For party and marquee hire
You’re on a bump-in with a marquee leg in each hand.
Hire is sold on availability for one specific date, and somebody else has the same stock.
- Price
- $50 a month, no contract.
- Your number
- Stays exactly as it is.
- Setup
- Two minutes. We do it.
- Reply time
- Seconds, not this evening.
01 The moment
Why party and marquee hire miss calls
Not because you are careless with the phone. Because of where your hands are.
Saturday morning, halfway through putting up a nine-by-eighteen in someone’s back paddock with two crew and a deadline. The phone is in the truck. Four calls come in while you are pegging out, and every one of them is asking whether you have something free on a date.
02 What they get
The text that goes out
Within seconds of the call dropping, in your words, with your name on it.
Your business
It’s [BUSINESS] — we’re on a bump-in and can’t answer. Text us the date, what you’re after and where it’s going, and we’ll confirm availability and pricing today.
The caller, a minute later
21st of March, 60th birthday at home in Camberwell. Need a marquee for about 50, plus tables and chairs. Is that possible on grass?
That reply is the job written down. You ring back knowing what it is, where it is and whether it is worth stopping for.
03 What changes
What it changes for party and marquee hire
- 01
The date is the whole conversation
Everything else follows from whether you have stock free. Getting the date in the first message means your reply is yes or no rather than a request for information.
- 02
Site conditions surface early
Grass, pavers, a slope, access down the side of a house. These decide whether a job is straightforward or a nightmare, and they come out in a written thread far more reliably than on a rushed call.
- 03
Weekends are bump-in and enquiry at once
You are least reachable on exactly the days people are at home planning events. The overlap is total.
04 Questions
What party and marquee hire ask
The questions that come up on the phone, answered the way we'd answer them there.
Can it check what stock is free?
No, and it should not claim to. It captures the date and the items so your callback can answer immediately, instead of starting with "what date were you thinking".
A lot of enquiries never book.
True, which is why getting them in text form matters — you can clear five enquiries between jobs in the time one phone call takes, and the ones that are not viable end politely without a call at all.
We do weddings and corporate as well as backyard parties.
The message can ask what the event is, which sorts them straight away. A wedding marquee and a kid’s birthday jumping castle are different businesses and you can prioritise accordingly.
What about last-minute weather calls?
Those are the calls you most want to catch and least able to answer, because bad weather means you are already out re-pegging something. A reply in seconds beats a voicemail.
See what you’re missing before you pay anything.
The audit counts the calls to your business that went unanswered last month, from your own records. It costs nothing and nothing changes on your line.
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