Joe Biesemeyer and his wife, Amber, own ShipShape Party Rentals, serving the Kansas City area out to Sedalia, Missouri, with locations in Centerview and Lee's Summit.
Joe also runs Bounce House 101, a resource hub for people starting or growing a bounce house rental business, and wrote the book Making Money with Bounce Houses.
His advice comes from about ten years of running the business every day: bookings, operations, upsells, the numbers, customers, and knowing when to expand. He calls that framework the B.O.U.N.C.E. model.
Short summaries written by our editors. Each one links to Joe's full article on his site.
Joe's six-part B.O.U.N.C.E. model for growing a rental company: bookings, operations, upsells, numbers, customers, and expanding wisely. The goal is steady progress in each one, not perfection.
Read Joe's full article on Bounce House 101 (opens in a new tab)Joe went three years without paying himself and burned out. Now he budgets a set share of every rental for labor from day one, and shows the math on a typical weekend.
Read Joe's full article on Bounce House 101 (opens in a new tab)Hundreds of events a year were bringing in only a handful of reviews. Here is the QR-card and driver-bonus system his crew uses to ask at every setup, plus how to answer a bad review.
Read Joe's full article on Bounce House 101 (opens in a new tab)Pick your causes at the start of the year so saying no gets easier, then check distance, unit count, and busy-season timing before you say yes to any donation request.
Read Joe's full article on Bounce House 101 (opens in a new tab)The five books Joe read to grow himself and his rental company, from paying yourself first to hiring true team players, and the one change each book made in how he runs the business.
Read Joe's full article on Bounce House 101 (opens in a new tab)Joe's latest Bounce House 101 videos. Click any video to play it right here.
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