There are some businesses that you can start without requiring technical skills or specialized knowledge and that with some planning can result in an excellent option to generate extra income.
One of those businesses is animation of children’s parties and today I will tell you how you can take the first steps in this beautiful and pleasant business.
What is the need to satisfy with this service?
When someone wants to organize a children’s celebration, such as a birthday, a baptism, a school activity or for simple entertainment, an infinity of questions arise to answer. For example: food, music, fun, piñata, event preparation and post-event cleaning, decoration, etc.
And since not all people have the appropriate skills and resources to organize a children’s event no matter how small it may seem, this is where your offer of entertainment services for children’s parties.
What is the business?
This business tries to provide customers with all the infrastructure and services necessary to organize their party. It allows them to find a diversity of options to supply what their event requires and better yet, find options for different budget levels.
The secret is to facilitate the organization for your clients by providing solutions and advice for their success. Finally, what every parent wants is for their guests to have fun and have the best time, with minimal organizational stress.
What does it take to get started?
The first step towards shaping the idea is to create a list of possible services to offer, like the one we list below, and define according to your investment budget which ones you are likely to start with. The idea is to start with some basic services and gradually include some other options as your capital grows.
As you can see, the possibilities of what can be supplied are wide and you should not pretend to offer everything but to start with what you can attend to and do well because remember that good references are valuable from the beginning to generate more customers in the future.
What services are offered?
In general terms, these are some of the services that your catalog should include to entertain children’s parties:
- Decoration of the place (balloons, streamers, flower arrangements, etc.)
- Furniture rental or party rentals: chairs, tables, boards
- Glassware rental: plates, cutlery, table linen, pitchers, etc.
- Rent of inflatables: slides, climbers, castles, etc. Different sizes for different age ranges.
- Water inflatable rental: ideal for summer parties such as swimming pools, slides, water guns, sliders, etc.
- Arcade game rental: ping-pong tables, futile tables, pool tables, basketball baskets, gotcha, etc.
- Food service: hot dog carts, popcorn, soft serve ice cream, pizza, or more formal food if required
- Entertainment services: clowns, children’s plays, magicians, dances, mimes.
- Hall rental for events
- Musicalization
- Awnings rental
- Sale and preparation of piñatas, sweets, etc.
The Sales Strategy
A catalog. To begin, it is ideal to prepare a detailed catalog of this list that should have photos of the items and services that you can offer for rent with their measurements, specifications and rental prices (per hour). Of course, children’s parties usually last a full morning or afternoon, so ideal if at once you include an offer with a special price for 3 hours or more.
Web page. You must open a page on the Internet to promote your services, this is not very complicated because today there are many tools to do this at low cost and with minimal knowledge. Another option may be to request the help of someone with Internet knowledge to support you with this activity and that should not cost you more than $ 80 to $ 100 and no more than a couple of weeks to prepare it for you. You can see this post if you want to know how to make your own website easily.
Digitize your Catalog. Once you have prepared your catalog, it is important that you have an electronic version to be able to send it to customers who request it online. Remember that for many people today the Internet is the place where we first look for information to find solutions to our service needs. So, if you are not on the web, you are surely losing 50% of business possibilities.
Serves promptly and formally. What anyone expects when requesting information about your services is speed and clarity in prices. Remember that for a party to be successful it is necessary that everything is in order and that the days and hours contracted be formally attended. Failures in these details can make a big difference and unnecessary claims from your clients.
For this, it is essential to keep your controls on an agenda and comply with them without reservation. The only exception would be some force majeure situation that you should communicate to your client as far in advance as possible so that they can consider some other option.
Promote your business. Promotional work is key to publicize your business and generate demand. You can start by making business cards to give to friends, family and acquaintances for their recommendation. You should also place some classifieds on the Internet and in the main subject directories on the web so that they can find you and request your services. And it is also very important today to invest some amount occasionally in Facebook advertising which can be very targeted and effective.
Advantages of a Children’s Party Animation Business
- You can start small and grow gradually
- The majority of income comes from the provision of services
- It is a business whose main demand is for weekends
- You can gradually invest in resources to provide more services
- The demand is all year long because remember that there are children’s birthdays all the time
The business vision
Last but not least, this business must have a vision and I consider it very noble. This business aims to provide healthy fun! And it also makes it easier for the organizers to work on the details and allows them to please and share the party with their guests and guests.
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