One of the best ways to ensure that your members will find you at a Meetup is to make a sign. You can print off the table-top sign found under the "Promote!" section of your local Meetup group, or you can make your own! Even a sign handwritten in marker on large plain white piece of paper saying, "Meetup Here!" will put your members at ease and help them find your event.
Still, if you would like to go fancier, Anita Rowland of the Seattle and Bellevue Weblogger Meetups made this sign for her groups:
Here's Anita's description of how she made it:
Supplies:
- 20" x 30" sheet of foamcore or posterboard
- red craft foam sheets
- Self-stick easel for the back
- white paint (I used a large white paint marker)
- craft glue
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I bought a sheet of foamcore and cut it in half (because I wanted two
signs, one for each group). I cut out shapes of the red craft foam (one
with rounded top corners, one with rounded bottom corners, and two
narrow strips of the same length) to form the red "meetup" badge. The
top strip was bigger.
I glued the red craft foam down and painted the word "MEETUP" on the top strip using white paint. I had to do a few coats because the foam sort of soaks up the paint.
I outlined the name of the group in the inner white area and filled in with sharpie markers. I ended up using several dark colors because the markers ran out! You could certainly use any desktop publishing software or word processing program to print out the group name and attach it, but I liked the hand-written touch.
Then I stuck one or two of the self-stick easel back thingies to the back. Finished! total cost for two signs was very reasonable.
Now I'm confident that people won't miss the meetups because they couldn't find us.
Have you made a sign? Want to share your ideas with other members? Join this discussion in the Organizer's Forum!
