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When starting a marquee hire business one big consideration is where are you going to store all of these nice shiny (hopefully DIY) marquees? Well the good news is initially you don’t need a lot of storage space, in a single garage you could fit 5 typical marquees including associated equipment. Any more than that […]

Once you’ve put a marquee up you leave the site and generally don’t return until you’re taking down the marquee. That’s often several days that customers or more likely friends of customers can look at the marquee and see how they think it could be improved. There’s lots of talk on the marquee forum about […]

It’s very easy to fall in to the trap of thinking increased turnover is always a good thing. In business circles you often hear people talking of how much they’ve increased the size of their business and what their projected turnover is but turnover means very very little. Allow me to illustrate this with 3 […]

Employing people can be stressful but a necessary evil if you want to build up your large marquee hire business. When you start you can call on family and friends for a while but the novelty soon wears off for both sides. It’s a lot easier if the people working for you are self employed, […]

Following (always useful) feedback from customers we have introduced a marquee tool section. This helps us become more of a one shop stop for start up or existing marquee hire companies. Further tools will be added soon. We are particularly proud of the marquee stake puller that could be a great help when dismantling marquees, […]

Different people have different styles of management, most (certainly in the marquee industry) fall in to one of two categories: Leading by example or leading by delegation. Some will be proficient in both but most people naturally use one or the other and it is well worth learning both how your own management style works […]

At an enjoyable meeting over the weekend I was asked what should be in the toolbox/van of a marquee hirer. What’s the typical equipment you should set yourself up with? Obviously we can supply most of these but they are reasonably standard equipment available in many places: You wouldn’t need all of these initially, some […]

It’s good practice when you’ve finished a marquee (and before the event) to have a check list, one copy for the customer and one for you. What goes on a check list is entirely up to you but here’s some suggestions: It’s also good practice to have the emergency contact number on the bottom. Note […]

It’s the middle of the season, you’ve had to work on Saturday due to a particularly large and tricky marquee job and now you’ve finally got to relax on a Sunday afternoon with your feet up watching TV. Suddenly your mobile goes off and one of the lads who works for you wants to know […]

Larger marquees need specific catering areas where caterers can prepare all the food away from the prying eyes of Joe public. You wonder exactly what gets covered up back there then you realise that actually, you’d rather just not know! Okay, so as the marquee erector/designer/whatever you call yourself you need to allow an area […]