Probably the best idea. I had started talking with national organizations like Zipcar and Freelancers Union, but got sidetracked by 1,000,001 things. We do have some stuff worked out with Freelancers Union (list your coworking space on their site), but Zipcar was tough because not all spaces (at the time) were near Zipcars.
T On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Mike Schinkel <[email protected]>wrote: > On Dec 22, 2009, at 9:24 AM, Tara Hunt wrote: > > However, the most beneficial partnerships we've found is that startup tech > companies tend to want to share their software and gadgets at the space - > lots of startups bring by discount and freebie codes in exchange for us to > put their fliers/stickers on the commons table. This way members get free > software and use of cool new gadgets. We were sponsored by Belkin early on > for a BarCamp (lots of power strips) - and then kept these for Citizen > Space. And I know that Indy Hall has lots of cool stuff like special happy > hour rates at their local haunts, they had Belkin sponsorships, were working > on an Ikea coworking thing, etc. > > > Any interest on this list in negotiating collectively with software vendors > for these things? It'd be easier to have a list of 25 coworking spaces when > one of us would go to a tech company than for that tech company to do a deal > for just us. > > Thoughts? > > > -Mike Schinkel > Ignition Alley Atlanta Coworking > http://ignitionalley.com > > > > -- > 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]<coworking%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > -- tara 'missrogue' hunt Book: The Whuffie Factor (http://www.thewhuffiefactor.com) Blog: HorsePigCow: Marketing Uncommon (http://horsepigcow.com) Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/missrogue phone: 514-679-2951 -- 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.
