Running a $500,000 Photo Booth Business While Working Full-time with Zach Schiffman

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03/30/22 • 58 min

Booth·ish - Stories from photo booth entrepreneurs

In this episode of Booth· ish, Zach Schiffman of Studio Z Photo Activations shares his story of how he got into the photo booth industry and eventually grew it to a $500,000 business... all while working full time!
Listen and you'll learn how he adjusted his pricing strategy to command higher dollar amounts, how he used word of mouth to grow his business, and what it takes to stay ahead of the competition.
Oh yea, he also answers the biggest question of them all...
Why are you such an a**hole, Zach? 👀

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Minh Nguyen on Getting to Six Figures with iHeart Radio

In this episode, Seye speaks with 10 year photo booth industry veteran Minh Nguyen. Minh Nguyen is the owner and founder of Keopix, a photo booth rental company thats based in Austin, TX and Boston, MA but provides services nationwide. Minh is also the former owner of Yo Props!, one of the largest online stores to purchase photo booth props as well as Booth Active, which is another online marketplace for photo booth supplies.
One of Minhs most well known clients is iHeart Radio, and in this episode Minh discusses how he got his first 10 photo booth customers, how he landed iHeart Radio, which propelled him to six figures, and more!
00:00 Introduction:
04:00 Getting your first 10 customers with DM slides
13:10 Moving to Boston, MA to continue the photo booth journey
14:20 Minhs photo booth pricing in the early days vs local competitors
18:15 Going full time with his photo booth business
22:20 Challenges going full time
25:50 Spending up to $2,000/month on SEO
29:00 His e-mail process when clients contact him
33:30 Getting to six figures with iHeart Radio
37:00 Creativity challenges in the six figure realm
39:20 How Minh got to other bigger clients
42:00 Growing his business with white labeling
44:20 Getting to seven figures with multiple sources of income
45:30 Outro

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