It’s been 4 months since I launched Adelaide Green Drinks. In those 4 months our attendance went from 20+ to 3!

Nothing to brag about. I am trying to understand what’s happening here. Why is it not picking up in Adelaide. Is it me? Is it the city? Is it marketing?

I thought it can grow organically through word of mouth. A slow build up but a sure one. We have a slow build down to death!

Now the SBpractices guys are starting Adelaide Sustainability Drinks in November here. It will be interesting to see how they fare. My guess is it will do good.

I think people in Adelaide will respond to a professional organization trying to do this. Why come to a meetup organised by a guy called “Suhit” and who works in a government department and is young! Cannot be true.

Well, that is my analysis and I could be wrong. Time will tell.

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.