Since our member community is our strongest asset, the fact that events give potential new members an opportunity to interact with existing community members is the key. Are your existing members taking advantage of the events as well?
-Alex -- ----- -- ----- Alex Hillman im always developing something digital: [EMAIL PROTECTED] visual: www.dangerouslyawesome.com local: www.indyhall.org On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 3:45 PM, felicity at cubes < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Interesting...for us we get a lot of people at the events who aren't > necessarily > going to become coworkers and/or wouldn't use the flexible childcare > in our > space. We have some member only events that do garner socializing and > are usually a fairly big hit. We are looking at hitting the events > that will > bring the teleworker/commuter in. For us, if they don't have kids, it > only > costs $20/half day of work, so the price of admissions is low. I > don't > think that is the barrier. > > Would love to hear what kinds of events other people have found to > increase membership. It's great to have a variety of events but we > also > like to use our events as a marketing tool, and to do that we want to > make sure the events appeal to the coworking audience, and that might > be where we miss the sweet spot. Thoughts? > > -Felicity > > > On Aug 20, 9:19 am, "Tony Bacigalupo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hi Felicity, > > > > What kinds of events are they? Do they foster good relationships between > the > > members? > > > > I'm wondering what kinds of events work better than others... Alex? Have > you > > gotten any vibe from the wide variety of events you guys have run? > > > > Tony Bacigalupo > > New Work City / CooperBricolage / Jelly > > NYC > > > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:40 AM, felicity at cubes < > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > This is a question mostly to space owners but also > > > to all of those who use coworking spaces. Do you > > > find that events generate more members? If you > > > are a member of a coworking space, do you go to > > > the events on a regular basis? > > > > > We are finding we get decent attendance at our > > > events but they do not lead to getting more > > > members and I am debating the benefit of them. > > > Any thoughts are appreciated. > > > > > -Felicity > > > Cubes&Crayons Coworking > > > > > SPACE:www.cubesandcrayons.com > > > BLOG: cubes.typepad.com/blog > > > PERSONAL BLOG: cubes.typepad.com/cake > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
