Hi all, This is one of many situations where you should put yourself in the shoes of your members and figure out what they'd want. We've had various so-called "partnerships" pitched to us in the past to provide discounts to our members that generally fall flat because they don't offer anything of actual value to our members. I don't join a coworking space to get a discount on Zipcar or 10% off a local restaurant. I join a coworking space because I want to get great work done, meet other interesting people, and get support in my progress.
Just some food for thought - starting a network of "partnerships" is tempting, but it's a lot of work for what I'd argue isn't much value. S __ Office Nomads officenomads.com 206-323-6500(o) 206-484-5859(m) On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Lisa Anne Logan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jessica, > > +1 to Tyler's approach - it works out well. We do a few 'personal' > services like gym, but mostly focus on business service discounts. I > occasionally ask our members what services they're using, and then I pick a > few from that list to approach about a discount. Just position yourself as > an influencer amongst a great group of candidates in their target market, > and detail the internal marketing you'll do, and they're usually happy to > offer something. > > We do all the same marketing Tyler mentioned, plus announce them at our > monthly happy hour. One idea that I tried *unsuccessfully* was inviting a > partner to do a quick preso of their own to the happy hour group about > their product and discount. Seemed like a great way to create a personal > connection - the partner loved it, got to talk directly with interested > members, etc. - but it just didn't feel right in the moment. I could read > my members' faces and they felt like they were being held captive for an > advertising campaign. So we won't be doing that again :) > > > On Friday, September 26, 2014 8:40:31 AM UTC-7, Jessica Hill wrote: >> >> 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. > -- 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.
