Just my $0.02: As a coworking space member, perks are basically irrelevant to me.
I chose my current space from among about a dozen in this city for two reasons: First, the facility. Nice building, good natural light, good chairs/tables, accessible rooftop. Second, and much less important, the location. This space was pretty close to my previous apartment. Now I live 30 minutes away, but I still prefer this space because of the nice facilities. When I signed up here the management gave me a little book with a bunch of perks listed in it. So far I haven't used any of them, and have no idea where I put the little book. Maybe - *maybe *- if they offered a good discount at gym located very close to the space, I might use that. Even then, the perk would have little or no impact on my decision to choose the coworking space. What I do really value is a good ergonomic office chair. Afterall that's something I'm going to use all day every day. So if you're a space operator and thinking about spending money to offer perks, consider spending that same money on better chairs. Probably I'm not the only member who feels that way. Cheers, J On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 5:58 PM, Jeannine van der Linden < flexkantoorkame...@gmail.com> wrote: > We do, though ours are tightly focused on what the coworkers have > expressed a need for. We have for example a shipping account with > FedEx/DHL/GLS for the space, which a number of our members use to send > their products. This is then invoiced through to each. We have a couple > of these kinds of shared accounts for business inteligence, that kind of > stuff that can be used by multiple companies on a shared basis. It is not > really that different from a shared desk. > > We arrive at these by the extremely scientific method of regularly > bringing the subject up every sevral months and then going lookng when > enough coworkers chime in that they would like that also. :-) > > We have another class of perks which are offered by the coworkers to the > cowowrkers. These are mostly B2B but also include yoga lessons and > Mindfulness and coaching. > > For third party perks though, we use included.co. They have a lot more > clout and reach than we have, and they do a better job at it than we ever > did. > > > > On Tuesday, November 21, 2017 at 6:25:01 PM UTC+1, mic...@portalsoft.io > wrote: >> >> This question boils down to a few key insights I'm trying to take away: >> >> 1. Is this an effective marketing tactic to both reduce member >> attrition and increase marketability/differentiation? >> 2. Do members use these perks enough that any referral fees might be a >> substantial second/third rev stream? >> 3. Is it worth it to pay for a service that provides a pre-negotiated >> group of business and lifestyle perks? >> >> Cheers! >> > -- > 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. > -- 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.
