Today we’d like to introduce you to Josh Pather.
Hi Josh, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today.
Photo Booth International actually exists thanks to my first business, Photo Booth Dallas – a photo booth rental company that I began in December of 2012. During this time, I worked at a call center during the week, but I also used to DJ on the weekends. One day, a friend and I went to a wedding and saw a photo booth for the first time and thought it would be a great addition to my DJ services, so we decided to make our own. After some brief research, we drove to Home Depot and spent $300 on all the materials. We made our first photo booth out of wood, we made the cutouts to fit the monitor, sanded it down, painted it black, and spray-painted the words “Photo Booth” in white on the side of it.”
I learned that you don’t need to go to school to be successful. You just need to be willing to learn from other successful people and invest in courses and programs that will help you grow your business.”
We didn’t have a lot of money to invest in professional high-end electronics so we went to Walmart to get our printer, computer, and monitor. That first photo booth wasn’t perfect by any means. It was slow to print, the software was difficult to use, and the monitor wasn’t even a touch screen, but it made us our first ten thousand dollars. We knew we were onto something, so we did even more research and optimized our photo booth with better equipment and a better outer shell.
Fast forward one year later, our fleet of photo booths quickly grew to 15 booths, and we were booked out every single weekend. At this point, I had already left my 9-5 job and was 100% invested in my photo booth rental business. My wife Jazmine even left her job to help me because I couldn’t handle all the bookings myself. Within the first two years of business, Photo Booth Dallas made over $1M dollars. It was so awesome to see that this was a profitable and high-demand business.
The launch of Photo Booth International was pretty effortless. There was already a high demand for the products, as mentioned earlier. It was easy to sell the business model because we were already doing it and knew what it took to grow it into a million-dollar business.
I didn’t crowdfund or take out any credit cards to get PBI started thanks to PBD. I took out $200K to start PBI, and the rest is history. I used that money to buy booth components and got to work on the models that we would sell to the new entrepreneurs.
I created my own website and already had some experience in SEO and marketing from my rental business, so I applied everything to PBI that I learned while running PBD. I knew the importance of being omnipresent with this new business, so I began our YouTube Channel and started to document my customer’s success stories. Within my first year in business with PBI, we made over $156K, definitely a huge success for a brand-new business.
Since then, we have helped thousands of people start their own profitable photo booth business. Many of them have even left their own full times jobs to focus on their business full-time. It’s an honor to see them grow.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back, would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
I made the mistake of hiring a family member and their partner and it ended pretty badly. Mixing family and business is not something I recommend; it complicates things. It’s hard for them to understand that decisions for the business are never personal but in the best interest of growing the business. It makes it difficult to address their performance issues without hurting their feelings.
One of my biggest lessons from starting this business is that just because someone is a family member, it doesn’t mean you should hire them. Some entrepreneurs say the opposite, but I say don’t mix business and family.
We’ve been impressed with Photo Booth International, but for folks who might not be as familiar, what can you share with them about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
We manufacture photo booths and sell them to people who want to start a successful photo booth rental business. We do not rent it anymore. We sell and ship it worldwide.
Photo Booth International did not become the leading photo booth manufacturer overnight. We became the best in the photo booth industry because we provide exceptional products to our clients and outstanding services with support. Our clients all have the same thing to say about us: We helped change their business for the better. Not only will you increase your customer base, but you will also see a vast improvement in your marketability, sales, and organic business growth.
Our photo booths are created with expert craftsmanship, so when you purchase from us, you are getting the highest quality booth money can buy. We offer a wide variety of photo booth models so you can select the best option for your business and bank account. Each model has something different to offer, but each one will be the best investment you can make for yourself.
As a photo booth manufacturer, we want to set ourselves apart from everyone else in the photo booth industry. We do that by providing stellar customer service and support. When you purchase a photo booth from us, you are also getting a lifetime guarantee for tech support. If your booth encounters some technical issues, we do not want you to have to spend a penny trying to find someone who can fix it. Instead, we offer tech support that will keep your booth running so you can continue to grow your business.
Photo Booth International cares about its customers. That is why we work so hard to provide the best photo booths at the best prices with fantastic services included, such as an exclusive App, Website builder, CRM, tons of video training, support business community, and many more.
We are appreciative of the thousands of entrepreneurs that have chosen PBI to start their photo booth rental business and look forward to the future.
Pricing:
- PBI Ipad Trio Booth – $3,800
- Cloee Photo Booth – $4,999
- Astro Photo Booth – $12,000
- Miami Mobile Photo Booth – $11,500
- Mirror 4 Flawless Photo Booth – $13,000
Contact Info:
- Website: photoboothint.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/photoboothint/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/photoboothinternational
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/photoboothint
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Photoboothint/
- Other: pbiforever.com
