Wow, thanks that helped a lot. On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Erynn Lyster <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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? > -- > 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. > > > > -- > -- > Erynn Lyster > The Commons Calgary > a cowork apothecary > www.thecommonscalgary.com(403) 399-1716 (cell) or (403) 452-7938 (office) > > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/coworking/Iqma8iSUfs0/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Sincerely, Angela Samuels Visionary Meetings VisionaryMeetings.com -- 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.
