sarasota staff development day - creation station business
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CREATION STATION BUSINESS@MAIN LIBRARY
WITH BOB FROM THE CREATION STATION WWW.ROBERTANSTETT.COM
WHAT IS CREATION STATION?
• What will you Create today?• Creation Station is a place to come and be creative. • 3D printers• Design center with Adobe Creative Cloud• Virtual Reality
• Over 3,000 customers a month
WE GOT THERE FIRST
• What Business will you create today?
• We do not help you find a job, we help you create a job
• “Libraries were co-working spaces long before co-working spaces became cool”
ENTRANCE
THE SPACE
WEB SITE VISIBILITY STATS
• In January (Google My Business stats):• 464 people saw our listing on Google search• 280 people saw our business on Google maps• 19 people asked directions to us through Google maps• 2 people found our phone number through our Google listing
and called us
HOOKING THEM IN
• 203 contacts in our e-mail list• 233 Eventbrite signups
• We had 146 visitors to CSB in January
MEETING ROOM
COLLABORATION STATION
TRADITIONAL CLASSES
• SCORE workshops• Score individual mentor counseling• OESBD workshop on starting a business• LinkedIn workshop
CO-WORKING
• A company called Bright & Smart using conference room for monthly staff meetings• Paralegal Sparkle Jones using meeting rooms as virtual office space• Winner of local startup competition using our resources to find
information on business plan creation• App creator used our databases through our librarians to research
statistics on the app industry
CO-WORKING
• HackNight through Code for Fort Lauderdale meetup• Teen shooting video for a film• Local hip-hop entrepreneur using large format printer to print
posters for upcoming performances
CONFERENCE ROOM
CONFERENCE ROOM
YOU CAN DO THIS
• “Libraries were co-working spaces long before co-working spaces became cool”
QUESTIONS?
www.robertanstett.com