What Coworking And Collaboration Mean To Me
So I went for a walk with my son this morning. We had to get cash out the ATM and needed to do it before David Beckham came to give our boiler its annual service. David drives a gigantic Mercedes 4X4, and you can only pay him cash. Let's go, to the end of our road. I woke up like a bear with a sore head; my world seemed a solemn place. You know, like a hangover, without the fun of being drunk the night before. #Supercoolson was not impressed that he had to leave his home at such short not
What To Write On Your Website And Why You're Stuck
What to write? So every week I have to come up with a new idea about what to write. And in the last few weeks, I've come up with ideas — non-stop. It is too many ideas, but now I know which ones to use. How to know what to write. So I know what to write because I'm always talking to people and asking questions. And like most things in life- the problem is never the problem. If you look at Brené Brown's original TEDx talk about The Power of Vulnerability, in which she says to her therapis
The Best Coworking Space Management Software: Nexudus vs Cobot vs OfficeRnD
Coworking is becoming increasingly popular, and for good reason. It offers all the social and productivity benefits of working from your own office, but without the stress, overheads and long contracts. Sign-me up! It’s been a couple of months since COVID entered our lives and changed them forever. And while many coworking spaces around the world have had to close their doors for a while, it’s become very clear that the community element that they foster is more important than ever. Technolog
Coworking or Co-working?
What’s in a name? Is the old adage by Shakespeare true that “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet”? Probably not. Words matter. They shape our perception of things, and in a day and age where Google can make or break a business or blog, the popularity of words and how they’re spelled, has never been more important. While there are thousands of words that I could write about, the one that is most important to me and my work is coworking, or as some people insist on spelling it, co-wo
How To Market A Coworking Space Right From Scratch
In the last few weeks, I've had a deep few conversations with people who are 'picking my brains', on marketing their coworking space. It seems like a lot of people are about to start a coworking space from scratch in the coming months. Then I ended up emailing them these answers. So in real "They Ask You Answer" style here are the subsequently copied and pasted emails, edited of course. What do you think is the most prominent problem people have when it comes to getting their act together for
How To Build Trust With Your Website And Why You Need To Act Now
A whole new layer of trust is needed in business now. In this post, you'll find out how you can use your website to build trust and develop a workflow. I'll give you three places in your workday to find words to put on your website regularly, and other than your time it is free. For people to come to your coworking or shared workspace, they need to see that you have COVID preventive measures in place and that you will know what to do if anything else happens. But no one knows what is going t
Why does your community need an email newsletter?
People read email, and the clearer and better your email is, the more people will read it. How often should I email? Minimum? Once a week. Once a week? Won't I annoy people? If you email self-promotional bollox? Yes you will. If your email is something that is not relevant, weird, poorly written, hard to read, a rant or doesn't help people, and is confusing. Yes, definitely. What should you do then? Engaging people Write something that is for YOUR readers; send something useful. In
How To Slow Down To Speed Up Your Projects
So where were we? Last week I was crying onto the page that the world did not know where it was going. Mainly, what's also going on with my projects and plans. You can read or listen to it here. This week we stopped and looked where we are and rebooted with more focus and energy. We had to slow down to speed up with our plans. Personally, I had to remind myself where I'm going in the long term to connect with what is important right now. My 'Me Too' movement Thank you to all t
The Next Normal - Do We Just Get On With It?
How is 'the next normal' looking for you? As the lockdown rules change in the UK, how do you feel about the next few months? Are you stuck? What have you changed in your business model? Are you sick of video calls yet? This week I want to share about how three months of COVID lockdown is working out for me. It feels like an ongoing mix of triumphs and confusion, sitting down to write this to you got me in super reflective mood. But I'm worried about something. It does worry me how this
Our Best WordPress Plugins - Why We Love Them.
This post will help you understand how WordPress tools fit together on your coworking space website. If you are ever talking to a web person or chatting and someone says 'oh yeah, WordPress is sooooo simple, you should use that!' Run, away - they are a liar! It is so simple! What a phase! Phrases that has given me so much pain over twenty years I've been freelancing or running my own business. Any automated marketing tool from Mailchimp to MailPoet, to Salesforce to SendFox and FreeAgent t