[Coworking] Re: Events and Membership?

2008-08-21 Thread David K
We've found that we get decent conversion over time when we target a specific community. In our case, the tech/open source community has been incredibly important for us. The big caveat, however, is that it takes a lot of time. I think we only got 1 new member in the first 6 months after our

[Coworking] Re: Events and Membership?

2008-08-20 Thread Alex Hillman
Maybe you don't have a membership level that is attractive to them? Why not talk to the people coming to events and find out on what level they'd be interested in becoming members? Our basic membership, for instance, is cheap enough ($25/month) for people to join simply to support our interest in

[Coworking] Re: Events and Membership?

2008-08-20 Thread Tony Bacigalupo
Hi Felicity, What kinds of events are they? Do they foster good relationships between the members? I'm wondering what kinds of events work better than others... Alex? Have you gotten any vibe from the wide variety of events you guys have run? Tony Bacigalupo New Work City / CooperBricolage /

[Coworking] Re: Events and Membership?

2008-08-20 Thread felicity at cubes
Interesting...for us we get a lot of people at the events who aren't necessarily going to become coworkers and/or wouldn't use the flexible childcare in our space. We have some member only events that do garner socializing and are usually a fairly big hit. We are looking at hitting the events