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Last week I covered making a good impression at a marquee site visit. This week I thought it sensible to add some tips about what to say and run through as the potential customer might be after you actually saying something as well as taking your shoes off and making a good impression. Ultimately the […]

When starting up your marquee hire business google is going to be a big part of any advertising campaign. With this in mind it’s worth knowing how the listings work: The paid listings on the page (in red) are achieved using google adwords (before setting up an account have a good look round as there’s […]

Wedding fairs have always been popular and as a marquee hire company you’re likely to be invited to exhibit often. The organisers will promise a large footfall and explain 101 reasons why you should pay them to have a stand there. The costs are usually relatively cheap, indeed all you need is one booking from […]

Most commercial vehicles are sign-written, free advertising makes perfect sense. There are some circumstances in which I wouldn’t sign-write my marquee related vehicles: Lastly if you are going to sign-write your vehicles please don’t put the writing on the front bonnet back to front. Think of the number of vehicles that will see you in […]

When you first start up a marquee hire business something you always struggle with is photographs for your website. Obviously we supply a few to get you started but really you want a wide selection showing a variety of marquees and effects for customers to see but until you’ve done a marquee like that you […]

If you’re starting up in marquee hire a big issue is advertising. How much do you spend and how do you spend it? Obviously we all want to get to a stage where most of our work is coming from word of mouth recommendations (a claim a suspiciously large number of hire websites announce). But […]

If you receive money for marquee hire you need to be covered for public liability insurance and have some good terms and conditions to back yourself up. Insurance There are several insurance firms who specialise in marquee hire cover -we include their details with all of our marquee sales. They can cover you for one-off […]

This is a conversation I have regularly, you’re interested in starting a marquee hire business and don’t know where to start. This is what I suggest: Research Find out who your local competitors are, what marquees they offer and how much they charge for the sort of marquees you’re likely to offer. If there are […]

I’m often asked why we don’t powder coat our marquee framework so here’s why: When I suffered my back injury and realised I had to go into marquee sales rather than marquee hire I started to do some research. Basically I picked the brains of mates in the industry, various contacts and searched round for […]

What’s the difference between party tents and marquees? In a word, nothing. Well that was a short blog.. One of our customers met a rival recently who tried to tell him he wasn’t hiring marquees he was hiring party tents in what was obviously meant as an insult. This leads to two points of discussion: You imagine […]