Let’s Learn How to Start a Bounce House Rental Business
You see some kids playing on a bounce house, leaping to their heart’s content. And you ask yourself a potentially life-changing question. I wonder how to start a bounce house business? Why couldn’t I do this?
Starting a bounce house business can be highly rewarding, and not just financially. There’s something majestic about starting each new day knowing your hard work will result in bringing joy to others. The money you can earn—and yes, it’s good money—almost feels like a bonus for a lot of people in this industry.
Of course, we aren’t going to tell you that starting a professional party rental business is easy, because it isn’t. Starting any small business never is. You’ll need to take a lot of factors into consideration before committing to starting a bounce house business. Business management, finances, equipment, training, manual labor … there’s a lot to it.
So where do you start? What’s the first step? That part is easy: learning.
Before you start making plans and buying equipment, you’ll first want to set aside some quality reading time and deep dive the content we’re going to share with you here. And by the time you reach the end of it, you’ll know how to start a bounce house rental business from scratch!
The Ultimate Bounce House Rental Business Startup Guide
We want our customers to be successful. Our own success hinges on your business being profitable. So the TNT blog is largely focused on providing you with as much helpful information as possible. And many of these articles explain how to start a bounce house business in detail.
This article brings together all of the most useful information we’ve written regarding how to start a bounce house business. From quick pointers to full featured guides, these articles will hopefully prepare you not only for starting your party rental business, but helping you ensure it succeeds.
Before you get started, we suggest you read all of the articles we’re linking to below. You may want to take a few notes along the way, too. And we recommend you bookmark this blog so you can get back to it easily. There’s a lot of content here to get through. You’ll want to take a few breaks!
We know, we know … you didn’t come here for a homework assignment. But reading these articles is ultimately the best way to learn how to start a bounce house rental business.
How to Start a Party Rental Business: Our Comprehensive Guide
In 2020, we published an extensive and comprehensive five-part series on how to start a party rental business. Our guide covers everything from initial planning, to writing your business plan, to planning ahead for the future of your bounce house business. And it’s as perfect a place to start as any.
Part one of the party rental business guide talks about the basics. It prepares you for the sort of work loads you can expect, and talks a little about the equipment you’ll need. It also talks about expenses, profitability, and your return on investment, or ROI.
Part two of the guide focuses on the preliminary steps in creating your bounce house business. Topics here include writing a business plan, financing, establishing credit, legal company ownership structures, and working with the Small Business Development Center in your area.
Part three of our bounce house business guide discusses marketing essentials. It walks you through the development of a marketing plan that can steer potential customers toward your business.
Part four of the series explores small business management concepts. Here, you’ll learn about safety, tracking critical data, and staff management. This piece also talks about money management, property, vehicles, taxes, and a number of other important bounce house business topics.
Last but not least, the fifth and final part of our bounce house business guide is all about the future. This article discusses planning ahead for growth and expansion. As your company grows, you’ll want to know how to hire more staff, expand into new markets, grow your warehouse space, and more.
Essential Bounce House Business Blogs
Here are some more articles you should consider essential reading when learning how to start a bounce house business:
15 Mistakes New Party Rental Companies Keep Making lists 15 perfectly avoidable gaffes that not only hurt rental companies, but can end them entirely. Learn from the mistakes of others and prevent these terrible errors from sinking your new company!
30 New Year’s Resolutions for Your Party Rental Company. If you’re reading this in July, it might seem strange that we’re asking you to read an article about New Year’s resolutions. But this article lays out 30 best practices every party rental company should observe year after year, and it helps to know that routine going forward.
Maximizing Your Warehouse Space with Organizational Tips. Starting a bounce house rental business will eventually involve leasing and managing a storage facility. These helpful hints will show you how to get the most out of your space and keep everything tidy.
How to Upsell and Cross Sell Inflatables and Party Tents. Your customers may have needs they don’t know about, and it’s your job to ensure they get the best products and services for the job at hand. This guide explains upselling and cross selling and how to maximize their benefits, both for your company and for your customers.
