Thanks for the explanation of your issues, Jeannine. Some of our artisan members have asked about warehouse storage, fulfilment, and packaging space now that they have space for retail, production, and administration. While we don't have room for warehousing and don't have the capacity for fulfilment, we could build that in to an additional space that is much further way and add that as a benefit to the artisan members. I hear your struggles about how the spaces could/have/haven't interacted. And as we both know, you can't please everyone.
As for staffing for the market, there are 4 part time employees right now; two are members and the other two are not, and one that is not is also a member of the coworking space upstairs. It was a matter of who is best suited to work retail, which is not everyone. 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On 11 August 2015 at 08:49, Jeannine <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
