How we landed our first coworking members

Hi everyone.

I wrote a blog post about how we got our first coworking members before we opened our doors. I thought some folks might find it helpful, so here’s the link:

http://www.theskillery.com/blog/2015/10/26/how-we-landed-our-first-customers

Included at that post (near the bottom) is a link to the PDF of the “Early Adopter Membership Agreement” that we used. Feel free to download it and put it to good use, if it helps!

Enjoy!

-Matt

Love this post Matt - thanks for the shout out in it too :slight_smile:

-Alex

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On Monday, October 26, 2015, Matt D. [email protected] wrote:

Hi everyone.

I wrote a blog post about how we got our first coworking members before we opened our doors. I thought some folks might find it helpful, so here’s the link:

http://www.theskillery.com/blog/2015/10/26/how-we-landed-our-first-customers

Included at that post (near the bottom) is a link to the PDF of the “Early Adopter Membership Agreement” that we used. Feel free to download it and put it to good use, if it helps!

Enjoy!

-Matt

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Thanks for reading, Alex. Glad to share! Hope it helps someone….

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On Tuesday, October 27, 2015 at 9:06:03 AM UTC-5, Alex Hillman wrote:

Love this post Matt - thanks for the shout out in it too :slight_smile:

-Alex

On Monday, October 26, 2015, Matt D. [email protected] wrote:

Hi everyone.

I wrote a blog post about how we got our first coworking members before we opened our doors. I thought some folks might find it helpful, so here’s the link:

http://www.theskillery.com/blog/2015/10/26/how-we-landed-our-first-customers

Included at that post (near the bottom) is a link to the PDF of the “Early Adopter Membership Agreement” that we used. Feel free to download it and put it to good use, if it helps!

Enjoy!

-Matt

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The #1 mistake in community building is doing it by yourself.

Join the list: http://coworkingweekly.com

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Do you have another link to this by any chance? A partner and I are taking our first baby steps into opening a coworking space. We’re sitting at our first Meetup/Facebook/website jelly/pop-up event and nobody has arrived yet despite a bunch of confirmations, so this is very relevant to us as we sit here right now :wink:

Thanks,
Dan

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On Monday, October 26, 2015 at 6:04:25 PM UTC-7, Matt D. wrote:

Hi everyone.

I wrote a blog post about how we got our first coworking members before we opened our doors. I thought some folks might find it helpful, so here’s the link:

http://www.theskillery.com/blog/2015/10/26/how-we-landed-our-first-customers

Included at that post (near the bottom) is a link to the PDF of the “Early Adopter Membership Agreement” that we used. Feel free to download it and put it to good use, if it helps!

Enjoy!

-Matt

Hi Daniel - I think their site is down for upgrades, etc.

I started a Meetup in Oct 2014 and hosted guest speakers for 8 months. I had a good run with that, but really wanted to do coworking (having closed a failed ‘coworking’ specific Meetup in Sept 2014 after 3 months). In May 2015, I just transitioned to cowork mornings and chose to a recurring Monday and Wednesday cowork sessions, 3-hrs a pop, at two coffee shops. I’ve had as many as 13 people at a cowork morning and as few as me, at another cowork event. Meetup us a fickle beast, as are its members. People say coworking is a great idea, and it is until someone has to pay for it. I don’t charge for cowork mornings.

I took a nod from Maui and started a coworking Facebook group, too. We talk all things coworking, my coworks’ progress and so forth. You can join to see what we do https://www.facebook.com/groups/WilCoCoworkingConnection

In November and December, as we live in Austin with a horde of cowork spaces, my community and I are doing cowork field trips to see what others are doing. Has anyone signed up yet? No! Did they think it was a great idea? Yes! See what I mean. They’d go in a heartbeat if I paid for their day pass, but that’s not the point of the experience.

I sat in a coffee shop for 4 weeks with no one coworking with me (solo-working?) and through free promotion via Facebook, community calendars and Meetup, it got going.

Keep it up

Jen

Totally agreed with Jen - it takes time, and sometimes longer than you’d expect. Even when you DO have a community it can take time to get a new ritual going to the point where it’s got it’s on momentum. I wrote about how sometimes it takes more tries than you’d expect in this article: http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2011/10/the-importance-of-rhythm-rituals-for-coworking-communities/

Like I talk about in that piece, try thinking about it in different intervals and levels of difficulty - easy stuff you can do more often like posting online and harder stuff you can do weekly or monthly like getting together in person. And to echo Jen…keep it up! You’re in a marathon, not a sprint :slight_smile:

Keep us posted.

