[Coworking] Re: Marketing a Co-working space

2009-06-13 Thread Eric Marden
we are wanting to do a Jelly and have contacted the Jelly gurus for some assistance but have not heard back yet. What's a jelly guru? I thought they were like BarCamps, you just pick a time and place and invite people. - Eric Marden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[Coworking] Re: Marketing a Co-working space

2009-06-12 Thread Eric Marden
Colab Orlando has talked about printing biz cards for members to pass out with free drop-in coupon on back (which is cleverly disguised as a form for their name, email, phone :) - Eric Marden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://ericmarden.com On Jun 11, 2009, at 8:52 AM,

[Coworking] Re: Marketing a Co-working space

2009-06-12 Thread mikeschinkel
Suggestion: Go to Meetup.com and look for local groups that fit your target demographic. Contact the organizers and offer to let them use your space for evening meetings for free. -Mike Schinkel Atlanta, GA USA On Jun 12, 2009, at 10:11 AM, Trent trentcl...@verizon.net wrote: Chris, we

[Coworking] Re: Marketing a Co-working space

2009-06-11 Thread BrianR
Congrats Chris on the new space! Building good community is the best marketing. The most successful community building/marketing tools I've used so far are: 1) First Drop in Day Free. Once people try it. They stay. 2) Host Free Local Tech Meetups - as many as you can squeeze into your calendar.

[Coworking] Re: Marketing a Co-working space

2009-06-06 Thread Ralf Lippold
Hi Chris, Seems to be that open-space working is not yet seen a a valuable way of working and collaborating. Working at being BMW during the uprise of the new plant in Leipzig, we pretty much worked in the co-working way until the plant was in operation fully. Since then the notion for sticking

[Coworking] Re: Marketing a Co-working space

2009-06-05 Thread Chris Conrey
Chris, The biggest thing (and the answer you don't want to hear) is that it just takes time. Gangplank has started to really get a lot of press because we've been huge in the Phoenix community on Twitter/Facebook etc and have hosted events like Startup Weekend, Barcamp, and local user groups.

[Coworking] Re: Marketing a Co-working space

2009-06-05 Thread Mike Pihlman
FYI...our local newspaper will interview me next week! I'll send the link when (if) the article comes out! Progress! Slow but sureone thing for sure, adding Math tutoring (now that I will be Intern eligible with no teaching jobs to be had) to the mix has peeked interest (I'll take

[Coworking] Re: Marketing a Co-working space

2009-06-05 Thread Amanda Abelove
Not to shamelessly plug a product, bu my community group created a product that might market a coworking space well... There is a base game that you can use to host business networking tournaments to get people in the door, and then we also have interactive business cards that you can sell and

[Coworking] Re: Marketing a Co-working space

2009-06-05 Thread heidi brown
. Heidi Brown Office Space Coworking OfficeSpaceCoworking.com Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 09:10:58 -0700 Subject: [Coworking] Re: Marketing a Co-working space From: con...@chrisconrey.com To: coworking@googlegroups.com Chris, The biggest thing (and the answer you don't want to hear

[Coworking] Re: Marketing a Co-working space

2009-06-05 Thread Liu Yan
: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 09:10:58 -0700 Subject: [Coworking] Re: Marketing a Co-working space From: con...@chrisconrey.com To: coworking@googlegroups.com Chris, The biggest thing (and the answer you don't want to hear) is that it just takes time. Gangplank has started to really get a lot of press

[Coworking] Re: Marketing a Co-working space

2009-06-05 Thread Eric Marden
: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 09:10:58 -0700 Subject: [Coworking] Re: Marketing a Co-working space From: con...@chrisconrey.com To: coworking@googlegroups.com Chris, The biggest thing (and the answer you don't want to hear) is that it just takes time. Gangplank has started to really get a lot