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
First off, I want to thank everyone so much for the replies, over the last
month I've gone from thinking the impending move (it's not our choice, the
building has been sold and we're being forced out) almost certainly meant
that we were finished, to thinking that this is actually a huge
When we moved 4.5 years ago we called it a weekend-long comoving party.
It was loads of fun.
We were only moving a few hundred meters down the street. We had almost
enough people turn up to create a human chain passing tables and chairs
from the old space to the new.
I recommend a planning
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
We moved 2 x in 3 years.
Each time there was a lot of communication and excitement within the coworking
community and each time we had almost 100% participation.
One was a move upstairs to a bigger space. The last move was down the street
to entire new building. We threw a party. We had 3
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