How To Find Communities On

Meetup.com
How To Identify Groups

1. As soon as you open meetup.com, the first thing you want to do is go to

groups:

2. Select your area and where it says “within 50 miles of x”, you want to put
“any distance”:
3. In the search bar, type in your pre-identified keyword (we’ve used the
example of ‘singles’ for the example niche – dating):

4. Once you press enter, you’ll have access to a list of communities that have
people that you can target directly:
5. You want to select relevant communities that are at least a thousand
members strong. An excellent group here has 2000+ members, avoid groups that
have less than 1000 members:

6. Avoid irrelevant groups even if they have a lot of members – a good

example is this group that shows up for the keyword ‘coaching’ and is
24,000+ members, but is not relevant for us as it is not actually coaching-
related:
Tips

● When you sort by recommended, you’ll generally find groups that are most
relevant to your keyword, but not necessarily the ones with the most
members. So in that case, you’ll have to manually search (a lot) through the
groups till you find relevant groups that have 1000 member or more. That’s
the golden rule, that it should have 1000 members or more.
 ● The only exception to this rule is when a group is exactly targeted towards
your target niche. For example, imagine if your keyword was ‘widows’. If it
were a really obscure niche I might accept a group that’s closer to 500
members than 1000 members, but only if a particular group was targeted
exactly towards my niche.

Now that you know how to choose a group, let’s get started!

● Click on a group (1000+ members), and log it into your JV Hitlist. You don’t
have to put this in your manual because they know where to log in, but they
need to know where to log these connections on their hit list:
You have to add at least 3 things about the group you have chosen: Name, link, size
of the group. Later on, they can add the owner (we spoke about how to identify the
owner of the group you have selected).

What A Promotion Looks Like On Meetup.com

● When it comes to promotion on meetup, you have to go to the second section of

the blog of the group you have chosen, and you can see the past events. Those
are the type of events in which the promotions will be taking place, and these
events will be announced by the owners to the members.

● You should know the difference between an event and an announcement. An

announcement to the group looks like an email to the group from the owner of
the group, and any owner of a group knows how to announce an event to the
members of the group.
And this is it; this is what you need to know about meetup!

How To Identify The Group Owners

1. You can find the owner of a group by clicking on the group and going to
the page of that group, and finding the “organiser”.
2. To reach the owner of the group, you can always message them, but in my
experience that doesn’t work on meetup, because they get bombarded with
messages if the group is any bigger than a hundred people or so. So because
they are seen as a leader of this big thing, they get messages all the time from
members, asking them to promote them, or run events, or any number of other
things.
3. So what we do instead is click on the profile of the organiser, who is the
owner of the group. Then we take a look at their profile, and I *could*
message him on meetup, but a better way to reach them is to try and find
them on Facebook.

4. Take a close look at the group owner from their profile, so you can
recognise them on Facebook easily. Here I make a note of how this guy
looks, what his hair is like, what his facial features are like.
5. Next, I’ll search for their name on Facebook, and see if I can identify
them. In this case, and in most cases, it is fairly easy.
6. Now that I’ve found them on Facebook, I’d just add them on Facebook as a
friend, and send them a message there directly.

7. We generally try to find them on both Facebook and LinkedIn, for easy
reach. It’s easier to reach them on Facebook or LinkedIn, as there’s less
power play involved, as it is not immediately linked that they own this massive
meetup group.

8. Sometimes, finding the owner is a little bit trickier than the process we’ve
just showed you. In this group, for example, you have a team that organizes the
group. Click on this to see the list of organizers.
9. In cases like this, look at the “organiser”. They are the ones who have
founded the group, ultimately own it. The “co-organisers” help them run the
group, so you need to identify the “organiser”. Once you identify the organiser,
you can follow the same process as above.
10. Sometimes, the organiser you are looking at, they can look slightly
‘generic’. So it becomes difficult to identify them over at Facebook or
LinkedIn.
11. I will then try to see if they have photos that I can see over on Facebook.
If they do, and they look similar, then I can add them and message them,
since I am pretty sure they are the owner of the group.

12. If the organiser doesn’t reply to your message, you might consider then
approaching a co-organiser, add the as a friend, and get them to introduce you
to the owner of the group. The owners of the group will pay more attention to
that if the direct messages aren’t working.