[Robotgroup] Check out how this shop operates.

[David Nunez]

A couple things:

* In my limited (obviously) gym-going experience, the "excessively  
buff enthusiasts" are pretty much isolationists and would probably  
rather the likes of me not use "their" equipment in "their" gym.   
Moral encouragement?  Maybe... but only by accident.   For a business  
like this to succeed, the hardcore group should be properly motivated  
to contribute their time and expertise in mentoring the novices --  
SAFE place to LEARN and then to BUILD among like minds.

* There's a HUGE difference between "gouging" and "making enough  
money to keep the thing operational and growing"  At the end of the  
day, whomever has to pay the rent on the space is going to have to  
collect money from SOMEwhere, or the resource is just going to  
disappear (sound familiar?)



On Jan 14, 2007, at 4:36 PM, vkonradi at swbell.net wrote:

> How does it work financially?
>
> There's the 'Honest Health Club' business model - core group of  
> excessively
> buff enthusiasts get more than their money's worth, meanwhile  
> providing
> moral encouragement to the larger occasional contingent trying to  
> improve
> their own buffness.
>
> And there's the 'Dishonest Health Club' business model - before the  
> club
> fills up, sell way more (typically long-term) memberships than can be
> sustained by the available facilities, and let overcrowding occur.
>
> Very cool concept, hope it succeeds.
>
>
>
> At 01:57 PM 1/14/2007, Tom Davidson wrote:
>> http://www.techshop.ws/FAQs.html
>>
>> I'd pay $100 a month for this. I'd love to see the business plan  
>> on how
>> this works financially.
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