Dear location, this are the requirements we have for our in-person “Social Media Creators & Influencer Meetup”

We organize meetups at Social Rising. Here are the requirements for small and medium ones, with large ones yet to come 😉

Requirements:

• The place should allow us to host the event between 6pm-10pm
• There should either be a bar serving drinks or a fridge so we can order drinks and provide them ourselves.
• It should be reachable by public transport, up to 10 mins by train/subway/tram. Take this requirement with a pinch of European salt, exceptions obviously for cities where there's no functioning public transport, like some US cities.
• There should never be a "no-laptop" policy in the area where we host the event. Generally we rarely have laptops out, but it should also not be forbidden in case some people want to get things done right there. Also we don't want to be in the "laptop-area", where everyone is quiet and we have conversations.
• If you serve food, you shall be ok with us meeting mostly for drinks. A few people usually grab a bite to eat, and if there's an orga-team we try to meet for dinner beforehand. In places like coworking spaces where there is no food we might even order some pizza pre-event for the orga-team.
• We are charging for the entrance, you should be ok with that and it should be allowed. All money goes into drinks anyways, and this requirement is to assure the quality of the participants.

Nice-to-have:

• WiFi

Consumption:

• If you're a bar: We're taking over the bill, with certain limits, obvioulsy. There has not been a (paid) event where we had to stop paying drinks yet, but I also don't want to promise everything 😉
• Minimums are fine, as long as you pay respect to the fact that we're drinks mostly, and hosting the events on days where the people have to get up for work the next day. The consumption won't be crazily high, there will also be people not drinking alcoholic beverages there usually.