Interesting tangent / anecdote for #AVinTheAM - I moved my business out of Rental and Staging, to be a production consultant / TD / Event #A11y consultant. A good friend, who I've passed a lot of my smaller events onto is now exiting the rental market. #AVinTheAM #EventProfs 1/
I've heard from several #EventProfs clients that they have had trouble finding vendors for things like party rental (furniture and decor) and they have had trouble finding other AV Vendors who meet their needs. #AVinTheAM #AVTweeps 2/
I never did dry hire, but commodity event rental (AV or furniture) is kinda a PITA and is low margin. I closed my warehouse in 2020, moved up market, and haven't looked back. There is a vacuum at the lower end of the R&S market #AVTweeps #AVinTheAM #EventProfs 3/
You have to have economies of scale, captive customers, or both, to make that work. That's the model that 4-letter in-house companies use. But they give back such big commissions they have tight margins too, and are being squeezed by owners. #AVinTheAM #AVTweeps #EventProfs 4/