I think Alex is exactly right - Jan (and Sept) are just times of renewal when people think about starting new things. Although we don't get any students, we have a lot of moms who work part-time, and that group definitely seeks us out in the September time-frame as their kids head back to school after the summer off and Aug vacations.
-Molly On Mar 2, 11:12 am, Zuppa <sashuly...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Statistically, people search for office space (of any kind) in January > more than in any other time of year, so the surge is normal. I was > more interested if anyone has seen anything recession-specific. > > Molly & Heidi - we haven't lost any telecommuters (yet), which leads > me to think that that's the group we should be focusing for now rather > than tiny start-ups. > > We're also sponsoring LaidOffCamp tomorrow, so we'll see how we do > with those folks. Btw, they're going to have more of these camps in > other major cities, so may be a good place to promote. Just FYI. > > Sasha Vasilyuk > Sandbox Suiteswww.sandboxsuites.com > > On Mar 2, 10:01 am, Alex Hillman <dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I know that our surge had no correlation to events, press, or anything. > > > My intuition tells me that it's something like the "I'm going to go the gym" > > resolution. Many people use the new year to start new things they wanted to > > but never could get around to. Much like gyms experience large new member > > sign ups after the new year, Coworking acts as a "Gym for Independent > > Workers" and has the same effect. > > > -Alex > > > -- > > ----- > > -- > > ----- > > Alex Hillman > > im always developing something > > digital: a...@weknowhtml.com > > helpful:www.unstick.me > > visual:www.dangerouslyawesome.com > > local:www.indyhall.org > > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 12:56 PM, daveconrey <davecon...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Molly, > > > > Just because my marketing mind wants to know, what do you attribute > > > the surge in January and September to? Are there specific events that > > > lend to the surge twice a year? My initial guess would be school > > > related, but I can't imagine that students are your core clientèle. > > > Any thoughts? > > > > D.- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
