Hey Dan! At that scale, maybe it would make sense to hit the streets to go out and personally recruit people? If purely online recruiting isn't achieving critical mass, perhaps you'll have better luck diving into existing communities and places where your potential future coworkers are already gathering.
If you wrote down a list of places and groups where you might be able to find these people and engage with them face-to-face, what would they be? Could you head out to them this week or next and just start chatting people up? Recruiting people one at a time is MUCH easier, from my experience, when you can have a conversation with them about how much you both have in common. If you can personally recruit a handful of people who become passionate and dedicated coworkers, then one at a time you'll have people who not only RSVP but do so on *all* the platforms and tell their friends to join too. When it's not just you but a small and growing team of people, things get easier fast :) > On Oct 30, 2015, at 6:46 PM, Daniel Elliot <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for the support, everyone. I've been reading through Ramon Suarez's > book for the past few weeks, but only discovered this Google group yesterday, > during our jelly. Exactly one person showed up. He had never heard of > coworking, thought it was a great idea, and stayed the whole time working and > chatting. So not a complete failure! > > We have a Facebook group, a Meetup, and a very simple website. I'm > considering consolidating everything into just one of those online venues. We > had RSVPs in all three places, but my concern is that the no-shows might have > been due to people looking at where they had RSVP'd, only seeing a few other > people there, and dropping out. We had 10 RSVPs in total, which I thought was > fantastic for our first event. Of course, it doesn't mean much unless they > actually show up. > > Our biggest issue right now is still determining if there is really a market > in our town. There is one coworking space here, it's tiny and in a bad part > of town, and I don't think it's a serious effort. I think the building owner > just sectioned off a little odd shaped piece of his building for coworking, > as an experiment or to try to get in a little extra revenue. We're just north > of LA where of course there are many places for coworking, and the idea is > taking off a little further north as well. And there's a population of about > 100,000 here. I can't believe that there aren't a couple hundred people who > would be into it. We're going to revamp our marketing and do another one in > two weeks. > > Dan > > > >> On Monday, October 26, 2015 at 6:04:25 PM UTC-7, Matt D. wrote: >> Hi everyone. >> >> I wrote a blog post about how we got our first coworking members before we >> opened our doors. I thought some folks might find it helpful, so here's the >> link: >> >> http://www.theskillery.com/blog/2015/10/26/how-we-landed-our-first-customers >> >> Included at that post (near the bottom) is a link to the PDF of the "Early >> Adopter Membership Agreement" that we used. Feel free to download it and put >> it to good use, if it helps! >> >> Enjoy! >> -Matt > > -- > 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.
