Agree with Tony...trying things out to get people in...lots of good events, fun ideas like "take your laptop out for a day", simple free days to happy hours, collaboration opportunities, pink slip parties, workshops, and mixers to great speakers. Put them on every events calendar in your area. Our events appear every week in the free daily newspaper and we get great views from that. Invited bloggers to come in and talk about your space.
Good luck. -Felicity Founder Cubes&Crayons www.cubesandcrayons.com SF Potrero Hill - Coworking only Space (childcare available downstairs) Silicon Valley - Coworking and Coplaying On Jun 2, 8:06 am, Tony Bacigalupo <tonybacigal...@gmail.com> wrote: > A couple quick thoughts: > 1. Ask the people who should be coming in why they're not. See if you can > isolate one or two specific sticking points that are keeping people away, so > you can go about addressing them. > > 2. Experiment. Try themed days. Cookie Fridays. Happy hours. Ask people what > they would do if they were in charge for a day. > > 3. Give give give. Is there a Meetup group in your town that might be stuck > meeting in a Panera Bread that would really like a real space to meet? Are > there dozens of Meetup groups like that? Go to their events, make friends, > and offer to help. Coworking spaces can be a fantastic free (or cheap) > resource for groups looking for an appropriate place to gather. Give give > give. Build your Whuffie :-) > > 4. Empower people to help. The advantage of being new is that people who are > interested in what you're doing can take some ownership over it by helping > to build it. If you find people who really dig what you're doing, but maybe > can't afford to pay to come work, see how you can empower them to work with > you and maybe spot them some free space in exchange. > > Just some thoughts... best of luck! > > Tony > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > --------------------- > New Work City - Coworking NYC style. > Phone: (888) 823-3494 > Email: 3...@nwcny.com > Web: http://nwcny.com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/nwc > > On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Matt Titsworth <paladi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > So it's been almost two weeks since our launch. Buzz was good, and we > > had a great turn out. Since then, everything has pretty well fallen > > off. I don't know what I need to do to keep people coming back through > > the door. I've been hitting the pavement and getting our name out > > there - even finding out that people already knew about us. I just > > don't seem to know what to do to get them in. Our events have gone > > over well, everything about the reception has been positive. But day > > after day I spend sitting over here in an empty space. > > > Anybody have any thoughts? > > > Matthew --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
