Congratulations! On Saturday, July 13, 2013, Tom Lewis wrote:
> After a total of 3 years negotiation, funding applications, and then a lot > of work converting a very old, very central building here in the beautiful > historic city of Bath (including firing not one but two interior designers > as they couldn't keep up with us), we're finally open. > > One of our first members uploaded some images to a dropbox link which you > can see here <https://www.dropbox.com/sc/uors9oix1u3yu1b/o2NlGt60GS>- > it's all so shiny and new, but manic times with us setting up and learning > everything from the photocopier to the access control, the wifi and the > coffee machines! > > A little scared now, after all this work, and my devotion to making > coworking happen in Bath, and a list of over 200 people who have said they > were interested (very patient people, over the past two years), it's a > little quiet so far, but we're going all guns into promoting the space to > the list as finally open, and to the wider community as something they > should look into. We've had around 40 people look around, 11 of those have > signed up to a plan, and we're aiming for 50 paying members by the end of > the month. I guess it's a momentum thing, people looking around now find > it beautiful but empty, so we just need to seed it, we're thinking a Jelly > day, inviting some local groups to hire some of our spaces for free if they > bring lots of potential members etc etc. Events are very important to our > business plan, and they are the one area which is already making us money, > but we desperately don't want to turn into an events space only or be seen > as a (great) meeting/conference space before we've reached the tipping > point with memberships. > > Anyway, we're Coworking Bath, our space is called The Guild- and our site > is at www.theguildhub.co.uk (it's a Nexudus Spaces coworking software > site, as w'ere using them for running the space- nice guys, software only > just launched in English (they are Spanish). Happy to give feedback on > their system good and bad for anyone looking around at software/ > > Cheers everyone > > Tom > > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <javascript:_e({}, > 'cvml', 'coworking%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Jacob -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
