What You Need to Know About the GDPR for Escape Room Owners

What You Need to Know About the GDPR as an Escape Room Owner

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is coming.

Everybody knows it …

… or do they?

If you run escape rooms in Europe, you may be feeling a twinge of discomfort … as if you’re sure there’s a bit more you should be doing, but you’re not sure what.

Of course, that’s to be expected with any new legislation.

And, indeed, the creators and enactors of the GDPR are feeling the same way. They’re not sure how it’s really going to turn out.

In this guest post by Bill Parslow, Head of Content at Buzzshot, you’ll get a primer on what the GDPR is, how it impacts you as an escape room owner, and what you need to do to make sure you’re in compliance by 25 May.
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May 10, 2018 Categorised in:
Find out what it takes to open your own escape room from start to finish

Escape Room Blueprint – DIY Escape Room

What does it take to get started in the escape room industry today?

You may have heard things have changed.

You may have heard the market is saturated.

The first is true. The second cannot be proven.

In developed markets, escape adventures have become a regular entertainment format for everyone, like cinema, computer games, or sporting events.

People still go to the movies, buy computer games, and attend sporting events.

And people still flock to escape rooms.

The difference is, now they’re a more sophisticated audience.

They expect more from you. And they deserve more from you.

Escape rooms may not be “exotic” anymore, but they’re still increasing in popularity.

Your quest is to show them something new. To knock them off their feet. To create an experience they can’t stop talking about for days.

Are you ready to do that?

In this guest post from escape room manufacturing company, Indestroom, you’ll find out how to start your own escape room business, step by step.

Let’s get started.
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April 28, 2018 Categorised in:
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How to Level Up Your Business with a VR Escape Room

Is the escape room market in your area ready for a fresh and exciting new format?

Consumers have proven that they are willing to pay a premium for truly one-of-a-kind experiences.

As the escape room audience becomes more sophisticated, escape room owners everywhere are seeking out more creative ways to provide unique immersive experiences.

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January 27, 2018 Categorised in:
Escape Room Music: Adding Another Dimension to the Experience

Escape Room Music: Adding Another Dimension to the Experience

Live escape rooms are becoming more and more popular as people hear about them, try them, and share their experiences with their friends.

This is great news for escape game operators.

It’s also great news for escape game fans.

Why?

It means everyone in the business is scrambling to design better rooms – more challenging rooms, more immersive rooms, more surprising rooms.

A set of great puzzles is no longer the most important aspect of escape room design (it’s important, but now there are other features you need to focus on, too).

Now players want higher quality sets and props, special effects, and other features that add emotional impact to the experience.

In this guest blog from music composer and sound designer Jan Baumann, you’ll learn how important sound is to your room escape scenarios and how to develop a soundtrack that enhances your room’s entertainment value and success.

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October 10, 2017 Categorised in:
10 Escape Room Alternatives to Launch Your Business Into the Future

10 Escape Room Alternatives to Launch Your Business Into the Future

The secret to delighting guests = integrating fresh, fun, challenging puzzles into a compelling story.

You know that already.

But what happens when other entrepreneurs open up escape game businesses nearby, and they know that secret too?

Well, you can keep going, hoping your customer service, competitive prices, and positive reviews keep you in the black. And they’re doing just that for many escape game owners.

Or you can look at where the industry is headed and pioneer something nobody in your town or metro area has even thought of yet!

How is the immersive entertainment industry evolving, and how can you get ahead of the curve?

Keep reading and get ready for the future of escape rooms!

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September 10, 2017 Categorised in:
Tips to creating challenging escape room puzzles

How to Create Great Escape Room Puzzles: 4 Strategies That Work

Do your escape room puzzles keep your customers on their toes?

Do they result in huge, delighted “a-ha” moments when they’re finally solved?

Do your escape room customers spend as much time laughing over missteps and cheering victories as they do pondering and strategizing?

No matter how new you are to the escape room business, you know that the quality of your puzzles is a critical factor in your success.

Fortunately, you probably got into the escape room business because you, yourself, love puzzles! So spending the extra time to make sure you’re providing your customers puzzles they’ll be delighted to solve is a no-brainer.

Want to make sure your escape room puzzles have the right ratio of challenge to success rate? This guest post by Rob Mesler, owner and operator of Escape IT in Columbus, Ohio, offers proven tips for creating great room escape puzzles.
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July 25, 2017 Categorised in:
100 Escape Room Puzzle Ideas

100 More Great Escape Room Puzzle Ideas

Your goal is to design the most fun, challenging, immersive escape room game in your area.

Or, heck – no reason to limit yourself . . . you want to design the best escape game in the world!

To do that, you need great puzzles.

You need puzzles that will challenge your customers, but which will also be fun and just the right amount of difficult to make them enjoy solving them without getting angry or frustrated.

The puzzle ideas in Nowescape’s blog, 101 Best Escape Room Puzzle Ideas, helped you get started. Now we’ve compiled another list to spark your imagination and help get you on the path to success.

Remember, you don’t want to just copy these ideas exactly as they are. If everyone used the same puzzle ideas in their room escapes, customers would get bored pretty quickly.

Take these ideas and give them your own unique spin. Your customers will appreciate it, and your revenue will reflect it!

Let’s get started!
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January 16, 2017 Categorised in:
4 Essential Rules to Creating Great Escape Room Photos

I Shot 500+ Professional Escape Room Photos. This is What I Learned

Do the images you use to promote your escape room inspire delight?

Do your escape room photographs kindle the imagination?

When potential customers see the photos on your website, are they dying to book a game and explore the mysteries you’ve hinted at?

In this guest blog from escape room photography expert Ilya Nodia, you’ll see examples of room escape promotional photographs that do exactly that and learn Ilya’s four essential rules to creating your own spectacular marketing images.

Read on to discover the secrets behind escape room photographs that will sell your games for you.
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December 12, 2016 Categorised in:
4-Point Checklist: Escape Room Website Design

4-Point Checklist: Escape Room Website Design

First impressions are key – in life and in business.

For businesses today, that first impression is formed the moment a person looks at your website.

What is your potential customer’s first impression of your business?

Does this sound familiar?

You’ve opened you doors, and the local news outlets have done stories on your new business.
You’re getting good reviews from people who have experienced your room, so word-of-mouth traffic is good.
But you’re still not getting the online bookings you had been hoping for.

If this sounds like your experience, it’s time to analyze the effectiveness of your website.

Read on to find out how to design a website that makes a great first impression.

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November 23, 2016 Categorised in:
How to Crack the ‘Google Puzzle’ and Get Found by Customers

SEO Tools for Escape Room Owners: Solving the Digital Marketing Puzzle

As an escape room operator, you wear many hats.

You’re a showman and an entertainer. You’re also a marketer, a handyman, a customer service representative, an employer, a bookkeeper, and more!

Chances are, you don’t have training in every aspect of each of these roles.

One area you may find particularly challenging is marketing your escape room.

Sure you’ve got a website set up and you’re posting some things on social media, but when talk turns to SEO techniques and digital marketing strategies, you start feeling like maybe you’re in over your head.

For more marketing ideas – many of which require no computer skills at all –
check out 21 Ways to Sell More Escape Room Games.

In this guest post, Elliott Bailey, owner and operator of Heist Escape Party and self-proclaimed “tech head,” makes developing an effective online presence easy to understand.

If you’ve been wondering how to increase traffic to your website, this is the step-by-step escape room marketing tutorial for you.

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October 19, 2016 Categorised in: