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Love this post Matt - thanks for the shout out in it too :)
--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-customersIncluded 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 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
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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.
NOW my biggest hurdle is asking people to pay for it. Where's that blog post Tony, Alex?
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