The plan was to have a little ghost hunting fun. But now it seems you found what you were looking for. Hurry, or you’ll be trapped forever!
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Based in Boston MA, Wicked Escapes is renowned for producing some of the most immersive and entertaining interactive adventure attractions in the world!
Our flagship location is just 10 minutes north of Boston, located conveniently on Route 1, in the Rollerworld Plaza. Book today and find out what all of the excitement is about; enjoy our spacious location, experience the thrill of solving our challenges, and maybe even set a new time-record!
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One Way Out wants to challenge your witts and see if you can escape the room in less than 60 minutes. Does your team have what it takes to find the clues and solve the puzzles to get out? Not sure what an escape room is? Check out our FAQ on our website for more information:http://ift.tt/1sOZlo6.
This is an interactive adventure activity that stimulates group communication and teamwork for families, friends, and co-workers! We are located in Lynchburg (Central Virginia) in close proximity to Appomattox, Forest, Bedford, Amherst, Campbell County, Roanoke, Blacksburg, Virginia.
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I have been to more escape rooms than most people. There have been many that were fantastic, and some that were less so. Typically, the ones I have been to have fallen into these categories.
Recently, I got to experience something different… something that really made me say, ‘WOW!’
I went to ‘The Fun House’ at Crossroads Escape Games in Anaheim, CA. This was a brand-new room that Madison and Luke had opened just a week earlier. They also have the very popular ‘Hex Room’, which I have not been able to do yet, as I need 5-6 people… and I don’t seem to have enough friends.
However, ‘The Fun House’ does not require that many people, so we booked that and headed up to Anaheim. After arriving to what was essentially a giant warehouse, with a very nice waiting room. After the normal waivers were signed, and the rules were given, we entered into something that absolutely blew my mind! Madison and Luke had used the cavernous warehouse space, with the high ceilings, to essentially build a building within a building. You weren’t in an office that had some funhouse decorations, you were IN A FUNHOUSE! Loud colors, crazy pictures on the walls, giant doors with oversized knobs. They even had a vaulted ceiling that looked like a circus tent, an ‘upside down’ room, and one of those perspective rooms where it actually gets smaller on the other end.
The amount of set design, time and creativity it took to create this room was mind-blowing, and truly raises the bar for escape room creators.
Talking with Luke and Madison, I was impressed when I heard they had essentially designed and built the adventure themselves.
If you are a designer of escape rooms, or a room owner, you have just been called out! This was an absolutely incredible room, and takes set design to a whole new level.
And so far, I have only mentioned the set design. It should be noted that the room was a ton of fun! It was challenging, clever and had just the right mix of easy and difficult puzzles, so you were challenged, yet always felt success, rather than frustration.
Overall, ‘The Fun House’ at Cross Roads Escape Games is an exciting escape room, and an absolute must-see for any escape room enthusiast!
Oh, and as for our success. We were told that no 3-person groups had escaped The Funhouse yet… but we did! And we did so in 35 minutes
Cross Roads Escape Games
4245 E La Palma Ave
Anaheim, CA 92807
(714) 572-1004
http://ift.tt/1SyGaUM
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Located in beautiful historic downtown Hot Springs, Arkansas, A Narrow Escape is among the first generation of escape rooms to emerge. We hope you will enjoy our family friendly narrative as you interact with each handcrafted puzzle, unique only to our rooms. Please take the time to visit our website, or email with any questions. One of our owners will respond shortly.
A Clinical Trial
A Clinical Trial is the first room created by A Narrow Escape. You will be taken back to 1953, a time of substantial scientific discoveries. Unfortunately for you, our protagonist, Dr. Dennis Wade, is no contributor to these discoveries. Try as he may, Dr. Wade simply cannot get any of his contraptions to work correctly.
You and up to five of your friends are part of a clinical trial group in which you will be testing the effects of a new air purifier created by Dr. Wade. However, you soon learn that you are receiving far more than for which you volunteered. You will have sixty minutes to solve the clues and stop the clock before your time runs out!
We hope to see you soon!
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Urban Enigmas is Athens’ Premier Escape Room. We have combined scavenger hunts with secret codes and puzzles and places them in a fun and immersive setting. A group of up to 8 “escape artists” are “locked” in a room and have 60 minutes to find the clues, solve the puzzles, complete the mission, and escape the room. Book your experience with us today and let us help you ESCAPE REALITY!
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Escape Factor Chicago, located in beautiful & historic Oak Park, Illinois, is an extremely fun, immersive, and interactive escape room experience where a group of up to 10 participants are placed in a themed room and have sixty minutes to work together and figure out a way to attain their goal. As a team, the group uses logic and elements within the room to find clues & keys, solve puzzles & riddles, and decipher various cryptic messages. While developing team building and using effective communication, they hold the fate of their ultimate escape in a unique, safe, and controlled environment. Perfect for date nights, social outings, corporate events, birthdays, and more!
