Next public presentation - 3 April 2025

[mieke]

@Manoj

Immoweb ad is work in progress. If everything works well, it should be live by this weekend.

Thanks Manoj. Could you share the link with all Reeflings so that we could share it with our personal network?

@Manoj

I am not sure if newsletter is already distributed. @manuelpueyo can you please confirm/ take care of it in case pending?

Hi @manuelpueyo , could you please take a look at the newsletter? Or somebody else from @reef-external if possible? Number of registrations is still very low (only 11).

[manuelpueyo]

i will send the newsletter tonight. can we just duplicate the text from a previous newsletter? i did not see a new text passing by.

[mieke]

@Lee

Hi @reef-external,

Can it be an idea to change the content of the next newsletter a bit? Instead of just saying “we are organising a presentation”, maybe we can list a couple of our selling points, and then make a request to all the “friends of The Reef” to forward the newsletter to three people they think could know people who could be interested?

Just an idea though. Whatever you decide, I’d be grateful if you could apply the four eyes principle this time, given that the last three newsletters that went out had mistakes in them. TIA!

Hi @manuelpueyo, if you scroll a bit up, you will see what Lee suggested Thanks again!

[Lee]

@manuelpueyo I thought you were on this already. I will draft a text tonight and ping you on Signal when I’m ready.

[Manoj]

Sure @mieke ! I will share once the link is live.
For now, the ad draft is under review. Can you also please have a look ? Thanks…

[mieke]

Hi Manoj, well done, it looks really good. I would suggest adding that the 750m² for finishings is an average estimate and can vary depending on your choice of materials for finishing your apartment.
And I would also say that registration for our presentation is mandatory Thanks again!

[manuelpueyo]

ok. thanks! we can also send the same text again if there is no additional message to add.

[Manoj]

Thanks for the suggestion @mieke.
I will incorporate all inputs and post the Immoweb ad.

[Lee]

@ChrisM would you have time to proofread the draft for the newsletter? I got help from my friend ChatGPT, so I hope it will make for light work!

Saved in Team External > Communication > Mailing list & newsletter: Login – Nextcloud

[ChrisM]

@Lee

@ChrisM would you have time to proofread the draft for the newsletter? I got help from my friend ChatGPT, so I hope it will make for light work!

All done! I’ve used ‘track changes’ to show what I’ve suggested, which is not a lot. You’ll also see that I’ve deleted all the Oxford commas, but feel free to reject these revisions if you have strong feelings about them

[Lee]

Hi @manuelpueyo,

Can you please send out the newsletter that I drafted? It is saved in the usual place: Login – Nextcloud

I’d be grateful if you could not make any changes to the text. If you do, can you please look for a second pair of eyes to make sure that it goes out without any mistakes?

If you could any graphics (I added a copy of the flyer), that would be wonderful too. TIA!

[manuelpueyo]

Thanks! Good job! campaign is being sent.

[Lee]

Hello @reef-recruitment,

I just spoke to my father. He says things are still not looking good, and so he recommends activating our waiting list for the 2 BRs.

So the idea would be to send out an email to the people who have registered for the last 3 presentations plus this one indicating they are interested in a 2 BR, telling them in very careful words that there is a possibility that we will have two 2 BRs in Asterix.

Just passing this on. Doer decides.

[mieke]

Thanks Lie. @ugne @ChrisM Would you have any room to take this up? I am afraid I am not very available for the moment, besides the admin of the presentation & the emails that I can do quite easily in between tasks. Thanks already.

[Lee]

@Manoj this could probably also be a nice opportunity to attract some attention on Facebook?

[ChrisM]

@Lee

So the idea would be to send out an email to the people who have registered for the last 3 presentations plus this one indicating they are interested in a 2 BR, telling them in very careful words that there is a possibility that we will have two 2 BRs in Asterix.

I’m happy to do this later this evening, but I’m not exactly sure how to go about it.

I presume that I go to the registation forms and then copy and paste each email address for the 2-bedroom people, regardless of whether they came or not.

And another question: do the people registered for the next one need a different message (as if they are on this registration form, they are planning on coming anyway)?

[Lee]

@ChrisM

I presume that I go to the registation forms and then copy and paste each email address for the 2-bedroom people, regardless of whether they came or not.

Yes

@ChrisM

And another question: do the people registered for the next one need a different message (as if they are on this registration form, they are planning on coming anyway)?

If you mean the presentation of this Thursday I would maybe just include them in the same message, as for now our registration form says “waiting list”, which is not the most inviting?

[Lee]

Hi all,

Following up on some of the discussions we had on why people are not signing up to become Exploring Members, I have simplified the slide deck a bit (Login – Nextcloud). I have taken out the part on risk management and the details on how the price is calculated.

What inspired me to do this is that we see an unusually high number of downloads of the slide deck, and an unusually low number of registrations. Maybe there was too much information in that slide deck in a way that it would scare away people?

Presenting the price without the VAT and notary costs does not feel like something I can do with authenticity. First of all there is the report from my father, who says that he has seen plenty of people who perfectly have the means. We know these people exist, it’s just a matter of finding them. Second, not presenting the right price just doesn’t feel right, and I also worry that people, when figuring out about the VAT, will drop out anyway and we will have lost precious time.

The slide deck I have now is closer to the one we had prior to purchasing the site (i.e. more dreamy again). What I envisage is to then do a second session on legal-financial aspects once people are in the Associate Membership phase.

Another thing I would like to do is send out a survey to the people who have attended the last presentations. What I would like to ask is questions like why they were not joining, what we could do differently, and even how they think we should present the price. @reef-recruitment is it ok for you if I prepare a first draft of this? I’d be happy to leave the initiative to you, but I have something relatively precise in mind, so I can get something on paper in 30 minutes.

[ChrisM]

@Lee

Another thing I would like to do is send out a survey to the people who have attended the last presentations. What I would like to ask is questions like why they were not joining, what we could do differently, and even how they think we should present the price. @reef-recruitment is it ok for you if I prepare a first draft of this? I’d be happy to leave the initiative to you, but I have something relatively precise in mind, so I can get something on paper in 30 minutes.

Feel free to do that Not sure if this is relevant info or not, but in the end I did contact all the people who registered for the last 3 presentations (including this week) to say that there may be 2-bedroom apartments available in Asterix…