Let’s be fair, there is not a correct profile for any business man. Every entrepreneur has his set of skills and micro skills that make him thrive in his business’ industry. However, based on our experience we have seen some similar past experiences in our most successful partners. If you identify yourself with one of these situations you may have a great advantage in developing a PhotoHotel business.
Any management job in the hotel industry, from reception to hotel director, will have you prepared to manage a PhotoHotel business. It’s not only about hotels, any person with experience in tourist’s restaurants, entertainment parks or clubs as well as animators, is already prepared to handle tourist’s requirements in terms of hospitality and tourists’ demands.
Most of our teams are composed of young people with ages between 20 and 35 years. Young teams have special requirements as their ambitions and motivations are different compared to people over 35 years. Understanding their needs and their behavior is important in order to further understand and adopt our company culture code. Successfully managing young teams will give you higher return of investment as well as a more hassle free business.
For most of our partners, as well as our founders, PhotoHotel was not their first business. However, they can all agree that PhotoHotel is their most successful business. Being an entrepreneur is hard. We all had our ups and downs and we may even failed or had to close old businesses. Having past experience in business guarantees that you are prepared to handle a business, and more important to scale your business. Our objective is to find partners able to scale their PhotoHotel business. Past experience will help you to jumpstart, rapidly grow and enjoy your returns.
If you already live in a tourist destination, that is perfect. There is nothing to change for you. However, opening a PhotoHotel business in an tourist destination will require your time, attention and a physical presence, at least in the first year or until you prepare a skilled manager for that destination. Also, take in consideration that even the if the daily or monthly responsabilities are taken over by a manager, your presence may still be required for finding new hotels to open your business and for closing deals.
Some of our partners live around 8 months in their destination and the rest in their natal country. Other partners have decided to change their life entirely and permanently move and become permanent residents of their business’ country. Whatever fits you the best, this business will require a change in your life or even your family life. Most of our partners have embraced this change with joy and are glad they had this opportunity.
You may have started locally or at a national level, but you got stuck while scaling your business. In this case, PhotoHotel may be the perfect choice for you, with easy scalability as well as know how, internal procedures and automations to fully transform your business. Moreover, you may be able to reduce some of your initial investments in camera, lighting and printing equipment.
Sometimes, the move to a new country may be imminent due to different factors. Starting from zero in a new country may be hard, as you need to get accustomed to that culture and only afterwards to identify different business opportunities. The advantage of a PhotoHotel business is that is a universal business. In the tourist industry most of the demands and challenges are the same, no matter the country or culture. Your best bet in this case is opening your PhotoHotel business in international hotels with international hotels. In this way you will have your time to get used to the country’s specific culture and customs while developing an universal business with a stable source of income.
