Cohousing-L Mailing List: Questions on hiring help for Outreach

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

Gloria  Gordon  GCGORDON [at] WORLDNET.ATT.NET 
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Our cohousing group is thinking about hiring someone to help us with 
the hands-on work of outreach.  We would appreciate any advice or hints you
can offer.
We aren't sure yet whether we most need help from an experienced
person who can organize and carry out PR & marketing activity or someone who
can set up and/or maintain a data base of prospects and handle some of the
clerical work.

We are hoping to have a developer and a site in the next few months, and at
that point we want to be ready to expand from our current nine households.
Our members include burning souls but are mainly busy folks who cant
put in a lot of energy.

What are the pluses & minuses of hiring an outside person vs. compensating
someone within the group, if that is an option?

What tasks have you found that lend themselves to hiring an outside person,
vs. tasks that can best be done by hiring a group member?

At what stage of your group development did you find it most helpful to hire
someone?

Has any group found help through the marketing dept. of a local university?

If you hire an outside person, how does s/he interface with the core member
group?

Many thanks,

Gloria Gordon
Village in the City (St. Louis)