196. Roland Stanley on Expanding his Coworking Community both Physically and Virtually During COVID

TODAY’S GUEST IS ROLAND STANLEY, FOUNDER OF DRAGON COWORKING

Roland Stanley is the Founder of Dragon Coworking. Like many of us, he found coworking somewhat accidentally as he prepared to exit from owning and managing a hotel.

In this episode, Roland shares the story of how he turned some extra space in the hotel into a coworking space, filled it up, retained his members during COVID, expanded his physical space in December of 2020, AND started to monetize a virtual networking event that had once been a successful, but time-consuming physical event serving Roland’s surrounding communities.

ROLAND AND I DISCUSS:

Roland’s “coworking story”
How his product mix serves his community (and pays the bills!)
What processes Roland has in place to allow him to run it on his own
How he transitioned a successful physical networking event into a paid, virtual membership during COVID
How he expanded his physical space and pre-sold his twelve new offices during the pandemic

Roland Stanley is a member of the Everything Coworking Flight Group program which you can be a part of through our mentorship program. To learn more, book a call with our team.

If you’re in my mentorship program, you have access to a live Q&A call/recording that Reuben hosted for my students. Reach out to team@everythingcoworking.com if you are in the program and need help locating that recording.