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What budget do you need to start a marquee hire business

This is a question I get asked often and my response is nearly always the same – don’t throw a large amount of money at it to start with.

Now this might be a little surprising considering my position, surely it’s in our interest to sell someone as much equipment as possible? Well yes, but we take a longer term view -if we look after you then when you expand or need to replace stock you’ll come back to us for more. If you turn tound afte a year with a lot of stock that you’ve never used then you won’t think much of my recommendations!

Basically I’d suggest something around £3000 to start with if you’re starting it up on a part-time basis:

Our silver package for marquees (£3057.60)
A Website (£240)
Local advertising (£300)*
Vehicle/trailer/transport (£500)*
* Depending in what you choose and have available this may be more/less

This is based on someone starting a business slowly and buying more marquees as needed – when our delivery time is generally 2-3 days from stock it makes life a lot easier to expand!

If you need a large return straight away and you’re doing this full time then obviously you’ll need more marquees to start with (this is what our gold package is aimed at).

Thanks for reading

Spencer