Thanks Alex - super helpful as always! Funnily enough my wife used to run a great little deli and asked if I would consider taking card payments - I had just been looking at Stripe and a couple of others.
I actually already use the Adobe Creative Cloud but funnily enough hadn't considered that I might keep it in my new Coworking life - now that you mention it, it's really useful! Are you going to coworking Europe by chance - if you find yourself over there, I'll be the REALLY tall bearded one! All the best Mark On 10 October 2017 at 14:56, Alex Hillman <[email protected]> wrote: > We use the free edition of Slack and the paid version of GroupBuzz for > email discussion (we are our own first customer) since it lets people get > messages where they already are: their inbox. > > Other software you might find useful/valuable enough to pay for: > - zapier.com for linking different systems together. We use this for SO > MUCH. https://dangerouslyawesome.com/2015/01/6-automated- > workflows-that-make-our-coworking-space-better-every-day/ > - typeform.com for creating signup forms and surveys > - meetup.com I have a lot of mixed feelings about meetup, but if you’re > gonna use it to organize members it does cost ~$150/year > - frontapp.com or something like it for keeping your public facing inbox > organized (something that handles emails as cases rather than threads is > super helpful for keeping everything organized) > > There’s other stuff we pay for that you might already have/use, like > Dropbox and subscriptions to Adobe products for doing graphics work for > promos and other design related needs. > > One last one might seem obvious but I often see people forget is credit > card processing. It’s so much better to be able to automatically debit > memberships vs sending invoices and waiting on receivables (we started and > ran this way for a LONG time before stuff like Stripe became available). > But remember to factor in the 2.9%+$0.30 processing fees. They add up! > > > On Oct 10, 2017, 3:27 AM -0400, Mark <[email protected]>, wrote: > > Thanks Alex - I had some accounting software in my head, but certainly > communication tools had escaped my thoughts! > > Instead of imposing specific software on future members, my plan had been > to speak to them and try and tailor the software to their > needs/requirements/wants - my thinking is that some people will prefer > email, other's facebook, twitter, slack etc. but I'm going to go out on a > limb and suppose there's not going to be a one-size-fits-all that everyone > is happy to use! > > > > On Monday, 9 October 2017 14:58:38 UTC+1, Alex Hillman wrote: >> >> Two big ones not on your list are both human service costs: >> >> - *staff* (unless you want to be chained to a desk, you're gonna want >> someone at least part time to help steer the ship on a daily basis) >> - *cleaning service* (I'm a big advocate of setting an expectation that >> members help take care of the space, but at the very least bathrooms need >> generally need professional care and normal foot traffic means floors will >> need to be cleaned at least weekly if not more often. >> >> Another big one that people often forget but adds up quickly is business >> software. That's your website, billing/management software (including >> payment processing fees), communication and support tools, etc. There's >> quite a bit of decent free stuff out there, but biz software does start to >> add up fast! >> >> -alex >> >> >> >> >> ------------------ >> *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 Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 9:45 AM, Mark <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> Alongside meeting people and making contacts within my local community >>> I’m putting together the outline of a business plan - more for my own >>> information than anything else. >>> >>> As part of that process I’m compiling a list of (very) loose monthly >>> outgoings and I was wondering if anyone might share theirs - not figures, >>> just items. >>> >>> There are going to be all the obvious ones - rent, internet’s, rates, >>> coffee (!) etc. - but it’s the less obvious ones I’m hoping to discover - >>> the slightly left field stuff that nobody thinks about until after they’ve >>> launched! >>> >>> Thanks in advance, all feedback is gratefully received by this >>> enthusiastic wannabe! >>> >>> Mark >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> >> >> -- > 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. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/coworking/f5I1Ani0oXA/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. 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