If you have a small haunt to raise fund for your community organization or a larger one that you are operating as a for profit project promotion is the key. Building your client base, getting the word out can be time consuming and expensive.

You can always put coupons on the counters of local stores and put up flyers in store windows. This method is cheap but time consumng and really not that effective.
It is imperative that you have a website for your event. You can get a professionally hosted site with low monthly payments at http://www.pendragonscastle.com A website gives your event year round exposure. The site can tell the back story, give times, dates, directions. and can also be used for online ticket sales. For an example see the site for my haunt at http://www.pendragonscastle.com/horrorhollow.

The best way to promote your haunt and to bring in the bucks is thru online ticket sales. This can be done thru Screampass.com http://www.screampass.com . Screampass has no set - up charges, no initial service fees, and they only charge a dollar a ticket.

Working with Screampass gives you a connection to people who know how to promote a haunt. It also gives you a connection to Ticketmaster and other online agencies. Plus you can list your haunt in the many haunt directories connected to Screampass and there affiliates which can be a very good way to drive people to your website and your haunt.

We have used Screampass for three years and we are extremely pleased with the service, support and the results we have gotten.

So if its your first year or you have done a haunt for several years go to Screampass and get set up to sell tickets online. You will see your haunt grow in size and ticket sales which will ensure you have a Happy Halloween.

Tell the guys at Screampass that Paul from House of Pain and Hidden Hollow in Tennessee sent you over.

Paul " DragonMaster' Sharp is owner of DragonMaster Inc. and DME Hauntmasters ( www.pendragonsncastle.com and www.pendragonscastle.com/hauntmasters he is co-designer of The Fright Factory, House of Pain and Horror Hollow haunted attraction and has been designing Haunted Attractions and Home Haunts for 35 years.

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Paul " DragonMaster' Sharp is owner of DragonMaster Inc. and DME Hauntmasters ( www.pendragonsncastle.com and www.pendragonscastle.com/hauntmasters he is co-designer of The Fright Factory, House of Pain and Horror Hollow haunted attraction and has been designing Haunted Attractions and Home Haunts for 35 years.

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