Hi Jessica, Just found this group! I have recently opened up a coworking space in Markham Ontario. We are a suburban town of just over 300,000. My space is in a beautiful heritage schoolhouse close to our Main Street. I have started small with a space for 10-12 desks, a small meeting room and a shared board room with other tenants in the building. Opened in February and already have over 30 members - all varying in different memberships. I am taking over another space next door which is a private office. I have joined many networking groups in the region (Women's Entrepreneural groups, Small Business Networking groups in my city and neighbouring cities/towns) got involved with speaking opportunities with our local StartUp community, joined Board of Trade/Chamber of Commerce and joined forces with local libraries (lots of people who need office space hang out there!). Social Media has been my biggest source of leads & word of mouth. There are many local facebook groups to join for entrepreneurs and small business owners. Always good to post on them and invest a little on boosting your ad. Still a work in progress of course but it has been a lot of fun! Would be happy to chat more if you like:) My website is www.thevillagehive.ca Email - [email protected]
All the best! Charlotte On Friday, May 20, 2016 at 11:41:36 AM UTC-4, Jessica Knapp wrote: > > Hey all, > > I posted this is the GCUC group yesterday, so, sorry if you're seeing this > again! > > Here's my question: Does anyone have experience opening a coworking space > in smaller towns with a much smaller population than urban centres? I would > appreciate any insights, stories, tricks or tips. I'm looking at a > population of about 130,000 with one small (ish) community college. > > Thanks > Jessica > -- 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.
