On 30 Mar 2008, at 06:38, Tara Hunt wrote: > At CS, we treat events as open houses, but sometimes put the 'cost' > on the organizers (who can collect $$ if they want). We charge the > organizers a convenience fee (ours is ridiculously low = $25)...if > they want to recoup it, they can ask attendees.
For community things we either are free or ask for a "convenience donation". If it is a very occasional event that benefits the "Werkers" (anybody who has worked or coworked at the werks) then we don't tend to charge, but if we ask for a donation I tend to ask the organiser to donate what they thought the value was and will usually give a guideline of £10 ($20) per hour evenings & £30-45 for a weekend day. If they are making money off using the space we ask more, but all things are negotiable, we just try to be fair and not make pricing a barrier. I tend to encourage our members to come along to events unless they are obviously closed sessions. I don't think of there being a distinction between being community based or being a membership business there is a virtuous circle by being both. The more community overlaps with the business the greater the opportunities for both. > > > T > > > > On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Lisa Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > Not being an owner YET these are instinctual thoughts, but I would > think the event could also be a venue for getting more customers and > limiting it to paid members would prevent that whole angle. On the > other hand, if the event is rather expensive and you are seeking to > reward your members and don't want freeloaders.. then you limit it. > > Just my .02.. > > Lisa > > > On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Tony Bacigalupo <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > Coworking space owners! > > I was wondering how you handled running events vis a vis your > membership systems. If you're running a lunchtime or evening event for > a couple of hours, do attendees need to have paid memberships and/or > pay for admission that day? > > It seems to me to be a bit of a tricky gray area between being an open > community space versus being a membership-based business. > > Thoughts? Tips? > > Thanks! > Tony > CoworkingNY > > > > > -- > Lisa Thompson > > Media PA CoWorking Meetup > http://socialnetwork.meetup.com/964/ > Blog: http://theoffice.tumblr.com > Tweeter: @lithompson friendfeed: http://friendfeed.com/theoffice > > > > > > > -- > tara 'miss rogue' hunt > coFounder > Citizen Agency (www.citizenagency.com) > blog: www.horsepigcow.com > phone: 415-694-1951 > fax: 415-727-5335 > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
