My "secret" to finding new members (I guess it isn't a secret anymore!) is this: Building up the community first before opening the space was priceless. About 60% of those people ended up buying memberships when we opened. Word of mouth--current members can offer anyone a buddy pass to try it out for free for a day. Involvement in local social or technical groups. Our town is heavy in Meetup so I belong to a fair amount of internet, blogging, design and technical groups. Never underestimating ye old local print newspaper. Despite the fact that none of my members read the newspaper, it still generates a fair amount of interest and buzz about coworking. Strategically following freelancers on twitter, seeing if they check in at a nearby coffee shop and then tweeting that they can pop into Cohere for the rest of the day for free to try it out....this has been surprisingly effective.
-Angel On Apr 16, 1:28 pm, "Scott" <[email protected]> wrote: > We are very close to opening our space (June 1 is the goal) in St Cloud, MN > (Cloud Cowork) and would like to know what your "secrets" are to finding > 30-40 members. Please? We are very confident from the feed back we have > received so far, that we will have immediate people join, but to see your > numbers amazes us. It is an inspiration to think "maybe we can get there > someday too." Any and all advice is greatly appreciated. > > Scott ander...@cloudcowork > > _____ > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Susan Evans > Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 1:04 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Coworking] Re: Members / Desks > > Office Nomads has 40 desks and currently 65 members. We've seen days with > 40 people here and it's definitely full (particularly if along with those 40 > people there are 6 dogs and 2 babies...that was a big day!). We've > determined that we'll cap our part-time and basic memberships at 30 people > at each level to ensure we've got enough space. > > Hope that helps! > > Susan > __ > Office Nomads > officenomads.com > 206-484-5859 > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Eli Malinsky <[email protected]> > wrote: > > My numbers are quite close to Alex's.... we have 20 desk spaces and > 100 members...so far, we've nerver been completely full, but we've > gotten close at times. I think we'd max out around 120... > > You can see the pakcages on our website... > > Eli Malinsky > Centre for Social Innovation > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > <mailto:coworking%[email protected]> . > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG -www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.801 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2814 - Release Date: 04/16/10 > 01:31:00 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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.
