Charles Bechtel
First things first. If you haven’t read Planning an Escape Room Part 1 yet, you should do so before reading Part 2. Click here to read Part 1. Done your work? Fix your work Old saying: If done right, then done forever. Never happens, especially if that work then must be laid in front of …
Plan your work, work your plan At Escape Rooms PHX / Mesa, we are converting a room that was popular with those who used it, but not enough used by enough people. We wanted to do a conversion as inexpensively as possible, and as quickly as possible. We began the process of concept to build-out …
Read about the state of the escape room industry and get a unique perspective from one escape room owner in our guest post on HowToStartAnLLC.com. What, exactly, is the state of the industry, considering that escape games are relatively new but rapidly expanding? (Statistics collected mid-2017 revealed 2,800 games in the world — today there …
Although the Industry does not suffer from a lack of visibility, individual locations may, and often do. For the developing businesses, there are basically four marketing avenues: the culture (word of mouth), pass-by trade (passing by your sign, billboards, cab side pasteboards), print media (free and paid distributions), and social media. The Escape Room culture …
Read moreIs Groupon Good for the Escape Room Industry: A Closer Look
The Escape Room industry in the United States (we’ll not discuss elsewhere) is both new and booming, so there are not a lot of Escape Rooms failing. However, as Bust often follows Boom, in all likelihood the Escape Room Industry will be facing this inevitability. An escape room can fail, so what can an entrepreneur …
Everyone who has ever started an escape room has learned that there was always more that he or she would have done well to know beforehand. Here are ten truisms and forethoughts on what may prove useful, in no particular order of importance. Everything breaks Eventually. At Escape Rooms PHX we had a client break …