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Free Facebook Marketing For Your Photo Booth Business

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Free Facebook Marketing For Your Photo Booth Business

facebook-photo-boothThere is a common trend in the small business promoting world that it is presently difficult to produce leads on Facebook without paying for publicizing, yet that is just not genuine. While Facebook has to a great extent moved to a “pay to play” stage, there are still approaches to discover new leads, without opening your wallet. Using the accompanying technique from Firebooth.com will surely be helpful as you seek for ways to get more leads without spending a dime.

Begin by investigating Facebook groups that are most active in your general vicinity. Search out the local event planners in your area, wedding planners, prom/post-prom groups and other event planning firms visible within your location. Apart from this, try as much as you can to join any of the following or all the groups such as single garage sale groups, classified groups, bulletin board group, community group, etc.. The Facebook search tool is a great ally. When you join a couple of these groups, Facebook will start suggesting similar groups to you. You are then required to pitch your tent with the groups that are available in your area as this can make it easy for you to visit each one of them with your photo Booth.

Once your membership with these groups has been affirmed by the administrator, ensure you have a good understanding of their rules and tenets. Do not start by spamming the group with your photo booth business. Instead, share useful tips and ideas that does not violate the rules of the group. Individuals from these groups will continually approach different individuals for proposals and referrals for a wide range of administration based organizations. Individual declaration and proposal is unfathomably effective.

In the end, somebody will ask for a proposal for a photo booth rental and this is your opportunity to make an individual association. Answer to the post with your name, site and email address, offering your services and expertise. Try not to hide the fact that you are a representative of your organization, simply be as truthful as you can be and let the individual realize this is your photo booth organization. Essentially express your organization’s name and your desire to speak further about your photo booth services

Keep up with the post with a private message to members of the group and show the desire to talk more about his/her event. Begin a discussion about the occasion, similar to the contact’s posts to create goodwill and, most importantly, be as friendly as possible and easygoing as opposed to a “businessperson.” You need the group members to feel like they are getting photo booth suggestions and tips from a reliable person, not a shark in a move to make a sale.

Facebook groups also has a search feature, which permits you to hunt down watchwords inside the Facebook group. After you’ve joined a group, search “photo booth” and try to see whether there have been any past talks. Maybe there weren’t any proposals given and it’s not very late to mention your photo booth business.

Also, don’t be reluctant to request that individuals recommend you in Facebook groups. On the off chance that you book an occasion through a particular Facebook groups, request that the customer prescribe your services to the individuals from the group. If the rules of the group permits, post some photographs of the event to the group page and tag your customer(s).

“Once every month or twice a month, I will simply send a general impact to all the groups that are connected to my photo booth website (your ability to post this on any group is highly dependent on the rules guiding the group), just to put photo booth services on individuals’ radar. Then again maybe I have a date that recently won’t book on the date-book, you could promote that date.

With persistence and keen posting, you can create leads through Facebook that you could never have known about.

Now this is our part in helping you create leads using photo booth without spending a dime. You also can do your part by sharing with friends and joining our newsletter services in order to have our latest articles delivered to your mail box.

What You Should Know About The Bridal Expo Email List

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What You Should Know About The Bridal Expo Email List

Bridal Expo Email List

If you think getting married is all about the man getting down on one knee to his lady, and live happily ever after, you may be right, but there’s more work to it than that.

If you are like the majority of people living on planet earth, you’ll know that it actually takes quite a long time to plan out and get everything as close to perfect as possible for a wedding.

“Oh boy… does this mean you got to pull out the yellow book and give all the wedding planners, artists, photographer, and many others to help you get the wedding together?”

Actually, no, it’s quite easier nowadays because there’s something special that happens every year. That special something is called a Bridal Expo.

If you are a photographer or a photo booth business owner, you have got to make sure that you take advantage of this event because of the huge potential benefit of building clients… and making you more money, which makes your business a success.

The key to attending this event is to collect an email list for yourself, how else are you going to get clients? If they don’t come to you, well then, you’ll go to them.

Some bridal shows will sell you a bulk of email list so that you don’t need to collect them yourself. This sounds easy and a good deal to not pass up on, right?

It may be a good offer, but be careful with emails that you did not collect yourself because there needs to be an approval or permission in order to email people about your business.

Before you get excited and plan your next trip to one of these bridal expos, let’s make sure you know what to expect and understand about the bridal expo email list.

 

Paying For The Email List

Let’s start out with what the Bridal Expo will offer you.

Like we mentioned previously, you can actually buy a bulked list of emails collected from the people who are going to be attending the event.

Great! No need to ask people for their emails when it’s all paid and done for.
It’s no doubt quite a good thing since you’ll just attend the expo and just have some fun chit chatting with future clients.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but the bulk list you paid for may have a lot of emails that don’t exist because they were either misspelled or fakes.

This happened to me at my first expo that I participated in back in 2012. I had no idea what to expect from this. I didn’t even know that you get a list at the end of the event (about a week later).

Not knowing anything about expos other that you were there to show off your product. I came prepared with my iPad and asked almost everyone who stop by the booth to give me their information. I asked for their name, email, phone and the date of their event.

Although it’s was not completely a bad idea, you can still get a few legit emails that can be potential clients but do know that it will be a lower percentage rather than going to these expos and collecting the emails yourself.

