Marquee hirers suggestion to reduce stress
It’s the middle of the season, you’ve had to work on Saturday due to a particularly large and tricky marquee job and now you’ve finally got to relax on a Sunday afternoon with your feet up watching TV. Suddenly your mobile goes off and one of the lads who works for you wants to know what marquees are going up on Wednesday as he’d like to knock off early. Or maybe a customer’s calling to add another table to their booking in 3 months time.
If you’re like me and it takes you a while to wind down then this is quite literally the last thing you need. Not everyone’s like this – I’ve got a mate who also sells marquees who can happily answer his phone on holiday and not let it ruin his day. Not me. And if it’s not you then the solution is very easy.
Buy another mobile phone!
Have one for your friends and family that stays on most of the time and one for work that you turn off when not at work. When contracts are as little as £10/month or even pay as you go there’s really no reason not to (other than the pain of carrying two mobiles). Keep your personal mobile number a treasured secret while your work mobile can be on your business cards and website.
If I’m working in the evening or at weekends, my work mobile’s on – as a lot of you will know I’ll talk about marquee hire all day! But when Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (my daughter’s current program of choice) is on, the work phone’s off.
Trust me, this really helps.
My only exception to this would be when you first start up. I’m fortunate enough to (part) own a 30 year old company that’s widely regarded as one of the market leaders. When you first start up you’re not so lucky (unless you’ve parted with a wedge of cash!), you need to stand out for your service and reliability -I’m afraid having your phone answered out of hours is one way of doing it.
So my advice? Buy a work mobile straight from the off – have it on as much as possible (note: wedding anniversaries and birthday parties probably come in the ‘not possible’ group) but when you start to feel under pressure or stressed -turn it off out of hours. Let yourself relax a bit.
Just remember to turn it back on again afterwards.
Thanks for reading
Spencer
-I’m playing around with the comments section. I disabled them when I was getting too much spam from it (200 daily!) but hopefully it’ll be working soon.
-I’ve finally updated our gallery with some photos so pop in if you need some new ideas, there’s a few of our marquees used to replace a church in Nigeria!
