Brian: James Rock (MosleyExchange) has a great list. That will get you started.
Here are some additional ideas: 1) Get your web site up and rolling. We are on a WordPress platform, that has been great. With links to our Facebook page and Twitter. We are still working on more interactive parts. 2) Tours through the space and "free day passes" for anyone that will be interested. Nancy (our community catalyst) is doing great things with personal invitations, for both day passes and free tours. 3) Yes to James on the Art side. We are presently (thanks to Nancy and our local artists) featuring 5 artists....a couple of photographers, painted glass artist, and two painters (one is using metallic acrylic paints on glass...wow!) 4) Special events, from Board meetings, to member meetings, to annual meetings. Getting traffic through the space. We host the local Durango Tech club (geeks & investors), host the local film office and other groups. 5) Team up with the local Chamber manager (we are a member) and local EDO professional (the person running your local Economic Development Organization). We have then on "comp" silver passes, so they can use our space and make it available for a few out of town guests they run into. And our local Chamber executive is featured on our new video clip (soon to go viral! :) ) And with James' list, you'll be busy. Jasper Jasper & Nancy DurangoSpace, LLC http://durangospace.com Durango, Colorado USA On Apr 26, 2:47 pm, Brian Whipple <[email protected]> wrote: > I am currently working at a business incubator and I am in charge of > starting a coworking space. I have done quite a bit of research, but > there is still one hurdle that I am trying to overcome. How do I get > my first 5-10 anchor tenants? You know, the members that are always > there and are super excited about coworking. > Here is a list of events/marketing that we are going to start, but I > am looking for fresh ideas. > > 1. Coworking with the staff. (seems obvious, but hard to coordinate in > a business incubator.) > 2. Brown bag lunch on Fridays followed by coworking > 3. Emails to our current list of recipients > 4. Coworking after any other organized event. We have guest speakers > and such, and we coordinate coworking to follow each event. > > We will probably give our anchor tenants free memberships in order to > entice them to stay. > Also, we cant do any alcohol at events. Otherwise this would be a lot > easier. > > Your help is much appreciated! > Brian Whipplewww.IncubationWorks.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]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
