Agreed with Angel - we actually don't allow members to sign up for memberships online, we require them to do a drop-in day first. If the day goes well for them and for us (to date I don't know of a single time it hasn't), we roll the $25 into a membership. It puts emphasis on human contact during that onboarding process rather than "signing up for a service".
The barrier is higher than signing up from home, but that seems to have kept out a lot of the sketchiness that people seem to be concerned about. This has also allowed us to convert our drop-ins to at least basic members very, very easily because it's the exact same price, additional days are a bit cheaper, and they're hooked by the 2nd or 3rd visit. -Alex /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Angel Kwiatkowski <[email protected]>wrote: > We don't use an application at Cohere but rather ask any prospective > member to do a day pass prior to making the decision to sign up. I > think it's worked pretty well so far! > > Angel > > On Aug 22, 8:39 pm, Mark Gilbreath <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey Mark > > > > Numerous of our coworking partners are using a feature within the > > LiquidSpace system to do a basic screening of individuals before granting > > access. Happy to elaborate offline. > > > > Mark Gilbreath > > LiquidSpace > > > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Mark in Iowa City > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hey all, do any of you have an application for a perspective > > > individual to provide some information to learn if they would be a > > > good fit for your coworking community? > > > > > Our goal is to make sure we are not letting anyone in that will be > > > detrimental to the space. > > > > > Curious if others have a pre-screening tool they use and might share. > > > > > Thanks > > > Mark > > > > > -- > > > 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.
