Starting a Successful Meetup Group
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Are you a first time Meetup organizer or thinking about becoming one? We’ve got you covered!
Join Hank Orenstein, Meetup organizer, for a session that’ll set you up for success. Learn the steps to take before you start, best practices for setting up your group, and how to attract members to your group. He shares how to write a compelling group description, how to engage your group members, and how to take advantage of Meetup tools like messaging.
About Hank:
Hank, a native New Yorker, leads Exploring NYC History and Neighborhoods, a Meetup group for historic walking tours of New York City. The group has held 400+ events in its eight years of operation and has covered a variety of topics including women’s history, African American history, visual art, and more. Before organizing on Meetup, Hank worked for decades as a social worker and community organizer, helping families in crisis and working towards social and economic justice.
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[Meetup Live Recording, 01/14/21]
We have used a seat deposit. If they show up they get it back, if they don’t, it’s not refunded
Good idea!
That was very helpful, thank you! If I'm 5% as successful as you are, I'll have plenty of people to train with.
Any tips for introvert in particularly?
I have been checking out meetup. I'm an introvert also. I was more interested in talking with people online. But have ran into that many groups want you to come on cam. That sends my anxiety through the roof and I bail. Now I try to contact the organizer first and ask what is expected for I sign up.
I don’t like that he asks people to introduce themselves and talk about themselves. People should be given the option to pass any time that public speaking is involved. Most people abhor this and some are are utterly terrified.
Private or public - for private groups, stalkers or rogue profiles will join your group anyway to spy on you and what you are doing. I know because my private Christian meetup group in Australia is being infiltrated by rival group organisers and their supporters. The platform helps, but ultimately is at the mercy of bad people.
Your Christian group is being infiltrated by other groups?