Starting with your existing group that already knows you is great. Now you can consider reaching out to your municipal community, the freelancers, entrepreneurs, and startups in your area, the potential future members that you haven't yet met.
Some space owners (us included) held something like a town hall meeting, which I recommend you consider doing. You can advertise a time and location of where a meetup will take place, introduce yourselves and your intent to open a space, and gather feedback from them about various things like pricing, location, membership levels, amenities, etc. And while the majority of that info will be very helpful, Alex is totally right in that some people will say they would like to see something but won't actually use it. I've noticed that individual phone lines and fax machines were the common example. At the very least you get a room full of people who can be the start of your coworking community, who you can explain coworking to, and who could either become members or perhaps use the space for events or recommend the space to their friends and colleagues. Make sure you get everyone's contact info, and if you can invite someone from a neighbouring coworking facility to join you, he/she can lend their expertise to the conversation. Chad and I did that for a space that was between our spaces, and we were able to answer questions with examples from our existing spaces. r. On 14 January 2012 01:42, CAJ <[email protected]> wrote: > Rachel, > There are a four of us, which is where the discussion comes from. > There are diffrent ideas on the subject. So I thought I would bring > the topic here for feedback. Since this is a new concept that we are > just begining to push. We have the space which we consider phase one, > with two workstaions and 12 basically "hot seats" Phase two is a 3000 > sq ft renivated warehouse. We began by consideing a daily rate as well > as monthly memberships, but thought that people might be more > comfortable with hourly or even half day rate. > CJay > > -- 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.
