Hi, Rachel, We have been floundering around in a related space, the intersection of webshop/retail shop, for a while now and have made all the mistakes i think so feel free, our pain might as well benefit somebody. :-)
Our problem has been that the intersection between manufacturing and online/traditional retail is in such a state of flux that we find ourselves inventing workarounds as we go; this has resulted in the coworkers using several of our spaces at the same time for different .aspects of their businesses. Some people love this. Others not so much. We started actually by having a space dedicted to coworkers in webshop and online services, import/export, etcetera, in a warehouse space. As they grow we all discover that there is a desire for both online and offline experience. That space cannot really handle all of that so those coworker found as their business developed that they were using the warehouse space for online and our other nearby location for office/meeting/display and sales. But the traditional mixed use location we have, does not really have the space necessary for fabrication, storage, packing and shipping of product. So they move those activities to the warehouse space. Some people love this and others not so much. We are now as a community looking for a new location to accomodate all of these. You are starting off from the other end if you like, so maybe we can learn from each other. Are you staffing with coworkers, or are you hiring people as the coworking space? This has been an interesting question for me for a long time. > -- 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.
