Hi Angela
We recently did this for our Small Business Week in our city and we were
disappointed - both in the kinds of people who showed up and also our
lack of preparedness. Funny you should mention printing - we did not
even think to limit this for these free pass users -- and one woman came
in who we found out later isn't even a freelancer/entrepreneur and
printed a huge amount (even being so disrespectful as to not even taking
everything she printed) and then she left.
What did we learn?
* A free coworking week can be a great idea! -- just make sure you
have the time and resources to dedicate making it a great experience
for everyone
* I completely agree with the sign up sheet - capture who they are and
why they are interested in your space, just like you would any other
member. I have no idea why - but we didn't do this (so obvious I
know!). We completely dropped the ball with this and in the end our
free coworking week was not as successful from our point of view or
theirs.
* Make them feel completely welcome and if you provide free printing
to your current members, I would not hesitate to include it for
these trial members too - we wanted them to know exactly how it felt
to be a member in our space so we didn't consider limiting their
access to our resources. In our case, with the women who used us for
the printing - if we had our act together in the first place we
wouldn't have invited her to have a free day as it would have been
very apparent she wasn't actually interested in coworking, community
or anything that we are actually about.
* Have an event or gathering - doesn't have to be anything intense or
elaborate - just to give people the taste of what it can be like in
your space
~Erynn
On 2014-10-31, 6:48 PM, Angela Samuels wrote:
I want to have a free coworking week before I have my grand opening
but I'm not for sure what kind of waiver to give them. Any suggestions
would be appreciated. When you have free coworking week do you let
they have free printer prints too?
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