Marquee Hire Business Advice

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 […]

What now? Well first off is the boring bit – research and budget. It’s not just the marquees you have to consider, it’s the advertising, insurance, storage and transport. Today I’m going to cover transport: Regular readers may know I went on a course to become a qualified electrician a few years ago, most people […]

We recently had a visit by a Mr Jones, he was planning a party and wanted to extend his house in to the garden using marquees. This is a pretty common scenario for marquee hire companies especially during the winter months. Mr Jones came in with a diagram of his garden with the marquees he […]

In the marquee hire trade it’s to be expected that sometimes people will want to decorate their marquees. The results can be stunning so there’s no problem there, the problems arrive when they’re not taken away properly afterwards. The sort of things you come across are: We had a note in our terms and conditions […]