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Gilbert Welsford

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
81 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Make Money Off Events with Gilbert Welsford of Sparks Entertainment Episode 134

But the budget for this is about $50,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Make Money Off Events with Gilbert Welsford of Sparks Entertainment Episode 134

We'll have to see what portion of that ends up in the lighting category.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Make Money Off Events with Gilbert Welsford of Sparks Entertainment Episode 134

But that's the beauty of all events is every single thing is different.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Make Money Off Events with Gilbert Welsford of Sparks Entertainment Episode 134

So our events range from everything from about $2,000 all the way up to about $100,000 to $150,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Make Money Off Events with Gilbert Welsford of Sparks Entertainment Episode 134

In September, we probably did about $100,000 for the business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Make Money Off Events with Gilbert Welsford of Sparks Entertainment Episode 134

All scaling from between $2,000 and $150,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Make Money Off Events with Gilbert Welsford of Sparks Entertainment Episode 134

Every single event is totally different.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Make Money Off Events with Gilbert Welsford of Sparks Entertainment Episode 134

Depending on what the client needs, we'll do whatever they need.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Make Money Off Events with Gilbert Welsford of Sparks Entertainment Episode 134

So we also, beyond the lighting, we also do audio engineering and audio visual, which includes televisions and live feeds and projections, as well as staging.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Make Money Off Events with Gilbert Welsford of Sparks Entertainment Episode 134

So we do it for corporate events, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Make Money Off Events with Gilbert Welsford of Sparks Entertainment Episode 134

So we actually produce a lot of, and I believe that's where actually you and I met, Nathan, was we were producing all of the lighting, all of the audiovisual, all of the staging for a conference that you were actually speaking at.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Make Money Off Events with Gilbert Welsford of Sparks Entertainment Episode 134

Ascend, yep.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Make Money Off Events with Gilbert Welsford of Sparks Entertainment Episode 134

Ascend, yeah, which was great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Make Money Off Events with Gilbert Welsford of Sparks Entertainment Episode 134

So we do that as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Make Money Off Events with Gilbert Welsford of Sparks Entertainment Episode 134

Sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Make Money Off Events with Gilbert Welsford of Sparks Entertainment Episode 134

So our clients are built off of personal relationships.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Make Money Off Events with Gilbert Welsford of Sparks Entertainment Episode 134

So obviously we go through normal means of marketing, search engine optimization, that type of thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Make Money Off Events with Gilbert Welsford of Sparks Entertainment Episode 134

But really where we find the majority of our sales come through is on our clients referring us to other clients because it's all in the execution.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Make Money Off Events with Gilbert Welsford of Sparks Entertainment Episode 134

So we try to build personal relationships and we build partnerships with other people that are in our industry and have them be brand ambassadors for us to help grow our brand.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Make Money Off Events with Gilbert Welsford of Sparks Entertainment Episode 134

So there's two things that we talk about here in our business because it's a very capital-intensive business.