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77 Shares We’ve got a GREAT hustle for you today – #46 already, can you believe it? – by my man as part of our. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did! Photography has always been a passion of mine. So one day when glancing over the business section of Craigslist for my city, I saw “photo booth business for sale,” which intrigued me enough to click the ad.

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It said something like: “Zulabooth Photo Booths, Makes over $30k per year, seller moving and must sell, easy business, only $15k for the whole thing!” After reading lines like that I thought it was a bit too good to be true, but still emailed the owner for more information. After stopping by to see the booth, how it worked, and ironing out a few more details, I felt comfortable this was a legitimate business. Not only did the owner have payment records for the year (in which he made $37,000 gross in 2011), he also seemed motivated to get rid of it since he was moving out of state and I was the only interested party. After negotiating back and forth I finally purchased the booth for $6,600, but ended up then also working 10 scheduled events without payment to finalize the contract. (Editor’s note: that’s a hustler right there! Getting creative and doing whatever it takes to get a good deal.) Running a booth is a piece of cake once you get the basics down, but the hardest part of the business is getting noticed. So if you’re good at marketing you’ll do well. Tools plugins cccam scripts en tools for mac os.

Does it Require Technical Expertise? A little bit of familiarity with camera settings such as ISO, shutter speed and aperture definitely help, but once you know the basic settings you’ll use at events it really doesn’t change much. You can practice these settings in your living room to get comfortable before working your first event. I practiced on friends and myself for hours to get comfortable. You’ll also have to learn a software program and know how to hook everything up, but after a few hours it’s pretty easy to master. Once you’ve got that down you literally just stand at the event, talk to people, babysit the booth to make sure it doesn’t run out of paper, make sure the guests are behaving, and overall ensure everyone is having a good time. The Benefits of Running a Photo Booth Business Freedom to decide when you want to work is a big one.

In the winters I often turn down events simply because I don’t want to work them, or if I have plans for a certain date I simply email the person back thanking them, but saying we’re booked.Then of course the biggest benefit is the money. I typically make $100 an hour gross profit before taxes are accounted for. If I work two events in a weekend it’s quite easy to make $1,000.

This is all received before I even show up to the event as I require a deposit to hold the date, and then payment in full before the day of the event. I used to bartend and work the same hours, and would be happy if I made $200 a night. The photo booth allows me to make upwards of three times that much and do a lot less physical work. I also created a Solo 401k so that I can funnel a lot of my side business income tax free for retirement. The Downfalls of Running One The vast majority of events I work are Friday and Saturday nights in the summer,which means it definitely digs into your social life.

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Booths at weddings are huge, so you also have to deal with some drunken idiots at times, especially the guys who like to occasionally take off their pants and snap a picture of their you know what. (Editor’s note: My friends are these people he’s talking about, haha Personally, I prefer to go the photobomb route;)). It seems that the biggest hassle is playing the role of bouncer and reminding people to behave. During the events since there are often a lot of drunk people I also have to constantly be watching the booth to make sure nobody is tipping it over or doing anything that could damage it. Another downfall is that you’re at the mercy of obtaining leads, which for me are mostly based on my. If you don’t know how to market the business online, you’re probably not going to do well. But since I know a fair amount about building websites and getting a decent ranking, it has helped my business a lot.

SEO is probably the most important marketing activity you can do. If you don’t know SEO, hire someone or use Google Adwords to pay for clicks. But all that will cut into your profit margin. Advice For Those Starting Out If you’re at an event with a photo booth, start talking to the person there and ask them if they can show you how it works and give you any pointers. Other than that, I would call photo booths in your local market to get a general idea of how booked up they are, and the average price they’re charging so that you can create a basic business plan to see if you’ll be able to turn a profit. Likewise if you’re building a booth from scratch, search Craigslist to find anyone getting out of the business, or to find your equipment such as your printer, camera, or laptop used for a cheaper rate.

If you’re willing to sacrifice your weekend nights in the wedding season, aren’t afraid of peer pressure from drunk people, and have a few thousand to invest in to get it up and running, a photo booth is a great way to make some decent money and pay off chunks of your bills each month. ——— Ryan blogs about photography over at where he shares a more detailed article on for those interested.

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Hey terrible husband (nice name:) ) I’ve thought of this a bit. However, the biggest issue is transporting the booth. It works if you have a large truck and drop off the booths before the event and pick up after, but if you don’t have a large vehicle and if the events are spaced far apart in terms of distance and time slots, it doesn’t flow very well. The other option is to have your employees use their own vehicles (which would need to be fairly large), and then of course there are insurance and trust issues with that. At this point I have too many other projects to try to build up the photo booth business and make it scalable, but it’s a nice side income with high margin.

Nice shark tank reference J! February 6, 2014 at 7:45 am. I just opened my photography business back in march of 2014, and I just booked my first large event.

They requested a photo booth, and I told them I will make it happen I have all the props and am getting the back drops soon, but my question is about the dye sub printers I have an iPad air, and was hoping to use that for taking the pictures, so I can keep my professional camera to use to take pics of the party. I have researched tons of printers but none seem to say mac or iPad comparable. I am really interested in the mitsubishi and the DNP8 as I would love one that prints out 8×10’s. Can someone please help me with this? What printers/software do you use and how is the quality of the print? Thanks so much:-) Jess January 6, 2015 at 2:06 am. Hi there, first offthank you!

