TOTALLY agreed, Willie. Members that have great experiences together will talk about those experiences, and want their friends to be a part of it. What's good for the members is also good for membership growth.
And let's not forget about retention! Who cares how many members you have if they don't have any reason to stick around? -Alex /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Willie Morris <[email protected]>wrote: > but I also think this extends to getting new members if you are a newer > space like us. > > We initially started having brainstorming sessions with pizza and wine on > Thursday nights and a weekly wind down on Fridays on our deck to get all the > members into the sense of community and become friends. For some reason, > flipcup has become a favorite team building game here. Once we got everyone > on the same page, we started inviting others from our local tech community > to come see what we're doing. The response was great. We had our first real > open-to-the-public party here last Friday and since have signed up 3 new > members, become host to another usergroup, and some of our members have > started scheduling things to do outside of work together. > > Some other ideas for collaboration/promo are doing one project in house all > the ti > -- 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.
