An introduction to Creation Station Business at Main Library for the Sarasota Staff Development day on 2/17/17

1. CREATION STATION
BUSINESS
@MAIN LIBRARY
WITH BOB FROM THE CREATION STATION
WWW.ROBERTANSTETT.COM

2. WHAT IS CREATION STATION?
• What will you Create today?
• Creation Station is a place to come and be creative.
• 3D printers
• Design center with Adobe Creative Cloud
• Virtual Reality
• Over 3,000 customers a month

3. WE GOT THERE FIRST
• What Business will you create today?
• We do not help you find a job, we help you create a job
• “Libraries were co-working spaces long before co-working
spaces became cool”

4. ENTRANCE

5. THE SPACE

6. WEB SITE VISIBILITY STATS
• In January (Google My Business stats):
• 464 people saw our listing on Google search
• 280 people saw our business on Google maps
• 19 people asked directions to us through Google maps
• 2 people found our phone number through our Google listing
and called us

7. HOOKING THEM IN
• 203 contacts in our e-mail list
• 233 Eventbrite signups
• We had 146 visitors to CSB in January

8. MEETING ROOM

9. COLLABORATION STATION

10. TRADITIONAL CLASSES
• SCORE workshops
• Score individual mentor counseling
• OESBD workshop on starting a business
• LinkedIn workshop

11. CO-WORKING
• A company called Bright & Smart using conference room for
monthly staff meetings
• Paralegal Sparkle Jones using meeting rooms as virtual office
space
• Winner of local startup competition using our resources to find
information on business plan creation
• App creator used our databases through our librarians to
research statistics on the app industry

12. CO-WORKING
• HackNight through Code for Fort Lauderdale meetup
• Teen shooting video for a film
• Local hip-hop entrepreneur using large format printer to print
posters for upcoming performances

13. CONFERENCE ROOM

14. CONFERENCE ROOM

15. YOU CAN DO THIS
• “Libraries were co-working spaces long before co-working
spaces became cool”

16. QUESTIONS?
BOB
Creationstation@broward.org
www.robertanstett.com