This information has been so useful. Best bitcoin wallet for mac. This business is something im starting on my own as well and have no clue where to begin.

Im not sure of the quality and comparison upon the different supplies to purchase. Do you have any recommendations of bigger bang for the buck, cameras, printers, booth style set ups, etc? The internet has so many options, but it would be nice to hear it from someone in the industry.

Thanks again so much. I look forward to hearing from you back. Sincerely, Tracy February 13, 2016 at 5:12 am. I started my photo booth rental company in 2011. I quit my job day job of 11 years to pursue the business full time. It was the best decision of my life. When I first started the concept of a portable photo booths was still new.

So we had to be innovative and build our own. Actually I paid someone to do it for me because I simply did not know the process or even touched a electric saw in my life.

I bought everything piece by piece. Wired everything together. Figured out how breeze DSLR remote pro worked and read the manual over and over again. We even made our own velvet curtains from scratch. 2 years in the business we were doing more than 20 events in a day. Being that busy is not always a good thing. It comes with a lot of sacrifice and no sleep.

I’ve scaled down to a cofortable level since then and pick and choose events that we want to do. Much has changed since then and now photo booths are becoming the norm at every event. The style of photo booths have evolved and the technology is a lot better. For those who have been in the industry for awhile will need to change or be left behind. For those wanting to get started.

My advice is just to GET STARTED. Write out a plan or even a list and start executing that plan. I started with a box, then I bought a printer, etc etc. Do anything that will make you move toward that goal of owning a booth.

Mixpad free download full version for mac download. There are definitely a lot of options out there. Just do your due deligence and read and research so you can find something that fits your needs, taste and personality. February 29, 2016 at 4:58 pm. Great read!!!

Thanks a lot for this. I’m in the process of researching about photobooths, but I got my answer now. I mostly do wedding video/photography and thought a photobooth might be a nice extra income. I usually do not like to spend alot of money (like to get it in instead) so I will be building my own. Already got an extra camera as well as a dye-sublimation printer:) Now, just for my portable fold-up booth which could be easily transportable. As backup, I will use a selphy printer:) Thanks once again for the great infor here everybody!!!!! Lizzette Soto May 12, 2016 at 4:18 am.

Great info here!!! Back in 2009, I breathe and eat everything about photo booth. I remember joining the Photoboothtalk.com website and seen the biggest photo booth in the world. They were so big you needed a SUV or bigger to transport the photo booth. During that same time, I stumbled on mvsstudio.com website. They had the most skinniest, smallest, and sleek-style photo booth I have ever seen.

This is back in 2009 or 2010. They were my first stop in buying and wanting a photo booth that I could setup at events. I was the ‘Go-to-Camera-girl” in my town and if I had this same photo booth, I would have been set for life. I punched an open air photo booth (no enclosed & no drapes) in 2014. Before that (2011-2013), I used the Alien Bees ABR800 on a tripod and handed over the remote control for the clients to take pictures of themselves. Or you can check out my old Facebook page One thing I would like for you to take away is when you purchasing a photo booth make sure it is easy for you to setup and use (weight less than 50 lbs).

Purchase from a company that has outstanding customer service. Check out Minbooth.com or ShutterQue.com and tell them Jackie from NYC sent you. They are amazing and will help you with each step. See if you could purchase the Shell (photo booth housing).

You don’t need the items inside because you might have that in your house already. You might have cables, strobe lights, or a tablet already. If not, then purchase the entire setup and you will be fine. September 6, 2016 at 11:48 am. Hmmmm, per my research, there seems to be a proliferation of such companies in every single major metropolitan area of this country. 100s of websites and companies for rent or sale of photo booth. This market cannot be that hot, I feel a lot of these guys will go bust very soon, its getting cutthroat and there are too many hands and all too often low quality performance from the smaller players.

I cannot imagine there is so much demand to buy a few thousand dollar piece of entertainment equipment for 100s of entities to be selling it claiming the good ole MAKE HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS AN HOUR with just one invest and no skills. People need to know when to jump ship. November 21, 2016 at 5:02 pm. Hi All, Thought I’d jump in to the discussion here.

As several posters mentioned, the photo booth category is popular and has been since around 2007. Forbes just posted an article that showed a Google trends chart from 2009-2016 which reflected that searches for ‘photo booth rental’ outpaced searched for ‘DJ rental’ and ‘wedding photographers.’ There has been an upward trend line for ‘photo booth rental’ and is both a great side business and full-time business. Skye November 29, 2016 at 10:21 am. Photo booths are definitely a great side hustle! If you’re someone who enjoys your your weekends however, as you’ve stated, losing your weekends to gigs will be a huge bummer! Also another understated road bump for newbies is the learning curve for software and technical difficulties. In the middle of events it can be stressful if your equipment fails (it will fail eventually).

But if you know how to troubleshoot and can keep calm under pressure, you’ll thrive and won’t want to throw your photo booth out the window after your first event! March 29, 2018 at 9:45 am.

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