After a total of 3 years negotiation, funding applications, and then a lot of work converting a very old, very central building here in the beautiful historic city of Bath (including firing not one but two interior designers as they couldn't keep up with us), we're finally open.
One of our first members uploaded some images to a dropbox link which you can see here <https://www.dropbox.com/sc/uors9oix1u3yu1b/o2NlGt60GS>- it's all so shiny and new, but manic times with us setting up and learning everything from the photocopier to the access control, the wifi and the coffee machines! A little scared now, after all this work, and my devotion to making coworking happen in Bath, and a list of over 200 people who have said they were interested (very patient people, over the past two years), it's a little quiet so far, but we're going all guns into promoting the space to the list as finally open, and to the wider community as something they should look into. We've had around 40 people look around, 11 of those have signed up to a plan, and we're aiming for 50 paying members by the end of the month. I guess it's a momentum thing, people looking around now find it beautiful but empty, so we just need to seed it, we're thinking a Jelly day, inviting some local groups to hire some of our spaces for free if they bring lots of potential members etc etc. Events are very important to our business plan, and they are the one area which is already making us money, but we desperately don't want to turn into an events space only or be seen as a (great) meeting/conference space before we've reached the tipping point with memberships. Anyway, we're Coworking Bath, our space is called The Guild- and our site is at www.theguildhub.co.uk (it's a Nexudus Spaces coworking software site, as w'ere using them for running the space- nice guys, software only just launched in English (they are Spanish). Happy to give feedback on their system good and bad for anyone looking around at software/ Cheers everyone Tom -- 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. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
