Yes, have one RSVP place and post it everywhere. On Monday, 2 November 2015 22:36:50 UTC, Daniel Elliot 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 >> >
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