All things coworking from the sidelines of the Atlanta Beltline

20 May

Get the Most Out of Your Yelp Business Page

By Katharine Coworking BenefitsNo Comments 0

Alkaloid member and Atlanta Yelp Community Manager, Christina Venditti, shares how to connect with your community using the free tools offered. Yelp Statistics US Demographics Age: fairly evenly split across all age ranges Education: 65% of Users are college-educated Income: Almost half of Users earn more than $100K annually Businesses Reviewed by Categories By and large, the majority of reviews are for: Restaurants Retail Home and Local Services Ratings Half of the ratings are 5

13 May

Create Better Local SEO w/ Google My Business

By Katharine Coworking BenefitsNo Comments 0

Looking for better local SEO? Google Adwords are good but can be tricky given your competition and price per keyword. Google My Business is a free tool that plays a great role in local SEO search especially for brick and motor businesses. Google My Business Statistics Detailed and completed GMB listings are 2X more likely to be trusted Adding photos to your GMB regularly will drive: 42% more direction requests 35% more clicks 72% of

06 May

Mastermind Roundtable with Visible Branding

By Katharine Coworking BenefitsNo Comments 0

Noelle Jackson of EllePR and Alkaloid member, reviews three key areas to connect your branding and discuss how your business can make the greatest impact with: Owned Media Shared Media Earned Media With the SIP and continuing pandemic, many of your customers or prospects will want to know what you are doing for your employees, customers and community. Keeping visible is just as important now as it ever has been in the past, if not

01 May

Preventing COVID19 At Work

By Katharine Coworking Benefits2 Comments 0

Stay Safe and Do Amazing Work Alkaloid COVID-19 Guidelines Alkaloid is open again. We missed you! If you are considering returning, I welcome you back. This post has two sections: What I’m doing to keep our community space safe What I ask of every member and visitor to keep our community space safe Section 1: Alkaloid Networks Precautions (What I’m Doing) Surface Cleaning More Frequent Cleaning All common spaces each time with special attention to

30 Apr

Mastermind Roundtable with SEM Basics

By Katharine Coworking BenefitsNo Comments 0

In this session, former Alkaloid member Andrew Humphrey reviews SEM (Search Engine Marketing) basics. You’ll walk away with some good information and tips about: What is SEM? PPC (Pay Per Click) vs. SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Local SEO Position Zero Improving SEO Title Tags & Meta Descriptions SEO is a Long Game Black Hat SEO Hiring a PPC Manager Free Tools such as: Google Analytics Google Search Console Keyword Research SEO Plugin Title Tag Preview

18 Apr

I Heart Coworking People

By Katharine Coworking BenefitsNo Comments 0

I heart coworking people. All of them. I’m a fan girl of coworking. For the past 5 years, I’ve owned a coworking space. However, when I first opened, I must admit that I knew very little about what made “coworking” work. I originally opened the coworking space because I needed to cover the cost of a space I had recently acquired for another venture. I formed the business, did some minimal marketing on Craigslist—and within

15 Apr

Mastermind Roundtable with WFH Productivity

By Katharine UncategorizedNo Comments 0

Need to increase your productivity? Feeling overwhelmed and unproductive while working from home? Take a deep breath. Alkaloid member, Mark Wolgemuth of RescueTime shares his best strategies for improving productivity and prioritizing your time while WFH. The Big Takeaways Create structured time by scheduling with the others in your home Break up big tasks into smaller chunks Use technology solutions to allow focus Isolate yourself as much as possible to avoid audible distractions Create time

10 Apr

Making Work-From-Home (WFH) Work

By Katharine Coworking BenefitsNo Comments 0

If you’ve been working in an office for much of your career, the idea of work-from-home (WFH) sounds like a dream come true. Working from the couch? No problem. A commute from your bedroom to your desk? No work pants needed! However, as many people have now found out over these past weeks, there are pros and cons to working from home. Once the excitement wears off, you need to work. Without your office and

Katharine Chestnut, Founder of Alkaloid Networks coworking on the Atlanta Beltline

01 Apr

Celebrating Five Years While SIP

By Katharine Coworking Benefits, PodcastNo Comments 0

Founder and connector extraordinaire, Katharine Chestnut reflects while celebrating five years of making dreams a reality at Alkaloid Networks. She shares her gratitude of being able to watch the success of members and meeting new people everyday. And making changes as life changes, like keeping members connected and making the shift to more virtual events during Atlanta’s SIP order. “Thank you from the bottom of my heart for making Alkaloid Networks a very special place.”

15 Mar

COVID-19 Response and Our Community

By Katharine Coworking BenefitsNo Comments 0

UPDATED: April 2, 2020 Alkaloid is closed temporarily as we all practice shelter-in-place. We’ve taken the community online! I miss you all terribly and know that we will get through this together. Thank you for doing your part to slow the spread of the virus. Take care of yourself. Take care of each other. Take care of this place. — The last few days and weeks have been…pretty surreal. Like you, I’ve been monitoring news

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