{"id":125,"date":"2011-06-18T12:06:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T16:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acheron-guild.com\/zosima\/?page_id=125"},"modified":"2011-06-18T12:06:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T16:06:46","slug":"a-guide-to-recruitment-for-new-guilds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.acheron-guild.com\/zosima\/guild-relations-archive\/recruiting-guides\/a-guide-to-recruitment-for-new-guilds\/","title":{"rendered":"A Guide to Recruitment For New Guilds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Copied from the original posted by Icon:<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nA Guide for New Guilds to Successfully Recruit Cohesive Members<\/p>\n<p>I  believe the best thing you can do to promote your guild for the  purpose  of recruitment is entirely dependant on what you want your  guild to be.  So the first thing you need to do is identify Who We Want  To Be and  What We Need To Get There.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to make a fun guild of  friends who go beat up on mobs in  5-20 man instances you&#8217;re going to  have an entirely different  recruitment processto a PvP or hardcore PvE  guild. So the first thing  you need to do is work out what you want your  guild to turn into.<\/p>\n<p>After you&#8217;ve identified Who We Want To Be you  move onto the process  of recruitment. At this point you should be able  to work out what sort  of people you want. It&#8217;s important you don&#8217;t just  go recruiting anyone  and everyone because you&#8217;re trying to build a  functional and cohesive  guild. No matter what type of guild you want,  you&#8217;ll always want people  to get along with a minimal amount of drama.  If you&#8217;re recruiting  everyone, you&#8217;ll soon end up having people with  different goals and  ideologies from your own. You also need to be aware  of other  recruitment issues which are going to save you having other  problems  down the track, as such I would suggest thinking about the  following  things:<\/p>\n<p>What sort of people do we want in the guild:<\/p>\n<p>Hardcore 10 hour a day raiders?<br \/>\nGreat community people who want to kick back and chat?<br \/>\nPvP players with a desire to hit HWL?<br \/>\nCasual raiders who can afford 10-15 hours a week?<br \/>\n&#8230; or combination of the above.<\/p>\n<p>How many people do we need:<\/p>\n<p>MC, BWL and AQ40 all require a minimum of 40 hardcore raiders to   keep pushing content. 55 is usually considered optimum to give people   time off.<\/p>\n<p>The more casual your playerbase, the more people  you need to get the  minimum amount of people for an instance at any  time. Casual guilds  often run at 80-110 players for the above mentioned  instances.<br \/>\nHaving more people requires training more people, so you&#8217;ll generally progress slower with 80 people than 55 people.<\/p>\n<p>Some guilds are small and full of friends and tap out around 10-30   people. They often join with other small guilds to run the 40 and 20   man instances. Also they often have a PvP focus.<\/p>\n<p>There are  also many Zerg Guilds out there, which have a huge amount  of members  (usually 200+) that somehow manage to keep together despite  dramas. In a  sense they reach a critical mass at which their  recruitment sustains  the losses they suffer from the inherant problems  with that size. These  guilds can actually be great fun and can allow  exposure to a lot of  players, but they can also be very hard to manage  as a guild leader.<\/p>\n<p>What class structure do we need:<\/p>\n<p>For 40 man&#8217;s you&#8217;ll need at least 3 of everything. For 40 man raids many people suggest a minimum of 15 healers.<\/p>\n<p>Some fights also are made a lot easier with a specific amount of   certain classes. Some examples from the earlier endgame instances would   be Garr and Moam (3-4 warlocks), Major Domo (3-4 mages) and many fights   were 3+ tanks are needed like Hakkar and Tony the Tiger. So eventually   instances you want to run will drive your recruitment.<\/p>\n<p>Dedicated Main Tanks are important because having them equiped is  going  to make your life easier. You don&#8217;t want fickle players as your  main  tanks if you want to make progress. You&#8217;ll want atleast 3 good  main  tanks in the medium-term to deal with MC, ZG and AQ20. In BWL  tanks  suddenly have to really step up comparatively and this is a block  for a  lot of emerging guilds.<\/p>\n<p>Always having enough heals is  important. While some fights require  certain amounts of other classes,  every instance run needs its share of  Priests, Druids, Shaman and  Paladins. Especially priests. On that note  be careful of the priests you  recruit because it&#8217;s a class (along with  main tanks) that has high  burnout.<\/p>\n<p>You know you need more of a class when you don&#8217;t  have enough of them  constantly signing up for raids. Even if you have 30  shaman, if only 2  are dedicated (or if 25 are alts) then you&#8217;ll need to  recruit more of  them.