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Starting A Clan
A comprehensive guide by
the staff of the STG...
The Weekly
Clan Founding Plan...
Pre Founding
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1 | Week 2 |
Week 3
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Week 4
Week 2 - Building the member
base
Any clan will tell
you this...in the first 4 weeks of a clans life you HAVE to
start recruiting, if you don't you will never catch up.
In the second week
of your clan being founded you will need to select a designated
person who will take charge of the recruiting for the clan. This
person has to be good in chat and also MOST importantly good in
the game you will be recruiting in. Most new recruits these days
will ask for a game with the recruiter before they join a clan.
If they manage to completely wipe out the recruiter then your
prospective member will walk away laughing thinking that your
entire clan is full of crap players and members.
Also, when you are
recruiting DON'T fall into the old GSA recruiting trap of
messaging people inside GSA. Most of the people who are without
clans in the established games in GameSpy have probably been
messaged by LOADS of different clans wanting them to join, I
know I have and I started to get sick of it. Recruiting in games
has to be based on what it used to be like...recruiting IN THE
ACTUAL GAME! Get into a server or game and start playing as
normal. If you see someone come in with no tag and who is
playing quite good then start chatting to them either in the
game or in the chat lobby. Also, don't start ramming your clan
and its site down there throat just casually mention that your
clan is looking for members. Another thing to remember is that
the STG also has it's Clan Recruiting pages...over 100 clans
have gained members since those pages were added.
One last thing to
remember when recruiting is to find out the gaming history of
the person you are recruiting, what is there clan past? Have
they been in the game long? Have they been in other clans?
In the second week
of your clans being online and playing you MUST have finished
your clan website by this time and either started working on, or
finished making a forum for your clan. It is also a good idea
for someone in your clan to start making signature pictures for
your members if they are going into other clans forums.
Signature pictures can be filled with loads of good info about
the person posting and the clan they are in.
Week 2 is the
starting point of your clans growth...
Week 3 is make or
break time...
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