This is my first post on the forum. It will be a simple question…what do clans, groups, and Spartan Companies prefer as their method of recruitment? Give an explanation of why you do it that way. Leave your response in the comments. This could also help groups that are just starting learn how to gain members or help groups that have stalled try another method
I cant say I’ve ever done anything PERSONALLY but I dont get spam messages like I used to back in Reach and the early part of 4. Probably due to the edits to the messaging system that makes it harder to send out mass messages.
I think its mostly recruitment lobbies, though ever since Baus and IX Auxilary started doing clan trolling videos those usually turn into nothing but bloodbaths and unholy circle worshiping/bowing stuff that never goes anywhere.
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> This is my first post on the forum. It will be a simple question…what do clans, groups, and Spartan Companies prefer as their method of recruitment? Give an explanation of why you do it that way. Leave your response in the comments. This could also help groups that are just starting learn how to gain members or help groups that have stalled try another method
I’m head of recruitment and foreign affairs for Sierra Company. I’ve been in this position almost a year. Sierra is a military clan, with a very specific niche of players. That makes recruiting challenging; only about 20% of the recruits I convince to join actually make it through the process. If you recruit enough people, you’ll start to realize that most have the same concerns about clans; they want one that does activities all the time, low drama, and clans that are OK with them being away for long periods of time.
Here are my methods of coming into initial contact with recruits:
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Waypoint. We’ve got one recruitment thread, dating back to 2016. Recruits see it, they think “Oh these guys have been up a long time, they must be doing something right”. Ideally your Waypoint page will get you a recruit every other week, and require very little effort to maintain. Sierra’s Waypoint has something like 60-80 replies. linkImportant to note for Waypoint recruiting: if you don’t have at least a paragraph on your first message, you won’t get any recruits.
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Recruiting lobbies: do these at night and on weekends. Most people who would try to troll you are associated with a military or UNSC clan, and will be training with that clan on weekend nights. It’s also good to have people spawn in cells, or better yet, not spawn in at all.
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Website: If you’re trying to appear professional, a clan site is a must-have. Remember that a site will rarely get recruits on their own, but will impress new recruits as well as give them a single place to go to get all of the info about your group. When I started Sierra’s site it was just a copy/pasted version of our Spartan Company bio. Generally a site needs to have a lot of pictures, and have lots of information conveyed in a short amount of text. sierracompany.weebly.com4. Recruiting videos: Sierra Company has made something like 3 or 4, but most were low quality and only got a couple of recruits. Currently we have two up, one of which has 955 views, and the other which is unlisted has 600ish. Videos work like a website, they impress new recruits and increase the number of recruits that will actually stick around. We actually found a way to transfer a video on YouTube to a file saved on the Xbox cloud, so we share the video to all of our new recruits.
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Mass messaging: used to be very useful, now not so much. I’d rather not say where I find gamertags to message, but it’s most efficient to message one person at a time via a copy pasted XBL message on a PC. You can mass message about 200 people in an hour and a half, which will probably be about 5-10 recruits. If you need recruits, and you need them quickly, mass messaging is the way to go.
If anyone wants tips recruiting or something, or has a method I haven’t mentioned, feel free to message me.