GlowStickGuy
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Hey all,
I would like to get some input on this business idea for the Boise area.
I recently discovered there are luxury restroom trailers that you can rent out for things like outdoor weddings and outdoor corporate events.
In many of these cases people don't want to use the traditional porta potty as they tend to be very unappealing to the general public.
You can buy these pre-fabricated trailers online for around 20-30k.
There does not seem to be too much competition in my current area but I'm not sure if that means there is a lack of demand or nobody is really in this market space yet.
One of the local businesses that does this quoted me $1495 for a day of use and said they already had some dates in August booked.
To try to test the marketplace I built a website and used Google Adwords and Facebook ads to drive traffic to it. You can find the website here: boisebathroom.com
The site has a landing page and a contact page. Around 187 people have landed on the home page and 48 people have landed on the contact page. The contact page has a request form that once submitted will send me an email.
I have spent around $60 in advertising and have not received any emails yet.
Do I need to improve my website to accurately gauge the market? Most of them come from Facebook ads which requires a Facebook business page. As you can imagine my business page is pretty much empty and I think it would be difficult to "fake" something like that as everything is dated and I can only "borrow" so many images.
Should I actually start calling businesses and seeing if they have any outdoor events and would be interested in renting a trailer? Should I contact wedding planners around my area to see their thoughts?
This seems difficult considering I don't even have a physical trailer to show them haha.
Any thoughts? Suggestions? Next moves?
Thanks in advance for the responses!
I would like to get some input on this business idea for the Boise area.
I recently discovered there are luxury restroom trailers that you can rent out for things like outdoor weddings and outdoor corporate events.
In many of these cases people don't want to use the traditional porta potty as they tend to be very unappealing to the general public.
You can buy these pre-fabricated trailers online for around 20-30k.
There does not seem to be too much competition in my current area but I'm not sure if that means there is a lack of demand or nobody is really in this market space yet.
One of the local businesses that does this quoted me $1495 for a day of use and said they already had some dates in August booked.
To try to test the marketplace I built a website and used Google Adwords and Facebook ads to drive traffic to it. You can find the website here: boisebathroom.com
The site has a landing page and a contact page. Around 187 people have landed on the home page and 48 people have landed on the contact page. The contact page has a request form that once submitted will send me an email.
I have spent around $60 in advertising and have not received any emails yet.
Do I need to improve my website to accurately gauge the market? Most of them come from Facebook ads which requires a Facebook business page. As you can imagine my business page is pretty much empty and I think it would be difficult to "fake" something like that as everything is dated and I can only "borrow" so many images.
Should I actually start calling businesses and seeing if they have any outdoor events and would be interested in renting a trailer? Should I contact wedding planners around my area to see their thoughts?
This seems difficult considering I don't even have a physical trailer to show them haha.
Any thoughts? Suggestions? Next moves?
Thanks in advance for the responses!
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