Hi Jeannine! I totally agree with the user experience. Also, we would also like to offer half-day passes. How do you manage when time is up? Eveline We are only afraid that two people will share a monthly pass, one being a guest.
Le vendredi 15 décembre 2017 04:50:50 UTC-5, Jeannine van der Linden a écrit : > > There are several ways to go about this and which one you choose depends > very much on how you think about what you are doing. > > Everybody needs to be able to meet with their clients in the space I > should think, otherwise having a membership doesn't seem that useful. > Meeting with clients being part of the work. But having use of your space > be (essentially) a perk that coworkers offer to their clients for free is a > very different thing. It is a good thing in many cases, it is of course a > good way to get to know new members and also it helps your coworkers to be > able to show off a bit. > > Your space is in a location we used to call "rural" coworking, that is, in > a place less than 50,000 population, This number keeps coming up as a > break point in terms of approach and in many ways it is still valid as such > (though I think we will see some change int his as time goes on). In rural > coworking, flexibility is all. Many basic notions about how coworking > works have to be discarded to make a go of rural coworking I think. > > It all comes down to what a membership is, doesn't it? We have a "classes > and workshops" membership, and I am not charging extra for the attendees > because that's what a class/workshop is. A part time or full time > membership includes meetings because that's what it is for, among other > things. A return and pickup membership for online retail includes somebody > at the counter or the loading bay to deal with boxes because that's what it > is for. You may have a disconnect between what your members think it is > for and what you think it is for. This means you have to talk about it. > > The options are many: you can have a membership which includes the right > to invite your guests to use the space, and price it accordingly. Both a > full time and a part time membership here includes this, the time guests > use is simply counted as time the member uses. You can also have guest > passes which members can ask for or that you include X number of as part of > their onboarding. > > You can also approach it on a pure "per seat" basis, in which case guests > are treated just like coworkers. This works for Seats2Meet, but it is > part of a whole model which is certainly worth looking at. As a piecemeal > approach I do not think it would work. > > For us coworkers are renting the whole spae on the basis of sharing it and > everybody pays based on what they use, keeping i mind that whatever they > are using is then not free to be used by everybody else as a result of > that. So booking a desk is the act of letting everybody else know that you > will be on that desk at that time, and that means as many people as you can > sit at a desk, more than that and you are booking a room or part of a > space. We work in in half day increments for this, and within that half > day pretty much anything they want to do at that desk or in that room is > okay with me so long as it does not bother the other coworkers. If they > want to bring in the local footie team and a marching band for a half day, > that's fine as long as there are no problems with noise complaints and they > bring their own beer. (You laugh. But somebody once did bring in a > travelling circus). > > Key to all this though is certainly getting clear to your coworkers what > they are doing and what you are doing adn what the other coworkers aare > doing as members of the space. > -- 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.
