Recruitment is our life blood - here's how you can help! (Please Read!)

A wise man once said "A guild that isn't growing, is a guild that is dying".

Recruiting is an important part of sustaining our Chapters. Luckily recruiting is one of the areas that everyone can and is encouraged to help out. Before I give some tips on how you can help recruit, a little bit of a word on what type of person we are looking for.

What type of recruit does the Aureus Knights look for?

This one is a lot simpler than you might imagine: Someone you'd like to play with. The thing that sets Aureus Knights apart from other guilds is that we are a community of friends that lives beyond any one game. The idea is to create connections and friendships that will last not just in this chapter but in the next and the next one and who knows, maybe you'll even invite a Knight or two to your wedding.

So when out in the world playing ask yourself: Is this person I'm about to pitch the guild to someone I and my fellow Knights would enjoy having around?

And now, how can you help out with recruiting?

Always be on the prowl in game

When you are out grouping or questing be on the look out for potential recruits. This doesn't mean you have to be selling the guild to every single person you see but if you find someone who stands out, even if they are already wearing a guild tag, mention that you are part of a great guild that is always looking for a solid member. You can point them towards the website, an officer, or our ventrilo. Anything you can do to create a connection with them that keeps us in their mind and makes it easy for them to follow up.

Bump Them Threads

One of our most reliable sources of recruitment is our recruitment threads on various forums around the internet. We'd ask that our members "constructively bump" these threads as often as they are comfortable and in a manner that doesn't make you look like a dirty spammer.
http://forums.archeagegame.com/showt...950#post540950
http://archeagesource.com/topic/4901...hed-guild-lfm/
http://www.reddit.com/r/archeageguil...s_knights_fun/
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/g...420503#6454302

Tell Your Friends

Probably the easiest to do but most often overlooked recruitment method - TELL YOUR FRIENDS! Do you have some buddies who are playing? Point them here and get them involved in our community. You love it here, why wouldn't they?

A final thought...

Recruitment really is something that everyone can get involved with. I know people have different comfort levels but any contribution you make to bringing fresh blood in to the guild goes a long way.

Another really important thing to remember is that despite we are a rather large guild it's never about numbers. Quality should always be our primary driver when it comes to recruits.

We have a new reddit post:
http://www.reddit.com/r/archeageguil...s_knights_fun/

Please upvote!!!

MMORPG.com recruitment post added:
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/g...420503#6454302

Please bump all the things!

MMORPG.com recruitment post added:
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/g...420503#6454302

Please bump all the things!

http://forums.archeagegame.com/showt...640#post339640
http://archeagesource.com/topic/4901...hed-guild-lfm/
http://www.reddit.com/r/archeageguil...s_knights_fun/
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/g...420503#6454302

Was messing around with paint and made this sign. Let me know what you think and yes its bright. Can add or change stuff with it, but was thinking about having it so when release can place it on the wall of the houses or at the farming gardens as a plug for the guild?

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Help us out! Upvote our podcast post on reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/archeage/com...hile_you_wait/

I went to the link but it said it's removed?

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Originally Posted by Nalani

I went to the link but it said it's removed?

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Yeah they removed it - I really dislike the approach to moderation on /r/archeage - it's k. I'm going to buy up all their ad space this weekend and flood the subreddit like it or not :D

http://www.reddit.com/r/ArcheAgeGuilds should probably post there. A lot of gaming subreddits split up the 'recruitment' posts so their is no bias, clutter, etc.

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Originally Posted by Fattierob

http://www.reddit.com/r/ArcheAgeGuilds should probably post there. A lot of gaming subreddits split up the 'recruitment' posts so their is no bias, clutter, etc.

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I followed their rules and stripped out any and all mentions of the guild in my post - I played by their rules and they still deleted it. It's a really REALLY poorly managed sub imo. So now I will fix the problem with money.

Did they ever tell you why they removed it, then?

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Originally Posted by Fattierob

Did they ever tell you why they removed it, then?

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No .. they never did.

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Originally Posted by RJO

No .. they never did.

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You should ask then. Maybe it was something stupid.

It never hurts to ask why.

I bumped what I could. I R HELPING!

I bumped on reddit with my own positive impression of the guild so far :)

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Originally Posted by RJO

I followed their rules and stripped out any and all mentions of the guild in my post - I played by their rules and they still deleted it. It's a really REALLY poorly managed sub imo. So now I will fix the problem with money.

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Money Talks, Bull**** Walks ;)

It looks like all downvotes have been disabled in that sub as well. The people running it are asshats for sure.

New reddit post! Many upvotes! handle them!

http://www.quickmeme.com/img/da/da4e...a992d151fa.jpg

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Originally Posted by RJO

New reddit post! Many upvotes! handle them!

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nevermind i cannot read. upvoted.

THE MOST IMPORTANT POST BY FAR IS NOW UP:
http://forums.archeagegame.com/showt...950#post540950

This is the post on our official server forum. Please PLEASE PLEASE everyone take the time to put a thoughtful comment on this thread. 75% (at least) of our go forward recruits will come via this post!

Posted!

Posted.

Bumped.

Now's the time to keep recruiting going! Make sure to keep things bumped as constructively as possible.

The server forum has become somewhat trolly, so if another guild or someone from the East makes a post in our thread, please do not respond to it. If it warrants a response, one of the officers will deal with it.

We could use some additional constructive bumping on the server forums!

Just an FYI I posted a new /r/archeageguilds post since we can post one every 7 days and the last one was 9 days old (and RJO is on leave)

http://www.reddit.com/r/archeageguil...s_knights_fun/ is the new link

Another week another new post - https://www.reddit.com/r/archeagegui...s_knights_fun/

Upvoted the reddit. Also please everyone bump our AA forum thread here: http://forums.archeagegame.com/showt...950#post540950