Re: [Coworking] Co-ops and Coworking: the best-kept secret in coworking.

2016-02-18 Thread Trevor Twining
Alex, I think I’ve mentioned before how much IndyHall has influenced the creation of our space. Without you sharing what y'all put together there I’d probably still be waiting for someone else to have built a space. You should come hang out for a bit with Jay Tennier and me and I’ll show you aro

Re: [Coworking] Co-ops and Coworking: the best-kept secret in coworking.

2016-02-18 Thread Trevor Twining
Hey Tony, happy to clear up #7. Membership in the Co-op is a pre-requisite to using our space, but many members join our co-op without using the space. If I were to compare it to other spaces, I’d say our base membership is similar to the community membership offered by IndyHall, except we don’

Re: [Coworking] Co-ops and Coworking: the best-kept secret in coworking.

2016-02-18 Thread Alex Hillman
Man, I love seeing the Indy Hall playbook in action like this <3 <3 Echoing lots of what's been said here - I look forward to a more detailed follow up post :) We have a few members that are VERY active in the co-op world and we often get together to talk about how much co-op DNA Indy Hall has.

Re: [Coworking] Co-ops and Coworking: the best-kept secret in coworking.

2016-02-18 Thread Tony Bacigalupo
Trevor, you're quickly becoming my new favorite person. Thank you for sharing all of this! *Regarding Step 1...* Bravo!!! My heart sings when I see this. *Regarding Step 7...* "Our membership model also encourages participation that doesn’t directly involve the space, so we have a larger group of

Re: [Coworking] Co-ops and Coworking: the best-kept secret in coworking.

2016-02-18 Thread Trevor Twining
Here’s a link to the Ontario Co-operative Association, whose resources and advice were particularly valuable when we set up. If you’re in Ontario, they’re more than happy to offer some initial assistance. If you’re outside, they’re happy to refer you to the group in your area who can help. We’ve

[Coworking] What % of gross sales do you budget to ADVERTISING for your Coworking space

2016-02-18 Thread Dallas GeniusDen
We are finishing up our first year and have thrown money and people at a variety of marketing efforts. For your coworking space, what is your advertising spend? Do you have this as a % of gross sales? How do you break down your advertising? example: Social Media: Twitter -management -conten

Re: [Coworking] Co-ops and Coworking: the best-kept secret in coworking.

2016-02-18 Thread Trevor Twining
Thanks all, for your feedback so far. Sounds like I need a (few?) follow up post(s). I’ll also post some links shortly to resources we used. In Canada, most co-ops are provincially incorporated, so I assume that in the US each state will have its own co-op legislation. I’ll share what we did h

Re: [Coworking] Co-ops and Coworking: the best-kept secret in coworking.

2016-02-18 Thread Tony Bacigalupo
Trevor, I think a lot of us are excited to learn more about how you pulled this off! I encountered early thoughts on this topic as well, but found it difficult to get a clear sense of how to go about in a way that would be viable. I think any more details you can provide on that would be helpful t

Re: [Coworking] Co-ops and Coworking: the best-kept secret in coworking.

2016-02-18 Thread Jenifer Ross
Ditto. Can you provide more details on the financial structure? Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 18, 2016, at 10:40 AM, Jacob Sayles wrote: > > I'd love to know more about this. I'm certainly sold on the value alignment > but I don't have a sense for how it works. > >> On Thursday, February 18,

Re: [Coworking] Co-ops and Coworking: the best-kept secret in coworking.

2016-02-18 Thread ideasource
Hi Trevor   Your link to the blog post isn't working. Tried it on 2 different browsers, thinking that might be an issue, but neither worked.   I'm in Toronto, but followed Innovate Niagar for some time while I was self-employed so have some sense of trends in the Niagara Region and connections

Re: [Coworking] Co-ops and Coworking: the best-kept secret in coworking.

2016-02-18 Thread Jacob Sayles
I'd love to know more about this. I'm certainly sold on the value alignment but I don't have a sense for how it works. On Thursday, February 18, 2016, Trevor Twining wrote: > Apologies. I used an internal link. > > Here’s the real link > > > http://coworkniagara.com/blog/2016/02/10/why-co-opera

[Coworking] Re: Co-ops and Coworking: the best-kept secret in coworking.

2016-02-18 Thread Trevor Twining
Apologies. I used an internal link. Here’s the real link http://coworkniagara.com/blog/2016/02/10/why-co-operatives-and-coworking-go-hand-in-hand/ Trevor Twining trevortwin...@gmail.com 416-201-2254 twitter/skype/linkedin: trevortwining > On Feb 18, 2016, at 9:40 AM, Trevor Twining wrote: >

Re: [Coworking] Co-ops and Coworking: the best-kept secret in coworking.

2016-02-18 Thread Jenifer Ross
Here is a link taken from their website: http://coworkniagara.com/blog/2016/02/10/why-co-operatives-and-coworking-go-hand-in-hand/ On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Alex Hillman wrote: > Hey Trevor - thank link is broken! :( looking forward to reading this. > > -Alex > > > On Thursday, February

Re: [Coworking] Co-ops and Coworking: the best-kept secret in coworking.

2016-02-18 Thread Alex Hillman
Hey Trevor - thank link is broken! :( looking forward to reading this. -Alex On Thursday, February 18, 2016, Trevor Twining wrote: > Hey everyone, > > When we were developing the business plan for our space two years ago, a > prospective member asked us if we had considered setting Cowork Niaga

[Coworking] Co-ops and Coworking: the best-kept secret in coworking.

2016-02-18 Thread Trevor Twining
Hey everyone, When we were developing the business plan for our space two years ago, a prospective member asked us if we had considered setting Cowork Niagara up as a co-operative. We didn’t know what that was, so we checked it out. It was the best thing that we could have done. We’re the only

[Coworking] Re: Contract terms 6, 12, 18 months?

2016-02-18 Thread Bernd Rützel
At www.coworking4you.de we go month-to-month and my experience is, this works perfect. We will just finish our first year of coworking and so far we only lost two members (one did not pay his bills, so I stopped the contract / the other one moved to another city and we still have a good contact