Escape Room Business Management

If you run an escape room, there’s a good chance you’ve got at least one slot in your calendar marked as “Call to Book”. Maybe it’s last minute, same-day availability? Or maybe it’s certain timeslots where you’ll need to confirm staffing before committing to them? Or maybe some …

Your online checkout is, for the most part, the moment a curious visitor becomes a confirmed player. It’s the last step between someone thinking “oh hey, I should do an escape room”, and you receiving money in your account. So it’s worth asking whether your online booking flow …

It’s Monday morning (or for that matter, any day of the week) and you’ve opened up your escape room’s inbox. If you’re like most, you can expect the usual mix of booking enquiries, questions about the rooms, a player or two asking if they left an item there …

New year, new me, right?

But the new year's resolutions don’t need to stop at personal improvement. January tends to be a little quieter for the escape room industry, which means it’s the perfect time to take stock of your escape room business.

But even if it’s not …

Running an escape room business brings with it a whole host of challenges. Here at Buzzshot, we get to chat to a lot of owners (that’s you!), and more often than not we hear of rooms using multiple systems to manage different tasks across the whole business. 

In …

How to choose the right camera and device setup for your escape room for the most sharable escape room photographs

Escape rooms have become increasingly popular over the years, and it's no wonder why! They can transport players into a world beyond their wildest dreams, bring people together …

Waiver on Through!

Quick question: How are you collecting feedback from your players?

If the answer is a vague “Oh, the Games Master asks if they had a good time”, or, “We send them a link to review on TripAdvisor”, then you’re probably missing out on useful …

This article is written for Escape Rooms in England, but it may be useful for anywhere else where the government starts asking businesses to keep track of their customers for contact tracing purposes. Guidance for re-opening safely and advice for publishing a Covid-19 risk assessment on your website …

Introduction

Ask somebody who is just starting up an Escape room what they do in their spare time and you’ll likely get a very quizzical look - that is if they have time to turn around and consider the question. So when I asked a question like this …

Every escape room needs a reliable online booking solution.

There are a number of different options you might choose. Some have been specially built with escape rooms in mind, whereas others are more generic booking systems.

Here, we’re looking at four different systems that are each frequently used …

Virtual Reality (VR) for escape rooms is where electronic gaming and escape room puzzles meet.

This is a growing area of business for escape rooms, incorporating virtual worlds that can be comprised of basically anything within the limits of the game designer’s imagination.

Players are immersed in the …