Referral request template for coworking spaces
Use this referral request worksheet to ask a satisfied customer for a relevant introduction without pressuring them. It is written for coworking spaces and starts with an illustrative offer: a flexible team workspace agreement. Replace the assumptions with evidence from your own business before using the result.
Leave with a specific referral request and an optional introduction message.
Start with a real buying situation
For the worked example, the audience is an operations manager arranging space for a hybrid team. Their problem is that attendance varies and meeting rooms are difficult to reserve. The desired practical outcome is a workspace arrangement matched to actual attendance and meeting needs.
The example is deliberately bounded: peak meeting times and access requirements must fit the available space. That condition should influence the promise, scope and next step rather than disappear from the marketing copy.
| Illustrative offer | a flexible team workspace agreement |
|---|---|
| Buyer question | How many people attend on your busiest day, and what do they need to do? |
| Possible evidence | a tour using the team’s proposed weekly schedule |
| Useful asset | a workspace requirements comparison |
How to complete your referral request
- Confirm that the customer has had a useful experience.
- Describe the kind of person and problem you can help with.
- Ask whether an introduction would be appropriate.
- Provide a short optional message they can edit.
- Respect a decline and keep any incentive explicit.
Worked example
These entries are illustrative planning material, not research findings or customer results. Keep the structure and replace the content with verified details.
| Why an introduction may be appropriate | Ask after the customer confirms the work was useful. Do not assume satisfaction from payment alone. |
|---|---|
| Who we can help | an operations manager arranging space for a hybrid team facing the following problem: attendance varies and meeting rooms are difficult to reserve. |
| The low-pressure request | If someone in your network is dealing with this issue, would an introduction be appropriate? No problem if nobody comes to mind. |
| Optional introduction text | Optional introduction: “I thought you might find this relevant. They offer a flexible team workspace agreement. You can decide whether a conversation would be useful.” |
| Follow-up and consent | Let the customer choose whether to introduce you. Do not request a contact list or enrol a referred person into a sequence without an appropriate basis. |
Review before using it
A useful operational measure in this example is fit between booked capacity and the team’s actual attendance. That does not automatically make it a marketing attribution metric. Define the source, period and owner before drawing conclusions.
- Can the customer decline comfortably and understand exactly who would be contacted?
- Check the delivery assumptions: Clarify deposits, access hours, guests, room allowances and notice periods.
- Use evidence rather than promises. Do not promise availability before checking current inventory.
- Discuss the draft with someone who understands the buying situation. Start with: “How many people attend on your busiest day, and what do they need to do?”
- If the next step is a trial, define its purpose. One possible starting point is to trial an agreed team day and review the room and desk experience.
Common mistakes and a better review
Do not fill a missing fact with an impressive-sounding number. Mark it as an assumption, explain how you will check it and give that check an owner. A short, honest document is easier to use than an elaborate plan built on unknowns.
| Watch for | Asking for access to a customer’s entire contact list creates friction and privacy concerns. |
|---|---|
| A real buyer concern | A permanent office looks cheaper per desk. |
| Useful response direction | Let us compare the expected use, meeting facilities, service costs and commitment period on the same basis. |
| Evidence to collect | The buyer’s own account, a tour using the team’s proposed weekly schedule, and records relevant to fit between booked capacity and the team’s actual attendance. |
Your working sheet.
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Example: Ask after the customer confirms the work was useful. Do not assume satisfaction from payment alone.
Example: an operations manager arranging space for a hybrid team facing the following problem: attendance varies and meeting rooms are difficult to reserve.
Example: If someone in your network is dealing with this issue, would an introduction be appropriate? No problem if nobody comes to mind.
Example: Optional introduction: “I thought you might find this relevant. They offer a flexible team workspace agreement. You can decide whether a conversation would be useful.”
Example: Let the customer choose whether to introduce you. Do not request a contact list or enrol a referred person into a sequence without an appropriate basis.
Review your work
This is a reflection checklist, not an automated assessment.
Questions
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