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* Why use Meetup.com? Meetup Organizer, BobW, explains...

* Does Meetup.com really work? Read what Steve, BobW and Christy have to say...

How much time is involved in Organizing a Meetup Group?

Assistant Organizer Best Practices

Billing Issues?
Contact us at billingsupport@meetup.com.

How much does Meetup Cost?

- Getting a Sponsor for your Meetup Group
Group Sponsor
How to Obtain Sponsors
Tips on getting a Group Sponsor

- Membership Perks and Privileges
Membership Badges

- Collecting fees, donations, etc
Get a PayPal Account
Setting up PayPay in the Group
Using PayPal to collect Group Fees
Using PayPal -- And When and How to Charge?
PayPal FAQs
Fees added by PayPal
I want to be an Organizer, but I'm nervous about the fees
Cash is tight but I still want to start a Meetup Group
A Creative way to collect Groups Fees
PayPal Tips and Hints

Getting Members to your Meetup Group
How to get more members for your group & to participate

Promoting Your Group
Modifying and Jazzing up your Craigs List Ad
Lovely Embroidered Doggie Bandanas w/ your Groups Name!
Make Your Own Customized Signs, Flyers, and Business Cards!
Does commercial activity in a Meetup violate TOS?
Have you used Craigs List Tool?
Club Cards for your Group
Business Cards for your Group
Press Tips -- Getting Attention of the Local Media
Setting up a booth
Promoting Your Meetup Group
Group Promotional Materials
Building Meetups One Person at a Time
Flyer with tear-off tabs (help w/ the PDF)
Stickers for the Bumper and More!
Customized Bumper Stickers
Using Bookmarks to Promote
Can I legally use the Meetup.com logo on t-shirts to promote my Meetup Group?
Free Vinyl Banner to Promote My Meetup Group
Using Backpage to advertise your Meetup Group

Encouraging Participation
How Do You Motivate Your Members to Run/Organize Events/Meetups?
Add Images to Event Descriptions
What if? How to hande no shows/Post an event recap!
Tips for Encouraging RSVPs
Tips for encouraging 'Maybes' to Meetup
Getting More Members to RSVP
Ice Breakers for your Meetups
More Icebreakers for your Meetups
Mollys Trick for Getting Members to Vote in the Polls
Encourage Active Members to Mentor New Members with Jazz!

Motivating Your Members
Motivating Member Participation (and the new welcome feature)
Motivating a large, but inactive Meetup group
E-Mailing Inactives Before you Remove Them
Getting inactive members interested again

Communicating With Your Members!
New Organizer -- Introducing Yourself by e-mail
Power of Group Newsletters
Contacting Your Group
Welcome Emails
A nice way to decline new members when your group is too large
A Sample Letter to Decline Members

RSVPs
Tips for Encouraging RSVPs
Getting More Members to RSVP
Sponsored Doorprizes
Why RSVP-ing is Important
Creating a "No Show Policy"
How to Manage a Waiting List - Thanks to Organizer Eric for the tip!

Planning Your Meetups
Stick to Your Guns
The Check, Please! -- Handling splitting the check for restaurant outings with large groups
Ice Breakers for your Meetups
Ice Breakers and Big Groups
More Icebreakers for your Meetups
A few more ice breakers...

Supplies for your Meetup Events
Nifty Notepad Formats Available for Downloading!


Your Meetup in the Community
Charity projects for your group?

A History Lesson: Significant Meetup Improvements submitted by Lori

Organizer Strategies

Desperate Help! Happy Organizer=Happy Meetup Group
Lowering Your Stress When Planning Very Large Events
RUNNING A SUCCESSFUL GROUP - The Cormican Minute (1.0)
A Neat Way to Encourage MB Participation
Great list for New Org success
Marie's New Organizer Tips
The Meetup Mom's New Group Guidelines

These are discussions started by Deidre Uqob about ideas for planning and positioning your group:

Organizer Strategies: Help for Intermediate Organizers
Organizer Strategies: Approval vs Anyone Can Join
Plans & Strategies for Continuity: New and Old Organizer Help
Improving Club Participation: Writing awesome Event Reviews!

