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We were only open that Saturday and we did about 1/3 of what we did the previous Saturday. It was our first year being open post-Halloween, and we chose Saturday because it is reliably busier for...

I'll be there for day or two. Looking for some food prep stuff and a few other things.

I finally received my order. thank you everyone for helping me out and making a fuss.

We run pumpkin patch and a haunt. I checked out some insurance a few years ago for our pumpkin patch and to cover our busy weekend days they wanted something like 50% of what we would have made. ...

An update

I emailed Mike a link to this thread and I have received a tracking number for a delivery from Shot in the Dark, I'll keep everyone updated. Thanks!

I did get a laugh out of that, Thanks!


I cant say that I feel better due to the fact that I am the only one that has had this problem.

Maybe there Transworld/hauntworld or whoever could...

Dan,

I'm glad you have had a good experience with them. I hope our experience is just an honest mistake as well. The CO2 stuff looks incredible. I didn't get to go to St. Louis this year, is...

Hello all, Just a friendly warning if you ordered anything from Shot in the Dark scare tools.

I put an ~$600 order in with them at the St. Louis Show in 2011, they charged my credit card but...

Does everyone/anyone have their dates for Fall 2011? Our target demographic is 12-18 year olds, so they have parents and they have to go to school. We are thinking

Fri sept 30
Every Friday and...

I would really like this.

We had a great season. The weather could not have been better. Its only our second year but our revenue was up about 500%. (We got rain on all but 1 night last year)

We had a really simple one last year that we sent as an email to anyone who had bought tickets online. A few pointers on that,

1) If you have an email list either as a sign up mailing list, a...

Thanks everybody, that helped us plan staff and all that other fun stuff for Sunday. Happy haunting.

This is the first year we have run a decent haunt. What can we expect for crowds Halloween night? Being a Sunday and good weather. Are Halloween nights usually kickin or is it kind of slow?
Our...

We are going into our second year and 2 questions were asked that I didn't have the answer to.

#1 - Are Fridays or Saturdays busier? It rained every day this year so we didn't get a chance to...

We Spent about $1/person I think. Social media is almost free, just time put into it. We had a video made up, a page on our website, a small part in our brochure and some signs and whatnot made up...

That is a great way to wire up a panic button in a corn field!

I might just be being lazy, but i figure i can get a list of year round haunts from the forum much faster than trying to find them myself. I keep coming across lists of year round haunts that have...

Thanks again. That projector i mentioned is righteous. It puts a picture on the side of our barn 30' square? something like that. Even on the red paint it looks pretty good. We ended up using...

It was our haunts first year and we did well considering we got rain every night. But just to shed some light from outside the haunt industry, our Fall Festival which is pretty big was down only 10%...

Thanks for the feedback. We had 3 uniformed police with 1 cruiser out front with the lights on. Our footprint is pretty big so they were spread out.

Our haunt is 95% no touch. We tell the...

This was our first year. We had a hayride, a hangout area, and a corn walk. The 30th we had a pretty big crowd, 1600, and a couple of actors in the corn had some incidents. One female actor who...

Its our first year too. We were planning on opening 6 nights and only opened 4. It rained every single night. We were hoping to put about 4000 people through collectively and i think we managed...

Our daytime business is all about family friendliness so we decided make some rules for our haunt. One of them is not traditional weapons. Chainsaws are on the fence in my opinion and my sister...

This was our haunts first year so we have nothing to compare it to. We were planning on being open only 6 nights in addition to 7 weeks of daytime Fall Festival activity. We had rain every single...