Me too, I trust first, but when it comes to real state agents and owners I trust a little less ;)
I help a lot of people out to understand all aspects of the coworking business. Last Friday I had two people coming to talk with me about opening coworking spaces unannounced. The one that had at least read the Coworking Handbook and looked at the page of Betacowork got a lot more time and info, and we had a ore interesting conversation :) A little research and work on their side sends a signal of real interest and of respect to my time and efort that filters out a lot of abusers who just want quick free consulting to launch what they think is a silver bullet business that is going to make plenty of money without any work and abusing the trust and the willingness of people. The worst I've heard about community: we have a community because we have included it in the contracts... On Oct 17, 2015 17:26, "Trevor Twining" <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Ramon. > > I refuse to stop sharing, even though some people misuse it. My main > concern with misuse is that it spoils attempts for legitimate communities > to form. There have been three local attempts outside of Cowork Niagara > that haven’t been successful now, so I don’t want people to get the idea > that it doesn’t work. I want to keep sharing ‘how’ it works. > > What I’ve heard in the past 2 years: > > "I can do that myself faster.” > “We’re going to advertise to build the customer base.” > “Our customers are ready now. We can’t wait to <airquotes>build the > community.</airquotes>” > > -------------------------------------------- > Trevor Twining > Cowork Niagara > http://coworkniagara.com > Home of Niagara’s independent workforce > twitter: @coworkniagara, @trevortwining > cel: 416-201-2254 > > > > > On Oct 17, 2015, at 7:15 AM, Ramon Suarez <[email protected]> wrote: > > Great post. I recently had the same issue with a building owner I was > negotiating with. They tried to get all my Financials before we agreed on a > price and I did not agree. I understood that they would screw me if I did. > I had already spent a lot of hours with them, plus money on architect and > lawyers. They got a copy of the Coworking Handbook and we're passing it > among colleagues. After a few weeks of silence they called to see if I > would be open to manage the Coworking space they are planning on opening. > Now they are trying to get one of my coworkers to work for them. Too many > people looking for fools instead of partners out there, no wonder they > don't understand community. > > -- > 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 a topic in the > Google Groups "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/coworking/-3LazaIXfik/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. > -- 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.
