My apologies if this has already been mentioned -- I only did a quick skim of this discussion. But wanted to offer few ideas:
Host local NetSquared NetTuesday group: http://www.netsquared.org/share Get on the radar for folks doing BarCamp- like stuff (WordCamp, StartupCamp, OpenEverything) -- or start your own. Christine On Jun 2, 10:22 pm, felicity at cubes <[email protected]> wrote: > Agree with Tony...trying things out to get people in...lots of good > events, > fun ideas like "take your laptop out for a day", simple free days to > happy hours, > collaboration opportunities, pink slip parties, workshops, > and mixers to great speakers. Put them on every events calendar in > your area. > Our events appear every week in the free daily newspaper and we get > great views from that. Invited bloggers to come in and talk about > your space. > > Good luck. > > -Felicity > Founder > Cubes&Crayonswww.cubesandcrayons.com > > SF Potrero Hill - Coworking only Space (childcare available > downstairs) > Silicon Valley - Coworking and Coplaying > > On Jun 2, 8:06 am, Tony Bacigalupo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > A couple quick thoughts: > > 1. Ask the people who should be coming in why they're not. See if you can > > isolate one or two specific sticking points that are keeping people away, so > > you can go about addressing them. > > > 2. Experiment. Try themed days. Cookie Fridays. Happy hours. Ask people what > > they would do if they were in charge for a day. > > > 3. Give give give. Is there a Meetup group in your town that might be stuck > > meeting in a Panera Bread that would really like a real space to meet? Are > > there dozens of Meetup groups like that? Go to their events, make friends, > > and offer to help. Coworking spaces can be a fantastic free (or cheap) > > resource for groups looking for an appropriate place to gather. Give give > > give. Build your Whuffie :-) > > > 4. Empower people to help. The advantage of being new is that people who are > > interested in what you're doing can take some ownership over it by helping > > to build it. If you find people who really dig what you're doing, but maybe > > can't afford to pay to come work, see how you can empower them to work with > > you and maybe spot them some free space in exchange. > > > Just some thoughts... best of luck! > > > Tony > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > --------------------- > > New Work City - Coworking NYC style. > > Phone: (888) 823-3494 > > Email: [email protected] > > Web: http://nwcny.com > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/nwc > > > On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Matt Titsworth <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > So it's been almost two weeks since our launch. Buzz was good, and we > > > had a great turn out. Since then, everything has pretty well fallen > > > off. I don't know what I need to do to keep people coming back through > > > the door. I've been hitting the pavement and getting our name out > > > there - even finding out that people already knew about us. I just > > > don't seem to know what to do to get them in. Our events have gone > > > over well, everything about the reception has been positive. But day > > > after day I spend sitting over here in an empty space. > > > > Anybody have any thoughts? > > > > Matthew --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
