Welcome to the coworking lists, Molly! It's always great to see more voices and spaces from the northwest represented! :)
Susan __ Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation www.officenomads.com - 206-323-6500 On Jan 28, 12:29 am, Heidi and Molly <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all. I wanted to follow the posting guidelines and introduce > myself (Molly) and my business partner Heidi. We have been running > our space since June of 2006, but I only just discovered this group > yesterday. I will give a brief overview of our business, but you may > get more of an idea by looking at our website:http://northstaroffices.com. > > Our business is North Star Offices. We came up with the idea for our > business in 2005, and opened our doors in 2006. We have a relatively > small space - we started with 1000 sq ft, and recently expanded to > about 3000 sq ft. We have a mix of private offices that we rent out > mostly part-time (people rent for 1 or 2 days/week, mostly women or > moms who are trying to get a business going on a part-time schedule), > and a coworking space that started out to be about half of our square > footage, but has shrunk to just 4 desks because we have been so much > more successful renting our private offices than renting time in our > coworking space. > > We have tried a lot of different ideas over the past 2 1/2 years to > reach our customers, and have tried to offer plans that work the best > for them, especially in the coworking area. We are unique (I think) > in that a big percentage of our tenants are mental health therapists, > largely because my business partner is a therapist and she was able to > tap into that community successfully. The downside of this clientele > is that they have to have private offices to do their work, and the > coworking space has not been of any interest to them. > > We came up with this business idea because both Heidi and I were > trying to get our own businesses off the ground, and we needed/wanted > office space to work in, but we found that part-time office space was > very hard to find in our area. Our tenants are others who want part- > time office space, but also people who, like us, want to interact with > others during their workday even though they are mostly working > independently. Our tenants like getting to know the others using our > office space, and we've been successful with having semi-regular > "networking" meetings with our tenants where they can share ideas and > resources with each other. > > I'm very excited to have found this group, and I look forward to > reading through old posts in the next few days to find out more about > everyone here, the issues you've been discussing, and to see what > ideas I can get from all of you that can help my business. I also > hope to be able to contribute something based on our experiences > running North Star Offices for the past few years. > > -Molly, co-owner of North Star Offices --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
