Hi Jesse, welcome to "the club". You can start by taking a look at all these coworking resources <https://www.coworkinghandbook.com/resources/>:
- Coworking Books & Readings <https://coworkinghandbook.com/readings/> - Tools for Coworking Spaces <https://coworkinghandbook.com/tools/> - Community Building Resources for Coworking Spaces <https://coworkinghandbook.com/community-building/> - Coworking Statistics, Surveys, Research and Studies <https://coworkinghandbook.com/stats/> - Coworking Associations and Organizations <https://coworkinghandbook.com/coworking-associations-organizations/> - Coworking Conferences <https://coworkinghandbook.com/coworking-conferences/> - Make Your Coworking Business Plan: Coworking Space Finance Resources <https://coworkinghandbook.com/finance/> - Coworking News, Magazines and Podcasts <https://coworkinghandbook.com/coworking-news/> - Coworking Checklists <https://coworkinghandbook.com/checklists/> I also recommend that you read my book The Coworking Handbook <https://www.coworkinghandbook.com/> for structured practical knowledge. For the community side of the business a great complement to The Coworking Handbook is Tony Bacigalupo's book No More Sink Full of Mugs <https://gumroad.com/a/79049843> When you have questions, search this group. It has years worth of answers . Best of luck, Ramon On Saturday, September 1, 2018 at 9:42:37 AM UTC+2, Jesse Flores wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > After a long time of wanting to open up a coworking space I've > finally gotten the initiative to begin building a community in one of the > most competitive cities (San Francisco, California). How will I stand out > from the rest? I am a professional Visual Effects artists and I've worked > in some of the most prestigious commercial, film and tech companies in the > United States and along with it came a great community of digital artists. > Unlike New York City and Los Angeles that have a strong digital artist > community, I find the bay area is more catered to the tech and medical > industries however there is a market sitting there looking for a place to > work. The digital artist nomads who design/ create and render those > beautiful images of products / web / feature film and commercial work. The > bay area is a hub for nomadic professionals and with this vfx networking I > have I am trying to build a community here and targeting all the major art > industries. I'm at the very beginning, rallying networking events at bars > and began coworking nights using the help of meetup/ wework. I have a > million questions and any feedback be great! I'm hungry and eager to open > and do it correctly. > > How did you market to begin growing your community? > How did you keep the community engaged? > Any advice on events I should host in order to keep momentum? > Is it too early to look for a space? > Funding? Sponsors? > What did you do for social media outreach? > > Thank you for your time. > > If interested in where I am, I have a meetup and a facebook group. > > https://www.meetup.com/Welcome-to-MyStudio/ > https://www.facebook.com/groups/mystudioCommunity/ > > > -- 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.
