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Haunted House Marketing: How to get more customers to find your attraction

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Haunt Marketing: How to get more customers to find your attraction

If you have a difficult time getting customers through your Haunted Attraction, you’re not alone. All of us struggle with it. Slowly trying to up the attendance, trying to retain your current customers, & finding your exact type of customer.

In this audio podcast you will learn some of techniques that I have personally experimented with and have researched from other haunt owners that work for them.

A few things you’ll learn in this podcast:

Low cost effective marketing ideas
Time saving social media tricks
Start up checklist you should be doing
Rules for legal contests on social media
Local advertising techniques to try
Where you should spend your money
and MUCH MORE!

In this informative session, I will present some of the marketing and advertising methods we have used in the past that have gotten customers through our doors and continue to get attendee engagement. Most of my methods are budget friendly and can be scaled to meet your budget funds. Just plug and play.

**We also play tunes from Verse 13, Sam Haynes, and Gore-Galore!**

What was included in this LIVE Master Class: (you missed it)

Live video with presentation and Questions asked throughout
Video and Audio replay included after master class
Get ideas with other Haunters in the exclusive Chat Room
Answers to every question you have. It’s a Seminar!
If you can’t make, you still get to watch it.
All resources and powerpoints included.

Watch our FREE “Start Your Haunt Without Spending Lots of Money” Video Master Class Replay!

A little about me. Brian Foreman.

4th year Co-owner of the Dead factory Haunted House in Mexico, Missouri and lover of all things SCARY. Small town haunt with big soul..and a tiny budget.

I’ve been a Home Haunter, Scare Actor, Manager, Designer…and most things in between, but I’m always learning. Maybe I can share a thing or two with you!

The Haunt Rater: How to Take Your Attraction From Good to Great with Robert Nulton

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In this podcast episode, we talk to Robert Nulton from The Haunt Rater about the elements that he feels makes up a great Haunted Attraction experience and how you can improve your show for next season.

The Haunt Rater has been reviewing and walking through Haunted Houses since 2008. They’ve seen the small town haunts and the nationally recognized ones. They also offer haunt consulting and try to make the haunted attraction industry better through all of their services.

If you want to get these guys to help you improve your Haunt or just reach out and say hi, visit The Haunt Rater website here.

Robert has also starting working on the Haunter’s Association which is still in it’s infancy, but he is searching for like-minded individuals who want to build a community around doing haunted attractions the right way. You can contact Robert at the Haunter’s Association here.

Keeping your Haunted Attraction fresh, safe, and entertaining are just a few things you need each year to provide your customers with a great experience. Getting another experienced Haunter’s point-of-view can help bring a new perspective to your venue, sometimes it takes someone from the outside looking in.

Thanks Robert for taking your time chatting with HaunTopic Radio!

And don’t forget we have our own Membership Community at the Haunter’s Toolbox where we host monthly live online workshops to help you continue to improve your Haunted Attraction.

The Haunter’s Toolbox: You can become a member for FREE here.

Haunter’s Toolbox Exclusive: Start your Haunted Attraction Master Class Replay

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This is a 30 minute segment of our full training we hosted on https://www.haunterstoolbox.com “Start a Haunted Attraction without spending tons of money”

Starting up your first Haunted Attraction as a business can cost you a lot of money if you don’t know where to invest your hard earned cash. In this podcast episode, we give you our first 30 minutes of our hour and a half workshop we hosted on HOW and WHERE to spend your money so you can be successful each year.

Many Haunted Attractions close their doors before they get the chance to grow like they should. You DO NOT need tons of money but you do need to know the important places to put your money.

Here is the outline on what we talked about in our live training session:

Where to spend your money in your first year open
Cheap design ideas to look professional
Material costs that will save you money
Cost-effective marketing ideas for your brand
Where to find scare actors and haunted house staff

To get this recorded training, become a HAUNT MASTER member at Haunter’s Toolbox.com.

To sign up for our next live workshop, Ask the Haunt Expert Master Class, CLICK HERE.

Haunt Stories from the Dead Factory and the Deadmonton Haunted House

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If you’re like us, you never get tired of stories from Haunt Season. We never get tired of talking about it. Here are the highlights from our experiences as Co-owner of the Dead Factory Haunted House (Brian Foreman) in Missouri and Manager of the Deadmonton Haunted House (Darryl Plunkie) in Canada.

Deadmonton Haunted House (Edmonton AB Canada)

“The first haunted house I’ve been to! Waited in line for a few hours but worth it! Actors walked around while we were in line to scare us, so awesome. The haunted house was so well done! Scared me so much, jumped so much, laughed so much. Well done!! So much fun! Well worth the price and the wait!!” –Kayla Bourgoin

“Wonderfully terrifying experience. Arrive early in the day to get a good place in line, unless you’re willing to dish for speed passes. Crazy amounts of imagination go into this 45 minute plus experience. Try not to rush through, but be forewarned. . Do not walk to slowly either :/” –Kristine Lynn Bowman

Dead Factory Haunted House (Mexico, Missouri)

“I’ve been through the super fancy haunted houses at Halloween Horror Nights in Universal Studios – Orlando, and The Dead Factory blew those big budget houses away.

The actors are superb, the scared are bone chilling, and you can feel the level of care that they put into their craft.

This will most definitely become an annual tradition. A huge thanks to everyone who made this entertainment possible.” –Charles Dallas Parrott

“We just got done going through the house and I am still shaking. I ran out of there as fast as I could and I am not going to have a voice tomorrow! So much fun! You can tell these guys love what they do! Awesome price awesome & people check it out!” –Claudia Holt

Listen to how we made it through Haunt Season here.

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Haunt Design for the 5 (or more) Senses

New seminar coming to HAuNTcon 2018!

Most people think there are only 5 senses – taste, touch, sight, sound and smell. Besides the “sixth sense”, there are several others that people experience, and react to. Research into the ways the senses work has lead me down the path of how we can manipulate them to make your haunt more memorable. From simple tweaks to your existing set up to ways to think about future designs to take advantage of their power, we’ll go through them in this seminar.

How can you take advantage of them in your haunt?

How can you put people in the fright zone even before they get in?

How can you manipulate their senses to keep them relaxed, anxious, or terrified?

How can you make them experience things that are not really there?

How can you get them to remember your haunt far in the future?

Join me on a journey at HAuNTcon 2018 in New Orleans, LA, as we cover these senses and practical methods to use them.

Save $5 off a Full Weekend pass – enter the Promo code SPEAK at the checkout on HAuNTcon.com or just CLICK HERE to go straight to the sign up form.

Guest Speaker: Darryl Plunkie

Darryl Plunkie has been involved with haunting ever since answering “Yes” to the “Will you volunteer?” at a local historic park’s Halloween Event survey. After spending 15 years acting at the park and being involved in other local Halloween activities, a YouTube channel and blog allowed him to help promote both local and North American artists and events.

Since then, Darryl has teamed up with Brian Foreman to form HaunTopic Radio, a podcast, and Haunters Toolbox, a membership community for helping your start and grow your Haunted Attraction. Darryl has also gone back to acting and managing actors at Deadmonton Haunted House in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.