Hey Jessica, we do this with our members. Each of our members has a keycard to access the space, which includes their picture, name, company, and our space's logo. We have been negotiating with businesses around town to offer between 15-25% off their services if our member comes in with their badge.
We decided on the businesses to approach based on suggestions from our members and how far they were from our space. So far we have mostly coffee shops, restaurants, and bars but we are talking to a couple of more traditional businesses such as gyms and printing services now. When we approached the business we showed them the keycard our members used and explained how many people we have and how we would promote them. Promotion included being featured in our newsletter, keeping a menu of services in our space for members to review, listing them in our member services directory, and in our sign up packages. We are also going to begin featuring them on our website and social media profiles. So far the response from both members and businesses has been positive. We had a couple businesses push back on the discount amount we were asking for, but we explained that those were the minimum thresholds to be included with us. Hope this helps. Tyler Good Morning, > > > We starting to think about creating perks (discounts from local > businesses, and services) for our members. Do any of you have this at your > coworking spaces? I am not exactly sure how go about asking businesses for > discounts for our members especially since we are so new. > > Thanks! > > Jessica > -- 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/d/optout.
