Hi Marius, very good question! Quick answer: Yes conference rooms is a good start. I would call it a mix calculation. You offer some free and some paid coworking. The one "kind of" subsidieses the other. But it is not one way. Once free coworking picks up in your space, the social capital generated there, will then subsidies the paid part and so on.
To start free coworking afresh, you have various options, depending on the scale you want to operate at. Starting small, you can do it in your own home like Lori Kane did http://www.shareable.net/blog/free-coworking-growing-rapidly-fueled-by-open-collaboration or "Hoffice" in Sweden show right now http://www.fastcoexist.com/3041322/hoffice-turns-your-apartment-into-a-free-and-incredibly-productive-coworking-space.The income you generate, is social capital at first that turns into financial capital as you generate more projects and turnover for yourself as an operator and your free coworkers. Going bigger, you can operate like blankspaces who receive local subsidies. You can work with smaller and bigger companies that sponsor parts or the whole of your space depending on what fits best. There are so many different ways to do it, the simple formula I believe is: "Find the clients and customers of the services and products of your free coworkers and get them involved in financing your space!" They can finance on a project base, a time base and so on... Maybe you like to get involved in the Free Coworking Challenge http://www.coworking-news.de/2015/01/the-free-coworking-challenge-it-is-very-easy-to-do/ so that we can set up a professional platform that helps every free coworking operator to organize free coworking and generate income from offering free coworking. Greetings, Felix Am Freitag, 30. Januar 2015 11:40:10 UTC+1 schrieb Marius Amado-Alves: > > How would a free coworking space get income (to pay rent, manager, etc.) ? > > I see some sites rent the conference rooms, is that it? > > Thanks a lot. > -- 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.
