Booth·ish - Stories from photo booth entrepreneurs

If you ask most people in the Photo Booth industry if you should ever do "free" events for your clients, 99% of them will tell you NO. Catalina is the 1% that will tell you YES, and it's because of this unprecedented approach that has allowed her to grow MDRN Activations to a 7 figure Photo Booth business. This is the story of Catalina Bloch and how she accomplished this feat. You don't have a big enough bag to carry all the gems she drops in this episode! About Catalina Catalina Bloch is the owner of MDRN Photobooth Co. And MDRN Activations, a 7 figure photo booth business which operates across North America. Cat started her photo booth journey as many do, side hustling on  nights and weekends and in her first year she made 6 figures of income. Fast forward to today, she employs over 20 people, in various provinces across Canada and works with some of the worlds biggest brands. When she’s not running her business she’s helping educate the photobooth industry via the photobooth Supply Co Youtube Channel and at catalinabloch.com [http://catalinabloch.com]

Most people get into the photo booth business with the goal of attracting brides, event planners, and anyone else you can think that might be hosting an event. Billie Chung did too, until the pandemic hit caused him to think differently about how he looked at the industry. He flipped the script and decided to position himself as a preferred partner for other  photo booth companies looking for a white label partner in the New York Tri-State area. This is the story of Billy Chung, the White Label King of New York.

Imagine going from $400 per event with Thumbtack leads, to now $4,000 per event because you've mastered SEO in your local area and you've built a brand where brides see your company as their DFREAM! That's what Matthew Bernier (not BURN YEAR) of Flash Bulb Memories in Tucson, AZ has been able to accomplish. He took his punches at the beginning and now he's punching back. This is his story.

Andrew Mauldin runs Boogie Booth out of New Orleans (NOLA). He's built Boogie Booth to a $750,000 photo booth business, leaning heavily into creating systems for his business and especially leaning into automations. This is his story.

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? 👀