How to Build a Money-Making List Using Meetup.com

“How to Build a

Money-Making List

Using Meetup.com”

With Mel Cutler

June 18th, 2015

Have you been challenged in uncovering how to build your list of individuals who want specifically what you have to offer in a targeted area? Do you know there are people who want your exact product or service in your area but aren’t sure how to reach you?

If you know building a list and increasing your credibility to create a local community who loves your product or service is something you want to do right now, then understanding how to use the power of Meetup.com is what you need to learn!

The top social media tool for bringing people from online to offline effectively, Meetup.com is the best way for businesses and individuals to create their own platform and grow their list of dedicated individuals in a targeted area who want what the business offers.

In this training, Mel Cutler shares his secrets on how he has helped hundreds of business owners, entrepreneurs, and coaches grow their list, make more money, and gain a dedicated following.

Be there if you want to:

Discover how to create an online community that actually transfers into a loyal offline following

Build your credibility and gain a strong local following around your business or service of people who are specifically seeking what you offer

Generate hot leads and grow your list of individuals who want to learn from you and become regular, consistent clients

Create your own platform and increase your credibility

A serial entrepreneur since the age of 19, Mel Cutler has created seven companies in four different markets.

After spending years struggling to bridge the gap of finding clients online and bringing them offline, he created MeetupZoo. He has now mastered the #1 social media tool for small businesses to build a list and create a dedicated local following of people who want their specific product or service.

He now helps other businesses owners how to leverage the power of Meetup.com.

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Tom Perkins says:

In setting up and analyzing the asking for phone number and email address during the signup process in Meetup, it does not work for me as it ends up being public information.

There is no way/functionality to not show that information to the whole group and or public. I am just really sensitive to permission and privacy.

I am thinking of a reminder during sign up to opt into a list. No guarantee they will. We will see!

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Hi, Tom. This is a great point. I’m going to ask on the LAP FB page and see what people say about it.

I implemented the asking for phone and email on my Meetup signup questionnaire and it works like a charm so far. Not doing anything I get about 50 new Members per month.

This is the group I took over in August 2014: http://www.meetup.com/mainesportsandrecreation

Here is some press I/we got: http://tinyurl.com/mainesportsrecarticle31715

PJ, all of the sessions have been great. The session with Mel was an important piece to my long term plan and very fitting for my next Meetup group as it is going to be lecture based.

Thanks again for such a phenomenal program.

Great call. I have been working on monetizing my next Meetup Group and the universe presented this. Made my day.

For me the Trifecta would still be a component even with a licensing program as it would drive traffic as Mel implied.

The deal with the license is I would own and or pay for all the Chapters. As part of the monthly license (coaching fee ) it would include the specific Meetup Page/Group. As we all know sometimes things do not work out.

I got a lot out of the call. Most of all, knowing it can be done and that you only get one indexing from Meetup per group (so ensure the listing is setup and optimized properly). As well as creating a stage, collaborating with other Organizers, the funnel components. Everything was valuable.

The phone and email question was definitely the bomb.

Danette Moss says:

All of the List-A-Palooza training topics have been awesome. I’ve got to say that this week has truly touched on things that I’m dealing with right now, and have had major struggles with how to shift it to work in my favor. Thanks PJ and Mel for this great call today. I was listening in the car while driving my son to track practice.

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Thanks, Danette! Glad you were able to make it! 😀
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  PJ, I wouldn’t have missed this for any reason. Even on this special day. I turned 47 today. This training was a birthday gift to me. I got so much out of it. It’s going to turn into dollars $$$.
  
  Thanks again,

Amethyst says:

Great Call! It’s so interesting to me that I teach similar concepts for Facebook, and yet I seem to have a difficult time translating that to Meetup. I wonder what that means. 😀

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I think these two topics go really well together… I’m glad that we ended up addressing them in the same week. It seems like your focus is more on the online community building and Mel’s focus is more on the offline community building.
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  It’s two great things that go great together! I think I’ve always been better at on-line networking and business growth and have been wanting to up my offline game. This will be a great chance to s-t-r-e-t-c-h in that area. 😀

Aliyah Blanca says:

Great Call – I really enjoyed Mel’s enthusiasm for how to monetize Meet-up and his transparency in sharing – great stuff! Thank you Mel and Thank you PJ.

I’ve known about having Meet-up as a sales funnel, but this is great information to make that really work – finally. My big AH HA is – One Meetup account is entitled to 3 separate Meetups – Very, very Cool – Thanks!

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Thanks, Aliyah! 😀

Angelica Rodriguez says:

This was an awesome call! Thank you!

