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Chris and Curt bring back their magazine-style format, where they delve into various topics related to escape rooms. They discuss marketing strategies for escape rooms through city quests, and creating an engaging social media presence. They share ideas for events that align with escape room themes, tools like the RFID whiz, staff incentives, and ways to design immersive sets. The episode also touches on fun and effective puzzles for family and kids, unique merchandise ideas, and how to create valuable roundtable groups for brainstorming.
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- Marketing – Create an outdoor quest for your town or city as a way to promote your business.
- Event – Hold classes or workshops based on your room themes
- Tool – RFID Whiz
- Staff – Staff pins for name tag lanyards based on performance and goals.
- Resource – Start a roundtable idea group of other escape room owners.
- Theme – Around the World in 80 Days
- Steal This – Creating numbers with strings
- Set or Game Design Idea – Plant Wall Panels
- Kids or Family Idea – Puzzles using sounds that can be heard in the background.
- Merch – Room-specific plushies
MYSTERY SOUP PODCAST HOSTS
CURT JACKSON
CHRIS KALLAL
