We don't have a gym thing, it is really hard to get that here in London. TBH all the 'deals' found in nearby places have taken ages for us to work out and then the effort of advertising them takes up more time than is worth. I question if we really add much more value to the local business with the effort of a perk. The only one that has stayed in five years is the Speedys Cafe one (The cafe in the TV show Sherlock is near @Work Hubs) http://www.sherlockology.com/locations/speedys-cafe For 'Perks' we use https://included.co/ and we have a white labeled page for our space. Hector can then find the best deals.
To help get people on board more we are getting members signed up to this Secret Santa https://included.co/secretsanta/ Full story on Seats2Meet here Have a remarkable day Bernie J Mitchell 0777 204 2012 www.berniejmitchell.com Sent from my mobile device *Unless we agree otherwise, this email conversation is confidential. -----Original Message----- Re: [Coworking] Re: Question for space owners: Do you offer member perks like AWS or gym discounts? Is your community taking advantage of them? (more in comments) From: Jason McVetta <jason.mcve...@gmail.com> To: coworking@googlegroups.com Cc: Wednesday, December 06, 2017 at 4:01AM Just my $0.02: As a coworking space member, perks are basically irrelevant to me. I chose my current space from among about a dozen in this city for two reasons: First, the facility. Nice building, good natural light, good chairs/tables, accessible rooftop. Second, and much less important, the location. This space was pretty close to my previous apartment. Now I live 30 minutes away, but I still prefer this space because of the nice facilities. When I signed up here the management gave me a little book with a bunch of perks listed in it. So far I haven't used any of them, and have no idea where I put the little book. Maybe - maybe - if they offered a good discount at gym located very close to the space, I might use that. Even then, the perk would have little or no impact on my decision to choose the coworking space. What I do really value is a good ergonomic office chair. Afterall that's something I'm going to use all day every day. So if you're a space operator and thinking about spending money to offer perks, consider spending that same money on better chairs. Probably I'm not the only member who feels that way. Cheers, J On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 5:58 PM, Jeannine van der Linden <flexkantoorkame...@gmail.com> wrote: We do, though ours are tightly focused on what the coworkers have expressed a need for. We have for example a shipping account with FedEx/DHL/GLS for the space, which a number of our members use to send their products. This is then invoiced through to each. We have a couple of these kinds of shared accounts for business inteligence, that kind of stuff that can be used by multiple companies on a shared basis. It is not really that different from a shared desk. We arrive at these by the extremely scientific method of regularly bringing the subject up every sevral months and then going lookng when enough coworkers chime in that they would like that also. :-) We have another class of perks which are offered by the coworkers to the cowowrkers. These are mostly B2B but also include yoga lessons and Mindfulness and coaching. For third party perks though, we use included.co. They have a lot more clout and reach than we have, and they do a better job at it than we ever did. On Tuesday, November 21, 2017 at 6:25:01 PM UTC 1, mic...@portalsoft.io wrote: This question boils down to a few key insights I'm trying to take away: 1. Is this an effective marketing tactic to both reduce member attrition and increase marketability/differentiation? 2. Do members use these perks enough that any referral fees might be a substantial second/third rev stream? 3. Is it worth it to pay for a service that provides a pre-negotiated group of business and lifestyle perks? Cheers! -- 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. -- 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. -- 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.
