Yes retention is easy to overlook, but keeping people engaged is definitely important. Who wants high turnover rates for coworkers? Not us! :)
Cheers, -Willie On Nov 11, 2010, at 10:06 AM, Alex Hillman wrote: > 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. -- 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.
