[Coworking] Member Growth first months - 1 Year

2015-03-09 Thread Ramon Suarez
28 in the first month 84 after a year. No advertising, we did our own marketing via social media, email and events. I think in the USA you would call it elbow grease, tons of it :) I've written what I learned in the Marketing chapter of coworkinghandbook.com Good luck! -- Visit this forum

Re: [Coworking] Member Growth first months - 1 Year

2015-03-09 Thread Alex Linsker
Hi Cynthia, Collective Agency got 26 members in the first 3 months and 54 in the first year, and has had around that many ever since, enough to pay every staff and owner for work we do here. We could go up to 100 or 140 members. In the first 3 months 80% of revenue was from meetings and 20% was

Re: [Coworking] Member Growth first months - 1 Year

2015-03-08 Thread Alex Hillman
Ah, I missed that part of your question, saw the "1 year" in the subject and that's what stuck :) >From what I've seen, most spaces have one of two experiences in their initial months: 1 - Lots of fanfare and excitement, often fueled by membership pre-sales and the opening itself...but the initia

Re: [Coworking] Member Growth first months - 1 Year

2015-03-08 Thread Cynthia Dailey
Thanks Alex - I actually posted this after reading that thread as it seemed to mostly talk about growth after the first year. We are 1 month old. Also doesn't talk about advertising and promotion experiences to get the word out. I appreciate the link though!!! Cynthia -- Visit this forum on

Re: [Coworking] Member Growth first months - 1 Year

2015-03-08 Thread Alex Hillman
There was a great thread on this about a month ago, Cindy. Check it out here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/coworking/uhE-Sl2sg3Y -Alex -- *The #1 mistake in community building is doing it by yourself.* Join the list: http://coworkingweekly.com Listen to the podcast: h

[Coworking] Member Growth first months - 1 Year

2015-03-08 Thread Cynthia Dailey
Curious about first year growth specifically. How quickly or slowly did membership build for your spaces then? And what type of promotion and advertising did you find to provide the most viable leads coming into the space? We just opened in a 1,350 sqft space in Summerport Village in a suburbian