[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)

I have been thinking about this as we plan our opening. We are in a suburban neighborhood and I would like to work with local shops go offer discounts to our members to get traffic in to them. This community we are building has the opportunity to help other local businesses as well. No only

[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)

I was searching to see if anyone had come up with a great way to visually portray their member benefits. We have a lot and I feel we don't do a good job letting members know about them. Members offer each other discounts on services, neighborhood businesses do the same (hotel, restaurant,

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)

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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)

Haha sorry there isn't enough space for the new tattoo Alex! I agree and think that there's actually two ways it could go. Either a race to the bottom as you mention (which includes getting worse deals as vendors 'divide and conquer' different communities to get distribution for even cheaper);

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)

*1. No. Perks-based marketing is a zero-sum game. * I wish I had another forearm to tattoo this on. Well said - I'd even argue that once you're at the 100s/1000s of members, perks based marketing is a race to the bottom. -- *The #1 mistake in community building is doing it by

[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)

Thanks for the glowing recommendation of our service Jeannine! I hope you all don't mind if I dive right in and answer OP's original questions based on my experience over the last 3-4 years of helping coworking communities share buying-power. 1. No. Perks-based

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)

We dont 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

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)

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,

[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)

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

[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)

Hey Ray, I'm glad you mentioned DeskPass . It's not really a perk in the same vein as the discussion. However, I run DeskPass in Colorado and we have over 20 spaces on in throughout the Denver metro region. It attracts mostly remote workers that have never tried

[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)

It's not a perk really but ... would you consider DeskPass to be part of that world of benefits? It's a system that I've run into here in Chicago where a person buys a membership to DeskPass and then they can use a whole network of coworking spaces ... I had written it off as not practical

[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)

Hey Mic, To answer your general question of whether coworking members require such intangible services, it is a straight YES! But it is up to the community manager to determine the exact need and match the appropriate services. And here are short answers to your other questions: 1. Perks are