~ Building Your About Page ~

Meetup Guides Created by Members

• Grant's Guide to Message Board Formatting.
  
• Hilary's Guide to Images.
  
• NEW! Chris C's Guide to Animating Images.
  
• NEW! Dean's Video Posting Guide.
  
• Grant's Guide to Meetup Smilies.
  
• How To Create an Animated Meetup Avatar

Please respect fellow Organizers' work!
About Page Copycats

Ask questions or comment about the these pages here.


More on Building Your About Page
Adding Videos!
Meetup and Google
More Meetup and Google: Images & Text
Making a Snazzy & Informative "About" Page
Using Your About Page as a Gallery
Adding a Counter to Your About Page
And now to track the other pages
Share how you use your About page
Placing photos on the About Page or Message Board
Changing the Font of your Text
Clever Extra's for your About Page
Increasing About Page Prominence
Placing a Calendar on your Meetup Group
Making Picture "collages"
Crystal's guide to linking images


Using Your Files Section
Share how you use your Files!
What file types are accepted in Files section?



Using Your Message Board & Hints
Putting Graphics in the Subject line of a Message Board Post
Molly Ringer's Easter Egg Hunt Idea (adaptable to any holiday/theme)
Topic of the Week
Ron Purvis's experience point reward idea
Creative Ways to Get Members to that Message Board Discussion
Placing Informative Information on your Groups Message Board
Posting a Weekly Discussion
Grant's Guide to Message Board Formatting
Putting photos on the About Page or Message Board
Creating a Message Board Navigator
When the title of the thread is a link
Deleting Discussions
Moving a post from one thread to another
SpellCheck



Ratings
* * The ALL NEW Ratings Sytem * *
The Revised Renee Method -- How to generate survey feedback links to rate your Meetup!

Tough Issues
Dealing with Serial Daters & Predators
Dealing with Burnout
Templates for Removing Problem Members
Ending a group the right way
Organizer Legal Liability
Cursing on your Groups Message Board
Moms Meetup Orgs- Safety Protocols?
Moms Group/Playgroup Rules
Internet Safety
Dealing with Conflicts in your Meetup Group
Defining Inactive Members
E-mailing inactive members before you remove them
How do you decide to delete an inactive member?
How to Delete Inactive Members (and should you?)
Dealing with Complaints
Out of control -- Moderating a group's message boards when things get out of hand
Dominating Talker
More on Dominating Talkers
Another Organizer joined my group to Promote his
Organizers in Cross Groups
Inappropriate Photos in your Group
Learning to deal with problem types
I have a situation I need help with
Worldwide Stop Stalking Meetup Message Board
Businesses posting and emailing members
How to deal with Trolls on the World Wide Boards, or other message boards
Wendy's Member Code of Conduct


Venue Help
If you need to edit or remove a venue in our database, write to us at organizer@meetup.com and put "Attn: Angela -- Venue Help" in the subject line. We'll take it from there.

Meeting Place & Venue Recommendations for Large Groups
How do you browse the Venue Database (and search for help?)
Editing Venues
How to promote a place to meet up?!
Do you want *your* Venue added to the database?


Sharing Meetup with others
Getting *credit* for Sharing Meetup with Others
Sharing Meetup with every link you share


Extra's, Etc...
Is your Group considered a non-profit group?
Add Amazon's Associate Program to your group
Get Paid for About Page Ads?
RSS Feed and Podcasting
Working w/ Google Modules


Supplies and Resources
Free and Cheap Goodies -- add yours here!
BANDANA MANIA -- Get Embroidered Doggie Bandanas for Group Promotion!
Bumper Stickers


Work Arounds Galore
The Google Calendar!
Calendars Net for your calendar needs and Chatzy for chatting. Submitted by Tania
Free Java Chat for live chatting with Meetup Members. Submitted by Dimitry James
Shorter Links on Meetup. Submitted by Howard
Another Short Link on Meetup. Submitted by Walter
Workaround for truncated URLs


Changing a Groups Topic URL
How to Change my groups Topic


Google Ads on Your Group Page
Monitoring Competitor Ads on your Groups' Site
Google Ads
About those Google Ads NEW!

