Bouncy Castle Business - Introduction

We hope very much that you find this guide useful in starting your own Bouncy Castle business.

We have been running our business for many years now. In the couple of months prior to forming the business we spent a lot of time and effort researching many areas of this industry. Hopefully, this guide will save you this time and effort and allow you to set up your business much quicker.

Still, before starting to read this guide through there are a few areas that we need to cover.

First of all you need to decide whether you are going to run your business as a full or part time business. Below we have highlighted the issues with each:

Part time: It is possible to run your business as a part time business if you work elsewhere during the week as obviously the main bulk of your business is on the weekends. If you do this you will need to have some way of taking bookings as these mainly come during normal working hours (you will also find that you will pick up a lot of bookings at the last minute due to people watching the weather). The best way of doing this is to have somebody who is able to take phone calls during the week as this will be the main core of your business. You will find that you will lose bookings if you rely solely on on-line bookings or returning phone calls from an answering machine as customers will phone the next one in the Yellow Pages if they don’t get an answer. It may also be worth having someone who can handle your deliveries during the week; this isn’t normally a problem apart from during the summer holidays from school when you will be asked to do mid-week bookings.

Full time: If you run the business full time you would need to invest more money at the outset as you will obviously not be able to reinvest as much towards expansion of the business. We would suggest that you would need to start with at least 6-8 Bouncy Castles and a range of party games. The other area that you will need to think about is the winter. When out of season you will only pick up the odd hall bookings which will not be enough to earn a living, so you will need to either have a part time job during this time or have another side to the business which would logically be marquees. We can’t give advice on the marquee side as we haven’t moved into this area but we would suggest that the investment on this side would be quite large. To compete in this market you would need to supply chairs, tables, heaters etc and you would need higher staffing levels.

Once you have decided at what level you want to move into the industry you will need to work out your budget. Over the next several blog posts you will find details of all your initial outlays and what purchases you need to make and what you could maybe get away with leaving until your business is better established.

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