First, thanks for a great group! This has been an invaluable resource as we get ready for our first coworking launch.
I've been following this topic with a lot of interest for the past few weeks. Quest Technology Group built Quwho (www.quwho.com) 3+ years ago for Rotary clubs to manage clubs and membership. Included is an online directory, member profiles, ability to search for members by keywords, support for online dues and events' payments, etc. We are opening our first coworking space in Orlando within the month, and there seemed to be an obvious synergy between Quwho and coworking. With very little in the way of code changes needed, we plan to modify Quwho to become a non-Rotary specific web application. Since we offer a free 30-day fully functional trial, I would love for you all to give it a try. This is the perfect time to offer suggestions for changes that would make this application useful to the coworking community. Just a note --- When you setup your trial, you'll notice that Club Number and District are required fields. These are some of those Rotary-specific fields that we will eliminate in the coworking version. Just enter any 4-digit number for now. You will receive a welcome email with login information, and you're ready to go. I'm looking forward to your feedback! Linda Rolf Linda Rolf, CAPS President Quest Technology Group Let's Create Something Great For Your Clients 315 E. Robinson Street, Suite 525 Orlando, FL 32801 407.843.6603 <http://www.quest-technology-group.com> www.quest-technology-group.com <http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=30305331&locale=en_US&trk= tab_pro> Connect with me on LinkedIn Quest Mobility Solutions Creating Accessible Living Spaces 775 Warner Lane Orlando, FL 32803 407.898.2998 <http://www.questmobilitysolutions.com/> www.questmobilitysolutions.com From: coworking@googlegroups.com [mailto:coworking@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Charles Anderson Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 11:52 AM To: coworking@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [Coworking] Re: Best CRM for coworking space management Certainly, Your Virtual Butler is most certainly available for a free demo to anyone who is interested in the management of the co-working / small busines industry. A full webinar is available, on request, and clocks in around 30 minutes. Included in YVB is a salesforce-esque sales lead piece, as well as the all important invoicing, account and meeting rental aspect. During the demo, a YourVirtualButler expert will further discuss customization, and any feature suggestions. At the moment YVB are currently deployed in over 30 business and co-working centers, helping give small businesses the cutting edge they need to survive these days. Commercializing a service that Your Virtual Butler has been designed to optimize would be incredibly easy, what we are finding at the given moment is that many potential customers have come forward to request our software in situations we did not traditionally forsee it being used in. If you have any questions about receiving a demo of the software please call 1-888-982-8832, or email ahai...@yourvirtualbutler.com Any feedback appreciated! On Thursday, July 19, 2012 12:19:09 AM UTC-4, Joshua Marpet @Quadling wrote: Would love a demo account. Do you take feature suggestions and requests, and since you've open sourced it, someone could take it and commercialize a service around it, right? Like say, a small business at a coworking space!!?!??!? hmmmmmmm. Maybe someone has something there. ;) In all seriousness, there is a community edition of SugarCRM if you need something right now. I'm working on learning Rally, the Agile dev platform, which conveniently enough, has a free edition as well. Rally is more for task tracking, pushing me to do the things I need to do but don't necessarily want to do right now. (Occasionally lazy) And I have an Ubuntu VM set up with Sugar, which is my next, need to learn it. Yell if you need links or help. Happy to help with any and all tech questions. Joshua On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Jacob Sayles <ja...@officenomads.com> wrote: Nadine has come a long way since it's early days and we continue to slowly make improvements. I have a basic idea of what you mean Alex, but it's hard for me to say if we are the exact form of "member focused" that you talking about. I wouldn't say we are deal focused either. We focus on the tasks we do every day, and how to make that flow better. We focus on Alexandra, our Community Cultivator, and what she needs to get her job done and keep a smile on her face. We also believe strongly that most "problems" are more easily solved with people power rather then trying to come up with some complex software tool that does everything. Right now the biggest obstacle to Nadine being more widely used is that we are not a software company, nor do we want to become one. We have open sourced everything and it's out there for free, but I'm not going to be there if anything goes wrong in the middle of the night. I've worn a pager for systems jobs in the past and I swore never again. We have invested a lot already to build the system so others would need to step up to write up better documentation, help out with the install process, and offer support. If anyone wants to check it out in action, I would be happy to setup an account on our demo box. Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Alex Hillman <dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com> wrote: I've been looking for a people-centric CRM for a long time and, like Iris suggests, haven't found anything that's quite right. The issue I've had is that CRMs are more focused on dealflow than on the people involved in the deal. Much like all of the coworking finding tools out there that are focused on the desks instead of the people, I have a hard time using a tool that puts the emphasis on a different aspect of the workflow than we have naturally. What I've wanted was something more like an intelligence tool than a "CRM". Being able to slice and dice members and prospective members by attribute is great, but the more we slice, a tool that remembers to keep the person as the focus of the report. Software developers on the list: please build this before I do :) -Alex /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Iris Kavanagh <i...@nextspace.us> wrote: Hi Martin, We researched and couldn't find anything out there that did everything we needed for a coworking space. So two years ago we built our own CRM which includes member profiles on our public site and will include a payment gateway shortly. At this year's unconference we discussed technology solutions and it appears that there will be several offerings coming onto the market in the next 6 months. I'd hold tight before spending any more money, wait for those to come out and then sign up for the betas. In the meantime if you have someone with geeky inclinations you can ask Jacob at Office Nomads about Nadine or talk to the guys at Cobot. Best of luck! Iris Nextspace.us On Friday, March 23, 2012 11:07:30 AM UTC-7, Martin wrote: Hello everyone. I wanted to know what CRM's people where successfully using out there to successfully manage your spaces. We have 2 locations in Buenos Aires, Argentina (I'm from the US) that are each aprox 5,500 sq. ft and have a mix of offices (teams from 2 to 20 people) , fixed desks and a shared livingroom space. We're looking at highrise, zoho and a few other hosted solutions. Mainly want to use it to track customer contacts and member details. To that I'd love to be able to integrate our forthcoming access control system. We're developing a separate online tool to manage our meeting rooms. Curious what services people have used and been happy with. 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