Jumping Castle Business - Advice on Making It a Success
Dealing with enquiries: be ready to give potential clients your pricing information, the precise dimensions in height, depth and width (feet and meters) of the jumping castle, what age groups can use it, and how many at one time. Tell the customer that there is a jumping castle rain-cover included in the price. Make sure you take details concerning the date of the party, the venue, and the age groups of the people using the castle. Then you can suggest a size to fit the requirements. Remember that most of the time you’ll be suggesting a 12ft x 12ft jumping castle.
Record keeping: since you are running a business, you’ll need to keep a record of all your jumping castle income receipts and payment. All expenses which are incurred in connection with the business (advertising, printing, fuel, telephone calls, etc) are deductible for tax purposes, and you’ll only pay tax on the money you make after deduction of your expenses. When your jumping castle business is small you may be able to do your own tax return, but once you expand you may decide that you require the services of an accountant. You can get one to do your tax return for a small sum. It’s a simple process for accountants; just make sure that you give them details of all your receipts and expenses for your tax year.
Expanding your jumping castles hire business: if all goes to plan, within a short time span you will be turning away business since you won’t have enough castles for clients! At this point you will need to decide whether you wish to expand. Of course you don’t have to expand, but if you wish to then think about going for variety: different types, shapes, colours of jumping castle and inflatables, and don’t forget accessories, like slides for castles. As soon as you have a slide, make sure you offer this to enquirers as a popular extra that children just love!’ Bouncy ballponds are another popular extra; these are enclosed small jumping castles where you put roughly 1000 multi-coloured balls and are ideal for young kids.
