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Sydney Hills Business Chamber Public Blog

Sydney Hills Business Chamber

First year in trading A year later Darren and I have renewed our membership for the Sydney Hills Business Chamber.  We joined the Chamber before we even had an office to work from.  We knew that Escape Rooms was a relatively new concept in Australia.  So we thought it would be a good idea to join early to start the…
Julia Billyard
29 August 2018
Elude Escape Room Statistics Stats and LeadersPublic Blog

Elude Escape Room Statistics

Some Statistics from our Rooms for those interested. Not counting all of our testers who have completed our rooms, but we thank you wholeheartedly for assisting us to develop and improve our rooms. Perpetual Motion Perpetual Motion opened in November 2017. To date we have had 278 Escapees participate in Perpetual Motion.  Consisting of 70 Teams. 116 Escapee's managed to…
Julia Billyard
29 April 2018
Is an Escape Room like a Panic Room? Escape Room compared to Panic RoomPublic Blog

Is an Escape Room like a Panic Room?

Different Between an Escape Room and a Panic Room A safe room or panic room is a fortified room that is installed in a private residence or business.  It provides a safe shelter or hiding place, for the inhabitants in the event of a break-in, home invasion, tornado, terror attack, or other threat. Safe rooms usually contain communications equipment, so that law enforcement authorities…
Julia Billyard
22 April 2018
What is an Escape Room? What is an Escape RoomPublic Blog

What is an Escape Room?

I get asked all the time... What is an Escape Room? An escape room is an interactive and physical adventure / puzzle room.  We take you and a group of family, friends or colleagues.  Put you into a themed scenario, where you have a mission to find the clues, solve puzzles, unlock the padlocks or doors until you solve the…
Julia Billyard
11 April 2018
Framed – Taking Bookings Now Public Blog

Framed – Taking Bookings Now

Grand Opening Easter Long Weekend We have been testing FRAMED now for the past week and have more testing planned. We believe it will be ready for customers on the long weekend of Easter.  Dates have been published on our website to book now. It has been incredibly rewarding putting this room together. Darren and I have put in some long…
Julia Billyard
21 March 2018
52 Ways Workshop Public Blog

52 Ways Workshop

Best 1 Day workshop!!!! To top it off - it's even FREE!! I met Dale Beaumont at a Sydney Hill Business Chamber event last year. Everything he spoke about resonated with me and Dale invited us to attend his 52 Ways Workshop.  Dale runs these a couple of times a year all around Australia.  So there is no excuse you…
Julia Billyard
18 February 2018
GamesMaster for an hour! Elissa, a happy customer, games mastering her friend's gamePublic Blog

GamesMaster for an hour!

Want to do what I do for an hour? GamesMaster an Escape Room! Elude have an exclusive offer available to room participants,.  If you want to come and watch the game you have already played and see your friends/family experience what you experienced. We already offer the same service to Corporate companies so that Team Leaders, Managers & HR can…
Julia Billyard
11 February 2018

App for Escape Room Owners

Buzzshot is a mobile app which links to a database of customers. The first step is to write a waiver which your escape room clients read to ensure they understand the rules of the game. To confirm acceptance the customer enters certain details which the Manager can customise.  All participants are required to complete the waiver. Normally the Manager would only collect the details of the customer making the booking.  Completing a waiver allows you to collect the details of all members.  This has great benefits when wishing to re-market to your customers. The customer details are stored in an online database which is easily exported to an email marketing program.  Depending on the information you collect you can also determine what your average customer is like.  For example: gender, age bracket and location.  The Marketing Manager will use this valuable information in marketing campaigns to specifically target the to average customer. Another feature of Buzzshot is the ability to overlay your logo, team name and escape time over their team photo.  Buzzshot then automatically posts the photo to your business Facebook page.  This in itself can save 5 min for each game. The Customer receives an automated email with team photo and links to review your business, when the escape room is completed.  The Manager has the ability to customise the contents of the email. Tom at Buzzshot is terrific working with other small businesses they understand the importance of customer service.  The response time is exceptional and nothing is too hard.  Tom is constantly improving things. Buzzshot 
Benefits of Facebook Facebook Ads logo - with the blue and grey megaphone - Elude find this a great toolPublic Blog

Benefits of Facebook

MARKETING With all new businesses getting known within the area is always a challenge.  Marketing is a major key factor.  We have found Social Media especially Facebook to be a great tool and asset to our business. Our first challenge has been educating people on what an Escape Room is.   Which Facebook has helped to us get this information out…
Julia Billyard
29 January 2018
Working together to Escape Julia and Darren at Mission Escape in PlymouthPublic Blog

Working together to Escape

Tips on how we complete rooms! Darren and I have often been asked tips on how we complete rooms.  So we thought we would give you a few things that have worked well for us.  We are not saying this is the only way it has just helps us get through our 60+ rooms. We learnt very early on that…
Julia Billyard
21 January 2018
Evolution of Elude Escape Rooms A photo of Julia and Darren with a clapperboard and in spy outfitsPublic Blog

Evolution of Elude Escape Rooms

Starting a new business has its challenges, let alone starting one that not many people have heard about before. Darren and Julia started Elude Escape Rooms in May this year whilst on an overseas trip to Europe visiting 7 countries (including locations such as Torquay, London, Leeds, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Amsterdam, Dusseldorf, Paris, Venice, Pisa, Florence, Rome, Mussomeli, Malaga, Granada) where…
Julia Billyard
31 December 2017
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