn’t appear for example). If you haven’t read part 1 you should go read that […]

Website’s are great things (you’re reading one so let’s assume you know that already!). The bigger you get the more time work and effort should go in to it, especially getting it up the search rankings. There are 3 steps to getting your marquee hire site up the rankings: I’m going to cover number 1 […]

If you read about brand awareness then experts claim there are three categories of people, those who will only buy brands, those who can be convinced of buying brands and those who refuse to buy brands. It has to do with how people wish to be perceived by their peers. Don’t ask any further, I’m […]

We have an article on connecting a marquee to a house but there’s an additional consideration. Check for any lighting on the house that you might cover up with the marquee. We butted a marquee up against a house once (gable flush against the building) and as happens quite often the marquee covered over an […]