Posts tagged with ‘setup’
ONE: Setup in Five Minutes
People in your community want to meetup. Get them going by encouraging everyone to have their first Meetup on the same day all over the world (a more routine Meetup schedule can follow).
The big day is just an excuse, but it’s fun to know that your 4-person Meetup in Springfield is one of many happening on the same day across the globe.
Some fun examples include:
* Celebrate on official holiday like World’s Ocean Day
* Celebrate a milestone or company anniversary
* Invent a new holiday — uh, Social Media Day?
Or just choose a random date three weeks from now (like the 2nd Wednesday of the month).
Once you’ve got a hook, enter a brief description of it into the description box when you create your Meetup Everywhere. Be sure to
* include a clear call to action — Find a Meetup near you or get one going in your town!
* set reasonable expectations — suggesting folks share coffee or have a beer together is enough to get the wheels turning for most people
* celebrate Meetups big & small
* establish any ground rules
* link back to any resources
If you think of a fun activity people can do together at the Meetups, all the better — but stay focused on making it as easy as possible for folks to get involved.
Check out some descriptions here. Then, get going!
Throw one big birthday bash!
Etsy celebrated their fifth anniversary in style. Gotta love the competition they weaved in too!
Set the tone
SoundCloud set the tone well for their Meetups Everywhere with a friendly description that told people what the goal is, what to do, and also encourages them to start SoundCloud groups for their Meetups.
Incentive ahoy!
Tony Hsieh rallied his readers to Meetup and celebrate the release of Delivering Happiness. As an incentive, they promised to send an advanced copy of the book to those people who stepped up as organizers by June 1st.
Keep it simple
TechCrunch celebrated their fifth birthday with Meetups Everywhere. The scale of their party wound up being huge, but the idea was simple — just get together with other TechCrunch fans for beer or coffee, and good times.
Tying your Meetups to an already existing holiday
Huffington Post Green compelled their readers to turn their concern about the Gulf oil spill into Meetups on World Oceans Day.