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As an escape game operator, you have a unique business. You provide a new form of entertainment, that most people have still never even heard of.
While this presents a unique challenge, as you have to educate the public, as well as market to them, most of your marketing efforts are going to be the same as any doctor, lawyer or plumber.
So, I thought I would provide a marketers perspective on how to get more customers to your business.
Number One: Your Website
In this day and age, especially in this kind of business, where most reservations are made online, we MUST start with a good foundation, which means a website that works for us.
Because escape rooms are an art form and often very theme-driven, it is natural that we want to create a site that plays off of our theme. If our room is about a haunted mansion, we want the site to reflect that. The challenge we face is that these highly themed websites often work against us. While it is nice to have a website that sets a tone, it is more important that the website ranks well in Google, educates the visitors, collects leads and gets the visitors to book a game.
This does not mean we have to abandon our theme online, but it does mean we have to keep the practical parts of the website in mind when we are creating the site. Here are some ways to ensure you make the most of your site.
Number Two: Google My Business
As mentioned above, everything starts with a good website. This strong website will help you to rank better in Google, and show up better in the local maps.
But another important thing that everyone should do right away, is get into the FREE Google My Business program.
As we mentioned earlier Google’s main priority is providing people that search on Google, with the best and most accurate information. In order to do that, Google collects information on local businesses, and it then adds them to their Google My Business program (often thought of as the Google maps). Those listings are done automatically, and then ranked based on a number of factors, including the businesses website and the number of reviews people give the business. But there is also one MAJOR factor in ranking well on those maps that a vast number of businesses never do; that is to ‘claim’ that listing. Any business that is listed on the maps can be claimed by the business owner, and then verified and optimized.
You should also be encouraging people to leave good reviews. If someone comes out of your room, and they are happy and excited, ask them to leave a review on Google. While you should never bribe people to leave a good review, you can incentivize them for taking the time to leave a review. Having a large number of good reviews is not only great for people searching for a room, it also helps your maps listing to rank higher.
Number Three: Directories
Directories are any sites that list businesses. This can be an all-encompassing site, like Yelp or an industry-specific site, such as the site you are on now. You need to get listed on as many as you possibly can. These directory sites are a great way to improve your businesses profile, in a number of ways. First and foremost is that potential customers may be on their. The more places you are listed, the more likely someone will find you. In addition to that, each of those sites will likely link back to your website, giving your site an all important backlink, which in-turn should help improve your website rankings.
Some of the sites you should be listing yourself on:
And of course, there may be local directories in your city or town, such as with the chamber of commerce, or the local newspaper.
Number Four: Social Media
This is an area that it seems many escape room owners are pretty good at. Nearly every room that I have seen has a Facebook Page, an Instagram and a Twitter. And almost everyone takes photos and posts them. But as with anything, we can be doing even more with social media. Here are some ideas, that you should be doing.
Number Five: Guerrilla Marketing
This is where we step out into the non-traditional, and start creating some marketing buzz for ourselves, using creativity and shoe leather.
The first thing you should do, is start to cross promote with other local businesses. Talk to restaurant owners, and do ‘Dinner and a Puzzle’. One room I went to recently, actually incorporated a meal at a local tavern as part of the game. This created business and exposure for both locations. Another good candidate would be the local movie theater. Theaters usually have discount ticket programs and cross promotions that they do, so don’t be afraid to ask.
Talk with the local cub scouts, boy scouts and church groups. They are often looking for fun activities to do, especially ones where there is an element of teamwork involved.
Create an incentive program for customers. If they refer friends, they get a discount to another game.
And now for one of my favorites.
Collaborate with other games in your area. One of the down-sides to this business is that most games don’t have a deployability. Once a customer has played your room, there is usually little reason to do so again. The one positive from this is that this goes for all the other rooms in the area. Unlike most businesses that are in competition with each other, escape rooms are usually in the unique position of actually wanting to share customers. If your customer loves escape rooms, but has already done your room, send him to another location, and have them do the same.
You can even take this to another level by actually creating a local ‘Escape Club’. Have cards that can be brought from one location to the next, and when someone does all 5 rooms in the area, they get a prize. Not only does this benefit all the locations, but it gives the customers greater incentive to visit all the locations.
You can even take this to another level, by having all the rooms contact customers, and actively encourage them to try one of the other rooms.
The Bottom Line
While escape rooms are a new and somewhat different business, the same marketing principals apply. If you utilize all the tools at your disposal and add a little creativity, you can see a huge improvement in bookings and sales.
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