Susan I don't collect salaries at Office Nomads currently. We started this both having part time jobs supporting us and now we have left those and are doing this full time. That's obviously not a sustainable solution so we are looking at our options. We'll know a lot more in a year. What I know now is that this one space does not have enough overhead to tack on two more salaries, and never will. We pay Alexandra to work behind the desk part time, my sister Kara to handle the books, and Grego to clean up every other week. That said, after two years we have made some great connections and have found ourselves deep within a tight community of amazing people. We've also learned a heck of a lot about how to start and run coworking spaces. We have already started expanding our gaze and just today launched coworkingseattle.org to help foster the local coworking movement... although that's not a money making venture either. Instead it's the first step to building a broader community because as we've seen many times over, start with the community, and then see where you can go with it.
Stay tuned. Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Tara Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: > The owners of Citizen Space, including myself, have never taken a salary, > but we've used some of the overage to pay for a part time space manager so > that we can focus on our own businesses. > > Tara > > > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 3:30 PM, [email protected] < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> If you run a space, I would like to know if you take a salary? >> For myself, I am looking at the having a small percentage of the >> membership fees turn over to a salary for myself, and with those fees >> I plan to development a handful of businesses. The salary will be >> seed money, not a get rich program, so I can build a better community >> - internally and externally. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jodi Dean, Founder >> OurSpace Fort Wayne >> www.ourspacefw.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 > > Company: Shwowp (http://www.shwowp.com) > 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]<coworking%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > -- 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.
