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 […]
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Marquee hire insurance and terms and conditions
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 […]
Marquee Advice: First steps to marquee hire
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 […]
Party Tents use powder coating marquees are galvanised
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 […]
Marquee Advice: Party Tents or Marquees?
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 […]
So you’ve decided to start a marquee hire company?
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 […]
Mr Jones wants to cover as much of his garden with marquees as possible
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 […]
Marquee Advice: Marquees in the winter
September is usually the last busy marquee month of the season. If you’re still very busy through October and the Christmas market then you’re doing very well. There is a change to the way people use marquees during the winter though: In the main erecting winter marquees is a far more relaxed business than summer […]
Marquee Advice: Stacks of chairs in marquees
There is one wedding marquee we did that sticks out for several reasons. It was the largest wedding we were doing that year and a lot of work had gone on beforehand – many many site visits and alterations but it did promise to be quite a special marquee. Having been on site most of […]
Marquee Advice: How big a marquee do I need?
Asking how big a marquee is required is one of your main jobs as a marquee supplier. Often the size of the garden will dictate the size of marquee but you still need to know how much space everything takes up to then plan suitable numbers. Here’s how most marquee hire companies work out the […]