Nancy, That's an exciting transition. Since you already have a group of members, they are going to be able to answer your questions better then we ever could. Keep that in mind and build WITH your members instead of FOR your members.
As for meeting rooms and the folks that come to use them we've learned a few things over the years here at Office Nomads. We make a clear distinction between someone who comes in for a meeting (up to 2 hours) and someone who stays. There must be one member in the room as we don't just rent out meeting rooms. That member can stay for the full day and if they want one of their clients/colleague to join them that person can sign in too and use one of their membership days or that person can sign up for their own membership. Is that helpful? Was that the question you were asking? Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 5:46 AM, Niki <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all. I have had a small business membership program for 30 years where > people paid a yearly fee to be involved in networking, educational/training > classes, referral groups and lots more. Now I'm changing my focus a bit and > bringing on board a cowork center. My dilemma is this: > > 1. I have recently moved and will be opening the center in a small town of > about 13,000. This space will be right downtown in a store front retail > office so people will see things/activities going on and should bring about > interest -- that's good but how to market that aspect? > > 2. Finances -- how do I intertwine the yearly membership base of $100 with > access to all meetings, etc. to the cowork space. People who just use that > space -- can they come to the meetings without payment? Doesn't seem fair to > the members. Members come to the work space without paying? Doesn't seem > fair to the cowork group. What ideas does anyone have on how to merge these > two together? > > Thanks for the thoughts guys! > > Nancy > Business Success Unlimited -- where education + collaboration + FUN = > business growth > 269-488-8904 > > -- > 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.
