By now I’m sure you’ve heard that KidsPartyCharacters.com owner Cheryl Jacobs has decided to make it easy for you to start your own business.
After six years of learning from her own mistakes, and testing and tweaking things to provide the best experiences for her clients, Cheryl has decided to offer memberships to KidsPartyCharacters.com.
What exactly is a Kids Party Characters membership?
Membership basically allows you to start your own children’s entertainment business without all of the time and expense that normally goes into a startup company.
You’ll have an exclusive territory in which you can book parties, rights to use the over 200 Kids Party Characters costumes, access to our trained actors, and ongoing business support from Cheryl and the entire team at KidsPartyCharacters.com.
It’s as close to a “done for you” business as you can get.
Interested in knowing what you’ll be doing in the day-to-day activities of your Kids Party Characters business?
Let’s go through it step-by-step so you can see how fun the business is, and how well-suited it is for stay at home moms, as well as others looking for a second business.
1. Call of interest: The first contact with your client naturally comes when they call to find out what you have to offer.
You find out which of the 200+ characters they’re interested in, as well as which of the four available party packages best suits their needs. Packages are priced from $200-$325.
Some of the big selling points during this initial conversation are the fact that all of our costumes are handmade, and all of our actors handpicked. The actors are trained by Cheryl herself and required to attend parties with her before being sent out on their own.
2. Contact the actors: Once you know which characters your client wants, you begin contacting the appropriate actors by phone call or text to determine their availability and get them booked for the party.
3. Get costumes and other supplies ready: A typical weekend can consist of 20-30 parties, although how many you want to book is certainly up to you. Costumes and other party supplies are kept all together in a big warehouse.
Depending on what packages your clients have chosen, you’ll load up the costumes, along with vending machines, cotton candy, snow cone, and popcorn machines, and supplies for balloon twisting and face painting.
4. Prepare goody bags: Another feature you’ll offer that other companies don’t is a goody bag for each child. The bag consists of a balloon, lollipop, toy, and your business card.
There are two purposes for the goody bag. First, children up until the age of eight believe that the character who’s come to the party is real. They love the experience of getting a gift from that special character.
Second, this is the perfect way to advertise your business while giving the kids something they enjoy at the same time. The guests at the party are going to want your information for their party. The goody bag is the perfect way to supply it before they even have to ask.
5. Deliver the costumes and other supplies: The next step is to get the actors what they need for their parties. You can go directly to the actor’s home if it’s convenient, or set up a meeting place for those who may be in another area.
6. Confirm the party the Monday before it happens: This step just guarantees that the date and all the details are correct. You can’t risk anything going wrong on the big day of the party. This is your last hands-on involvement in the party.
7. Character arrival: On party day, the superheroes and princesses will arrive in costume. Mascot costumes can be bulky and impossible to drive in, so they’ll arrive about 15 minutes early to change into their costumes.
8. Getting started with music: Each character comes with a playlist and speakers. If the party is having a DJ, the actor will coordinate the music with the DJ and get him the playlist.
9. Character entrance and warmup: The character will enter to his or her theme song and will start the party with dancing games that may include the limbo, cha-cha slide, musical chairs, or freeze dance.
This will help loosen up the kids, especially those who may be shy around the character at first.
10. More fun activities: Depending on the package your client has chosen, balloon animals, face painting, magic shows, and photos with the character are next.
This gives the children a great opportunity to have more fun while interacting with one of their favorite characters.
11. Singing: Finally, the character will sing happy birthday with the party guests and the show will come to a happy end.
Hopefully, this quick look at what exactly we do here at KidsPartyCharacters.com has shown you what a fun, profitable, and rewarding experience it can be to own your own children’s entertainment business.
For more details, set up a no-pressure chat with owner Cheryl Jacobs right here on our website. Cheryl can answer all your questions and help you figure out whether a KidsPartyCharacters.com membership is a good fit for your life.
You can also hear Cheryl talk about the business on the Kids Party Character podcast by subscribing here on iTunes, (or here on Podible for non-Mac users).
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