Hi Jessica, +1 to Tyler's approach - it works out well. We do a few 'personal' services like gym, but mostly focus on business service discounts. I occasionally ask our members what services they're using, and then I pick a few from that list to approach about a discount. Just position yourself as an influencer amongst a great group of candidates in their target market, and detail the internal marketing you'll do, and they're usually happy to offer something.
We do all the same marketing Tyler mentioned, plus announce them at our monthly happy hour. One idea that I tried *unsuccessfully* was inviting a partner to do a quick preso of their own to the happy hour group about their product and discount. Seemed like a great way to create a personal connection - the partner loved it, got to talk directly with interested members, etc. - but it just didn't feel right in the moment. I could read my members' faces and they felt like they were being held captive for an advertising campaign. So we won't be doing that again :) On Friday, September 26, 2014 8:40:31 AM UTC-7, Jessica Hill wrote: > > Good Morning, > > > We starting to think about creating perks (discounts from local > businesses, and services) for our members. Do any of you have this at your > coworking spaces? I am not exactly sure how go about asking businesses for > discounts for our members especially since we are so new. > > Thanks! > > Jessica > -- 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/d/optout.
