Charles Bechtel

Charles Bechtel is at present the owner and operator of Escape Rooms PHX in Mesa, AZ. He is 65, married to Manuela Mary Bechtel, with two grown daughters and three granddaughters. Professionally, Charles has been a published author of numerous books, both fiction and nonfiction, owned and operated his own publishing & consulting firms, and even had owned a charter fishing operation out of Cape May, New Jersey. Click here to check out some of the books authored by Charles. During his consulting days, he specialized in developing new products for the newspaper industry and developing what had then been the industry-altering desktop publishing replacement for many composition firms. He has years of marketing experience, wearing many hats on both the production and administrative sides of publishing.

Planning an Escape Room: Beta Testing

March 4, 2019March 4, 2019 by Charles Bechtel

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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 …

Planning an Escape Room: Concept & Design

March 4, 2019November 18, 2018 by Charles Bechtel

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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 …

The State of the Escape Room Industry: 2018

January 19, 2019August 15, 2018 by Charles Bechtel

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 …

Is Groupon Good for the Escape Room Industry: A Closer Look

January 19, 2019August 12, 2018 by Charles Bechtel

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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 …

8 Reasons Why Escape Rooms Fail

January 19, 2019June 5, 2018 by Charles Bechtel

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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 …

10 Escape Room Business Tips

March 16, 2019May 14, 2018 by Charles Bechtel

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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 …