<\/p>\n<p>One skilled and dedicated player is  worth his weight in gold. If you  have a couple of these people you might  be able to do without extras  in that class.<\/p>\n<p>As you gear  up, your requirements in the lower endgame zones will  become more fluid  and there are always alternative strategies you can  try to get past mobs  you don&#8217;t have the right class structure for.  However it&#8217;s worth noting  that the common strategies are common because  they&#8217;re efficient, easy  to learn and their effective. Don&#8217;t make life  too hard for yourself just  because you&#8217;re short a warlock.<\/p>\n<p>What timezones and commitment do we need from members:<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d be surprised how many times I hear about guilds having a   mass-exodus of players because the raids were starting to late or early   for East Coast or West Coast players.<\/p>\n<p>Will you recruit  members from outside the USA? I&#8217;m from Australia  and my guilds been very  good about accomodating our times, but at the  same time it&#8217;s always  been the case that the Aussies and South Africans  in our guild have to  do the most shuffling. If we don&#8217;t like that, we  need to find another  guild.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a minimum amount of hours you want people to raid a week?<\/p>\n<p>Are there times you need people available, like Friday nights, Sunday afternoons, or some weekday evenings?<\/p>\n<p>If there are times you and your core members play alot, that&#8217;s a   good time to be looking for members to recruit. If you&#8217;re on holiday and   playing during the early morning regularly for a week, don&#8217;t recruit   the people who are only on between 1am and 3am unless they understand   your guilds raid times.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have an age requirement:<\/p>\n<p>Do you talk smack over forums and ventrilo? If so then you need to   consider the ages you&#8217;re recruiting. Mommy&#8217;s going to pull the plug on   little Timmy if he starts talking about how Razorgores a real arsehat.<\/p>\n<p>Times people can play are influenced by their age too. School   holidays see&#8217;s recruitment go up and Finals see&#8217;s guilds dropping in   size. Also people who work 7am-9pm at tough jobs are going to be more   likely to burnout if there&#8217;s a weekday commitment in your raid times.<\/p>\n<p>After  you&#8217;ve thought about all that junk you&#8217;ll probably start  realizing what  the best way is to go about recruiting people. For  example a zerg guild  doesn&#8217;t have to be fussy about who it takes, so  methods like spamming  ingame channels, allowing a lot of your member  invite people and posting  recruitment messages on the forums are valid  methods. If you did the  same thing while wanting you make an elite PvP  force, you&#8217;d have many  members quitting within a week, undermining your  recruitment.<\/p>\n<p>So finally we come to the advice about things you can do to get more   members. Everything here is tempered by the ideas above. For the most   part though I think these are pretty inclusive ideas about how to get   more people. Just remember while reading these that it all comes down to<\/p>\n<p>Word of Mouth:<br \/>\nIn WoW there is a limit to the amount and type of advertising you  can  do for your guild. Because the realms are big and there&#8217;s always  some  guild that someone else thinks is better (many of these people are  more  than happy to inform you of their opinions) your guild can easily  go  unrecognised through-out the community. What you can do is get the  word  out there about who you are and what you are about. People will  come  to you if they think your goals and their needs can work together.<\/p>\n<p>Retaining Members:<br \/>\nGetting people to signup is relatively easy. Making people stay is   another thing entirely. If you recruit people under false assumptions   about your guild, they&#8217;ll drop you faster than you can say &#8220;We&#8217;re using   ZeroSum DKP.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Practical Advice for Recruitment<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s  my list of things you can do to generate more interest in  your guild  and recruit the right people to make a succesful guild.  Please remember  that not all of these things apply to all the guilds  out there. Most of  this is aimed at newer guilds trying to compete on  well established  servers with existing guild structures. So take it all  with a good dose  of criticism and use what you want to make your own  decisions about how  to start making teh ub3r guild!<\/p>\n<p>1. Be seen in the game<br \/>\nPeople  can only join a guild they know about. Obviously if you&#8217;re  around more  and your current members are more active then you&#8217;ll be  exposing your  guild name to more people. More than this though, try to  be where the  sorts of players you want to recruit are likely to be. Be  active in the  activities on the realm which are services by those  players.