Hi Julia, We are considering the same thing right now. I would be interested in hearing any results you learn of!
Thanks, Liz On Friday, January 27, 2017 at 5:15:16 PM UTC-5, Julia Ferguson wrote: > > Cowork Frederick has been considering adding a community membership - one > that does not include any use of our coworking space, but are struggling > with why someone would want such a thing. We want to position the > membership correctly and make sure there is real value there before we > starting signing people up. > > Members of Cowork Frederick like the friendships they've built here and > most of our members freely talk about how they are more successful, more > productive, or just plain happier because of the other members in the > community. That's pretty cool, but it currently happens because they come > here to work and are running into each other, getting to know each other. > Because our members haven't been interested, we don't have a lot going on > outside of people coming together to work. 80% of our members are married > with children and, when they are not working, they want to be home with > their families. > > To those who have community (only) memberships - what sorts of things do > you do to help those who don't come into your space to work connect and get > value from their membership? > > We've just relaunched a lunch & learn series (members teaching members) > and do a something social (networking without networking) each month. We're > also on the verge of launching a program that aims to bring leads to our > freelance members. We have a Slack group, but it's not very active. There > are many, many Meetup groups and other ways people can find others of > like-mind and connect free of charge. I can't get my head around why > someone pay us for a community membership. > > Why would you say your community members pay you for their membership? > What value do they get? > -- 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 coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
