{"id":10798,"date":"2025-11-20T11:36:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/?p=10798"},"modified":"2025-11-20T11:36:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:36:31","slug":"marquee-hire-whats-stopping-you-start-up-a-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/marquee-hire-whats-stopping-you-start-up-a-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Marquee Hire: What&#8217;s stopping you start up a business?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For those who have already started up a business you can read smugly or skip this and wait for next weeks read \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the saying goes if you want to be a self-made man (or woman) don\u2019t leave out the working parts. There\u2019s no doubt that working for yourself can be bloody hard work, but it\u2019s enjoyable and a hell of a lot more satisfying than working for someone else. So what\u2019s stopping you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attitude? We all know someone who talks a good game. When applied to business they\u2019re always \u2018just about to make it big\u2019 or have an idea that\u2019ll make them a millioniaire. In reality these kinds of people will do too much research and the fire will fizzle out before they start up another dream, this is repeated several times until all they\u2019re left with is looking in hindsight about how it was just bad luck they didn\u2019t make it big.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t make this mistake! To start up a marquee hire business (or any business) you need to be a doer not a talker. I\u2019m all for doing research but structure it sensibly, work backwards. Say to yourself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I want to be in business by \u2026.. (say 6 months time-could be much less, shouldn\u2019t be much more unless you\u2019ve got a VERY good reason)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I need to make a decision on what marquees I want to buy and how I\u2019m going to approach it by \u2026 (say 3 months time -this leaves enough time to buy equipment, set up a website and do other advertising before launch<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>That leaves me with \u2026 (3 months) to do research. During which time you spend every spare minute doing research, speaking to as many people as possible in the industry finding out useful information.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Make decisions, do it, go for it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Being your own boss is incredibly satisfying, but it rewards people who get out there and make things happen for themselves, not (at least very rarely) those who sit back wanting it all to be handed to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Intimidated?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It can be a little scary. But there\u2019s lots of people out there who\u2019ll help you. Small business advisers in banks are okay but can be biased towards their products (as they work on commission), places like Business Link are there to help people like you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It doesn\u2019t help when you get idiots\/car salesman contestants on programs like The Apprentice who talk about \u2018being in business\u2019 as being members of some closed-shop religion or sect. Absolute rubbish. They don\u2019t know all about business. I don\u2019t know all about business. Peter Jones might know all about business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My point is that you don\u2019t need to know a damn thing about business as long as you\u2019re willing to learn and put some hours in anyone can do it. And that includes you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To follow on from last week \u2013 we used large ifor williams trailers to transport equipment. Rack the back out to take long poles and have compartments at the front to take the canvas. Don\u2019t buy triple axle trailers, they can take the same gross weight as double axle ones but you\u2019ve taken some of that weight up with another axle. So a triple axle trailer actually takes LESS weight than a double axle one!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks for reading<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spencer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who have already started up a business you can read smugly or skip this and wait for next weeks read \ud83d\ude42 As the saying goes if you want to be a self-made man (or woman) don\u2019t leave out the working parts. There\u2019s no doubt that working for yourself can be bloody hard work, [&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-10798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10798","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=10798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}