-Alex

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On Thursday, October 29, 2015, Jennifer Kready [email protected] wrote:

Hi Daniel - I think their site is down for upgrades, etc.

I started a Meetup in Oct 2014 and hosted guest speakers for 8 months. I had a good run with that, but really wanted to do coworking (having closed a failed ‘coworking’ specific Meetup in Sept 2014 after 3 months). In May 2015, I just transitioned to cowork mornings and chose to a recurring Monday and Wednesday cowork sessions, 3-hrs a pop, at two coffee shops. I’ve had as many as 13 people at a cowork morning and as few as me, at another cowork event. Meetup us a fickle beast, as are its members. People say coworking is a great idea, and it is until someone has to pay for it. I don’t charge for cowork mornings.

I took a nod from Maui and started a coworking Facebook group, too. We talk all things coworking, my coworks’ progress and so forth. You can join to see what we do https://www.facebook.com/groups/WilCoCoworkingConnection

In November and December, as we live in Austin with a horde of cowork spaces, my community and I are doing cowork field trips to see what others are doing. Has anyone signed up yet? No! Did they think it was a great idea? Yes! See what I mean. They’d go in a heartbeat if I paid for their day pass, but that’s not the point of the experience.

I sat in a coffee shop for 4 weeks with no one coworking with me (solo-working?) and through free promotion via Facebook, community calendars and Meetup, it got going.

Keep it up

Jen

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Hi all. Yes, our site is down for a few days while we upgrade and update a few things. I'll let you know when it's back up.

I agree with Jen and Alex, but I'll add this...

We don't host many Meetups, but we've been doing classes and workshops for four years - including 2.5 years before we had a coworking space - and it has absolutely gotten harder to a) sell tickets and b) get people to show up. There could be any number of reasons for this trend (I have a lot of theories), but one that may be universal has to do with how busy we've all become, and how much distraction and noise there is in the world. We joke that, for our class/workshop business, our biggest competitor is Netflix.

Keep your head high, and, yes, be patient. But also be mindful of the ROI when hosting events. We're about to seriously downshift our event business, and we're working on a blog post that details why. We're also working on a separate post that makes some suggestions for coworking space owners/operators who may be thinking of incorporate classes and workshops. We've got some data and insight to share that I imagine might be helpful to some.

Keep us posted. Curious to hear what works (and doesn't) for everyone!
-Matt

Jen and others,

I agree most coworking spaces earn revenue from what is being sold: desks. This concept reminds me of the time when my company was bought by AOL and we did research on AOL customer usage. The users overwhelmingly used chat rooms (dog chat rooms, knitting chat rooms, etc.) way more than what we were directly selling/marketing which was news, financial info, etc… So, we decided to market the chat rooms directly knowing that is what people spent the most of their time on AOL doing, so perhaps there are more people out there wanting to engage in chat rooms. Not only did our sales decline but we lost current subscribers as well. This was a time when people were paying a lot for their dial-up and we helped them realize they were wasting their money on irrational frivolous activities.

So, we went back to marketing our service as providing news, financial information, etc. Sales went up. Rationally, people make choices. They made the purchase for rational reasons. Then, once the choice was made, they tended to gravitate to what they liked/desired. However, the kitting chat room caught on quickly as a strong vibrant community. These were people very passionate about knitting. They were sharing tips, techniques, and pointing to places (offline mostly at that time) to buy knitting products. Businesses blossomed and the knitting chat rooms became one of our most highly used areas. Perhaps not so irrational. I truly believe if we had marketed the value of these chat rooms for rational reasons, creating very powerful communities of interest, we could have been far ahead of the curve in realizing that engaging passionate people online in a real and community oriented way is good business.

Yes, I do believe customers of coworking spaces make rational business decisions and buy a ‘desk’. CoWorking spaces, in turn, sell ‘desks’. However, the experience is really why they are there – and there is rational value behind those services.

CoWorking places need to showcase their rational value. Events have value, rational value. Discounts to much needed business services have rational value. Creating connections with synergistic companies have rational value. Creating spaces where people can meet others in different industries has rational value.

