Correct, you claim 28ft2 as your work area but can then wander another 1,200ft2 of common areas throughout the day. Those number are super estimated as I've never measured the footage of our hallways, kitchen or patio.
On Thursday, April 27, 2017 at 9:34:01 AM UTC-6, Alex Hillman wrote: > > 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 <[email protected] > <javascript:>> 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 [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. 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.
