y=mx+b

[Cliff]

At Transworld in one of the seminars I think it was Rich that gave a very clever formula to know how many staff to hire (don’t ask me what it was its buried in my notes) any way how about one of you brilliant statisticians come up with a formula for ticket pricing. Actors x length of show - total yearly rent…… something like that …I know lots of variables........ is it doable??

[HauntedPaws]

Depends on perceived value and what other revenue streams you have such as add-ons, merchandise, food etc.

[Cliff]

"Perceived" there in lies my point.....it would be nice to take some of the "perceived" out of it and replace it with sold numbers.

[Greg Chrise]

There is some kind of formula I'm feeling.

How old the consulant is by a factor of how many cosultants there are relative to a quotient of how early on they formed some opinion in the first or second year of knowing anything, that turns out to be wrong by a factor of three but they stuck with it as the ultimate advice for 25 years rather than be proved wrong in any way and thought that advice converted to $2500 instead of here's a quarter, call someone who cares. SO the end catagory for $25 is What is Bullshit?

Then this equates to a larger conversion of who actually answers the phone anymore without specific caller ID information versus what they pay per mintute for cell phone coverage. Meanwhile this over the factor that everyone else is text messaging what a dummy the caller is, totally unware of that kind of communication style and faxing each other forms versus acually doing something.

It all works out in the end. After a massive carbon foot print. That equates to how many haunted houses use solar power and animal methane for power.

What are you trying to figure out?

[terrormasue]

Well I can tell you this line does have a slope and a y intercept......

Sue

[Allen H]

Ticket price =
$1/minute of travel through show. To a maximum of $25. That is my theory. make it a good value and people will appreciate it.

[Cliff]

This is quickly becoming my favorite place to hang out [QUOTE=Greg Chrise;134020]There is some kind of formula I'm feeling.

How old the consulant is by a factor of how many cosultants there are relative to a quotient of how early on they formed some opinion in the first or second year of knowing anything]

[Michael Inks]

Hey wait... I want to know the staff hiring formula... what's that one?

[BrotherMysterio]

Hey wait... I want to know the staff hiring formula... what's that one?

Hire enough guys to get done what needs to get done?

[MournfulManor]

Hey wait... I want to know the staff hiring formula... what's that one?

The formula Rich Hanf gave at his seminar "Want to see something REALLY scary, try getting started in the Haunt Business" was:

Square feet of your haunt / number of actors (he told us to count the number of actors who get more than 1 scare as two actors). If the number is less than 250, you're properly staffed.

Example: You have a 5,000 sq ft haunt. You have 30 actors, but 10 of them get more than 1 scare, so divide by 40.

5,000/40 = 125 which is less than 250, so in this case, you're golden.