Sell your overall service and the rational value of it instead of just desks. Then let your customers gravitate to whatever need/desire they wish with both their rational mind and what they may have thought as their irrational desires :-).

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Thanks for the support, everyone. I’ve been reading through Ramon Suarez’s book for the past few weeks, but only discovered this Google group yesterday, during our jelly. Exactly one person showed up. He had never heard of coworking, thought it was a great idea, and stayed the whole time working and chatting. So not a complete failure!

We have a Facebook group, a Meetup, and a very simple website. I’m considering consolidating everything into just one of those online venues. We had RSVPs in all three places, but my concern is that the no-shows might have been due to people looking at where they had RSVP’d, only seeing a few other people there, and dropping out. We had 10 RSVPs in total, which I thought was fantastic for our first event. Of course, it doesn’t mean much unless they actually show up.

Our biggest issue right now is still determining if there is really a market in our town. There is one coworking space here, it’s tiny and in a bad part of town, and I don’t think it’s a serious effort. I think the building owner just sectioned off a little odd shaped piece of his building for coworking, as an experiment or to try to get in a little extra revenue. We’re just north of LA where of course there are many places for coworking, and the idea is taking off a little further north as well. And there’s a population of about 100,000 here. I can’t believe that there aren’t a couple hundred people who would be into it. We’re going to revamp our marketing and do another one in two weeks.

Dan

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On Monday, October 26, 2015 at 6:04:25 PM UTC-7, Matt D. wrote:

Hi everyone.

I wrote a blog post about how we got our first coworking members before we opened our doors. I thought some folks might find it helpful, so here’s the link:

http://www.theskillery.com/blog/2015/10/26/how-we-landed-our-first-customers

Included at that post (near the bottom) is a link to the PDF of the “Early Adopter Membership Agreement” that we used. Feel free to download it and put it to good use, if it helps!

Enjoy!

-Matt

Hi everyone.

Our site is back up, which means my original blog post is back up: http://www.theskillery.com/blog/2015/10/26/how-we-landed-our-first-customers

(I also dropped a new one on there today, about why we (mostly) ditched offering classes and workshops: http://www.theskillery.com/blog/2015/11/2/after-four-years-were-mostly-ditching-classes-and-workshops-heres-why)

Happy to answer questions… Hope it’s helpful.

-MD

Hey Dan! At that scale, maybe it would make sense to hit the streets to go out and personally recruit people? If purely online recruiting isn’t achieving critical mass, perhaps you’ll have better luck diving into existing communities and places where your potential future coworkers are already gathering.

If you wrote down a list of places and groups where you might be able to find these people and engage with them face-to-face, what would they be? Could you head out to them this week or next and just start chatting people up?

Recruiting people one at a time is MUCH easier, from my experience, when you can have a conversation with them about how much you both have in common.

If you can personally recruit a handful of people who become passionate and dedicated coworkers, then one at a time you’ll have people who not only RSVP but do so on all the platforms and tell their friends to join too.

When it’s not just you but a small and growing team of people, things get easier fast :slight_smile:

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On Oct 30, 2015, at 6:46 PM, Daniel Elliot [email protected] wrote:

Thanks for the support, everyone. I’ve been reading through Ramon Suarez’s book for the past few weeks, but only discovered this Google group yesterday, during our jelly. Exactly one person showed up. He had never heard of coworking, thought it was a great idea, and stayed the whole time working and chatting. So not a complete failure!

We have a Facebook group, a Meetup, and a very simple website. I’m considering consolidating everything into just one of those online venues. We had RSVPs in all three places, but my concern is that the no-shows might have been due to people looking at where they had RSVP’d, only seeing a few other people there, and dropping out. We had 10 RSVPs in total, which I thought was fantastic for our first event. Of course, it doesn’t mean much unless they actually show up.

Our biggest issue right now is still determining if there is really a market in our town. There is one coworking space here, it’s tiny and in a bad part of town, and I don’t think it’s a serious effort. I think the building owner just sectioned off a little odd shaped piece of his building for coworking, as an experiment or to try to get in a little extra revenue. We’re just north of LA where of course there are many places for coworking, and the idea is taking off a little further north as well. And there’s a population of about 100,000 here. I can’t believe that there aren’t a couple hundred people who would be into it. We’re going to revamp our marketing and do another one in two weeks.

