Show & Tell: How to Price Your Time and Photo Booth Services — Live with Chris Meyer
Last week we published the numbers: 118,000 real bookings, a $681 median, and a top 10% clearing $1,642+. The data tells you what the market pays. It doesn’t tell you how to actually raise your rates — what to say when a client pushes back, when to walk away from a booking, or how to stop selling hours and start selling outcomes.
That’s a conversation, not a spreadsheet. So that’s what this week’s Show & Tell is: an honest chat about pricing your time and your photo booth services, live with Chris Meyer, founder of BoothCamp Create.
What we’ll get into
Pricing your time, not just your booth. Setup, travel, editing, client management — the hours nobody invoices for, and how operators who charge well account for them.
Where the benchmarks lie. The published medians run lower than what confident, well-positioned operators actually win. We’ll talk about why — and what that gap means for your rate card.
How to present your photo booth pricing to clients. How to communicate your rates with confidence, explain the value behind your pricing, and respond when a client asks for a discount or says your quote is too expensive.
Raising rates on existing clients. The conversation everyone avoids, and how to have it without losing the relationship.
When to say no. The booking that’s below your rate is also the Saturday you can’t sell twice.
Live Q&A. Bring your rate card, your toughest pricing objection, or the quote you’re second-guessing right now. That’s what the session is for.
About Chris
Chris has spent an unreasonable amount of his adult life in the photo booth and event industry — just enough experience to have strong opinions about almost everything, which he’s never shy to share, even when he’s not asked. He splits his days between working with corporate clients and agencies, being helpful or a jerk online (depending on the day and topic), coaching soccer, and gardening.
As the founder of BoothCamp Create, Chris focuses on practical education around sales, pricing, operations, corporate events, and figuring out whether your latest “great idea” will actually make any money. His teaching style is straightforward, practical, mostly sarcastic, and refreshingly short on inspirational quotes.