Photo-booth side hustle
- IBTimes profiled a man making about $6,000 per month renting photo booths for events while working a full-time job. - The business scales as a compact, rentable activation that fits weddings, parties, and corporate functions. - The example shows attachable, photographable activations can be reliable ancillary revenue streams for event operators (ibtimes.com).
A New York marketing director says his photo-booth side business now brings in about $6,000 a month alongside his full-time job. (ibtimes.co.uk) Michael Sim told International Business Times that he started Future Flicks with friend Jazz Singh after seeing wedding costs up close while planning his own. He said the company now owns seven booths and stores them in a rented storage unit between events. (ibtimes.co.uk) Sim said most of the business’s costs came upfront in equipment, insurance and software, and that after those costs were recovered in the first year, about 60% to 70% of revenue became profit. He told Business Insider the company brings in roughly $4,000 to $7,000 for brand-activation events. (ibtimes.co.uk) (aol.com) The business moved from weddings into corporate work, where Sim said clients are paying for interactive setups that double as marketing. Future Flicks says it rents booths for weddings, corporate events and other celebrations across New York City, New Jersey and Long Island. (ibtimes.co.uk) (futureflicksphotobooth.com) One early corporate client was KITH, which Sim said hired Future Flicks for a holiday party and kept working with the company in later years. He told Business Insider that customized formats, including high-angle, vintage and artificial-intelligence booths, helped the company win more brand-activation work. (ibtimes.co.uk) (jobadvisor.link) A photo-booth rental business works by charging event hosts for a temporary setup that gives guests pictures, prints or digital clips on-site. Future Flicks advertises custom print templates, studio lighting, GIF features and early setup as part of that package. (verifiedmarketresearch.com) (futureflicksphotobooth.com) That model fits a wider event market built around “brand activations,” where companies pay for experiences guests can photograph and share during a launch, party or pop-up. Sim said those corporate jobs became the company’s main focus because brands were less price-sensitive than wedding customers. (ibtimes.co.uk) (jobadvisor.link) Sim told International Business Times he wants to expand into multiple cities and eventually leave his six-figure marketing job. For now, the pitch is simple: a compact event add-on that started at weddings is now being sold as a repeatable piece of corporate entertainment. (ibtimes.co.uk)