Dan

On Monday, October 26, 2015 at 6:04:25 PM UTC-7, Matt D. wrote:

Hi everyone.

I wrote a blog post about how we got our first coworking members before we opened our doors. I thought some folks might find it helpful, so here’s the link:

http://www.theskillery.com/blog/2015/10/26/how-we-landed-our-first-customers

Included at that post (near the bottom) is a link to the PDF of the “Early Adopter Membership Agreement” that we used. Feel free to download it and put it to good use, if it helps!

Enjoy!

-Matt

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I’m going to piggy-back on Tony’s suggestion…

Every time I host a cowork Meetup at whatever coffee shop it is, I seek out at least 2-3 people who I can politely interrupt and talk to about why they’re there, have they tried coworking (or even heard of it) and what they need from their workspace. Then drop a card with my website. I’ve mostly met solopreneurs, Dell remote workers, and a couple of freelancers. Today, I met an entrepreneur and app developer who does enterprise work for Dell. He just moved from East Austin (i.e. cowork mecca) and coworked at Conjunctured (Austin’s first space) and a few other prominent Austin spaces. We discussed if there was a market or enough work at homer’s to support a cowork and his feedback was very helpful. We’ve since LinkedIn and I’ll keep him in the loop of our progress.

Now I don’t do the ‘lean startup’ interview approach because, frankly, it’s too time consuming. I do ask questions of my cowork social community. For instance, I know that flexibility and family needs are top reasons why people work from home; they also hate work at home distractions and isolation. I also know that they love the coffee shop vibe, want conference rooms and client spaces.

NOW my biggest hurdle is asking people to pay for it. Where’s that blog post Tony, Alex?

Jen

@EngageCowork

I have previously beat myself up over the fact that my route to opening The Guild was a load of one to one meetings and asking one person at a time to go for coffee to listen to my mad idea. I always knew in the back of my mind that it wasn’t the most efficient way of doing things, and it cost me a load of money in time (and buying coffee for people!). However as time as gone on, I realise that if I’d gone the easy way (got a load of people in a room and stood up and presented to them), it wouldn’t have worked- mostly as that’s not my personality and I don’t think my passion for the project would have been communicated in the same way. There had actually been lots of talk about coworking spaces in Bath before I got here, and they had all been through big public meetings and someone presenting, so I think it’s also because a slightly different approach made people take note.

That worked for me (and bear in mind I come back a background in one to one/field sales). But the reason it worked for me was that the way I share things I’m passionate about is one to one. That doesn’t mean it’s going to work for all. Perhaps the best thing to do is think hard about your project, about your dream (or any dream you have), think about it in your hard so hard you can’t cope any more without telling the world, and then think “how do I tell the world about this”? When I do that, my instinct is to invite a ton of people to one to one chats, sit them down, take out a bit of paper and a prop (in my case it was a printed floorplan of the proposed space) and get so excited about things that the person cannot help but be swept along. They feed off my excitement and just want to be part of it, they may not even know why.

Or, if you do that exercise and think "I need to be on a stage, striding around like Steve Jobs used to, or Steve Ballmer, screaming ‘I LOVE THIS IDEA, WHO’S WITH ME’ then that’ll be your thing. I can’t imagine anything worse personally, and it would show. But you need to do what suits you.

Either way, you’ll know you’re doing the right thing when through your chosen method people cannot wait to get started, then bug you constantly about when you are opening, and run through your doors on opening day. Whether you are selling a community or a new range of slightly different to the last model smartphones, it’s the communication of the unswerving passion you feel for your product that makes the difference.

Interestingly, when I used to sell coffee machines for a living (for the Mars Corporation), I was pretty good at it- but I couldn’t quite walk into meetings and communicate that I loved these machines so much that my prospects would be begging to buy. Other salespeople could do that, and that’s a talent in itself. Sitting down and telling people about my coworking vision and getting them to buy in was a walk in the park compared to sales. And that’s why despite earning 50% less than I did in sales, I love what I do right now.

