Having said that, here are a few ways to generate income with your mechanical rodeo bull that you might not have thought of yet.

Subcontract

This is a huge one and so many people don’t even consider it.  How many competitors do you have in the party rental industry.  How many event planners are in your area?  Contact all of them and offer to subcontract your bull to them at an agreed upon price.  Let them do your marketing and secure leads for you.  You still get the job and even though it’s a little less than you would normally get, the volume of rentals could more than make up the difference.

Make sure if you subcontract for other companies that you still follow your regular rules.  Use a contract and make sure all details are correct.  It’s very important if you are representing another company that you offer to wear their shirt or do whatever you need to do to represent their company.  The last thing you want to do is to try and drum up business on your own.  You will be representing them, and that is all you should do.

When you are marketing yourself and your equipment, make sure all of these potential clients understand what makes YOU special.  Focus not just on price, but on reliability, safety & insurance.  You want the client to know that you are a professional that will help them build their business.  Because of this, most clients will ask to be additional assured on your insurance.  Work these details out before you do a subcontract.

Stop looking at competitors as competition and start viewing them as a source of income!

Nightclub and Bar Promotions

Contact local bars and nightclubs and suggest they use a mechanical bull as part of a promotion or contest.  There are a lot of country western bars that area looking for a way to beef up business on slow nights.  A mechanical bull riding contest could get you continuous business for weeks.

High School and College Events

After proms and grad night parties are great places for a mechanical bull.  And college events are even better.  The nice thing about these events is that they will tend to ask you back year after year.  Just make sure you call them at the beginning of the season and remind them what you have to offer.  These bookings are easy and most of these places already have their budget set up.

Church Events

You’d be amazed at how many churches will rent mechanical bulls for youth activities.  And you might be amazed at how much they are willing to pay.   This is another group that you will use again and again.

One thing you need to be aware of with schools and churches; Be very careful about how much you discount!  Once you’ve given them a price they will fight you every year if you try to raise it.  So quote a price you will be willing to take for a long time.

Galaxy Multirides has spent years showing happy clients how to make money with a mechanical bull.  For more info make sure to visit their website or Facebook Page.

There are plenty of other ways to make your bull profitable.   Please feel free to share your suggestions below.

At one point, Google rewarded marketers who followed their suggested standards for marketing. Specific keyword phrases added to the site, with a title and description to match got search engine attention. Tagging of all the page photos, anchor text links and lots of back linking were very important to getting a site to the top of Google.

And overnight it all changed. People that were #1 for their mechanical bull on Google could very well have disappeared altogether. Maybe you were one of the lucky ones and your page stayed high in the rankings. But you got hit with another Google change a few months later. Google has made over 60 changes since April and it’s extremely hard to keep up with them. But here is where things seem to be today.

Google is looking for quality in your website. Some of the important factors will be:

Age and time signals – These might include the age of your website or domain, the age of your backlinks, the consistency of new backlinks among other things
User Metrics – How long people stay on your site, how many pages do they see, how many times do they return, etc.
Backlinks – The quality of backlinks, where do they come from, are they consistently growing, is the anchor text diversified, do they link to all pages.
On Page SEO – this is tricky these days. You need to have just enough, but not too much. Too little seo and you might not rank…too much and the search engines think you spam. The best thing to do is do your ownpage SEO, but watch your results very closely and make changes as needed.
Branding – are social networks talking about you? Is your company name mentioned outside of your website?
Social Proof – Are you interacting with Facebook? Pinterest? Google Local? Do followers tweet your posts? Do you mention others socially?
Author Rank – Do you have social profiles? How about a Google Plus account. Do you post articles to your website? Are they quality articles?

To put this very simply, Google wants you to have a good website that updates with quality content frequently. And they want people visiting your site and talking about it. Of course, things go a little more in depth than what I’ve posted here, but we can only do one step at a time.

So, what options do you have when you are marketing a mechanical bull? The nice thing about bull marketing is that there isn’t a lot of competition. Updating your site with quality content can be hard unless you use your imagination. Add a blog to your website. Show pictures of events and talk about your events. Write articles about how safe it is to use a mechanical bull and why. Talk about the history of the mechanical bull.

If you have videos, (and you absolutely should) make sure to post them on your website and also on Youtube. Then join groups. Bookmark your posts, share them on Facebook. Tweet them to your followers. BUT…and this is a big part of social marketing. You can’t just talk about yourself. You need to interact and comment on what others have to offer too.

Following Galaxy Multirides example can really help.  Follow them on Facebook and Twitter, subscribe to their blog posts and Youtube channel and watch what they do.  It’s all about interaction and involvement within your community.

In the upcoming weeks we’ll be looking at how the different methods can help you build traffic. You can be #1 on Google with just a little work!

Mechanical Bull Marketing can make all the difference in a big profit….or a loss. Galaxy Multirides has joined with Cheryl Pierce, (who specializes in SEO and Social Media for the party rental market),  to help you build a profitable business that will grow each year.  Watch for upcoming posts on building your business.

The Rodeo Mechanical Zombie Bull Ride for Sale

Halloween Attractions are big business, often taking a yearly income in under 8 weeks.
He may look gory and gruesome but Zombie Bull is here to make your Halloween season the best ever!

Its not just people that a rising from above the grave, its animals as well! Zombies are extrememly popular at the moment; at recent Halloween & Haunt Shows we have been asked whether we could make a zombie ride. Well here it is! Introducing the worlds first Mechanical Rodeo Zombie Bull!

If you are thinking of a Halloween venue around town where almost everyone can gather, having a main attraction like the Rodeo Mechanical Zombie Bull is just perfect since it only takes around 20 minutes to set up and voila, it’s up and about! Kids would love the fun ride that a Rodeo Zombie Bull gives while parents do not have to worry about having to let their children go through the whole experience because it is fully equipped with safety features that only The Rodeo Bull Company provides.

A complete Rodeo Zombie Bull system takes only 20 minutes (average speed) to completely set up. Visit our videos page to see a full set up, either by one person or two and comse complete with everything you require to start operating immediately.

Safety is key so the Zombie Bull is fitted with our unique Automatic Stop System (ASS) as standard. As soon as the rider falls, the ride stops instantly. The rotting head is made from our Sofolex material which eliminates any impact injuries.

Each one of the automatic bucking Zomie Bull programs is linked to the two LED digital time clocks giving the current time achieved so both the operator and the rider can see how long the rider lasted. In addition the control console features a ten speed manual control joystick, two stop buttons and a switch that allows you to disable the spin element of the ride. This is very useful when using an additional attachment such as the surfboard / snowboard and don’t want to spin the rider.

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Why scout for other Halloween attractions when you can have the Rodeo Mechanical Zombie Bull to highlight Halloween? For over 2o years, The Rodeo Bull Company is home and provider of the best-selling Galaxy mechanical bull multiride – the safest mechanical rodeo bull in the world! With the newly innovated Rodeo Zombie Bull, you are assured of a fun and most of all, safe Halloween!