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Thanks, Angelica! 😀

Should I post here or in the List-a-Palooza community? I don’t want to take away from Mel’s awesomeness. Looking forward to the Meetup Master Program. 😀

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  Phoebe Mroczek of KickAds Mastery. I think she’ll be opening it up again in the fall, but she also does social media for campaigns and such. I learned a TON from her class! 😀
  
  You can get info here:
  
  http://kickadsacademy.com/
  
  Or connect with her on Facebook here:
  
  https://www.facebook.com/phoebe.mroczek

Excellent – I’ve been looking at doing local Facebook communities. Love the idea of cross-promotion to the Meetup in the local FB group.

PS I know an AMAZING FB Ad person – let me know if you want her info. 😀

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Yes, I’m always on the lookout for people like that. Hook me up! 😀

Tania says:

One last question – Thanks for all the juicy info before the question.
QQ- Could the content/name of the meetup be about your hot freebie, eg. My hot freebie is designing your life but the name of my company is The Courage To Be happy…

Thanks again for all this valuable information!

PJ Van Hulle says:

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Then I’d probably look into creating a group around happiness, maybe a Happiness Circle.
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  I love that idea, PJ – a happiness circle
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  Thanks for the suggestion PJ~ You rock! Thanks for what you are doing in the world.

PJ Van Hulle says:

Free Report for Meetup Organizers:

The 11 Deadliest Mistakes Organizers Make That Hold Them Back From Ever Running A Successful Meetup
http://www.meetupzoo.com

Linda Xochitl Avalos says:

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NICE! THank you <3

Meetup says if you want to open in multiple cities contact them about Chapters. They used to have Chapters where you could have 10 Meetups under one account.

I am asking should we do the Trifecta all the time and or Do chapters.

I am going to license a product/system and want to expand internationally via Meetup.

Just a thought. Still flushing it out!

Thanks

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THat’s good NINJA TIP!
PJ Van Hulle says:

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In that case, I think that having chapters in different areas would serve the same purpose. If you wanted to have more than 3 groups in one local area, it sounds like you would need more than one account.

Stephanie Amada says:

This may be a very basic question, but I’m wondering about how to get people interested in a meetup that sounds like it’s a lecture. Maybe it’s just me, but I’m always looking at the meetups that are about doing something – going hiking, meeting for a movie, etc.

Really interesting topic – great ideas! Thanks Mel and PJ!!

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Good question Stephanie!
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I believe that when Mel talks about his 3 hour event, the educational piece isn’t the whole 3 hours. I think there’s also some masterminding and networking time.
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  Thanks, PJ. That makes sense.
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  The last time I hosted a 3 hour event in a Meetup Group, we actually went to play mini-golf and drive go-karts in-between the networking and lecture part of the event. I prefer “fun” things, but to translate into directly selling into a live event or program, I think I’ll have to rethink that strategy.
  
  I think 2 hour events are more my style, so I’ll have to experiment with that. Maybe Mel has some tips in his Meetup Master class?
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    Amethyst – I love that idea! I realize you’re saying it may not have worked that well, but I really like it. I’ve just started offering live events for 12th grade girls and their parents to help prepare them for the party scene/college hookup culture before they get to college. I’m not sure how that translates into a meetup topic. I also work with college students who I don’t think do much with meetup, but that’s where adding in something fun to do might work. Thanks!

JoLynn Braley says:

Wow, that’s very interesting – having different names for a meetup but promoting the same event in each one. Brilliant!!!

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But what about the other part of the question you started on the call PJ – how did he get 40 accounts, or 40 meetups? Since you can only have 3 meetups per email? Did he have other associates create those meetups under all of those emails? And do all 40 meetups promote the same event?
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  Does he also create new meetups on a rolling schedule? So instead of starting all 40 of those meetups today, he created 3 this week, then 3 next week, and so on? While all are promoting the same event?
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  Meetup is about to break out some premium unlimited membership level. I wonder if he got Beta’d into that?
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    That’s a good question too, Amethyst. I’m wondering if in order to have the 40 meetups, do you have to do it “under cover” in a way, because meetup might not like that? (??) But with the unlimited membership, that would be a different story?
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  He opened multiple accounts with different e-mail addresses.
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    He also mentioned that he has group leaders now, perhaps each leader opened 3 meetups under their e-mail address.
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      That makes more sense….
Linda Xochitl Avalos says:

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I found it so time consuming to repost every single meetup in the 3 groups I had. It’s not always a simple copy & paste. They also did away with a lot of text formatting so everything looks boring (My opinion). It’s not at all business friendly so. No assistant so I would do it all myself. I wonder what solutions there would be to this…?
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  I think Mel has his assistant do a lot of the tedious parts like this.
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    Looks like I will be hiring an assistant again then… 😀

Why separate accounts over Chapters?