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Open coworking on a flexible basis
Regus has launched a new service for customers, looking for more flexibility.
Open Coworking is an option for those, who do not need a working place everyday, but comes occasionally couple of times per week. With this service a customer can choose the centre and the number of working days per month (can be 5 or 10 days), while also enjoying the benefits of Regus global lounge system.
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Life at Kora: BBQ
During spring and summer months Kora is organizing BBQ parties for members, partners and guests. Sausages, salad and beer.. can anything be better during the summer?
Each month Kora is hosting a networking event for its members, partners and guests. During warm months it is BBQ events, which gather everybody on the terrace. There is a chance to get to know new and old neighbors, find interesting contacts and just enjoy a grilled sausage. And if we are lucky, we get a bit of sun too!
Kora’s cooperation with Laurea UAS and Aalto ES
This spring Kora has launched a special offer for startup teams from Laurea Startup course and Aalto ES (Aalto Entrepreneurship Society). And first teams have already come.
Startup teams have free access to Kora coworking space for 2 months, Kora events and one2one clinics with experts and investors, as well as two business coaching sessions with Kora Innovation Director.
First teams have already come to Kora and will have a chance to work in a business environment on their projects, as well as benefit from a large business community. This is a great opportunity for startup teams to work together, test their team skills and contact with other entrepreneurs, business people and industry experts.
Summer Launchpad - Startup program from LUTES
Summer in Lappeenranta is expected to be busy for the teams accepted to Summer Launchpad program, organized by LUTES (LUT Entrepreneurship Society).
Summer Launchpad is a 10-week program for startups. The goal of the program is to provide the teams with help, advice and best experience in their idea development and further company establishment. The program was created for students and researchers from LUT and Saimia, but attracted attention from outside as well.
During the program the teams will have one-to-one coachings from their mentors, events on startup-related topics and excursions to startup events. Besides the teams will get 10 ECTS study points upon completing the program.
Follow Kora (@ThinkKora) and LUTES (@LUT_ES) in social media and learn news on the program!
Work flexibly with Businessworld membership
Work your own way in 1200 locations worldwide.
Regus and Kora offer a membership scheme Businessworld, which provides access to our business lounges and co-working and private space, if you need.
Our lounges are located in top locations: city centres, airports and business parks and can be easily accessed. Membership also covers discounts on meeting and video conferencing rooms, as well as WiFi and refreshments.
Whether you are on the move or just want to have an access to short-time workplace, Businessworld membership will cover your needs.
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Create your business presence at any place you want to be
Are you thinking to enter international markets?
Kora together with Regus offers you a business address in a right place with the service Virtual Office. With over 3000 centers worldwide, we can offer a choice of the best addresses for your business.
Virtual office might be the first step in creating an international presence for your business. We will handle your mail and manage your calls if needed.
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Interactive marketing - a way to create a dialogue with your customers
Kora customer at Tampere - Iivariguru - helps the companies to engage the customers into targeted dialogues via digital interaction. We have talked with Juko and Tiina and asked them about their product and future projects.
Tell us briefly what IivariGuru does and how the idea came to you.
By 2020, 85% of customer-to-business interaction will be digital (Gartner Research). Interactive marketing increase customer engagement by zooming in on each individual customer. Digital interaction is marketing’s new core. Customers increasingly engage with companies through digital interaction. It’s the future, because it‘s convenient. But customers expect a meaningful, effective and personalized interaction.
Interactive marketing is a powerful way to benefit from this evolution in customer behaviour. It converts digital interaction with customers into targeted dialogues: valuable conversations, which you can influence and direct to achieve your business goals, while keeping focus on your customers’ expectations.
The goal of interactive marketing is to make every digital interaction valuable. Our goal is to bring this huge value to your business.
IivariGuru will help companies to build profitable dialogue with the customers. We are using a unique interactive marketing SaaS cloud solution, which helps you to create targeted, one-to-one digital dialogues with customers: around any topic, product, service, brand or campaign.
IivariGuru offers two kind of solutions for customers:
1. Real-time customer feedback: we guide you how to monitor user satisfaction, discover moments of truth, map your customers’ purchase journey or benchmark your products, services and even branches with each other.
2. Accelerated social media marketing: We help companies to create visually dashing competition, campaigns that harness the power social networks to maximize your audience and, achieving social media visibility and promoting your brand with user-generated content.
What kind of projects are you working on at the moment?
We have been lucky to be able to start working with quite a many different kind of projects, from micro companies into international chains. As we provide a tool to emphasize the feedback from the customers and turn it into a profitable dialogue. Our motto is “Don’t gather feedback. Promote it, listen to it and act accordingly”.
How is it operating your company from Kora’s co-working space?
Kora’s co-working space is absolutely the best way of working at the moment. The open space is great for fantastic discussions and innovation with other members. We have noticed that co-working space gives you possibility to work professionally and effectively without office. When you want to meet your customers in private you can easily rent a meeting room.
How has part of Kora community helped you so far?
One of the best things in Kora is the atmosphere. Every day it is great to wake up and come to work when knowing that if you are facing a challenge or having a great idea there is always somebody to work that thing through with you. We have also get help with the funding and leads. And Anabel and Timo are working hard to provide networking events for all of us in Kora to network, know each other and maybe face the potential customers together with more powerful products and services.
Put your marketing basics in place!
Marketing has always been full of -isms, and this day and age is no different. Digitalisation, marketing automation, big data, social media and content marketing are the major topics of today. While it is true that all these tools can offer numerous possibilities for success, Kamon believes that it can only happen as long as the basics are in place.
Kamon will share their views (based on decades of experience) on how to build the basics, and execute cost-efficient and result-oriented marketing - while taking the most out of the hottest marketing tools. More about Kamon: www.kamon.fi (currently only in Finnish)
Check also Kamon video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxIwebef7Bk
