Adelaide Green Drinks is off to a great start. Even though I started sending out invites just last week we managed to get about 14 people. Out of the 14, there were 3 interesting cases which will determine the way we will grow in the future.
One person came with his friend, another found us through greendrinks.org and the third one was invited by a friend who did not make it to the Green Drinks.
Overall, people were happy with the event and the venue. I stayed back with a couple of friend till 8:30 PM and then headed back home.
The next meeting is on schedule on the 12th (second Tuesday) of August.
I am contacting some other Green Drinks founders in other cities to learn about how they grew the network. I think we will have a bigger event next time.
Overall I am very happy to have got this started.
This is the first I’ve heard of Green Drinks in Adelaide but I am aware of a drinks that a firm called Sustainable Business Practices puts on in Melbourne, which is their base. I know that that has been hugely successful and can get up to 200 people. I think the name of the drinks will make a difference as people will perceive ‘green’ differently to ‘sustainable’, the latter being a bit of a buzz (althougth largely misunderstood) word.
Good luck with it and congratulations for starting this.
Suzanne