Coworking spaces are community driven, often products of passion, but if you can't market it or sell you can't keep doing it. It is critical for any business to sustain growth. Mario Berta, described by some as a high-intensity sales monster, is the founder and CEO of Flyspaces. He spoke in a session titled ‘Sales and marketing make the world go round’ in CUAsia 2017. Flyspaces is an aggregator that works with coworking spaces and other real estate partners across…
The aim was to start CUAsia 2017 with a bang, and they did just that by having two pioneers from the coworking field; Alex Hillman and Adam Teterus, as their guest speaker for the first session. They operate a space called Indy Hall in Philadelphia; in addition to being the founder of Indy Hall, Alex also runs a podcast called ‘Coworking Weekly,’ where he loves to focus on topics that revolve around coworking, cooperation, and people. They decided to frame…
Mike LaRosa, the founder of Coworkaholic, shared tips on how to secure sponsorships and partnerships without selling your space’s soul, in CUAsia 2017. Sponsorship is a unique type of advertising marketing campaign. It could be an opportunity for your space as it could minimize hard costs of product and services, or you could just get some hard cash. The experiences he accumulated as a prior seller of sponsorships revealed four criteria for a successful sponsorship. The sponsor needs some degree…
How would you go about designing a coworking space? With so many ideas out there, Mr. Sombat Ngamschlermsak , an interior designer from Bangkok has decided to shed some light into the design aspects of coworking, with the insights he gathered through his journey from a corporate world to a startup business. Mr. Sombat operates two spaces in Bangkok, Paperspace, and KliqueDesk. He has been working in work-class design for the last seventeen years; his career started in a company…
Steve Monroe, the host of coworking academy, welcomed everyone to the CUAsia (Coworking Unconference Asia) 2017 with an introduction to its origin. He co-owns and operates a coworking space in Bali, called Hubud; they launched the first CUAsia in 2014, and its purpose was to act as a meetup place for other Indonesian coworking spaces. The number of attendees at CUAsia continued to increase exponentially over the following years, and it began to attract members outside of Bali, such as…
