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Who You Actually Hire First
It's 2 a.m. and a stranger is backing a car into my driveway.
He just dropped off a photo booth, fresh from a wedding. The next morning, I grabbed it from the garage in my pajamas and loaded the galleries. My...
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Winning the Bid War Means You Agreed to Make the Least
You've seen the thread. Someone posts in a local wedding Facebook group asking for a "reasonably priced" photo booth. Within an hour, 30 booths are in the comments. Links, DMs, pick-me energy everywhere.
I want to...
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From $280K to $400K: What Actually Changed
She came in as a photographer, almost sold her business in 2020, and is now on track to hit $400K, all while packing up and moving to a brand new state with her team still running things back home.
Stephanie of Juju...
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How AI Is Making Software Risky (Thanks, Vibe Coding)
New apps are popping up in the photo booth space faster than I can keep up with.
And the pitch is almost always the same: I couldn't find a solution that worked for me, so I built one. And now you can have it...
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Are You Building a Business or Just a Really Expensive Job?
You're exhausted. And it's not even peak season yet.
Your calendar is packed, your weekdays are spent prepping for the weekends, and somewhere in the middle of all of it, you're supposed to still have a life. Missing...
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The Seven-Eleven in Tokyo That Changed How I Think About My Photo Booth Business
I just got back from two weeks in Japan and I am still not over it.
Honestly, Asia was never really on my radar. Not because I didn't want to go, but because the flight is like 20-something hours and it just never...
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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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