At a chamber of commerce meeting today I met a lady from worksource (our state employment agency). She thought the Pink Slip idea was great. Said to send her my flyer, if I decide to do this Pink Slip Special. She would then give the information to people coming through her agency. So that may be a source in your area. Lois R. Hofmann Instant Office 2939 Broadway, Everett, WA 98201 www.instantoffice.us.com [email protected]
________________________________ From: turbo2ltr <[email protected]> To: Coworking <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 7:54:07 AM Subject: [Coworking] Re: Pink Slip Special at ON Excellent idea! Thanks for sharing. In the CollabLab business plan I wrote a couple weeks ago, I had outlined that I wanted to target the "pink slip" demographic. That they would be an excellent candidate for coworking...I'll post an excerpt. **** The Current Economy It has been documented that as unemployment rises, the number of people that choose to become self employed rises as well. In the face of the recession we are currently diving into, the unemployment rate has been drastically increasing to all time highs. This indicates that self employment should be increasing as well. These newly self employed people may not have the resources or contacts needed to be successful since they are used to having the support of a corporation behind them. Typically suddenly laid off from their previous job, they may not have the resources at home to support working from it or the capital to quickly build the infrastructure required of a home office. Coworking is an excellent way for people new to self employment to build up their network of contacts and collaborate with others, while not requiring a large investment to get a home office set up, which in turn will give them a better chance to be successful. *** One thing that I didn't put in the business plan was specifics on how to reach these people.... Any ideas? (FYI, I suck at marketing) I mean there isn't a "Pink Slip Registry" that you could find these people with.. -Mike On Feb 12, 12:09 pm, Susan Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all! > > In all of the economic turmoil happening around us these days, we > decided to spin the world of layoffs as a positive over at ON by > offering a Pink Slip Special! You can check out the details on the > front page of our site -http://www.officenomads.com. Join in the fun > if you'd like and host a similar special in your space! We've seen a > good amount of attention from it (garnering some hits on our biggest > blogs in Seattle), and are just having fun thinking about this as our > own little economic stimulus package for independents. > > Join in the fun and host your own if you'd like - it is totally in the > spirit of coworking and just feels like the right thing to do right > now. > > Happy Thursday, y'all! > > Susan > __ > Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolationwww.officenomads.com- > 206-323-6500 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
