We use meetup for a lot of our events - we're in the fortunate position to be in a patch of an urban area that's lacking in technology-focused events, so we provide our space for meetup use.
I run one weekly meetup, 1 free monthly meetup, and 2 other monthly meetups for which I charge. We've got about 4-5 other organizers who run monthly meetups that we host here. All of those have a fee associated w/ them (which is paid either by the organizer or the attendees). So yeah, meetup.com is really key for us. We also market events through Facebook, our newsletter, and the personal network of individual members. It's not as effective as I'd like, but we've got a critical mass that's drawing people in. I find that the free events attract almost zero new coworking members, but get us good word of mouth. $5 events seem to be really useful (and we actually have a "meetups only" membership type as a result), both in terms of attracting people and filtering out the freeloaders. Anca. -=-=-=-=- Anca Mosoiu | Tech Liminal [email protected] M: (510) 220-6660 W: http://techliminal.com | T: @techliminal | F: facebook.com/techliminal On Jun 20, 2013, at 1:00 PM, Frank DePalma wrote: > We are starting a series of workshops and are using Facebook events and our > own website to spread the word. I am also considering using Meetup.com > > We are in a relatively rural community so I don't want to limit our exposure > to only Meetup users, but it does seem to have some tools that could be > useful. > > What do you use? > > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
