"you want the members to be excited about the move and feel like it was their move and not your move. The end result being that they're going to be the ones excited about the new space, and that energy and excitement is going to shine through when you get people coming through the door interested in joining.”
1000000x this. There’s nothing worse than stressing yourself to the limit during a move AND feeling like everybody hates you. :) ------------------ The #1 mistake in community building is doing it by yourself. Join the list: http://coworkingweekly.com Listen to the podcast: http://listen.coworkingweekly.com On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Andy Soell <aso...@gmail.com> wrote: > We went through a move in October of 2013 from our initial 450 square foot > space (!!) to a whopping 1500 square feet. Everything Angel said was right > on the money—make sure your utilities (most importantly Internet) are > overlapping in service so you have no downtime, and schedule the move over > the weekend. If you get your members on board to help out, the only > expenses you should incur are the pizza and beer, and possibly the moving > truck. A few of our members had pickup trucks, so we didn't even have to > worry about that part. > If I could have changed one thing, it would have been thinking through the > layout a little better. We didn't put *any* planning into that, and just > set up desks wherever. It happened to work out ok, but we could have > definitely laid the space out better with a little initial planning. > The big takeaway from those two points is this: get the members involved in > the move. Let them take ownership of it. This is for philosophical reasons > even more than the practical ones: you want the members to be excited about > the move and feel like it was *their* move and not *your *move. The end > result being that they're going to be the ones excited about the new space, > and that energy and excitement is going to shine through when you get > people coming through the door interested in joining. > On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 5:18:48 PM UTC-5, Jensen Yancey wrote: >> >> Hi Everyone, >> >> I'm curious to know if anyone on here has ever dealt with moving locations >> and wouldn't mind talking a bit about it. If so, shoot me an email at >> jensen...@gmail.com <javascript:> >> >> Thanks! >> >> Jensen >> > -- > 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. -- 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.