And Jennifer. What I do know from my Mars days (my coffee machine was my far the most expensive model on the market, but one of the market leaders), and what I now know 2 years in from building a community of 170 members paying an average of £100 (approx $150) a month, is that despite what people say, money is very rarely a reason not to do something. Be so passionate that people cannot bear not to be part of what you are doing. $150, or $200 or whatever is very little money. People spend more than that on their mobile phones. You are creating something that will grow their businesses and change their lives, and become part of their lifestyles. Don’t be afraid to ask people to pay for it. Believe me, they will.

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On Tuesday, 3 November 2015 19:58:04 UTC, Jennifer Kready wrote:

I’m going to piggy-back on Tony’s suggestion…

Every time I host a cowork Meetup at whatever coffee shop it is, I seek out at least 2-3 people who I can politely interrupt and talk to about why they’re there, have they tried coworking (or even heard of it) and what they need from their workspace. Then drop a card with my website. I’ve mostly met solopreneurs, Dell remote workers, and a couple of freelancers. Today, I met an entrepreneur and app developer who does enterprise work for Dell. He just moved from East Austin (i.e. cowork mecca) and coworked at Conjunctured (Austin’s first space) and a few other prominent Austin spaces. We discussed if there was a market or enough work at homer’s to support a cowork and his feedback was very helpful. We’ve since LinkedIn and I’ll keep him in the loop of our progress.

Now I don’t do the ‘lean startup’ interview approach because, frankly, it’s too time consuming. I do ask questions of my cowork social community. For instance, I know that flexibility and family needs are top reasons why people work from home; they also hate work at home distractions and isolation. I also know that they love the coffee shop vibe, want conference rooms and client spaces.

NOW my biggest hurdle is asking people to pay for it. Where’s that blog post Tony, Alex?

Jen

@EngageCowork

Matt !

Gret information !!

Just downloaded and due to your earlier post “Lessons from our first year running a coworking space” we are building a sales strategy heavy on incentives and eliminating any “free” anything.

Thanks!

Shane

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On Monday, October 26, 2015 at 9:04:25 PM UTC-4, Matt D. wrote:

Hi everyone.

I wrote a blog post about how we got our first coworking members before we opened our doors. I thought some folks might find it helpful, so here’s the link:

http://www.theskillery.com/blog/2015/10/26/how-we-landed-our-first-customers

Included at that post (near the bottom) is a link to the PDF of the “Early Adopter Membership Agreement” that we used. Feel free to download it and put it to good use, if it helps!

Enjoy!

-Matt

You’re welcome, Shane! Glad it was helpful.

We’re gonna share a lot more info in the next few weeks about stuff we’ve learned in 2015… stay tuned.

Best,

-Matt

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On Monday, November 30, 2015 at 9:53:33 AM UTC-6, Shane Barbanel wrote:

Matt !

Gret information !!

Just downloaded and due to your earlier post “Lessons from our first year running a coworking space” we are building a sales strategy heavy on incentives and eliminating any “free” anything.

Thanks!

Shane

On Monday, October 26, 2015 at 9:04:25 PM UTC-4, Matt D. wrote:

Hi everyone.

I wrote a blog post about how we got our first coworking members before we opened our doors. I thought some folks might find it helpful, so here’s the link:

http://www.theskillery.com/blog/2015/10/26/how-we-landed-our-first-customers

Included at that post (near the bottom) is a link to the PDF of the “Early Adopter Membership Agreement” that we used. Feel free to download it and put it to good use, if it helps!

Enjoy!

-Matt

But the reason it worked for me was that the way I share things I’m passionate about is one to one. That doesn’t mean it’s going to work for all. Perhaps the best thing to do is think hard about your project, about your dream (or any dream you have), think about it in your heart so hard you can’t cope any more without telling the world, and then think “how do I tell the world about this”? When I do that, my instinct is to invite a ton of people to one to one chats, sit them down, take out a bit of paper and a prop (in my case it was a printed floorplan of the proposed space) and get so excited about things that the person cannot help but be swept along. They feed off my excitement and just want to be part of it, they may not even know why.

This, so much. People are used to being bombarded with sales stuff all day every day. Their walls go up fast and easy. But those walls don’t go up quite so quickly if you’re bearing your soul and showing people you.

People respond to what you believe in and what you represent.

I’d also add that we’re not talking about you having to personally recruit every single member for the entire lifetime of your community. What you want is to achieve a critical mass of people who have bought into a shared culture that is well-defined enough that each person is now an agent of it.