<\/p>\n<p>Be a  voice on the forums and in chat but always keep to your primary  guild  ethos and character. If you&#8217;re into raiding, then chat about  raiding  with people. If you&#8217;re a PvP guild, then be talking smack with  the other  PvP people. It doesn&#8217;t matter if the people you talk with are  guilded,  this is about generating interest in You and The Guilds.<\/p>\n<p>Always remember: People will judge the guild you are in by the actions you take.<\/p>\n<p>2. Play with the type of player you want to recruit<br \/>\nIf  you want to start a new guild from scratch with mostly new-to-60   players then you should be hitting up Dire Maul, Lower and Upper Black   Rock Spire, Stratholme, Scholomance and Black Rock Depths. If you&#8217;re PvP   based then spend as much time as possible in battlegrounds. If you&#8217;re   end-game based then head to Silithus and meet the people who are   grinding for rep there.<\/p>\n<p>Always be looking for people to group  with, guilded or not, to  generate more positive word of mouth.  Generating a reputation as being  good at what you do goes a long way to  getting people to come to you.  When people know what you&#8217;re about as a  guild then they&#8217;ll be more  likely to come to you seeking a guild with  shared values.<\/p>\n<p>This also means you need to be available. If  you&#8217;re in a  battleground and someone asks you to come on a run with some  potential  new recruits and you&#8217;re guild has a PvE focus, then get you  need to  leave battlegrounds and join the group. Meeting people is half  the  battle.<\/p>\n<p>3. Get a support team<br \/>\nAppoint some people to become recruitment  officers. You don&#8217;t need to  define the position if you don&#8217;t want too  but you do need to get people  actively performing this function. The  amount of people you give  invite priviledges too is going to be variable  with the type of guild  you are and the people you have in your support  team. Whatever you do  make sure you&#8217;ve got some people who you trust  around you to help you  make decisions and to help you recruit.<\/p>\n<p>You  can&#8217;t be everywhere in WoW and, as I said above, you need to get  your  name out there. Recruitment officers (or whatever you want to  call them)  can help you spread your influence. You want motivated  people who are  enthusiastic about the Who We Want To Be element of your  guild in these  roles.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally these people can help you setup things like  websites,  ventrilo, looting systems and all that other stuff that guilds  do.  Remember that recruitment is an active process when you startup  your  guild. It requires time and energy to get to the point where you  don&#8217;t  need to advertise anymore for potential recruits. The more  like-minded  and suitable people actively persuing that goal, the more  success  you&#8217;ll have getting there.<\/p>\n<p>4. Be honest with people<br \/>\nIf  someone asks about joining your guild, make sure they know what  they&#8217;re  getting into. If you have a lot of people join your guild under  the  pretense of you having a 200 man ventrilo server and a website  with a  bazillion features and you then fail to deliver on them, you&#8217;re  making  backwards progress.<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t have a functional and cohesive  guild without players who  share goals with you. Make sure that when  someone asks you about the  guild you let them know politely what your  guild is about so that they  can decide if the guild is right for them.  If they don&#8217;t make the right  decision about that they won&#8217;t be around  for long and they may  generate a lot of drama and bad feelings when they  leave, not to  mention they may take other members with them.<\/p>\n<p>5. Be picky about who you recruit<br \/>\nThe  people you recruit are going to be representing your guild. They&#8217;re   going to be the people that advertise your guild for you. If you&#8217;ve  got a  bunch of knobjockey&#8217;s who can&#8217;t speak english without inserting  random  numbers and capitolizing every second vowel, then you&#8217;re  advertising  yourself as a guild of 13 year olds who ZOmGPwN7 in pvp.<\/p>\n<p>Satisfy  yourself that the people you recruit meet the standards for  the guild  you want to create but also be flexible and not to quick to  judge. If  you only have 2 priests and just can&#8217;t seem to get anymore,  then it  might be worth leveling, gearing and training up some level 56  shadow  priest who at least seems to know how to play.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the best  recruits might seem wrong at first. You can always  run a recruitment  trial with them before inviting them. Many guilds  have an On Trial  membership position to give people a shot and work out  if that two-way  relationship between Guild and Member fulfills the  needs of both people.