re: member interviews, we make it a standard step in our on-boarding process. We use adobe echosign for our member agreement and have a few short/fun "interview" questions included in the form. At this stage, members are excited to join, open to sharing and in the mode of filling out paperwork :-) We post them to blog posts and use them in our newsletters.
Re: content - the GWA is hosting 5-day SEO challenge starting July 12th and the kick-off webinar will address the "blog" topic and offer a Q&A session with SEO expert Evan Oder. Here's the link for more info: https://goo.gl/D6QIPR Jamie Russo Founder, Enerspace Coworking <http://www.enerspacecowrking.com/> Host, Everything Coworking Podcast <http://www.everythingcoworking.com/> Executive Director, Global Workspace Association <http://www.globalworkspace.org/> On Monday, June 20, 2016 at 12:02:59 PM UTC-7, Bernie J Mitchell wrote: > > Re: member interviews - doing a podcast is sooooooo easy these days. > Record and load to a tool like Auphonic and post to sound cloud :-) > > Have a remarkable day > > Bernie J Mitchell > 0777 204 2012 > > Are you listening to my podcast? www.berniejmitchell.com > > Sent from my mobile device > > *Unless we agree otherwise, this email conversation is confidential. > > On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 7:28 pm, Simon Anez <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > That's a really good point Tony, well said, member interviews is something > i've always wanted to do but have never gotten around to do it. > > However i guess where i was coming from is besides giving as much value as > possible to your members, create content to provide value to anyone in my > local community, member or not. > We're in Miami so there's lots of people from around the world looking to > start their businesses here. They don't know where to go or what to do, and > providing our local knowledge around that as always been something we've > done personally. > > > On Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 3:11:06 PM UTC-4, Tony Bacigalupo wrote: >> >> I always advocate for being awesome in real life first. >> >> Imagine if you took the resources it takes to make social media content, >> where everyone is always shouting louder and louder to get attention, and >> instead directed that to hosting an amazing fun creative dinner party in >> the space. >> >> People have an incredibly fun time, they make friends, they tell everyone >> they know about the experience they had, and maybe some of them even post >> about it on social media. >> >> Then the attention comes to you. >> >> If you're aching to create content online, I wonder how you can do so in >> a way that's authentic and passionate and something that people can connect >> emotionally with. >> >> I'm a big fan of storytelling. I bet if you interviewed members, in text >> or audio or even video form (or all three!), and had them tell real stories >> of experiences they had and things they've learned, that would be a >> worthwhile endeavor even if it doesn't directly convert to sales right away. >> >> Tony >> *---* >> *New Work Cities <http://nwc.co/consulting> - Helping people build better >> coworking cultures.* >> *Open Coworking <http://opencoworking.org/> - Championing the global >> coworking movement.* >> *Latest projects: NWC Organizers Club <http://nwc.co/club>* >> *New: Support the free resources of coworking.org <http://coworking.org/> >> for only $9/mo. Learn more! >> <http://opencoworking.org/news/support-open-coworking/>* >> >> [image: Inline image 8] <http://tonybacigalupo.com/>[image: >> http://twitter.com/tonybgoode] <http://twitter.com/tonybgoode>[image: >> http://facebook.com/tonybacigalupo] >> <http://facebook.com/tonybacigalupo>[image: >> http://linkedin.com/in/tonybacigalupo] >> <http://linkedin.com/in/tonybacigalupo> >> >> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Simon Anez <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I'm curious if anybody here runs a successful blog that's on their >>> coworking space's main website? >>> For years we hired some SEO company to do our blog, this was obviously a >>> mistake >>> I've been rethinking over our blogging strategy and would like to hear >>> your thoughts and experiences >>> >>> Content should be locally targeted, with topics that would interest our >>> local target audience >>> It should be helpful and if possible entertaining, i'm thinking guides >>> on the different topics of building businesses/freelancers >>> I'm not big on blogging reports about past events but that's just me >>> >>> Some if not most coworking spaces don't even have blogs or are not >>> really updated, so i'm curious to discuss this topic further with anyone. >>> >>> -- >>> 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] <javascript:>. > 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. 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