[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)

2017-12-12 Thread Hector Kolonas
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

[Coworking] Re: Co working Marketing

2017-12-14 Thread Hector Kolonas
India is an interesting market. Although search traffic for 'coworking in [city]' is increasing, you might have more success hosting local meetups and slowly introducing the local community to the notions of coworking as a workstyle. Where abouts in India, as obviously every city has it's own

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)

2017-12-13 Thread Hector Kolonas
Coworkers: http://indyhall.org > Weekly Coworking Tips: http://coworkingweekly.com > My Audiobook: https://theindyhallway.com/ten > > On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 6:47 AM, Hector Kolonas <inzt...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> Thanks for the glowing recommendation of our service &l

[Coworking] Re: So about data security, sharing and the General Data Protection Regulation in the EU for coworking worldwide

2018-05-16 Thread Hector Kolonas
Have had similar questions come up in quite a few coworking groups across the different social networks. So good to see this being tackled for all coworking space operators who may 'touch' the data of EU nationals in some way or form. :) And the link for those who'd like to submit questions to

[Coworking] Re: Sponsors

2018-06-06 Thread Hector Kolonas
Hey Kiri, whilst I don't have a sponsorship agreement to share, I do want to share some insights into mistakes that other spaces had done with regards sponsorship deals. *- don't tie yourself into any exclusivities * being unable to make fair and honest recommendations to your members will

[Coworking] Update: Your GDPR Questions were answered by actual lawyers

2018-06-06 Thread Hector Kolonas
Hey all, a few weeks ago we collected questions from some of you regarding how GDPR will affect any coworking space that hosts EU citizens (or stores their data in some way). I just wanted to share the answers from the legal team we enlisted over here: https://included.co/qa/gdpr-coworking/ I

[Coworking] Re: 189 new coworking spaces in August

2018-08-14 Thread Hector Kolonas
Interesting insights Bernhard. Thanks for sharing. On a side-note we should chat about merging some of the free resources you offer with the free resources we offer (double the impact, halve the investment on both our sides). For example coworking.jobs and coworkingresources.org/jobs could be

[Coworking] The 'whitelabel' / 'brandable' member benefits debate

2018-08-27 Thread Hector Kolonas
Hey all! As the debate about the best way to describe our platform has spread across a fair number of coworking groups on fb, I wanted to also get some feedback from you, the amazing google group :) *The question:* The debate over the last few weeks, as we redesigned our new homepage

[Coworking] Re: The 'whitelabel' / 'brandable' member benefits debate

2018-09-01 Thread Hector Kolonas
edia > platforms so I can get a sense about what makes this a meaningful topic for > us to engage in? Right now it sounds like a topic about how you design your > premium product that you're trying to market to coworking spaces. > > Thanks! > > Will > > On Monday, August 27,

[Coworking] Re: We are setting up a podcast studio. Any advice?

2018-04-11 Thread Hector Kolonas
Ooo you'd want to speak to Bernie, Trevor, Cat or anyone from the OuiShareRadio.com crew. They all podcast, and most of them from coworking spaces. Will ping this over to them to dive in and reply. I can't even get the voice controls on my phone to work, so def not the right person to help :)

[Coworking] Re: GCUC NYC 2018? Free Coworking Space Tours on April 25

2018-04-11 Thread Hector Kolonas
✋My first GCUC and first coworking conference in NYC. Quite excited tbh. :) On Tuesday, 10 April 2018 14:25:56 UTC-4, Nicole Vasquez wrote: > > Who's going to GCUC NYC this year? This will be my fifth year going! > > Just a heads up that *NYC Coworking Space Tour Day 2018* is on Wednesday >

Re: [Coworking] Selling membership on credit

2018-04-11 Thread Hector Kolonas
When i launched my own spaces, there was literally no open banks in our country. Everything was closed down and cash was king, so i made the tough call to make all memberships pay-as-you-go with zero deposit or minimum contract length. If a member could afford the membership this month, then

[Coworking] Re: Now that pot is legal in many states....

2018-04-11 Thread Hector Kolonas
Hey Jen, just popping in with my own 2 cents. Although many of the countries I've worked in/with coworking spaces don't have legalised marijuana, and sometimes even the opposite, I think of it as 'alcohol' in a way. When working from a coworking space in London, the team next to me ran a 24/7

[Coworking] The big bodacious list of coworking software

2018-11-15 Thread Hector Kolonas
Heya! So a tonne of my work involves working on integrations with coworking space software. During this work, I've found it interesting to map out what integrates with what, and a few other points of info. With so many coworking space operators continuously asking what software they should

[Coworking] The Coworking Library now features a searchable and filterable public database of coworking research!

2019-01-14 Thread Hector Kolonas
Hey fellow coworking family! Just wanted to let you all know that the coworking library has opened up a searchable and filterable database of coworking research . You can read more about it in the official press announcement

[Coworking] Answering the “Should our coworking space use off-the-shelf software, no software or build our own?” question

2018-11-30 Thread Hector Kolonas
Whenever I get asked this question (*and it's often*) I usually share an array of questions that help the decision-maker to explore the process. Last night I typed them out and made them available via my blog . tl;dr - I look at some of the

[Coworking] Re: The big bodacious list of coworking software

2018-11-19 Thread Hector Kolonas
*(my bad for the numerous replies, TOTALLY thought comments/replies would be threaded!) * On Thursday, 15 November 2018 04:45:20 UTC-5, Hector Kolonas wrote: > > Heya! > > So a tonne of my work involves working on integrations with coworking > space software. During this w

[Coworking] Re: Help Professors Prove that Coworking WORKS!

2018-11-19 Thread Hector Kolonas
Hey Gyles thanks for sharing this. There are so many great studies and surveys being put out all the time, but alot of the findings are usually lost to the community (even those who submit their own information). Might I suggest chatting with the folks at coworkinglibrary.com to make sure you

Re: [Coworking] The big bodacious list of coworking software

2018-11-16 Thread Hector Kolonas
@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: [Coworking] The big bodacious list of coworking software > > this. is. awesome. > > Thank you Hector! > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 4:45 AM Hector Kolonas > wrote: > >> Heya! >> >> So a tonne of my work involv

Re: [Coworking] The big bodacious list of coworking software

2018-11-16 Thread Hector Kolonas
Thanks Bernie! Glad it was useful and thanks for sharing! On Friday, 16 November 2018 02:34:54 UTC-5, Bernie J Mitchell wrote: > > This has been supper useful and I’ve been sharing is all round ;-) > > On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 at 10:45, Hector Kolonas > wrote: > >> Heya! >

Re: [Coworking] The big bodacious list of coworking software

2018-11-16 Thread Hector Kolonas
my absolute please Margo! On Thursday, 15 November 2018 08:18:40 UTC-5, Margo Aaron wrote: > > this. is. awesome. > > Thank you Hector! > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 4:45 AM Hector Kolonas > wrote: > >> Heya! >> >> So a tonne of my work involves workin