Hi, all, As some of you know, Kamer52 is a rural coworking space, and my basic notion os that it is home for your business: big or small, 4 times a year or every day, we're sharing and it's great. (Sorry, slogan fever hit me there for a second). :-)
Recently I fell in with a fellow who is part of a large group of people who have some privacy issues about the present model in the Netherlands which is, if you don't have a seperate office, you register your business at your home address. The concern is that 1) the local regstry for businesses is public record, so your house address is there for everybody to see and look up in Google; which gives some folks goosebumps; and also the local registry office sells those addresses in email list/database form to anybody who wants to buy them. So we deveoped a membership for them. It;s cheap, but they aren't asking for much either. I really strated in the beginning as a favor to him, I didn't really expect the landslide it is becoming. After some initial resistance from the government, which has since been handled essentially by going there and explaining what I was doing, getting their input, and coming up with a contract and an approach we all could be happy with, this has begun to roll quite handily and I have gotten a lot of feedback; a lot of micro businesses and starters and so forth are very interested in this and we have added a lot of value as this has developed along the way. It's fun as well. It's essentially a larger community from which to draw coworkers. Because this is Holland, I have recently had a good deal of interest in joint contracts in the Benelux (Germany, Holland, Belguim, Luxemburg) and I expect that the interest is also there for France and Eastern Europe, just because of the nature of the trade. Does anybody else have memberships which include a registration address or a virtual address? How are you dovetailing it with coworking? Want to work together? What's your experience? -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
