I can concur with Craig - this has been a pretty predictable pattern for us and the best thing we've done is to get a few months ahead of it.
The good news is that it's generally followed by a spike of new activity in January. Kinda like New Years resolutions for the gym, but for coworking :) Craig - for your 6 month memberships, are people still paying monthly? How do those work/help you through seasonal lulls? -Alex -- /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia Got Community? http://masterclass.indyhall.org On Dec 19, 2012, at 9:36 AM, Mojo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Marie, we have a coworking space in Asheville, North Carolina. > Population 75,000-ish. We are located downtown which I think helps but also > notice a slowdown in December. The way we try to counter this is by having > as many 6 month members as possible. We run the cycles starting in April and > October ... so that we make sure we're covered in the slower months like > December and July. We also start opening our common area for free community > events in October & November to allow as many people to come through the > space and see it, talk about it ... hopefully spread the word or come back > themselves to use it. > > Most of our members are 6 month or 1 year vs. drop in. We have a few M2M > members and a few daily/drop in/flex users as well. Usually around > Thanksgiving and Xmas we get a few tourists who are in town visiting > family/friends ... make sure that your local tourism board knows about you > ... or your chamber of commerce, etc. if that exists for your suburban > location. > > Happy holidays. > > Craig > > > > On Tuesday, December 18, 2012 6:32:17 PM UTC-5, Marie wrote: >> >> Just wondering if anyone is experiencing a decline in the amount of >> customers in December? If so, what efforts are you doing that is helping to >> bring more in? >> >> Granted, my questions is more for co-working spaces that are not located in >> big cities (if any like that exist). Ours is located in the suburbs and I >> have noticed a decrease in activity since last week and around Thanksgiving. >> We have not done anything different and we do have new promos starting in >> January but we don't have a marketing budget for December so I can't spend a >> ton of money marketing right now. I mostly just want to know if it's normal >> in the co-working world as I know its normal to slow down around the >> holidays in the B2B world. > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
