I have talked to SEVERAL haunt owners now and most everyone reports the following... DOWN between 15 and 30%.
Ouch! Our haunts here in St. Louis are down as well maybe 20 or so percent... I have talked to at least 20 different haunt owners from around the country and everyone reports the same.
Maybe people will wait until closer to Halloween don't know yet that remains to be seen. Now some report they are UP... but all those haunts who tell me that are haunts who haven't yet peaks in market awarness or are smaller haunts with lots of room to grow. The big haunts who have been doing well are have peaked ... for example reached numbers like 30k or 40k or more might have reached a number that would be hard to go over so really you could go up a little or down a little each you, you are at a number that give or take 5% that is where you fall each year... those haunts are DOWN big time.
Does anyone else have news to report on this subject? Don't be ashamed to admit its not going as well as you had hoped, because we are all in this together and find new ways to pull through it. That is what we do. I'm working on some stuff some really cool stuff, all the travel channel stuff will kick in soon, hopefully more media and other junk so we'll see.
If you are DOWN what do you think we can do to turn the tide ... days are counting down.
Larry
Ouch! Our haunts here in St. Louis are down as well maybe 20 or so percent... I have talked to at least 20 different haunt owners from around the country and everyone reports the same.
Maybe people will wait until closer to Halloween don't know yet that remains to be seen. Now some report they are UP... but all those haunts who tell me that are haunts who haven't yet peaks in market awarness or are smaller haunts with lots of room to grow. The big haunts who have been doing well are have peaked ... for example reached numbers like 30k or 40k or more might have reached a number that would be hard to go over so really you could go up a little or down a little each you, you are at a number that give or take 5% that is where you fall each year... those haunts are DOWN big time.
Does anyone else have news to report on this subject? Don't be ashamed to admit its not going as well as you had hoped, because we are all in this together and find new ways to pull through it. That is what we do. I'm working on some stuff some really cool stuff, all the travel channel stuff will kick in soon, hopefully more media and other junk so we'll see.
If you are DOWN what do you think we can do to turn the tide ... days are counting down.
Larry
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