Have you contacted local organizers on Meetup.com and offered them to
hold their meetups in your facility for free in the evenings? This
could get a lot of traffic through your space. If there are not local
meetups for your target demographic consider organizing them yourself.
JMTCW.
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On Jul 9, 2009, at 9:40 PM, Liza Loop <lizal...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> We're having the same problem. Our location is in a light industrial
> area, off the beaten path for pedestrians. It's ideal for quiet
> cubicle residents but since the bottom has fallen out of the office
> market folks can get an enclosed office for what we have to charge for
> a cubicle.
>
> We thought our fiber optic connectivity and collocation facility would
> be a sufficient draw for people who need a big web pipe but so far our
> expectations haven't been realized. The tenants we do have are
> struggling as much as we are.
>
> Lookers are great but they don't pay the bills. 3 or 4 who don't
> actually join the club are tantalizing. We can survive for another
> couple of months but without some serious support it will be curtains
> for Fiber High. Our other IT business, GoQuiet, has been subsidizing
> Fiber High for almost a year and we're getting very hungry.
>
> We're trying out a series of free Up 'n Down Load-a-thons to give
> folks a free taste of our high speed network (the next one is July
> 28th, 3-11 pm). Hopefully it will be addictive. But we're not waiting
> for miracles. Rather, we're exploring other business models to provide
> additional income. Any suggestions are more than welcome.
>
> I hope that we haven't created a co-working bubble by sharing our
> enthusiam online with each other and miss judged the market.
>
> Cheers (slightly damped),m
>
> Liza Loop
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Mike Pihlman<m...@telbitconsulting.com
> > wrote:
>>
>> Liza:
>>
>> I'm finding it difficult to get folks in here. But, I have a steady
>> dribble of 3 or 4 lookers per week and am encouraged by that. I am
>> only
>> 2 months into it....so I think / hope there is time. Maybe when
>> school
>> starts up again there will be more lookers (especially for the
>> tutoring
>> part).
>>
>> I take heart in all the success stories....so please keep them
>> coming! :-)
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
>> Liza Loop wrote:
>>> Hello Jimmy,
>>>
>>> Our biggest challenge has been letting people know our coworking
>>> site
>>> is available. Neither I nor my partner are natural publicists.
>>>
>>> After watching these postings for about 6 months I'm beginning to
>>> believe this is a common but under-discussed problem. We hear a lot
>>> from the groups that are having well attended events but those that
>>> are having difficulty bringing people in are quiet about it.
>>>
>>> Does anyone else out there get this impression?
>>>
>>> Liza Loop
>>> Fiber High,
>>> 989 Commercial St.
>>> Palo Alto, CA
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Jimmy<jjthr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>
>>>> My name is Jimmy Thrasher, and I live near Mebane, NC ("Mebbin",
>>>> 10K-
>>>> ish people). My interest in coworking is mainly from the working
>>>> side, but to that end I and a friend are evaluating setting up a
>>>> light-
>>>> weight "mobile coworking" space that can be dropped into any of the
>>>> number of empty office spaces in downtown Mebane. There are enough
>>>> telecommuters and long-distance commuters that I think it could fly
>>>> but haven't proven it to myself yet.
>>>>
>>>> I really just want to be able to cycle to work.
>>>>
>>>> If anybody here has set up something like this, I'd be interested
>>>> to
>>>> hear your experiences. I'm envisioning:
>>>> - a big room
>>>> - with two tables
>>>> - free (included) wifi
>>>> - free-ish coffee
>>>> - nice chairs
>>>>
>>>> Jimmy
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Mike Pihlman
>> TracyVirtualOffice
>> "A Coworking Community"
>> 95 W. 11th Street, Suite 203
>> Tracy, CA 95376
>> Mobile: 209-608-4340
>> Web: TracyVirtualOffice.com
>> Twitter: @TracyVirtOffice
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>
>
> >
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