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here were a number of ways people would try to negotiate down the price of a marquee: Negotiating for a much larger order than they will ever place This is where a customer will ask you to quote for a lot of equipment and negotiate for a discount based on the large quantity. They then […]

In most successful marquee hire businesses the customer is treated very well when booking the marquee but is frequently ignored when the actual construction takes place. The person originally pricing for the job is often not the same as the person in charge of putting the marquee up but even when it is the same […]

As their companies expand a lot of our customers simply expand their stock of DIY Marquees and take on more jobs of similar size. A lot of expanding customers wish to offer larger marquees than ours and venture in to aluminium frame marquees to run along side their existing DIY Marquees. There are merits to […]

Experienced marquee erectors will be able to look at a garden and just see exactly how a marquee will fit and exactly what it would look like. Always keep in mind that your customers won’t be able to do this, giving them a few details and asking them to use their imagination is going to […]

When I was on the way back to our yard one day thoroughly cheesed off that one vital part had not been loaded I came up with a solution. Up until that point we’d just loaded from memory. The best system we came up with was to laminate the parts list for each marquee, each […]

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, […]