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We don’t tout our social awareness loudly, but supporting our community is at our core.  We are always seeking charitable organizations, schools and non-profits to partner with.  If you have a fundraising event coming up, contact us right away.  At Chipper Booth, we offer a superior product and customer experience, strive to earn a living doing something that makes us proud, and we love giving back.  We reserve days on our calendar every month for fundraising efforts with causes that we identify with and believe enrich our community.

We’ve partnered with some amazing organizations this year and look forward to many more.  To date, the value of discounts and services offered to these organizations totals $8987. Not bad for a company that is 368 days old at the time of this post!  Click the graphic for partners and beneficiaries:

Our fundraising partners this year: Legend High School (Parker, CO), Yelp, Totally Tennyson (Highlands Neighborhood, Denver), InnovAge & Kaiser Permanente’s Moonlight Classic, Denver Brew Fest, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Novo Coffee (Denver), Project Sanctuary (Parker, CO), Mesa Elementary (Boulder, CO), Beanstalk Foundation (Kent School, Denver) and Foothills Gateway (Fort Collins).  We have more in the works. You can find the photo strips for all these events on our “Your Photos” page.

In 2013 Chipper Booth hopes to DOUBLE the amount of benefit events.  Need to raise funds and want a “Cool Factor” at your event? Contact us now!

Testimonial: We brought Chipper Booth to our non-profit’s fundraising event. They were a smash hit! Attendees loved the interactivity, the props, and the chance to memorialize the evening. And every interaction with Chipper Booth, via email and phone, has been a breeze. Exceptional service. Exceptional value. – Nate Ragolia, Beanstalk Foundation

(More about Chipper Booth’s Social Responsibility coming soon)

Has it really been 3 months since our last post? Wow. Well, while we haven’t been as socially-engaged lately that is about to change. The coming weeks will feature a plethora of updates, beginning with our NEWEST PHOTO BOOTH! In the past 90 days we reinvented and built a brand new photo booth. It could quite possibly be THE best photo booth in Colorado (Yes, I’m the annoying proud papa that can’t stop talking about his child).

Chipper Booth v2.0 is sharper, more intuitive, more vintage, has back-lit arcade buttons and fits more faces into each shot due to the re-invented seating. How many people fit comfortably inside Chipper Booth v2.0? I’ll let the last photo below tell the story of the photographic quality and roominess of our new photo booth. Our original booth will be modified to be just like our new photo booth soon.

Promo shots of the new photo booth coming soon, but for now, here are some iPhone pics from last night’s event – I’m just too excited to show off our new baby to wait for the glamor shots.

PS: A new photo booth means we have TWICE The availability. Kicking around the idea of having a photo booth at your event? Contact us for a no pressure quote.

-Vince

Our Spring and Summer season is booking up fast but we’re building another handmade photobooth to accomodate more events. As such, we have tons of availability (even last minute) so give us a call or shoot an inquiry. We’re eager to work with you!

We’ve also modified the booth to fit more people! As many as 5 close friends can now squeeze into each shot. If you want more than that – like fitting a family of 12, that is no longer a photo booth, but a very large photo tent. There are many vendors in town that provide those. Contact us for suggestions of friendly folks we’ve met at bridal shows that offer that option.

We also upgraded the previous silver “glory button” to authentic vintage arcade controls that makes the Chipper Booth SO much easier and intuitive to use.

Groupon, Living Social and other online deal companies have been contacting us since we got up and running last year but we have maintained our disinterest. While we’d love to get our name out to thousands of people, we simply cannot go this route. Here is why …

When you are featured on Groupon, thousands of people hear about your company. This is good, right? Maybe. Chipper Booth is all about building our brand on the customer service and attention to detail, about making each client feel like they’re the only client. How could we do this if one day we had tens of dozens of inquiries all at once and booked 50-150 events in a single day? That would be suicide for our company.

It’s common to cut your price in half on sites like Groupon. We’re very competitive by offering a boutique experience on a budget at $999 for everything we offer for 4 hours within 50 miles of Denver, or in metro Colorado Springs or Fort Collins (and we’re still very affordable outside of that range). I’m sure cutting our price to $499 would be appealing, but at a $499 cost to the client, guess what we get from that? About half, because Groupon typically keeps 50% of the proceeds from the transaction! So now, instead of our already low price of $999, we’re down to $250 – a price that doesn’t even cover our expenses.

When you’re hunting for the right photo booth, a restaurant deal, a sweet price on a manicure, remember one thing: When you take advantage of that deal, the vendor typically receives 1/2 of what you paid, then they have their own costs to cover. They may have sold 100s of other deals and could potentially be taking on debt or cutting corners to handle the boom in (unprofitable) business. What kind of customer service will you get?

Send us an inquiry if you need a quote. We offer discounts for non-Saturday events, events under 4 hours, military discounts, etc. We’re willing to work with you to delight you and your guests! And guess what? We’re building more booths soon and we still have a lot of availability between now and end of the wedding season.

If you read this, thanks. I hope it didn’t sound like a rant.

Vince

We are super excited to finally be able to announce that Chipper Booth is the sole photobooth vendor working with Yelp in the month of March (things have been in the planning stages for weeks)! We’re debuting freshly handmade props that we can’t wait to see on you in pictures!

RSVP on Yelp’s site at the following links if you would like to have a day filled with a lot of FREE craft activities, adult beverages, and of course, stellar photostrips by us!

Saturday, March 4th  ///  Saturday, March 11th  ///  Saturday, March 18th