So when a prospective member wanders in and your space captain is off buying coffee filters, any member in the space could stop what they’re doing for a few minutes and show them what your community represents. It’s unbelievably powerful when you’re able to get there.

NOW my biggest hurdle is asking people to pay for it. Where’s that blog post Tony, Alex?

Since your space is not open yet, this one might help: http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2011/09/how-to-fund-your-coworking-space/

Ultimately, people will pay for something they value. For better or worse, people value having access to a space that acts as the home base for a community they want to be a part of. (Note: they don’t need to actually use the space to value it. Knowing they have access to it is value unto itself.)

Right now you have the unique opportunity to invite people to be founding supporters of something that you and others hope will be around serving the local community for a long time. That’s worth money to people.

In my experience, that all becomes reality when you have an address and a date. When you’re able to tell your supporters, who are waiting in the wings, that you need X dollars by Y date to make this thing a reality, that’s when it all clicks into place.

Tony

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On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 6:52 PM, [email protected] wrote:

Matt !

Gret information !!

Just downloaded and due to your earlier post “Lessons from our first year running a coworking space” we are building a sales strategy heavy on incentives and eliminating any “free” anything.

Thanks!

Shane

On Monday, October 26, 2015 at 9:04:25 PM UTC-4, Matt D. wrote:

Hi everyone.

I wrote a blog post about how we got our first coworking members before we opened our doors. I thought some folks might find it helpful, so here’s the link:

http://www.theskillery.com/blog/2015/10/26/how-we-landed-our-first-customers

Included at that post (near the bottom) is a link to the PDF of the “Early Adopter Membership Agreement” that we used. Feel free to download it and put it to good use, if it helps!

Enjoy!

-Matt

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Yes, have one RSVP place and post it everywhere.

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On Monday, 2 November 2015 22:36:50 UTC, Daniel Elliot wrote:

Thanks for the support, everyone. I’ve been reading through Ramon Suarez’s book for the past few weeks, but only discovered this Google group yesterday, during our jelly. Exactly one person showed up. He had never heard of coworking, thought it was a great idea, and stayed the whole time working and chatting. So not a complete failure!

We have a Facebook group, a Meetup, and a very simple website. I’m considering consolidating everything into just one of those online venues. We had RSVPs in all three places, but my concern is that the no-shows might have been due to people looking at where they had RSVP’d, only seeing a few other people there, and dropping out. We had 10 RSVPs in total, which I thought was fantastic for our first event. Of course, it doesn’t mean much unless they actually show up.

Our biggest issue right now is still determining if there is really a market in our town. There is one coworking space here, it’s tiny and in a bad part of town, and I don’t think it’s a serious effort. I think the building owner just sectioned off a little odd shaped piece of his building for coworking, as an experiment or to try to get in a little extra revenue. We’re just north of LA where of course there are many places for coworking, and the idea is taking off a little further north as well. And there’s a population of about 100,000 here. I can’t believe that there aren’t a couple hundred people who would be into it. We’re going to revamp our marketing and do another one in two weeks.

Dan

On Monday, October 26, 2015 at 6:04:25 PM UTC-7, Matt D. wrote:

Hi everyone.

I wrote a blog post about how we got our first coworking members before we opened our doors. I thought some folks might find it helpful, so here’s the link:

http://www.theskillery.com/blog/2015/10/26/how-we-landed-our-first-customers

Included at that post (near the bottom) is a link to the PDF of the “Early Adopter Membership Agreement” that we used. Feel free to download it and put it to good use, if it helps!

Enjoy!

-Matt

Thank you for sharing the Early Adopters form - I’ve been trying to create something like this to get my community to commit before I launch. This is a great example.

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On Monday, October 26, 2015 at 9:04:25 PM UTC-4, Matt D. wrote:

Hi everyone.

I wrote a blog post about how we got our first coworking members before we opened our doors. I thought some folks might find it helpful, so here’s the link:

http://www.theskillery.com/blog/2015/10/26/how-we-landed-our-first-customers

Included at that post (near the bottom) is a link to the PDF of the “Early Adopter Membership Agreement” that we used. Feel free to download it and put it to good use, if it helps!

Enjoy!

-Matt