Compare the work, customers, operating requirements, and documents behind each business. Choose the model you can credibly deliver before choosing equipment or branding.
A travel advisor plans and books trips for travelers and earns supplier commissions, planning fees, or both, usually under a host agency at first and sometimes later as an independent agency with its own supplier and airline accreditation.
Read the business guideBooth type, venue insurance limits, package pricing with overtime, and getting on vendor lists.
Read the business guideThe music licensing question, setup time as billable time, redundancy, and the referral loop.
Read the business guideA bounce house and party rental company delivers, sets up, supervises or hands off, then tears down inflatables, tents, tables and chairs for birthdays, church festivals, school field days and corporate picnics.
Read the business guideA mobile bar and bartending service brings a trailer, cart, truck tap wall or simple portable bar plus trained bartenders to weddings, corporate parties and private events.
Read the business guideThis is a design-and-labour business: you sell balloon installations, event styling and staged luxury picnics to people planning birthdays, gender reveals, proposals, showers, graduations and small weddings, plus corporate and brand activations.
Read the business guideTwo businesses in the same category can have very different labor needs, collection times, licensing burdens, and repeat-customer patterns. Use the business viability worksheet to compare your own assumptions.