After the event I manually entered all the emails that I got into Constant Contact and did a email blast to say it was great meeting them and that I am available for any questions that they may have about the photo booth.

A week later when I received the list fromt the actual expo. I did the same thing and found that the bounce rate was much higher. Simply because of misspelled and wrong emails.

Expos that acquire their email list through Eventbrite tend to have better success because they have to confirm their information within their system.

It also really depends on the expos that you go to, some may offer better email lists than others, so it’s pretty much a gamble at that point.

Even though there are some negative aspects to the paid email list, I would definitely ask how they expo organizer acquires their emails if you are going to buy their list.

 

Collecting Emails At The Expo Yourself

A great way to take advantage of your bridal expo experience is to build a relationship with future clients. This works a lot better than just buying the whole list yourself because, well, there’s the whole connection and trust that people get from communicating in person than just reading an email from someone they have never met in their entire life.

Collecting the emails yourself is quite easy. You go to the event, set up your exhibit and introduce yourself and what you will be offering to the soon to be wedded lovers.

A lot of people may bring laptops with their website on to gather emails. Although that’s a great idea, there’s something else much simpler and more efficient to use, and it’s all done on your iPad!

The app that’s highly recommended to gather emails and other social information is called OnSpot Social.

If I only knew about this app back then, it would definitely saved me a ton of time!

What’s so great about this app is that it allows you to look professional, quickly set up your business, powerful link between different business in different locations, and you can put all data (emails) to aweber, mailchimp, etc.

Quick Setup: You can easily set up images, background, and your business logo for whatever service you will be providing. Since we are a photo booth base business, it’s a great app to make us look unique and well presentable when introducing our services to future clients.

Powerful Link Between Different Businesses: This is a crucial part for photo booth owners who own more than one photo booths in many different locations. Anywhere that business is located, it will be linked to one ipad.

Link To Email Services: A link to email services that helps you organize and create campaigns such as Aweber or Mailchimp is the main reason why we went to the expo in the first place. This feature that OnSpot gives will make it easier for you to import all the emails you have collected at the expo. By doing this you’ll probably have a better bulk list of legit and trusted clients.

 

Ending Thoughts:

So, should you choose to not pay the Bridal Expo for the bulk lists of emails since you can do it yourself? Maybe, if you feel like it to be honest.

Most expos provide you with their attendee email list anyway which I think is a great start. As for me I like the more personal approach and asking them for their event information so I can send them reminders every month to keep our service in mind.

What I would recommend is to do both, that way you can maximize the potential of building new customers and bring your photo booth business to the next level.

Have fun at the expo and try to get to know people. Invest your time in finding who these people are and what benefits you can give to them for their wedding plan.

Photo Booth Props Tips and Tricks to Eliminate Glare

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Photo Booth Props Tips and Tricks to Eliminate Glare

No Glare Props

Photo booth props, they are fun, silly, and a great way to bring your clients together for pictures that let their creativity and imagination run free.

Often times when someone buy props for their photo booth, they don’t get the chance to try them out to see if the props will work well with their photo booth and lighting.

What I meant by that is the props will usually reflect light, also known as glare, at certain angles.

Have you yourself bought props for your photo booth business that just had glare in every single photo?

Surely not all props glare up in photo booths, but most do and it’s quite frustrating to offer your customers props that have to be held at a certain angle to reduce the glare.

Most likely your customers will not like the fact that they can’t move freely and not have the props glare.

It’s a problem and one that can be easily fixed with the right tools.

The Anti-Glare Photo Booth Props

There are two ways I believe that really helps you reduce or completely take out the glares from photo booth props.

One way is to use a clear matte spray paint and apply it onto all of your props.

The second method is to make your own DIY props which are quite simple. We offer a DIY prop kit that has all the best props layout and materials needed to make your props.

Doing it yourself can produce props that have no traces of glare in them. It also depends on the type of materials you use. We recommend using construction paper with various types of colors.

The best way of course, like previously mentioned, is to use a clear matte spray paint and apply it to the props that you see have the most glare when taking photos.

You shouldn’t, however, try to apply it all at once so quickly as it will form bumps, bubbles, and holes that can be easily seen. Our purpose is to get perfect props, not cause anymore problems.

Because you won’t be getting it down your first try, I totally recommend that you don’t try this on your most favorite props.

Start out with the props that are your least favorite.

Follow these two easy steps when applying your clear matte coat.

Items that you will need are: (1) Props that are your least favorite that produces glare, and (2) Clear matte coat.

Step 1: We will want to apply the first coat, but gently. If you force too much clear matte spray it can cause unwanted spots that will ruin your prop.

Step 2: Now apply a second coat, you can be gentle or add a little more to it, but don’t over do it.

Rinse and repeat until you get the clean look that you desire. Usually, you’ll be fine just having one coat on it, but two or three coats will really bring out the colors and eliminate all glares.

The props I like to use in my rental business are the Amscan Photo Fun Signs! These signs are great but reflect light. Applying the matte finish to these props usually do the trick.

Ending Thoughts:

Props are indeed one of the best equipment that you can have for your photo booth business. Props brightens up the mood, and people can easily switch or mix and match between the various props that are available.
Just like our article on Dabbing in the photo booth, props are just another great way to bring the party to your next event.

I hope this has helped you and have your props ready to be used at your next event!

Until then.

Your friend,

Mark