Potential Earnings

You can earn money by selling balloons and balloon decorations for weddings, birthday parties, anniversaries, engagements, christenings and corporate functions. Also school balls, fetes, valentines day, store promotions and sales plus balloon races offer you a wide marketplace and good revenue opportunities.

One latex 3-balloon bouquet can retail for £7.50
The material cost to make this is approximately £1.25

One latex 5-balloon bouquet can be sold for £10.
The cost of making one is about £1.75

An average size single pearl arch can be sold for £55.
The cost to make one is about £6.00

Here are a few examples of typical requests:

Birthday Party	Cost
12 sets of 3 latex balloon bouquets
1 x 6ft column with 3ft age balloon on top
Metallic confetti on tables
Total cost to customer	£153.00
Material cost to you	£23.00 approx
Profit	£130 approx

Wedding	Cost
15 tables of 5 balloon bouquets
Pearl arch over top table
Confetti on all tables
5 bottles bubbles on each table
1 x bride and groom airwalker
1 x confetti cannon for evening dance floor
Total cost to customer	£310.00
Material cost to you	£60.00 approx
Profit	£250 approx

Corporate	Cost
25 tables of 3 star shaped foil balloon bouquets
25 x mirrors and candle jars
Star shaped metallic confetti on all tables
Total cost to customer	£567.50
Material cost to you	*£101.50 approx**
Profit	£466 approx

*plus initial cost of mirrors

possible weekly earnings

Example 1
2 x weddings (as above) £620
1 x party (as above) £153
Total revenue £773.00

Example 2
3 x weddings £930.00
1 x party £153.00
1 x christening £120
Total revenue £1203.00

As you become more experienced you can learn how to make double bubble bouquets, which can retail for £16 each. These are extremely popular for weddings. You can also do a matching arch. You will also be able to learn how to make cloud nines and other types of arch, all of which will help increase your revenue.

As you can see there is a good profit margin and the business can easily be run from home, which means that you can keep your overheads to a minimum. You can prepare balloon bouquets and columns in advance in your own home and then transport them to the venue or prepare them at the venue if you prefer.

I hope this information has given you some insight into what can be achieved in this fun industry. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you would like any further information.

Text : For further information contact dawn on 01788 or info@myballoonbusiness.co.uk

last updated 11 May 2007

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