<\/p>\n<p>Even  if you&#8217;re a zerg guild and will take basically anyone you need  to be  careful about who you tag. If you sell your guild to a group of  raiders  and they join your zerg guild on the assumption you&#8217;re running  BWL 15  hours a week, when you&#8217;re not, you might be in for a big spam of  hate in  the forums and on the channels in game. Weigh the risks when  recruiting  people and keep everything on the plate so people know what  they&#8217;re  getting into and you shouldn&#8217;t avoid most of those problems.<\/p>\n<p>Always  remember that first decision you made: Who We Want To Be!  Don&#8217;t be  afraid to change and mutate you guild over time but make sure  your  members will be able to deal with these changes, otherwise it&#8217;s  exodus  time again with all that negative karma-drama. All that gets  spread by  word of mouth too.<\/p>\n<p>6. Let it be known you&#8217;re recruiting<br \/>\nMost people will be more likely  to approach you if they think you will  consider their application. Be  careful about how you let people know  that you&#8217;re recruiting because  people can easilly get the wrong  impression. Raiding players often won&#8217;t  want to join Zerg Guilds. With  that in mind, if you&#8217;re a raiding guild  you don&#8217;t want to be using: \/1  Incredible Guild of Power is now  recruiting all races and classes! PST  for invite! as a recruitment  method because that&#8217;s just going to turn  off the people you want to  recruit.<\/p>\n<p>Most newly formed guilds will recruit from the people  they play  with. If you run an instance with someone and they seem a  great person,  then tell them that if they&#8217;re looking for a guild you&#8217;d  love them to  join. Be on the lookout for players who fit your guilds  style and talk  to them. Tell them to mention you to any like minded  friends they have  who are looking for a new guild.<\/p>\n<p>You can post  on realm forums and in public channels as well as IRC  and other public  boards but remember to define Who We Want To Be and  not mislead people.  Consider saying how many people you&#8217;re looking for  and of what class in  such posts. Include information your guild, this  stops you wasting your  time from applicants who don&#8217;t fit your style  and they time for applying  to a guild which doesn&#8217;t suit them. Here are  2 example forum posts to  demonstrate the difference:<\/p>\n<p>Forum Post 1<br \/>\nSubject: Incredible Guild of Power is Recruiting!<\/p>\n<p>Q u o t e:<\/p>\n<p>Incredible Guild of Power is now recruiting all classes. We&#8217;re a fun guild who wants to do endgame instances.<\/p>\n<p>Send a message to an IGoP officer ingame for more details!<\/p>\n<p>Forum Post 2:<br \/>\nSubject: IGoP: [i]Limited Recruitment for EndGame Raiding[\/<\/p>\n<p>Q u o t e:<\/p>\n<p>Incredible Guild of Power is looking to recruit 5 Priests and 3   Paladins to help us progress further in Molten Core. We also currently   have limited recruitment open for other classes, my contact details are   below if you&#8217;d like to enquire further.<\/p>\n<p>IGoP is looking for  people who can raid for around 2-4 times a week  for 5 hours, mostly on  the weekend but with some weekday raids. We&#8217;d  like experienced players  but what we need the most are people commited  to help us progress into  new content.<\/p>\n<p>Our guild has a great website with forums,  profiles and eqdkp. We  use ventrilo and can help you set it up (Mac&#8217;s  too!), you don&#8217;t need a  mic but we will require you to listen in during  raids. For loot we&#8217;re  using a zerosum DKP system. You can see the  website for more details.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to apply please  visit our webpage. If you have any  questions you can whisper or message  Icon ingame. Feel free to enquire  in this thread as well as I&#8217;ll be  keeping my eye on it.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your time,<\/p>\n<p>Icon<br \/>\nIPoG Recruitment Officer<br \/>\n=====================================================<br \/>\nContact Info<br \/>\nIngame Recruitment: Icon, Fred, Jane, Eris<br \/>\nwebsite: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.igopguild.net\/\">www.IGoPguild.net<\/a> email: <a href=\"mailto:icon@myemailaddy.com\">icon@myemailaddy.com<\/a><br \/>\naim: IconFromIGoP icq: 37645972525<br \/>\n=====================================================<\/p>\n<p>The  second forum post is going to get you more accurate responses  from  people. It demonstrates who the guild is, what it&#8217;s looking for  and  tells you alot about the character of the guild. You can feel free  to  use the basics of that if you like or you can craft something more   suited to your own guilds style. The point to take from this is that the   second example communicates the guild&#8217;s ethos strongly and isn&#8217;t  likely  to just be passed over as guildspam.