Thanks Tyler! You've been super helpful. Jessica
On Saturday, September 27, 2014 11:18:55 AM UTC-4, Tyler Byrd wrote: > > 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.
