Re: [Coworking] My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

2015-02-06 Thread Alex Hillman
Looking at our own membership levels (we have full time, 3 days/week, 1 day/week, 1 day/month), far and away the highest churn rates are in that 1 day/week level. 40% of all cancelations we’ve had are from that level.  1 day a week churns more than 1 day a month. That’s a pretty HUGE clue

Re: [Coworking] My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

2015-02-06 Thread Glen Ferguson
* Looking at our own membership levels (we have full time, 3 days/week, 1 day/week, 1 day/month), far and away the highest churn rates are in that 1 day/week level. 40% of all cancelations we’ve had are from that level. * 1 day a week churns *more* than 1 day a month. That’s a pretty HUGE

Re: [Coworking] My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

2015-02-06 Thread Andy Soell
I think there's a great deal of truth here, and I'm really curious about other space's approaches to different membership levels (we're getting way off topic here, but whatever). I think Jerome is absolutely right that it's much harder to keep a part timer on board, probably due to their lack

Re: [Coworking] My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

2015-02-06 Thread Alex Hillman
About 2-3 years ago, we started noticing an entirely new cancellation reason showing up when people left Indy Hall.  For 5+ years, the majority of the people who left did so because they were moving away, or because they took a job. Of course people left because it wasn’t the right fit for

Re: [Coworking] My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

2015-02-06 Thread Alex Hillman
Oh, by the way, the next episode of my podcast (http://dangerouslyawesome.com/on/coworking-weekly-podcast/ ) is going to have some really awesome SCIENCE to back all of this up.  I had an amazing talk with the authors of this article: http://time.com/money/3586004/coworking-why-it-works/ 

Re: [Coworking] My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

2015-02-06 Thread Andy Soell
Our membership breakdown is pretty symmetrical: Full Time: 30% 3 day/week: 20% 1 day/week: 20% 1 day/month: 30% The skew comes in when you look at cancellations. Of our history of cancellations, they’ve come from: Full Time: 15% 3 day/week: 5% 1 day/week: 40% 1 day/month: 40% It’s worth

Re: [Coworking] My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

2015-02-06 Thread Marius Amado-Alves
*We rebalanced our full time membership*, which had grown to nearly 40% of our total membership, back to ~20%. Has this happened naturally, or you imposed some kind of quota? -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are

[Coworking] Re: Infuriating article on the high premiums charged by coworking spaces in Bloomberg

2015-02-06 Thread oren.salo...@gmail.com
Nick Clark of Common Desk in Dallas wrote a pretty good response exposing the poor math in this article: http://thecommondesk.com/blog/coworking-spaces-the-inexpensive-solution-for-a-cool-office On Wednesday, February 4, 2015 at 3:31:48 AM UTC-6, Will Bennis, Locus Workspace wrote: I have