Possibly looking to rent a photo booth for a wedding.

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I made this thread on another forum and it keeps acting up. So I decided to make the thread here. I live in North Jersey. To be exact East Orange, NJ. I was just looking into possibly renting a photo booth for a wedding. The wedding is for October 23 and they are looking for a DJ to provide lights and a photo booth for their wedding. Their budget is $800 for 4 hours. Not that bad or maybe it is for what they want. Just looking to see if it would be worth it or not with that budget. Just looking at drumming up more business. What should it cost to rent one and if you feel their budget is too low, what would you say it should be?

The lights are simple. I already have some lights I can use. I would just put them on a light stand and be done with it. I have the light stand as well.
 
$800 for a photobooth is about right .. if you are insinuating their entire budget is $800, then good luck.
 
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In northern NJ, that budget is unrealistic for their desires, but good for them for looking as long as their expectations are in line with cheap.

My 5 hour photobooth (locally) is $1,100.00, or $700.00 if I'm the DJ. There's quite a bit of added value with that fee such as an booth attendant/assistant, props (they take them home as they are NEVER reused), scrapbook of pasted images, CD of all the pictures, etc. My (up to) 40 uplights are $20/each, 20 light minimum.

Perhaps you might get away with a simple point & shoot camera on a tripod with a black tablecloth background hung from shower curtain hooks. Capture all the images on a cheap SD card and give it to the customer at the end of the event. There are some folks here (weekend warrior photographers, not DJs) that provide almost this crap and actually call it a photobooth.

Good luck with your endeavor, Mix, but it does appear you're attacking windmills with your lance again.
 
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Cap Capello said:
In northern NJ, that budget is unrealistic for their desires, but good for them for looking as long as their expectations are in line with cheap.

My 5 hour photobooth (locally) is $1,100.00, or $700.00 if I'm the DJ. There's quite a bit of added value with that fee such as an booth attendant/assistant, props (they take them home as they are NEVER reused), scrapbook of pasted images, CD of all the pictures, etc. My (up to) 40 uplights are $20/each, 20 light minimum.

Perhaps you might get away with a simple point & shoot camera on a tripod with a black tablecloth background hung from shower curtain hooks. Capture all the images on a cheap SD card and give it to the customer at the end of the event. There are some folks here (weekend warrior photographers, not DJs) that provide almost this crap and actually call it a photobooth.

Good luck with your endeavor, Mix, but it does appear you're attacking windmills with your lance again.
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I was just asking. I figured it would be like you said. I cold either email them and let them know how much it cost to rent a photo booth or contact a guy and give them his price quote but they won't like it as it is more then their entire budget. For that price all they would get I say is the crap that you mentioned. No it wouldn't be the right way to do it and it could end up costing me business instead of earning me more business. They just mentioned they wanted the DJ to have some lights. They never said what kind of lights. I don't have uplights so that's out of the question unless I rent some and at that budget certainly not worth it.
 
Mix if you don't know what you're doing with a photobooth stay out of it. Send them a rate for DJ only and links to people that rent photobooths
 
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Mix if I was you I would jump in with both feet go to a payday loan store borrow enough to buy both a photo booth and wireless battery powered uplighting, with your business plan and sales skills this is a guaranteed money maker, be ready for life on easy street
 
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Mix, set up your camera next to your booth (and then you can call it a photo booth), let one of the partners spin the music and you take the photos .. easy peazy.
 
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steve149 said:
Mix, set up your camera next to your booth (and then you can call it a photo booth), let one of the partners spin the music and you take the photos .. easy peazy.
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Actually that's not a bad ideal. Just get a backdrop with some lights like someone does when taking pictures to sell at an event. I doubt if they will it. I can explain to them without giving a price that to rent a photo booth cost more then their total budget. I will give it a try. I can take the pictures while my guy can rock them out with the music.
 
I am in Eastern PA, so I am not TOO far from you...
and I have a friend who does photobooth.
You;ll be lucky if you can find one for $800.
So if YOU don't mind NOT getting paid...
 
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I see people giving mix a hard time for not reporting his DJ income. I guess he does not realize if you run your business in a legitimate way uncle Sam gives you quite a few tax breaks including writing off most of your equipment. I do understand most of your clients are not looking to spend the money. So reinvent and market to those that will. They are everywhere even in your area but unless you look for them and try and attract them they will never come calling. I personally waste about 750 dollars a year just on Weddingwire getting almost no events from them. So the question then is why do I do it?

Because their review system and SEO is very good in our area. I can then feature the 86 reviews that we have. Brides read them and see us as an item that is proven and vetted. You can also host your reviews there for free but you don't rank higher in their pages and SEO so its only good just for reveiws. Now you know Macho I never come on here and give you a hard time because that will never work. Go to BLU Domain purchase one of their sites for about 50 dollars. Join the ADJA for about 200 dollars a year and they will host your site for free as long as your a member.

So what have I just done here, I have shown you how to have a website hosted and be part of the ADJA for 200 dollars a year and shown you how to host your reviews if you get them, for free. Now Blu Domain has poor SEO for their landing pages so I did pay someone to add a professional landing page where SEO is much better. I know you want the work and I know you want to DJ obviously the people your marketing to will never get you where I can see that you want to be. And the bars dude walk away, shit gigs and shit clients only lead to shit gigs and shit clients. Said respectfully, Dave
 
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Some thoughts:

- Mix, you're not possibly looking to rent anything. You're telling us about a Craiglist ad that you saw.
- These people haven't hired you. You probably haven't even responded to the ad.
- You're trying to "drum up more business" by entertaining the idea of selling them something you know nothing about.

I suppose you could sub out the work IF you responded to their ad, IF they responded back, IF they actually hired you and IF you could find someone to provide a Photobooth and do the actual work. But the chance of those things all happening is about this big.
 
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I see people giving mix a hard time for not reporting his DJ income. I guess he does not realize if you run your business in a legitimate way uncle Sam gives you quite a few tax breaks including writing off most of your equipment. I do understand most of your clients are not looking to spend the money. So reinvent and market to those that will. They are everywhere even in your area but unless you look for them and try and attract them they will never come calling. I personally waste about 750 dollars a year just on Weddingwire getting almost no events from them. So the question then is why do I do it?

Because their review system and SEO is very good in our area. I can then feature the 86 reviews that we have. Brides read them and see us as an item that is proven and vetted. You can also host your reviews there for free but you don't rank higher in their pages and SEO so its only good just for reveiws. Now you know Macho I never come on here and give you a hard time because that will never work. Go to BLU Domain purchase one of their sites for about 50 dollars. Join the ADJA for about 200 dollars a year and they will host your site for free as long as your a member.

So what have I just done here, I have shown you how to have a website hosted and be part of the ADJA for 200 dollars a year and shown you how to host your reviews if you get them, for free. Now Blu Domain has poor SEO for their landing pages so I did pay someone to add a professional landing page where SEO is much better. I know you want the work and I know you want to DJ obviously the people your marketing to will never get you where I can see that you want to be. And the bars dude walk away, shit gigs and shit clients only lead to shit gigs and shit clients. Said respectfully, Dave
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I personally don't care if Mix pays taxes or not .. that's between him, his God and the taxman ..

BUUUTTT .. he seems to want to be taken seriously as a businessperson .. and that won't fly based on many previous posts by him indicating and insinuating (and not refuted) that he takes a lot of shortcuts that others won't take and doesn't play by similar rules to the ones he's looking to be taken seriously by ..
 
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I said that I thought that was a bit low on how much they wanted to pay to get all the stuff they wanted and you all said it was.
 
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