Does Your Rental Business Accept These Payment Methods? What forms of payment does your company accept? What are the challenges and risks of different forms of payment? This article explores how to process payments, an essential aspect of operating any small business.
How Much to Rent a Bounce House For: A Comprehensive Guide. Simply put, this guide helps you price out your bounce house rentals and calculate your rates in a manner that’s fair and sensible both to you and your customers.
Party Tent Rental Guides
For those of you considering broadening your company’s reach with party tent rentals, these guides should hopefully help you too.
Pole Tent vs. Frame Tent: A Quick Guide to Types of Tents. Thinking about renting party tents? Let’s first learn about the different styles available today. This guide will show you the pros and cons of each style of party tent and what you should expect when setting them up.
What Size Party Tent do I Need for My Party Rental Company? A simple guide that walks you through properly sizing out your party tent inventory, and making sure you’re getting units that can cover as many different events and event sizes as possible.
Keeping Heavy Duty Party Tents Out of Extreme Cold. Freezing temperatures and cold wind can damage or even obliterate your party tents. It helps to know what conditions are too extreme for your party tents, and how to minimize the risk of damage when you do setups in colder weather.
Top Ten Party Tent Setup Accessories Every Pro Should Have. Working with party tents? You’ll want to know about the most efficient tools for setting up and taking down your equipment.
10 Uses for Your Canopy Tent During Emergency Situations. If the COVID-19 outbreak taught our industry one thing, it’s the hard lesson of adaptability. And nothing is more adaptable in an emergency situation than your party tents. Simply put, the rental operators who offered party tents and who pivoted their services to adapt fared a lot better than those who didn’t. So knowing when and how to pivot can definitely help you weather any storm.
Equipment Cleaning and Maintenance Articles
Keeping your equipment clean and well maintained is crucial to the success of your bounce house business. You may want to read these early on just to get a sense of the workload you can expect, but they’re each good to bookmark for later, too.
How to Clean a Bounce House: How Professionals Do It
Pro Tips: How to Clean a Commercial Inflatable Water Slide
Commercial Tent Cleaning: How to Clean a Party Tent
How to Remove Rust from a Party Tent’s Fabric and Metal
Folding Tables and Chairs: Cleaning and Upkeep Tips
How to Clean a Portable Dance Floor (It’s Super Easy!)
How to Make a Tarp Last Longer: Six Practical Tarp Care Tips
And one more cleaning-adjacent article for you …
Are You Promoting How Clean Your Bouncy Castle Rentals Are? This article discusses the value in letting your customers know that your equipment is clean and well maintained. And these days, that’s going to matter deeply to the vast majority of your customers.
Knowing How to Start a Bounce House Business is Just Step One
In the process of learning how to start a bounce house business, you might start feeling overwhelmed by the number of steps you’ll need to take, and the amount of work you’ll have to do. So it’s important for us to say, in closing, that none of this is insurmountable.
Starting any small business is challenging. But while starting a bounce house business might involve more physical labor than most other types of businesses, it’s all very doable. Just take your time, read exhaustively, and don’t set arbitrary deadlines for yourself.
Knowing how to start a bounce house business is the first in what will be a long series of important steps. It’s going to all seem overwhelming, and you should definitely expect to run into unforeseen challenges along the way. But we’re hoping these blogs will help you mitigate a lot of those difficulties and overcome as many hurdles as possible.
When you’re finally ready to start buying equipment, the sales team at Tent and Table is looking forward to helping you find everything you need. When you’re ready, give us a call at 1-716-832-8368 and we’ll gladly assist you in getting everything you need.
Starting a bounce house business is ultimately a rewarding and exciting undertaking. Once you get the hang of things, you’ll find it offers a lot more value than mere revenue alone. And we’d love to hear about your success stories, too. If you think of it, please comment below or visit TNT’s Facebook page and let us know how it’s going!
