Scaling Out Loud

Scaling Out Loud

Hosted by: Catalina Bloch

Scaling Out Loud The Photo Booth Business Podcast for 6-Figure Founders Ready to Break the 7-Figure Ceiling If you’re a 6-figure photo booth business owner stuck in the "Chief Everything Officer" role, juggling...

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The Real Competitive Advantage in the Photo Booth Industry

The future of the photo booth industry isn't in your next gear purchase. It's you. I bought my first photo booth over 11 years ago from Photo Booth Supply Co. Charged $9,000 USD to my parents' emergency American...
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More Events isn't the Goal. Profit Is.

In 2022, we ran over 500 events, crossed seven figures in revenue, and I sat in my kitchen at the end of that year looking at the numbers, looking at the calendar, and wondering how my body got this tired. I had built...
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The One Activation at Coachella Already Sending Us Phone Calls

Do you know what your clients are going to be asking for six months from now?   I do. And it started with me sending my friend Zach to run around Coachella with one job: grab samples from every photo and video...
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How Free Events Can Grow Your Photo Booth Business Fast

You've been thinking about free events all wrong. What if I told you that one single free event,  one where you spent maybe $500-$1500 on setup and staff, could bring you millions of dollars in revenue over the next...
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Your Prices Aren’t the Problem. Your Money Blocks Are

I'm going to tell you something I've never said quite this directly before. I didn't think a photo booth business could make a million dollars. Not mine. Not anyone's. I thought there was a ceiling on this industry,...
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Your Creativity Needs to Eat. Stop Starving It.

There is a clip that lives in Catalina's head. She has never been able to shake it.   It's the music video for Humble by Kendrick Lamar. That moment where the camera doesn't just move, it dances. Every cut on the...
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Stop Calling It An Activation

You are losing clients before they ever contact you.   And most of you have no idea it's happening.   There is one word spreading through this industry like wildfire, on websites, in proposals, on Instagram captions,...
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You're Not Unfocused. You're Addicted to the Wrong Kind of Busy

You're working. You're learning. You're in the groups, you're researching, you're asking questions, you're staying current.   So why hasn't the revenue moved in two years?   That's the question nobody wants to sit...
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He hit seven figures and didn't love it.

There's a version of success that looks great on paper and feels like a trap in real life. Aldo from I Touch XP has been in this industry for 16 years, worked the Super Bowl five times, activated for Beyonce's tour...
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Five Expensive Lessons I Learned the Hard Way

Let's get real for a second. Everyone in this industry is out here posting their wins. The bookings, the revenue milestones, the glam shots from their best corporate activations. Nobody is posting about their 2 a.m....
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Solo Operator. Seven Figures. Here's How He Does It.

What does a seven-figure photo booth business look like when it's built by one person who also works full time at NBC's Today Show? Spoiler: it looks a little chaotic, wildly impressive, and absolutely worth listening...
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Photo Booth Expo: Have You Outgrown This Room?

What happens when three industry veterans sit down in Vegas and realize the conference they keep coming back to no longer feeds them? They build something new. This episode is different. I'm sitting down with two...
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