Seminar Equipments: Rent or Buy?

There is an old rule in the seminar business with regards to renting equipment. If you rent it 4 times you own it.

In the case of microphones, recording equipment, video cameras, it almost better to buy equipment if you think you’ll use it 4 or 5 times. Now with Ebay, you can always RESELL it when you’re done with it!

I’m not saying you should run out and buy all kinds of expensive equipment right away, but if you are going to be in this business for a while, you’ll want to OWN certain things.

I own my own amplifiers, mics, audio and video recorders as well as speakers. Since I do a lot of seminars, this makes sense for me.

I highly recommend that you buy your equipment from a reputable company that has a good return policy – JUST IN CASE!!

For years, I have been using the folks at BHPhoto.com.

They are extremely knowledgeable and will give you plenty of advise and information by phone. Just give them a call.

Don’t buy until you’re sure you’ll be doing enough events to justify it, but when you’re sure you will, BUY IMMEDIATELY. You will SAVE money!!!