Monday, January 14, 2008

Four Tips on How to Rent Audio Visual Equipment

Even if you don’t have the knowledge of fine technicality that would not stop you from getting the best quality audio visual equipment…in fact you don’t need to know how to rent audio visual equipment. We will discuss with you four ideas that will help you find the proper equipment that matches your needs for a trade show, conference or any social gathering. So here comes the four tips..

The first thing to do is that one should always look for Service. So before you go to an audio visual rental company, you need to check if the company offers 24-7 full technical support. Now, this means that you can simplify your job of searching through the equipment manuals and manage to get hold of someone, not just a voice recorder, whenever you are stuck.

To ensure that you have a hustle free session check with your audio visual supplier if they can deliver to you the day before and pick up the day after with no additional charges and also make sure about availability of free spares in case they are required. You also need to have enough time between setting up the equipment and the actual start of the show for a trial run. For asking questions you need a face to face technical support. If your rental equipment reuires any programming or adjustments test them well in advance and learn how to run and operate the equipment before the technicians leave.

Don't keep your budget to yourself, stay hooked and right away ask about specials and packages to get the most out of your rental experience. Definitely your budget for equipment rentals should be in accordance to your needs however an honest discussion with your equipment supplier about your needs and budget can actually make it easy for you. At times you can get cheaper deals when you decide to try out new equipment. For example, instead of renting a wide screen plasma monitor you might consider to rent a video wall – while this would impact your price marginally the quality of your performance would be improved manifold. There are Audio Visual Rental Companies like Feltech who can actually advice on which equipments would be required once you discuss your needs with them. You can probably ask and make sure about any special packages that they might have on offer.

If at that moment you can bargain then that’s not a bad thing. Before you start, plan and square it out. You should have an approximate idea of how big your room, space, or booth and audience expectancy is. You can find the best possible equipment when you know what dimensions you are working with. And without being reluctant grab a pen and sketch your trade show booth plans, this will obviously help you decide how much equipment you need and how much of your booth is going to be dedicated to the audio visual equipment. For example: if the size is known then you can determine if you only need a simple Plasma TV rental, or you want to order a whole booth display, signage, and audio visual package. Be sure to plan ahead two to three weeks so that you can work it out with your audio visual equipment supplier to work out the best deal.

Surely renting audio visual equipment is easier than ever. Most audio visual equipment suppliers show and share their products, explain the features and usually they deliver and set up on sites. Some audio visual suppliers also assist and demonstrate program design and personalize audio visual presentation. We hope that our quick 4 tips were of some worth and helped you to have a likeable and fantastic rental experience.

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2 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

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Blogger Craig Cyril said...

I am owning an event management business and the information in the above article will be helpful in improving the services I am providing regarding audio visual events. Thanks for sharing this wonderful information.
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