29 Insights I learned while interviewing Global Coworking Leaders — Part 3
Why I create remoteoffice.fm?
This is the third part of series on insights or knowledge I gain while interviewing Global Coworking Leaders. Flashback, I create RemoteOffice.fm as my escape of boredom juggling my freelance full-time career. I’ve been thinking to going back to full-time job but I don’t think I able to do it anymore.
If you haven’t read the part 1 and part 2, I suggest you do. So, you completely understand the bigger picture what is coworking and the impact behind it.
TL;DR First and Second Part:
1. Coworking support special needs for their member.
2. Coworking is a social relationship.
3. Coliving is part of coworking movement
4. Rural Coworking
5. Shared workspace with niche community
6. Coworking is a hospitality service in the working industry
7. Another way to expand coworking space is by creating a product
8. Coworking mixed with Retreat Workation
9. Coworking is the most dynamic creative business community
10. Coworking is the future of workplace
11. Focused on the community at the first time you launch your coworking space
12. Hospitality as a factor on helping coworking space expanding
13. Retreat coworking is not just bring value to the member outside of coworking space but also in local community
14. Retreat coworking is also a place where you can learn, share and collaborate your experience with the like-minded community.
15. Coworking with startup community
16. Coworking is a new way of thinking economy
17. Coworking with niche community
18. Coworking software help coworking operator to increase their revenue, have more efficiency while managing shared workspace and growing sense of community
19. Coworking Franchise for Female entrepreneur
20. Coworking support social innovation in design community
Here’s last part of three series:
21. Coworking with Travel Program
If you join travel program that organize coworking between the participants or members, it would be easier to connect, share and talk to like-minded community whether about your experience and your business project.
22. Coworking as partying
A completely new working style. When people with different professions get together to share the workspace, having engaging communication would triggering new ideas and innovations.
23. Coworking with specific amenities
Coworking spaces offer their member specific amenities to cater and help member build the community that fits their needs and desires. For instance, AEC amenities for architects and engineers.
24. Coworking Conference Series
Gain extra benefits by attending coworking conference series. Start from how to build community, financing, designing the right space, the right technology, a gist on negotiating with real estate, plus real exciting questions on growing coworking space. The event is not only for coworking community — coworking operator or owner, the event also provides information related on coworking for public audience.
25. Coworking may serves as hub for skill exchange and mentorship within the members inside very niche community
If you join coworking especially for specific community — game development, the chance to get advice to help you starting a company or help with your project is a lot. You could ask how to find people that you need for your project or how to apply for funding or how to avoid mistakes while launching game project or just to be part of the game global network.
26. Early bird membership is one of alternative to add fund to your coworking space
Initially approaching your community and arrange several meet up on different ideas related to your coworking niche. When your community feel gaining value out of it, you may try to offering idea on having their own space by creating Kickstarter program and offering six months membership — early bird option. When you’re building space that putting member first and always asking feedback about the space, it’s building a sense of ownership for the community.
27. Corporate coworking help your employees growth and also attract the new talent working in your company
Using strategies, tricks and philoshophy from coworking to improve value of the employee also change the way the company works in terms of space and relationship within employee.
28. Coworking event is one of the alternatives for marketing and return on investment
The regular event or workshop in coworking space is a way to get to know the community also asking feedback to the participant about what value could bring if they join the coworking spaces.
29. Virtual membership is cost effective way helping community gain mentorship access from coworking space
For some coworking with incubator or accelerator model for example, food tech industry, virtual membership could bring additional revenue stream. It is also another way to inform people about your services and engage them to community by providing mentorship access.
