Hi, We are about to open a coworking space in a small town in Belgium. +/- 30,000 inhabitants, but the Grand-Duchy of Luxemburg is just 30min drive from here.
Our space isn’t open yet, and luckily enough the city council gave us a place for free for two years. Our problem is that we need 5000€ to renovate the place. We started a crowdfunding campaign on Ulule.com <http://ulule.com/>[*], but since our target audience is located in a very small radius, the struggle to communicate about who we are, what we want to achieve, and why we need help is a very hard business. So, the question here is : - Was it (crowdfunding) a good choice since the target audience is very much limited ? - Does anyone have a feedback of that kind of funding in that kind of population ? - How did you manage to pay your own renovations ? PS : we are a non-profit organisation, that's why external investment is not an option for us Thanks Cédric [*] http://fr.ulule.com/greenlabcoworking-arlon/ 2015-02-04 9:41 GMT+01:00 Massimo Infunti <massi...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > We have opened a coworking in a small city in Noth West of Italy ( > www.ubloom.it). > Same experience: a lot of people say they find it interesting, but in six > months we have achieved to have very few members (some 20) and occasional > users... > Do you think it's a matter of novelty? Or it's really a luck of a need? > > Regards, > Massimo > > Il giorno martedì 3 febbraio 2015 18:33:48 UTC+1, M.E. Ralph ha scritto: >> >> Wow! I can't believe how eerily similar our stories are! I'm going into >> my third year now and my biggest challenge has been educating my community >> on what coworking is and how it can benefit them. The town I live in is >> about 32,000 in population with a strong history in the mining industry. >> There is a small group of bright and forward thinking individuals , though, >> that want to see our economy here revitalized by other industries. At >> times, there seems to be a strong sentiment against these ideas and how >> quickly technology is advancing. There is the fear that this small laid >> back town will end up like the dreaded "big city" just an hour east of >> us. Because I currently have no members, I supplement my income with >> another part time job and teaching one on one computer classes. Someday, >> this will make sense to these people. Meanwhile, I press on. Isn't this >> what makes up "pioneers"? >> >> On Sunday, February 1, 2015 at 10:36:42 AM UTC-7, AltamontCowork wrote: >>> >>> All: >>> >>> I wrote about my experience at AltamontCowork the past five years. >>> >>> I still believe that coworking is a wonderful concept, but, I also, >>> now, believe that it will still take time to catch on everywhere. >>> >>> The millenials will make it happen everywhere.....us old folks who can't >>> grasp the open collaborative nature of the new office just need to step >>> aside. [image: 😃] >>> >>> COWORKING in a Small Town: Lessons Learned - http://wp.me/p4w4ad-14L >>> >> -- > 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. > -- Bousmanne Cédric Jabber / XMPP : aky...@gmail.com Mail : aky...@gmail.com Blog : http://www.parenthese.be/ -- 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.
