Hi everyone, I'm considering starting a coworking space. I love the idea of student memberships. How does that affect your business model?
In my research, it seems difficult enough to breakeven just from selling shared space at the 'full price'. At the discounted rate, are you concerned at all about seats being "taken away"? Thanks! Bruce On Jan 16, 2012, at 4:31 PM, Angel Kwiatkowski <[email protected]> wrote: > We just launched student memberships in December. We had 4 students > who signed up for our "Finals Week" deal which got them evening/ > overnight and weekend access for $20 each for the 2 weeks of finals. > They loved it...especially since the university library is 50% closed > for construction. > > We're now offering the same evening/overnight/weekend deal to students > for $25/mo. The semester starts up again tomorrow so we'll see what > happens. We're also doing our regular memberships at a discount for > students. Basically, whichever plan they want, we discount it by one > level. If they want 3 days/week, we charge them for 2 etc and just got > our first student member for that deal. > > We don't have any communication at a university level. I have tasked > my employee who is a student with telling everyone she knows. 100% of > our student members have come through her spreading the word. Our goal > is to have 16 student members by the end of February. We'll see how we > go! > > We have other things in the works at a larger level with the > university but those efforts have been tedious and slow at best. > > Angel > > On Jan 13, 2:20 pm, Alex Hillman <[email protected]> wrote: >> I know of more than a handful of coworking spaces that have developed >> partnerships with local universities. Have any worked directly with the >> student population? Success/failure stories to share? >> >> -Alex >> >> /ah >> indyhall.org >> coworking in philadelphia > > -- > 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.
