{"id":10650,"date":"2025-11-20T10:44:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/?p=10650"},"modified":"2025-11-20T10:44:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:44:46","slug":"marquee-advice-the-art-of-negotiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/marquee-advice-the-art-of-negotiation\/","title":{"rendered":"Marquee Advice: The art of negotiation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you read about brand awareness then experts claim there are three categories of people, those who will only buy brands, those who can be convinced of buying brands and those who refuse to buy brands. It has to do with how people wish to be perceived by their peers. Don\u2019t ask any further, I\u2019m already teetering out of my depth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>relating this to marquee hire you\u2019re going to face some potential bookings where they just keep wanting to negotiate the price down, it may even just seem a point of principal (see the recent apprentice contestant getting 1p off a \u00a3365 top hat!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just speaking from my experience this isn\u2019t about the customer saving money, it\u2019s generally about them being able to say to their guests what a good deal they\u2019ve got.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For that reason I found it much more successful offering people something for free rather than giving them money off. For example say you\u2019ve got someone trying to negotiate over a booking for \u00a31500. It\u2019s much better for you giving them an entrance tent say worth \u00a3200 rather than knocking off \u00a3150 off the price. It\u2019s only adding a bit of time for you rather than taking money out of your pocket. The customer (I\u2019d say 9 times out of 10) is just as happy, they can say to their guests that they\u2019ve got a \u00a31700 marquee for \u00a31500 even though originally they didn\u2019t even want the \u00a3200 extra you added in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One last frustrating point, if you ever forget something for that job it will always always be a component for the thing you\u2019ve thrown in free of charge!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks for reading<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spencer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you read about brand awareness then experts claim there are three categories of people, those who will only buy brands, those who can be convinced of buying brands and those who refuse to buy brands. It has to do with how people wish to be perceived by their peers. Don\u2019t ask any further, I\u2019m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}