<\/p>\n<p>7. Keep your current members happy and enthusiastic<\/p>\n<p>If you lose  the members you&#8217;ve just recruited, or the ones you&#8217;ve  had since the  beginning, then you&#8217;re losing the recruitment game. Every  member of your  guild is an asset not only for raiding but also for  recruiting. They  wear your guilds name like a walking billboard.<\/p>\n<p>You need to keep  making progress even if recruitment is slow, if  that&#8217;s what your guild  expects. In the early stages of raiding life you  might need to try  organise something with another small guild to get  some more momentum in  zones like ZG, AQ20 and MC. Keep working on  getting out there into the  game and having fun through whatever means  you find. It&#8217;s vitally  important.<\/p>\n<p>A happy and enthusiastic guild, even a small one, is  in a prime  position to expand their numbers. If you&#8217;re guild members are  meh about  the current state of affairs they&#8217;re not going to be putting  in 110%  effort to improving the guild. They&#8217;re bad billboards and other  people  will notice and be turned off.<\/p>\n<p>Conclusion<br \/>\nSo that&#8217;s  it. Way more than I originally intended to post but then  again, I think  it&#8217;s mostly relevant. As you can probably tell I think  your best shot  is to just go out there and play the game and be active  in the  community.<\/p>\n<p>People in MMO&#8217;s who are likely to join guilds go out  and look for  guilds to join. They are presented with a multitude of  options and one  of them, that a lot of people enjoy, is being there to  help build a  guild up from its roots. Those are the first sorts of  people i&#8217;d be  targeting and trying to recruit. Many hands make light  work as they  say.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck with your guild recruitment, and if  you have any questions  you can reply here and i&#8217;ll try get back to you.  Alternatively email  me: <a href=\"mailto:wil@westnet.com.au\">wil@westnet.com.au<\/a> or get in touch with me ingame on US Bloodscalp as Icon.<\/p>\n<p>Additional Advice and Comments:<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t Oversell or Be Pushy<br \/>\nCordella, Post #17 of this thread*<br \/>\n&#8220;Another piece of advice might be to avoid overselling- there are  lots  of players who will become hostile to a guild just because they  tell  you all too often that they&#8217;re recruiting. You don&#8217;t want to annoy   potential recruits, you should, like you mentioned in your guide, be   focused on playing with them and showing them your stuff in action.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Poaching and Recruitment On Servers With Stable Populations<br \/>\nSee Post #26 in this Thread, on Page #2**<br \/>\neMail Correspondence with Angela<br \/>\nAngela contacted me via email with some specific questions that  came as  a result of being on a server where it was very hard to recruit   people. Specifically she wanted to know how to get more people   interested in her guild without poaching them, and how to convince the   non-guilded people to give her guild a go when they seemed to be waiting   for entry into a servers uber-guild. Our dialogue is linked in this   forum.<\/p>\n<p>*previous thread<br \/>\n**reproduced below due to thread loss<\/p>\n<p>This  is a copy of some correspondence between Angela and myself  regarding  this document. She had some specific questions which I think  might be  useful to other people, especially those who are having a hard  time  recruiting on older server.<\/p>\n<p>Everything is used with permission.<\/p>\n<p>Question:<\/p>\n<p>Q u o t e:<br \/>\n1. Small guilds want to stay small-guilds, and almost every 50+ is   dedicated to these small guilds. No one wants a merger, and the alliance   that we are working on is somewhat inactive. I don&#8217;t want to poach   people from other guilds, but it appears that&#8217;s the ONLY way people can   possibly get larger guilds.<\/p>\n<p>Answer:<br \/>\nThe guild I&#8217;m in  was full of people under 50+ for 2 months too. We&#8217;re  not 250+ unique  accounts and we&#8217;re happy at that level, we hit 320  accounts at one point  but we&#8217;ve shrunk since then to a size we find  manageable.<\/p>\n<p>I  think what you need to focus on is working with what you have and  making  those people into the most enthusiastic, active and fun people  you  possibly can. Like I said in the guide, the best advertisement for  new  people are the members in your guild. I agree with your assessment  of  the situation when you say the only realistic way to get new members  is  to get them from other guilds. The sort of people who join guilds,  well  they do just that, they get in guilds! So on older servers it&#8217;s  not  really surprising that targeting the unguilded members of the  server  isn&#8217;t very rewarding.<\/p>\n<p>However that doesn&#8217;t mean there isn&#8217;t a  large portion of the  population on your server who aren&#8217;t in the *right*  guild yet. People  change guilds all the time and it has nothing to do  with poaching.  