Re: [Coworking] Re: Running Coworking During a Recession....

2018-11-08 Thread Angel Kwiatkowski
It has never sat well with me to offer discounts to larger companies that have multiple desks or memberships. If anything, they have more resources so I want to charge them more!! Angel On Tuesday, November 6, 2018 at 6:46:01 PM UTC-7, Alex Hillman wrote: > > This rules. Also a perfect lesson

Re: [Coworking] Re: Running Coworking During a Recession....

2018-11-06 Thread Alex Hillman
This rules. Also a perfect lesson in using basic economics to incentivize the preferred outcomes. I actually have thought about charging MORE for teams than individuals as they grow, rather than bulk discounts. But I love this solution and the outcome. Well done. Alex On Nov 6, 2018, 8:42 PM

Re: [Coworking] Re: Running Coworking During a Recession....

2018-11-06 Thread Carl Sullivan
This is all great stuff and a good launch point to form an action list to implement over the next 12 months. One point that I have already taken action on is our community has always been designed for creative businesses and most of our (Companies who are) members identify as a Social / Design

Re: [Coworking] Re: Running Coworking During a Recession....

2018-11-02 Thread Jeannine van der Linden
Oh yes, so much this. I find it sort of humorous that we are now talking about whether coworking can survive a recession, there are serious articles from back then (and it wasn't that long ago) about whether coworking was really just a manifestation of recession and whether it would go away as

Re: [Coworking] Re: Running Coworking During a Recession....

2018-11-01 Thread Angel Kwiatkowski
Jeanine, I remember this woman who was familiar with Cohere but was working in a regular job in the next town. She showed up on our doorstep one day after lunch and proclaimed, "I just got laid off. I didn't want to go home so I came here instead." A On Wednesday, October 31, 2018 at 3:37:30

Re: [Coworking] Re: Running Coworking During a Recession....

2018-10-31 Thread Jeannine van der Linden
This right here. I opened my first space just as the last recession was hitting -- though it was a slower, shallower curve here in Europe, the sudden shift to mandatory entrepreneurship came in like a bomb. Suddenly people were being confronted with doing the same job they always had done as

Re: [Coworking] Re: Running Coworking During a Recession....

2018-10-30 Thread Alex Hillman
This is a super interesting thread - I agree with *lots* of the advice/perspective in Angel's article (and not just the stuff attributed to me lol). An important thing I wanted to expand on a bit: People who cancel for the reason "I'm not using it enough" is probably among the most common

[Coworking] Re: Running Coworking During a Recession....

2018-10-30 Thread Angel Kwiatkowski
Thanks Tracy! If a recession comes, I'll be SO curious to see how it affects coworking esp. if there is a major difference in chain vs. indie coworking. Angel On Friday, October 26, 2018 at 4:25:59 PM UTC-6, Tracy Wilson wrote: > > Angel - This is great. I hope that operators keep this in a

[Coworking] Re: Running Coworking During a Recession....

2018-10-26 Thread Tracy Wilson
Angel - This is great. I hope that operators keep this in a handy spot to pull out when (assuming) the next economic downturn comes. As someone that opened centers in both 2008 and 2009 - when I thought things were tough but had no idea what misery was to come - I would say a lot of this is

[Coworking] Re: Running Coworking During a Recession....

2018-10-24 Thread Angel Kwiatkowski
I *just* wrote an article on Recession-Proofing your Coworking Business https://www.diycoworking.com/blog/2018/10/24/how-to-recession-proof-your-coworking-business Angel On Tuesday, October 23, 2018 at 5:04:27 PM UTC-6, Carl Sullivan wrote: > > Hey Guys, > > I have seen with increasing