{"id":10796,"date":"2025-11-20T11:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/?p=10796"},"modified":"2025-11-20T11:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:36:09","slug":"what-budget-do-you-need-to-start-a-marquee-hire-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/what-budget-do-you-need-to-start-a-marquee-hire-business\/","title":{"rendered":"What budget do you need to start a marquee hire business"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a question I get asked often and my response is nearly always the same \u2013 don\u2019t throw a large amount of money at it to start with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now this might be a little surprising considering my position, surely it\u2019s in our interest to sell someone as much equipment as possible? Well yes, but we take a longer term view -if we look after you then when you expand or need to replace stock you\u2019ll come back to us for more. If you turn tound afte a year with a lot of stock that you\u2019ve never used then you won\u2019t think much of my recommendations!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Basically I\u2019d suggest something around \u00a34000 to start with if you\u2019re starting it up on a part-time basis:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/diymarquees.co.uk\/bronze-marquee-hire-package.php\">Our bronze marquee hire package (\u00a32028.24)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A Website (free to \u00a3500)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Social Media (free)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Google My Business Lisitng (free)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Google advertising (\u00a3400 free then budget\/month)*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/diymarquees.co.uk\/marquee-hire-insurance-and-terms-and-conditions.php\">Marquee hire liability insurance (\u00a3500\/year)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vehicle\/trailer\/transport (\u00a31500)*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>* Depending in what you choose and have available this may be more\/less<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Website builders such as WordPress\/Squarespace\/Wix\/Godaddy can be an easy way to set up your own website or your can hire a professional<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Google Ads now offer \u00a3400 free advertising credit to new customers &#8211; this can be a great way to get in the first few jobs (website required first)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Google My Business listing is a free google listing that will make your business appear in the local area searches and on google maps<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is based on someone starting a business slowly and buying more marquees as needed \u2013 when our delivery time is generally 2-3 days from stock it makes life a lot easier to expand!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you need a large return straight away and you\u2019re doing this full time then obviously you\u2019ll need more marquees to start with (this is what our gold package is aimed at).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks for reading<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spencer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a question I get asked often and my response is nearly always the same \u2013 don\u2019t throw a large amount of money at it to start with. Now this might be a little surprising considering my position, surely it\u2019s in our interest to sell someone as much equipment as possible? Well yes, but [&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-10796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10796","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=10796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}