Meet some Great Organizers -
How To Be Organizer Of The Week

Meet the most recent Organizer of the week...

05-21-06 Manoj R Nayak
05-14-06 Juliet Jones
05-07-06 Jesse Jarvis
04-30-06 Therese Holliday
04-24-06 Eric Blommel
04-17-06 Holly Barker
04-10-06 Christine Kaczynski
04-03-06 Larry Zafran
03-27-06 Aurora Di Giulio
03-20-06 Lynsey Garnett
03-13-06 Dawn and Nate
03-06-06 Sunnie
02-27-06 Ron Purvis
02-05-06 David Ray
01-29-06 Matt Silva
01-22-06 Roberto Fico
01-16-06 Sarah Beitler
01-08-06 Lori
12-25-05 Adam
12-18-05 Matthew Willis
12-11-05 Katherine Grace
12-04-05 Anne-Marie Brule
11-20-05 Peter Kacalanos and Suzanne Cherney
11-06-05 Shellie Collins
10-30-05 Aimee Larussi
10-23-05 Jennifer Bennett
10-16-05 Tammy Hoy
10-09-05 Joe Slaughter
10-08-05 Sarah Kegley
09-25-05 Jason Mills
09-18-05 Christy and Katie
09-11-05 Melissa
08-29-05 Mustafa
08-20-05 Caroline
08-14-05 Desiree
08-08-05 Rich
07-31-05 Julie
07-18-05 Alison
07-10-05 Genny
06-17-05 Daniel
06-19-05 Belinda
06-14-05 Brenda
06-06-05 Philip
05-29-05 Stephanie
05-23-05 Jen
05-15-05 Dan
05-08-05 Medina
05-01-05 Omega
04-25-05 Daniel
04-18-05 ReneeA
04-11-05 Deirdre
04-03-05 Joel
03-28-05 Eileen
03-21-05 Roberta
03-14-05 Sheila
03-07-05 Leah

Features Released

April 2006
March 2006
March 2006
February 2006
January 2006
January 2006
December 2005
November 2005
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October 2005
September 2005
August 2005
July 2005
June 2005
May 2005
May 2005
April 2005
February 2005
January 2005
December 2004


Want to say "Thanks for a job well done?"

Cool About Pages on Meetup. If you think your About Page is Cool, or you've seen others, let me know!

* These have been recognized as Amazing About Pages!!


Add a Page to your Meetup Group. If you've added pages, let me know!

~ These Meetup Groups have Added Pages.



Active Moms Playgroup

Busy Babies and Their Mommies: Naperville Area

~ Canberra Witches Meetup

Cleveland Westside Yoga & Pilates Meetup Group

Exceptional Families Network (Oly Parents of Special Needs)

Geneva Area Pond Club

Geneva Area Turtle and Tortoise Society

* The Kansas City Harry Potter Meetup Group

* Greek Language & Culture Meetup (NYC)

* The Houston Lingua Italiana Meetup Group

* London French Meetup

London Poker Meetup

MamaMia! (The Denver New and Expecting Parents Meetup Group)

The Miami Bellydance Meetup Group

Mississauga Circle of Moms Support Group

* Moms of Hampton Roads

* The Montreal Friends Meetup Group

Mothers Inc. (North County Playgroup)

* The New York City Archery Meetup Group

The New York City Spanish Language Meetup Group

No Drama Mommas- Naples, Florida

* The Northern San Diego Photography Group

Northern San Diego County Playgroup

* Palm Beach Moms Meetup Group

Potterdelphia: Philly-area Harry Potter meetup

The Phoenix Cooking And Recipes Meetup Group

The Richmond French Meetup Group

The St. Louis Boardgames Meetup Group

San Antonio Witches

* San Diego Cocker Spaniel Meetup Group - the Spaniel Social

The San Diego Moms Meetup Group

SW Orlando Sunshine Squad

SAHM and Loving It!

SAHM of the Virginia Peninsula

Toronto Shiba Inu Meetup Group

~ Twin Cities Speculative Fiction Writers Network

Virginia Beach Jeeps Off-road




Want to learn some of these techniques? Start with:
Grant's Guide to Message Board Formatting









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