Investigating The 4 Hour Work Week Meetup
Dave Ledoux
I had a fascinating evening last night.
A couple of months ago I was researching ghost hunting in Toronto. Google led me to a paranormal investigation group that met monthly through an online web portal called Meetup.
Meetup is a power tool for creating events. There are over 78,000 groups using it in hundreds of cities in dozens of countries. There are meet-ups for Dungeons and Dragons fans, entrepreneurs, knitters, poker players and every imaginable topic. Last night I attended the meet-up for fans of Tim Ferriss’s #1 best-selling book, The 4 Hour Work Week.
There were 6 of us that met at a local coffee shop for 2 hours. Everyone was an entrepreneur. One was a former engineer who owns a small business consultancy. One was a building subcontractor. The two ladies who attended were in real estate and seminar promotion. Dave, the Meetup organizer was a sales and marketing freelancer. A very eclectic group, and it made for an interesting evening.
We mulled over concepts like dreamlining and leverage. Hiring freelancers and personal assistants to gain more leverage and more hours in the day to focus on high payoff activities sparked lively dialogue. It was great to get out of the home office and around other entrepreneurs. For many of my readers who have internet businesses, unplugging for a few hours to deal with real live humans again should be at the top of the priority list!
Have you used Meetup before? What groups do you attend? What are your thoughts? Share a comment or leave a message in the discussion forum!
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Posted on: Thursday, October 11, 2007 at 10:11 am 
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