We also offer mostly member based groups and connecting opportunities such as a lunch time gathering for entrepreneurs. If we can find a great guest speaker, we bring them in, but usually it is someone who wants to come in and speak about a book or topic related to their business. We select people based on what they have to offer our membership. I think the events really bring the community together and encourage people to network. Again, it is a win for the speaker, so we don't tend to pay for them.
We are building our professional program and listening to what members want. We also look to partner with organizations and promote them having events in our space that our members can attend. Again win for us to get more people in the space and win for our members to get more resources and win for the organizations/groups as they get connection to our membership that attend. Good luck. Felicity Outside the Cube - for Professionals cubes.typepad.com/otc On Jun 23, 6:59 am, JeroenR <[email protected]> wrote: > Through our network we get approached by people wanting to give > workshops in our coworking location. If the workshop is open to our > own members we are try to create a combined member event / workshop. > Members who opt in see this as a one of the key benefits of being part > of a coworking space. In this model we do not charge for the space. > For the person giving the workshop it's a win because they get the > space free of charge and we can supply a number of interested > participants through our member network, We try to schedule an event > like this about once a month. > > If the workshops are not for our members but it is purely about using > the space for others we'll charge a fee for that and would have no > further involvement. You do have to watch out here because it may be > welcome from a revenue perspective but at the same time you have to > check the response from your members - they may find it a nuisance (if > they can't use the space for the duration of the workshop, or if it's > noisy etc). > > Since we target freelancers / contractors / independent workers there > are many themes that can be of interest for a workshop: networking, > sales / marketing / acquisition, social media, business planning, > administration / fiscal / legal, etc... In this market a lot of > interest goes to the first three topics. > > Good luck! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
