Mama Geek Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Have any of you started a meetup group on meetup.com? How much work did it entail and how successful was it? I am considering a play group in an area that doesn't have many meetups period. Any pitfall or suggestions before doing this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halcyon Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 I did. Be aware that after the year deal is up, they charge your account the full amount for the following year without warning (over $100). I complained and they refunded my fee, and closed my group. I liked it, but wasn't going to pay $100 for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mama Geek Posted January 27, 2012 Author Share Posted January 27, 2012 I didn't know that, thank you. I have seen groups go to their own website and now I understand why. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanceXToo Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 I never started a group on it myself, but I was a member for 3 plus years of a stay-at-home mom's group on meetup.com for toddlers and preschoolers before I started homeschooling, which was very active and successful (it always had 40 or 50 members). And then when I started homeschooling (right around the time all the kids my son "knew" from that group started going off to preschool), I left that group and moved to a homeschool group on meetup.com, and I've been with that group for three years now. As I already knew the two organizers (they had also been in the same stay at home mom's group with me), I quickly became an assistant organizer of it, and as of the past year, the group was turned over to me and I've been running it. It's always had between 12-30+ families at a time. In both cases, with both groups, members were charged "dues" of $12.00 per year to offset the meetup site costs, and in both cases, that has worked out well. Members thought that was more than fair and worth the cost of what they got out of it. They were both active groups with lots of meetups, and the organizers put a lot of time into setting up a lot of fun activities and outings and field trips and get togethers. I think it's a great site with lots of conveniences...it's a big name site so people know to go there and look for the type of group they're looking for, it's got the message board feature, it's got the super convenient calendar and RSVP system and the ability to email reminders and notices and so on, plus you can do polls and group members can upload pics from all our events into photo albums, and all sorts of stuff. So for me, I'd say it's been a worthwhile experience. I love Meetup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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