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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
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
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 and more linked up on LinkedIn than me. Oh, and they have an email list with a million more people than me. I was dying, I looked at what worked and what did not, I also looked at what I LOVED
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 UK signed #Saveourlocalcoworking. We also launched our Q&A sessions for European coworking businesses with Every week we'll record a Group video chat with our friend's Cobot, OfficeRnD and Nex
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 now before it was even called coworking. And since then the community has grown all over the globe. What started with a hackerspace in 1995 as the precursor of what we know today
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. I’m interviewing, podcasting, facilitating and reading non-stop about what is going to happen in the coworking industry. I’d love to be the person who comes up with THE answer, but it does not work like that
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 make it through the week. Do I need to point it out? Yes. We know people who are going through all manner of health, family and economic hardships. It would be crappy to let you read on thinking t