You know, our summers are actually pretty decent. One summer was flat but the other 2 climbed up from June - August. If there's a slow month for us, it's typically Feb or March, depending upon how January is, and Sept, depending upon the just finished summer. Then again, we do use multi-month contracts so we're not as prone to month-to-month uncertainties.
Jerome ______________ BLANKSPACES "work FOR yourself, not BY yourself" www.blankspaces.com 5405 Wilshire Blvd (2 blocks west of La Brea) Los Angeles, CA 90036 1450 2nd Street (@ Broadway), Santa Monica, CA 90401 323.330.9505 (office) On Mar 28, 2011, at 11:55 AM, Alex Hillman wrote: > If people don't want to be in the office during the summer, embrace it. > Organize BBQs, "Cowork-outs" (coworking outdoors, from parks, etc), any > opportunity to keep coworkers present with each other, not just in your > space. > > This is an important key to coworking's longevity: if you take away the > desks, what are you left with? Odds are, assuming there's anything left at > all, it's something you can do no matter what the seasonal trends are, and > without requiring them to set foot inside the office. That'll likely > encourage them to spend a little more time in the office, too, since the > biggest contributor I've found to people's "falling off the coworking > bandwagon" is simply a lack of contact with coworkers. Improve that, and > everything else starts to improve on its own. > > I said a bit more about this topic (loosely) in this recent interview: > > http://www.deskmag.com/en/is-there-a-life-cycle-for-coworking-spaces-189 > > At Indy Hall, we've gotten increasingly better at weathering our seasonal > growths and lulls to the point where they're less noticeable by thinking > about things this way and making sure that workspace isn't our only offering. > > -Alex > > > /ah > indyhall.org > coworking in philadelphia > > > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Jacob Sayles <[email protected]> wrote: > We've seen a consistent summer slump for all 3 summers we've been around. It > changes if we have more sun but basically the first 2 months with good sun > folks don't come into the office less. Sometimes that's June/July, sometimes > it's July/August. If we get a lot of sun they start to get bored with it and > come into the office. Of course if it gets REALLY hot we get a boost as most > folks in Seattle don't have AC. > > As for what to do about it, I'm not sure yet. Susan and I are talking and > making plans now to see if we can be more proactive this year. We won't know > if it's successful until fall. > > Jacob > > --- > Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation > http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 > > > > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Angel Kwiatkowski <[email protected]> > wrote: > Our membership levels out during the summer months. Members don't un- > join but we see far fewer people trying it out or buying memberships. > Attendance also drops off as people scatter to the mountains and go > camping, climbing, hiking etc. Summer can be a great time for the > space owner to work on cleaning up processes, systematizing, and > setting strategies for the upcoming fall/winter. It's also an easy > season to staff with interns so that you, the space owner, can take > much needed vacation time too! > > -Angel > > On Mar 28, 5:13 am, Flambard <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is going to be the first summer for Mutinerie Coworking in Paris > > and we are wondering how to adapt our space. Although our space is > > currently unavailable to us :( , we hope that we will have a place > > soon (the former one or another), and we are wondering about summer > > specificities. How do you stay attractive when the weather in nice and > > when people goes on holiday? > > > > 1/ What is the average drop in memberships that you've seen in your > > spaces? > > 2/ What is the most dead time period? > > 3/ What special activities do you propose on summer? > > > > We'd be very grateful if we can have some feeback on this special > > issue. > > > > Thanks > > > > Antoinewww.mutinerie.org > > -- > 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. > > > -- > 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. 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