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If you’re starting a marquee hire business, you need to plan and have knowledge of when’s the busiest time of year. It seems obvious – summer. end of blog. More specifically peak season for most hire companies is from the middle of May to the middle of September. Business will build up and fade away […]

It doesn’t matter how big a company you are winter months for a marquee hire business are going to be quieter than the summer. A fool could tell you that. In fact a fool is telling you that! Business will have gradually slowed down in October and November will be very quiet. It depends on […]

It may not be the first thing on your list but it’s one of the more interesting: -choosing a name for your new start up marquee business. There’s lots of general information about registering your name here. If you read about marketing you’ll hear a lot about ‘promoting your brand’ and similar ‘brand awareness’ stuff. […]

I’m not really one for marketing lingo but everyone should know their USP -Unique Selling Point. It will probably change as you grow, expand and find your market but you should have an idea of what it is right now. If you’re starting up a marquee hire business or thinking of it and worried how […]

In the marquee hire business commission rears its head from many places. People see you taking £1k for erecting a marquee? They want a part of it. Some are deserved, some aren’t and some fall in between where you have to judge if it’s a sound business idea or not. There are some sites like […]

If you’re starting up a marquee hire business you need to do your research. The first thing to research is the competition. If your local area is swamped with small-medium marquee companies then you might need to think twice about your venture. If there’s hardly any firms or (just as good) only large companies then […]

And why do I need to know? Well from a start up point of view you might be looking at whether to buy an existing company or start it yourself. You may have built up a business and thinking of selling for whatever reason, or you may just be nosy at how much your business […]

I find myself spending a lot of time looking at different marquee hire websites. It might be looking for people who would find the marquee forum useful or just keeping up with what’s going on in the industry. But the biggest thing that hits me on most of the websites is you can’t see what […]

Part of your job when supplying a marquee is to help plan the event as a whole. Remember it’s in your interest for the event to go well and smoothly as that is likely to generate future bookings and expand your business in the best way – by word of mouth recommendations. Once you’ve established […]

Your job as a marquee hirer isn’t just to supply and erect the marquee but often to help with the planning involved, especially planning the layout. But just organising the internal layout isn’t enough, you need to advise on: Eddie Izzard makes a good case for first impressions. Windows will always make a marquee more […]