Patrick We spent a lot of time thinking about our structure and as Alex has said, lots of talk of models has gone on.
I think there are several dimensions in play here that should be taken into consideration; What are the working patterns of your clients / prospective clients Where do they fit on a Need Flexibility <--------------------------- +----------------------------> Need to Belong kind of scale What prices make people come out of their home office & starbucks without it becoming a "I paid for it so I MUST use it" guilt trip And finally the Peter Krug factor: how quickly can what's on offer be clearly understood We puzzled over these, but mostly we just opened up regularly which (by accident more than design) allowed us to observe these things interacting. In the end I came up with 3 models that seem to work for us; They are in the licence here: https://coworking.pbwiki.com/Licences+and+Agreements James On 26 Mar 2008, at 22:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > We (Station C) have been open for nearly 2 months and we're wondering > if maybe a change in our plan structure would make sense. I'll detail > them further down this message -- and our new idea -- and you can give > me your opinion based on those details but my basic question would be: > most of you don't offer hourly plans for desks. Why? > > ---- > > Right now we have resident members who have a reserved desk and full > time access ($330/month), we'll keep those. > > We also have Flex 14 and Flex 28 memberships who pay $143 and $236 a > month for 14 and 28 hours a week between 9am and 6pm, to be booked > online (through email currently). > > Flex signups are a bit slower than expected (although we have more > residents so we are a bit ahead of estimates overall) so we're > thinking of retooling the Flex plans to Flex Points where members > would buy bundles of points, something like 200 at $3.25/pt and use > them whenever, again booked online, expiring after 6 months. 1 point > for one desk hour, tbd number of points for meeting and conference > room hours. We would also have smaller and larger bundles but the 200 > would give members something similar to our current Flex 14 with the > added bonus of more freedom, of skipping a week for a vacation or > coming every day when in crunch mode. > > Space isn't an issue, logistics neither since we have the webapp for > booking in the works anyway. The big disadvantage for us would be no > recurrent cash entry or at least more spreadout and maybe more > uncertain renewals as well as, in theory, the potential for more > booking conflicts if everyone "crunches at the same time". > > The big advantage would be for members who don't have to worry wetter > they'll use 14 hours every week, the setup would be even more flexible > for them. We would be "gambling'" that more flexibility and simplicity > means more members and if we're right everyone would be happy. > > Last thing; we are also considering expanding business hours nights > and saturday. > > Thoughts? Questions? > > > Thx > Patrick > > http://station-c.com > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
