Running a Childrens Entertainment | 2021

Running a Children's Entertainment & Rental Company

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As the spring started in 2017 I started wondering about how I could make extra income to support my family. Being already self-employed can be hard at times especially when things slow down. It can leave you pretty much stressed out as your hand become idol. Running a T-shirt printing business is highly competitive at time so you can imagine the need for extra income.

while surfing the internet for other part-time businesses i could sink my hand into I came across children entertainment and rentals. I was intrigued by the thought. I mean i already have two young children ages 3 and 4 and thirteen nieces and nephews which i play a active role as a uncle with them. So handling kids come very easy to me. I thought hey this can't be so tough. So i did some research about the business googling my local competition, checking classified site seeing if they were being used to advertise the business and if it was effective. After a few week i made my choice I said ya i'm gonna invest some money into this business. I gathered up some extra money I had and started by buying a bouncy castle, snow-cone and popcorn machine all of which were brand new at the time. I spent about 3000.00 for everything. (Photos Below)

After I made my purchases, I started advertising online by using classified ads, and word of mouth. I had adjusted my price to the local competition, and had special packages for people that rented out all three pieces. 

My first booking was an older family who was having they're son third birthday. They were very polite I mostly spoke with the husband as he directed me to the outdoor electrical ports. He was surprised he saw such a young man doing it he more expected it to be someone more older like in their forties (under 30). He asked if i was the delivery man for the bouncy castle. I smile and proudly said " no, this is my side business". After setting up they paid me, i said i'd be back later  around 8:00 to pick up the castle. I left and came back a few hours later packed everything up into my SUV and went home. All i a days work it wasn't so Bad i thought to myself I could do this on a larger scale if all goes well. 

During the next month and a half I was book pretty much every Saturday and Sunday. I had gotten back my initial invest and i was in the clear. Everything after that was profit and it was pretty good money. Renting out the castle for 200.00 for the day. Thing were going pretty good other then the Saturday i stay at a party for a few hours cause it started to rain when i was about to leave after setting up. That day panicked I didn't want the blower to break i had placed a bag and a box over the blower to protect it and sat there in my car till the rain went away. The sun was shining my customer (a young lady) was happy i left. The summer went by fast and i Thought to myself i need to keep this business  continuing  October almost here and it gonna get cold. Then it hit me I can Buy some mascots from popular children's shows and to appearances. Party mascot's is a fun add on to the business mascot are cheap and the appearances cost about half of the price of a mascot. So with just two bookings you could get your return on invest (ROI). I started with 5 mascot: Pikachu (Pokemon), Minions (Minions movie), Chase (paw patrols), Marshall (paw patrols), and Poppy (Trolls). I paid around 1200.00 dollar for all five. While i waited for I started working on a website through Hostgator. They have great template building tools.You can see the website I created below:
www.rentaevent.net. After I had recieved the mascot I started advertising through Google Adword and through online classified.
The first weekend I was booked I made 640.00 dollars. As I write this it is November 2017. I will be updating this Post as i will also have more for those who need help.

Thanks.
 
check out my websites:
www.rentaevent.net
www.getaccustom.com


please feel free to email me for any advice:

rentaeventkids@gmail.com

Most profitable Mascot to Purchase for 2021

    As the New year approaches ahead many of you may wonder what mascots should you buy if you are just starting out or are seasoned in the game. Because of my 3 children and 15 nephews and nieces. I have become incredibly accustomed to what is trending in the wide adventurous world of children's entertainment.  Also because I am in the children's entertainment and rental industry I get many requests from parents for various mascots, some of which I have other's which i don't have

 

The Following is a list of Trending mascot that will help you to keep getting booking in 2020 :

1. Baby Shark, baby shark, dodo do do dodo if you haven't haven't heard this song yet the your Cleary out of touch . this is one of the most popular song on the internet.
there are three color you can get pink, blue or yellow. I suggest the yellow shark to start in order to be generic so that you can do both boy and girls parties( parents can be picky)

2. Coco Melon

3. PJ Mask

4. Baby Shark

5. Baby Shark

How to start a bouncy castle Rental business

 Although there are many ways people would consider to start a bouncy castle business. I've started from the ground up and I've actually created a quite a successful business that takes about only 2 days per week. please note that I'd like to mention that my experience comes from running a bouncy castle business in Canada. Many of the things that I've learned are transferable within North America and even the UK so here's my advice on how to start in what you will need and what's good to start with.

 

 1. Get logo/Brand name 

 One of the first things I did before I started my business was create a name creation is absolutely important to your business try to make your name something that's catchy and within the bounce House theme or if your doing party rentals altogether then the party rental theme. Such as bouncy kingdom, let's bounce around, 3-2-1 bounce. The reason for this is it will help with your search engine optimization and help Google to find your business website especially when you link it to Google search console (I will speak on this in another article).

 2. Create social media pages

 I'm not going to explain how important it is to have social media page at the beginning of your business this should already be created before you even start. The reason why is once you have this page created you can use this as a website if you don't have enough money initially to afford a website or have a website professionally designed. /by having social media page such as Facebook and/or Instagram, it allows your potential customer to feel comfortable with your business and want to spend money. Most customer will feel you are more legit by having social media.

 3. Get social awareness.

In order for you to get social proofing or brand proofing awareness you may need to ask friends and family to comment on and review your business on Facebook, Instagram, Google Business.

 The reason for this is starting up your business with no reviews or buyers is hard people can be scared to put their hard-earned money booking you they don't want you toSo it is important for you to have some kind of brand awareness. 

4. Picking the bouncy castle.

Depending on how much money you have to start with, what kind of determines what you should buy. I would suggest that you have a budget of at least 7-10k but if you don't have that I didn't either when I started it a suggestion based on the income I started making when I got that amount of total inventory. 

my suggestion is you buy a regular bouncer or a smaller bouncer with a slide combo. The first bouncer that I purchased was a smaller bouncer with a slide and that bouncy castle has brought me a long way these few years and has been rented very often. If you're not sure where to buy bouncy castles that are made by good manufacturers I can provide you with a link below or you can simply send me a message and I'd be happy to help you.

 

 5. Additional rental products

 

 Although you might not realize it but having additional rental products is absolutely important to increasing your revenue when starting a bouncy castle business when I had first bought the bouncy castle I also bought a snow cone machine and a popcorn machine. Both of which were very successful when I combine them together with the rental of the bouncy castle. you might see a lot of companies that don't offer these machines but I assure you when a parent sees machines being offered they will willingly I them to the rental. having these added also increases the revenue that you will get from travelling to one place or one event. One of my early mistakes is that I should have bought a cotton candy machine over the popcorn machine even though it was a little bit more money it was requested a lot more when combined with a bouncy castle. I wish didn't have initially and had to get it a few months after I started my business. So take it from me guys when you start get a snow cone machine and a cotton candy machine.

 

 6. Rental supplies.

  It is important that you have all the required supplies for your rental items, such as cotton candy sugar, popcorn, snow cone syrup. I suggest that you do a simple google search of local providers of these items to purchase them. You can also check with amazon if you aren't able to get those items online.

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