Yes yes yes - look at Angel's numbers. I also really love the "total number of people/days you can sell per week" model. It's absolutely the most realistic. Also, in practice, we've learned that it's valuable to track the number of unused desks on a daily basis (even if it's a rough count) so you know how often (and on which days) you get close to capacity. This it gives you a number where worst case scenario is that you start a waiting list for higher-usage levels of membership. We often have a waiting list for full time spots, and occasionally put a temporary waiting list on our 3 day a week plans to make sure that we're not oversold to the point where someone might not have a desk.
> I have 10 desks in 288 ft2 (28 ft2 per person) where we comfortably cowork > so that kind of blows the 100 ft2 thing out of the water. Just to clarify this - it sounds like dense areas of desks are also balanced with common areas (patio, living room, kitchen, etc), right? I only recommend the 100 ft2 thing as a starting point because it's *doable*. And if you can achieve more density and be comfortable, your numbers are only going to improve. I always try to estimate on the conservative side vs the optimal side. Like I said - conservative guidelines. ;) We've also packed people in and made it work! he thing to remember is that not all square feet are equal...our most recent move was only ~10% more linear square feet, but we were able to increase capacity by over 30% because of the way the room ways shaped. Looking back at our numbers, our original space maxed out at 26 desks sharing ~1800 square feet (including common areas like a kitchen, lounge, and single meeting room), so not far off from Angel's numbers. That was cozy...and worked great. I think we had ~70 members when we had readily outgrown it, and when our waiting list kept growing we decided to look at new options. There's a zillion ways to fit desks into different shaped rooms. I'm blown away how many ways we've rearranged little rectangles inside of bigger rectangles. It seems like there's always a better way we haven't tried yet. ------------------ *The #1 mistake in community building is doing it by yourself.* Better Coworkers: http://indyhall.org Weekly Coworking Tips: http://coworkingweekly.com My Audiobook: https://theindyhallway.com/ten On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Angel Kwiatkowski <fccowork...@gmail.com> wrote: > First, here's a 50% off coupon for anything in my store. I can't recommend > the cash flow for year 1 enough to you. It will illuminate so many things > for you. http://coherecommunity.com/the-goods code: pleasehelpme > It gives you realistic membership projections for a variety of membership > options as well as lines for each and every expense you could ever imagine > having to pay for. > > Next, capacity is hard. I have 10 desks in 288 ft2 (28 ft2 per person) > where we comfortably cowork so that kind of blows the 100 ft2 thing out of > the water. > > The simplest calculation is to Multiply how many desks you have times 5 > (days/week). That gives you the TOTAL number of days you can sell per week. > So for 10 desks x 5 days you have 50 days per week to sell. Let's say you > get 10 people who want full time memberships. That's your capacity. If > they're all flex desks you can start to play around with overselling > memberships like a gym. Maybe you can handle 13 full time members at 10 > desks b/c I have never found a member that uses 100% of a full time > membership. > > Other numbers: > > We have 58 members right now in a total of 2,500 ft2 (48 ft2/person). Half > of those members are in 7 private offices, which probably take 40% of my > total square footage. The other 26 members are all sharing the 10 desks > upstairs in addition to 7 other places (closets turned into workspaces, > chairs on stair landings, patio, living room and kitchen) they can work > throughout the building so I *could* cram 17 flex deskers in here at any > given moment but I keep my number around 10-11 per day. Cohere's members > are highly engaged and tend to use most of their membership allowance which > drives down how much I can oversell memberships. > > > On Tuesday, April 25, 2017 at 7:50:08 PM UTC-6, Kevin Haggerty wrote: >> >> How did you guys determine where to cap number of memberships, etc, >> since the building is used at different times by different people? Hope my >> question makes sense. :) > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
