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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
How To Market Your Coworking Space: The Simple Way.
I bet you think marketing is hard, I do. For over a decade I’ve been trying to figure out marketing, both mine and other peoples. Everyone seems to be doing better than me, is ahead of the curve, on the ball and whatever else. They’re more immediate on Instagram, terrific on twitter, fancy on Facebook […]
Why Coworking Now Needs To Be Local And Not Privileged
Last week was HUGE! We had the Coworking Symposium to which hundreds of you showed up, my eyes and ears were bleeding with hope and excitement for the future of coworking in Europe.After that, there was the Coworkies Hack Coworking event and while all of this was going on hundreds of more people in the […]
Coworking Symposium 2020: Knowledge needs to be shared.
The Coworking Symposium is going virtual this May 27 at 9amCET. What is initially a limited number of people, will reach a much wider audience since we are doing it online due to the recent events that have taken place-the global pandemic that is Covid-19. The coworking industry has been around for almost 25 years […]
How to Find ‘The Next Normal’ For Coworking.
The Next Normal Have you been saying words like ‘when things go back to normal I will..?‘ In this McKinsey article ‘Beyond coronavirus: The Path to the next normal‘ the use of the term ‘the next normal‘ and how I see the future. And this is what I’m scrambling to find out at the moment. […]
A New Freelance Hope In The COVID-19 Crisis
How has this epidemic changed you? What are you doing more of in this crisis?How has your business changed? Where is it going now? Share in the Instagram comments here. Before we get into this. I need to point out these words are by a healthy white man living in London with enough money to […]
How To Market Your Coworking Space In A Coronavirus World
OMG, who the hell is selling in the Coronavirus downturn? Well, hopefully, a lot of people as we need to keep the economy going. Which is completely different just profiteering from it and ambulance-chasing. marketing I’ve been keeping a keen eye on how people are dealing with marketing and communication, the language in use and online […]
Why Is The ’12-Week Year’ So Good? Here’s why!
Have you heard of the book ‘The 12-Week Year’? No? Oh wow! It’s so good! But, why is the ‘12-Week Year‘ so good? Well, you know when you have all these goals and ideas and need to get them in order? You want to make them happen. Your calendar is rolling around like a drunken […]
How To Develop An Epic Content Creation Process
At our weekly London Bloggers MeetUp, I keep getting asked how I write a blog post, and I never have an answer. I can’t bullshit my answer anymore. I realized that even after all this time I don’t have a system or process for writing a blog post. The same goes for building a podcast […]
Now I Think I Know What I Am Doing
Somewhere earlier in this blog, I wrote about 12 Weeks being agony and often this makes me think what was happening before. Life has never been so good. Hang on, stick with me. You won’t need a sick bucket for this bit. It is just not so manic now. ‘Manic’ is a word used out […]
The End Of My First 12 Week Year
On Tuesday we start our Working Out Loud (WOL) group at our coworking space, it’s also the end of my first 12 Week Year. Oddly, I feel an imposter when I write about “productivity” part of me wants to tell you ‘I did the 12 Week Year now have a million dollar start-up and run […]
What Do You Wish Other People Knew About #Trello?
The best part about Trello is how it is a blank canvas and you can do what you want, it took us a while to appreciate that, so with this post and the workshops we run in our coworking space we are out to help people “find their Trello voice.”
