It’s been a busy March for us here at Buzzshot! Between working on some exciting new updates for our escape room customer service platform, we’ve also been travelling all around the world. In particular, last month the Buzzshot team attended the TransWorld Interactive Entertainment Show in St Louis, MO. Here’s a wrap on how TransWorld 2024 went. TransWorld is one of the world’s largest conferences dedicated to the interactive entertainment industry. Originally titled the Room Escape Show, TransWorld now covers a wide range of industries under that umbrella. Not just escape rooms, you’ll now f ..read more

James Meggitt is an experience designer based in Fremantle, Western Australia, and the manager of Fox in a Box Perth. With almost 8 years experience you’ll often find him working on puzzley tabletop games or constructing physical room builds around Australia. Over the course of his career, his escape rooms have boasted thousands of 5-star reviews and sit at the top of their respective review sites. In this article, James will be sharing some of the tips that have kept his escape rooms competitive when it comes to online reviews. Need reviews fast? Here are some tips on how ..read more

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 January when you’re reading this, there’s no time like the present. Since its inception, the escape room industry has grown enormously. In fact, the global appetite for attractions and leisure across the board have grown so rapidly, the real question facing owners in 2024 is how to stay competitive. Today, escape room ..read more

Well, another whirlwind of a year for the escape room industry is drawing to a close, and the holiday season is upon us once again. It looks like we’ve escaped 2023! But before we prepare to bid farewell to 2023, it’s only fitting to take a moment to reflect on the challenges, the triumphs, and all the unexpected adventures that 2023 brought. It’s been a big year for the escape room industry, and for us here at Buzzshot too. So, here’s to 2023! ? A Year in Review for the Escape Room Industry This year we’ve kept up with the news ..read more

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 the escape room business ecosystem, you need those systems talking to one another. Juggling systems and their friction points is a burden on your teams, not to mention the players too. One of the reasons we created Buzzshot was to realise that word, an ‘ecosystem’. Buzzshot is a software that takes care ..read more

Escape rooms. Ask a group of enthusiasts what they’re all about, and you’ll hear some unique answers. But to us, escape rooms are a social activity that, at their heart, are really all about bringing people together. Although the escape room industry may be comparatively ‘new’ (after all, the first ever escape room was opened in 2007), we’ve grown a lot in a small amount of time. We’ve also grown more connected, after all - we’re a social bunch! …And we have to be, if we’re going to collaborate to solve all the puzzles and beat the clock. Since 2007 ..read more

On any given day, our inbox is absolutely full of emails. Seriously, go check yours. I’ll wait… …That’s right, there’s a lot of noise in our inboxes, and most of the time we either give it a cursory glance, mark the whole thing as read, or at worse - unsubscribe! So why add to the noise? Well, according to a recent study from the Direct Marketing Association, 66% of consumers made a purchase online because of email marketing. The report further states that of all the email marketing campaigns being sent, those that are highly targeted and segmented drive 36 ..read more

Our goal at Buzzshot is to continually find new ways to help you level up your escape room business. From giving you the tools to help you manage your rooms and staff, to creating an easy to use waiver system, to automatically generated and branded photographs… Which is why we’re so excited to announce a brand new feature we think you’ll love: Broadcast mailing! Broadcast mailing is a powerful and versatile tool that gives you the ability to contact all of our customers and subscribers in one go, all from within the Buzzshot platform. It’s email marketing, but turbocharged. Use ..read more

One of the biggest challenges to escape room owners is how to increase the per-head spend of each player that comes through your door. At the end of the day, once a player has played all your rooms, no matter how much they love your company, they’ve reached their maximum lifetime spend with you. So the million dollar question is: How can I increase that lifetime spend? Well, you could create more escape rooms. Sure. But what if we told you there’s an easier way to enhance your players’ experience and offer them brand new games without a large up-front ..read more

Buzzshot is 1,000 years old today! Wait, what? How can that be possible? Well, if you add up all the months our subscribers have been with us, it comes in at 1,000 years. As of right now, Buzzshot has been used in escape rooms for a whole millennium. Not looking too bad for our 1,000th birthday, hey?! As we celebrate this momentous anniversary, it’s a good time to look back at some of the impressive numbers that make up Buzzshot’s history. Buzzshot through the ages Since our founding in the year 1023 (just kidding), we’ve seen a lot of ..read more