"None of those are direct sells to business users. These need to be updated to highlight meetups that appeal to business users with call to actions like: Meet

"None of those are direct sells to business users. These need to be updated to highlight meetups that appeal to business users with call to actions like: Meet local entrepreneurs Grow your business Improve your marketing Learn about taxes Get more clients" One my of biggest complaints of Meetup (which are many), is that many (social) Meetups nowadays are basically advertisements. It is not about building a community, it is about having a meetup to advertise their services. The huge monthly fee is part of the reason. This article basically wants Meetup to move more into that direction, which I would not be surprised if it did. There is also an increase of tech meetups whose organizers is not a technical person, but a sales person. These meetups also tend to use eventbrite instead of the meetup RSVP interface so that they can harvest emails and sales leads.