Hi Alex,
Our policy for putting memberships on hold is:
*You may change your membership or put your membership on hold at any time
with 30 days notice in writing or by email. There is a $15 processing fee
for this service. Minimum hold time is one month; maximum is one year.*
We have 4 sites, and people tend to leave for a variety of reasons:
moving out of the area, getting a new job that requires them to be on site,
startup growing beyond our capacity. We're month to month, but we give a
discount for 6 month or 1 year commitments. We take it quite strongly that
we're not an executive suite; we are flexible workspace. Means you're
continually marketing, but you have a much bigger pool of potential members.
On Monday, September 30, 2013 4:11:39 AM UTC+1, Alex Linsker wrote:
>
> Do you get requests from members to "pause membership" at your coworking
> place? Many of our members at Collective Agency travel a lot, some for
> several months or more at a time. What policies do you have with members
> quitting and rejoining, or pausing membership?
>
> Do any coworking places require a year lease, or is everywhere
> month-to-month, some with two months payment required up front?
>
> What do you do to increase the amount of time people stay members?
> Expressing appreciation to people for who/how they are, and having a vision
> for the place that's something big people can be part of and contribute to
> somehow, are two ways that work for us.
>
> I'm also interested in how much your members like variety in their life?
> Ours tend to like a lot.
>
> And how long your average member stays a member for less than 3 months? We
> get a percentage who are between jobs, or just moved to Portland and are
> looking for jobs.
>
> And for more than 2 years? We've had 16 people stay members for the past 2
> years, out of 50 members currently.
>
> What are the main reasons people stop being members? Ours is members
> travel to another city, and after that, the top reason is getting a job at
> another company.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alex
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> Alex Linsker
> Collective Agency's Community Organizer / Proprietor
> (503) 517-6900 http://collectiveagency.co
> Tax and Conversation's Statewide Community Organizer
> (503) 369-9174 taxandconversation.com
> (503) 369-9174 mobile (503) 517-6901 fax
> 322 NW Sixth Ave, Suite 200, Portland, Oregon 97209
>
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