There are many different ways to market and promote your Bouncy Castle Hire Business effectively.
Here are 26 ways that are easy and proven to work very well.
1) Delivering leaflets through peoples letter boxes in your area.
2) Advertising in your local newspaper.
3) Have a FREE listing in your local Thomson Directory.
4) Advertise in your local Yellow Pages. (Highly recommended).
5) Advertise in the shop windows of local newsagents.
6) Advertise in the windows of Toy Shops.
7) Advertise in your local library.
8) Tell all your friends, neighbours, family and work colleagues what you do.
9) Advertise on the noticeboard of the local churches.
10) Advertise on the noticeboard of local supermarkets.
11) Have your phone number written on the top of your bouncy castle, where everyone will see it.
12) If your town has a "Free-ads" newspaper or similar, you can advertise very cheaply.
13) Getting customer referrels by providing a good service.
14) Write to your local councils, for any council sponsored leisure events.
15) Advertise in doctors and dentist surgeries, and hospital waiting rooms if permitted.
16) Hand leaflets out at your local shopping centre.
17) Advertise in your local wedding shop (the children at the wedding need to be entertained!)
18) Advertise at childrens' playgroups and nurseries, and Mums and Toddler groups.
19) Advertise FREE on company noticeboards. Ask your friends, family and contacts to put up your leaflet on their noticeboard at work.
20) Lend your bouncy castle or inflatable to a charity event for FREE. All the money taken goes to the charity, but you get FREE publicity, (especially if you hand your leaflets out) and if you are lucky, you will get a mention in the local press.
21) Contact hotels and guest houses. They often have private functions in their grounds, e.g. christening parties, wedding receptions, company do's etc which require a bouncy castle or similar to amuse the children.
22) Check up on all the local newspapers and free papers, to see which schools, churches, hospitals, community centres, local businesses etc. are having fetes, fairs, open days, sports days, company fun days, jumble sales, car-boot sales etc. Ring them up to offer them the opportunity of hiring a bouncy castle from you. Do this regularly, you will pick up a lot of business from it.
23) Contact a broker who is involved in childrens' entertainment. Tell them that you will pay them a commission for every bouncy castle booking which they get for you.
24) Contact all the pubs in your area, which have a public garden or a large car park. Tell them that if they hire a castle from you it will attract adults who have young children. Parents can have a drink, while watching their children having fun on the inflatable. Some pubs have family fun days in the summer. Make sure you let them know you can provide the inflatable.
25) You only need to use your imagination to find out some really great places where you can site your bouncy castle, and perhaps charge children 50p or one pound to have a go. Here are some examples: shopping centers, the village green, country shows, open air museums, zoos, the local park, a large retail outlet, e.g. a DIY shop or supermarket, etc.
26) You could hire your bouncy castle to the local childrens' home or orphanage, perhaps offering a small discount.