Poaching is the act of specifically trying to recruit  people who are  guilded. It&#8217;s extremely different to what you need to be  doing, which  is being such a great group of people that when someone  thinks &#8220;bah, i  don&#8217;t want to be in this guild anymore&#8221; they think about  the times  they&#8217;ve run zones with you and they decide to join your ranks.  This is  why I talk in my guide about making sure people know that you  have do  have some type of recruitment policy. I ran a zone the other day  in a  pug (pick up group &#8211; non-guild members) and 3 of the guys were  from the  same guild. During the run they told me if I ever wanted to  join  another guild they&#8217;d love me to consider them. I didn&#8217;t feel  poached.  There was no active attempt to take me from somewhere I was  happy, they  were simply letting me know that I was the sort of person  that they  think fits into their guild.<\/p>\n<p>So be open to the idea  that most of your members in the future are  going to have a background  with another guild. Be open to the idea that  you can be polite, inviting  and open to taking those people without  putting the shackles on them  and tempting them to join your guild when  they probably are happy where  they are.<\/p>\n<p>You just need to be available and desirable. <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Smile\" src=\"..\/forum\/images\/smilies\/icon_e_smile.gif\" alt=\":)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Question:<\/p>\n<p>Q u o t e:<br \/>\n2. Unguilded people all want to  start their own guilds, or all want to  join the 1 uber guild on the  server. The uber guild is pretty much  full, so they just sit around  without a guild tag, waiting.<\/p>\n<p>Answer:<br \/>\nAgain this is  something I can agree with and understand your  frustration at. However  my suggestions above hold true here. It takes a  lot of people a while to  work out actually what it is they want in  WoW, and what they want does  change over time. If there are unguilded  people who are sitting around  waiting for the uberguild, they&#8217;re being  stupid. You don&#8217;t get into the  uberguild without experience and gear,  that&#8217;s how it works most of the  time. Those people are going to start  wanting to enjoy the game after a  while. They&#8217;re going to start wanting  to hit new content. When they do,  they go looking for a guild. If you  have interesting, fun people and if  your guild has a focus on the  things they want to be doing, then they&#8217;re  going to want to join your  guild and they&#8217;re going to fit right in.<\/p>\n<p>I  guess I&#8217;m cautioning you to be patient in a way. It&#8217;s better to  have a  guild of 20 people who really love playing with each other and  share  goals, than those same people being in a guild of 40 when the  other 20  people aren&#8217;t sure they really want to be there and have very  different  ideas about what a guild should do and what its focus should  be.<\/p>\n<p>If  you&#8217;re happy and you focus on hitting 60 and starting to run the  high  level zones and exploring the game, you&#8217;re going to find that more   people come to be in alignment with your goals. Be a good roleplaying   guild, have a good sense of identity, but also play in the World of   Warcraft where killing Ragnaros is an incredible goal for a new guild,   that requires dedication and skill. That can be a part of every guilds   eventual agenda and it&#8217;s a great way to get people motivated to new   things.<\/p>\n<p>Question from Melusine:<\/p>\n<p>Q u o t e:<br \/>\nWhen recruiting, I  think your guild&#8217;s members are the best recruitment  tool. However,  rarely does anyone in my guild start groups or initiate  recruitment. I&#8217;m  the only one!<\/p>\n<p>Answer:<br \/>\nI think there is a difference  between Officer members and the normal  members. One of the things you  may be looking for in Officers, if not  all members, is a pro-active  nature. If you&#8217;re guild is being held  together by your energy then  without you, it will fall apart.<\/p>\n<p>Try to talk to your members and  officers about being pro-active.  Make sure their not afraid of talking  to people and making decisions.  Get people attuned to the idea of going  out on runs with new people if  that&#8217;s what you&#8217;re looking for.<\/p>\n<p>Always  the first thing to do if you&#8217;re looking to have your guild  focus on  something is to communicate with the movers and shakers who  actually get  things done.<\/p>\n<p>Question:<\/p>\n<p>Q u o t e:<br \/>\nSome  people join other guilds on big raids, which is fine- but in a  way, it  hurts our recruitment. &#8220;Um, sorry, our (keyholder\/certain class  that&#8217;s  needed) is in Zul Gurub right now.. I guess we&#8217;ll just run   Scholomance..&#8221;<br \/>\nWhat sort of participation in our own guild activities should I expect? 1 raid a week? 2? Nothing?<\/p>\n<p>Answer:<br \/>\nAs  I mentioned in the main guide, setting your requirements and   expectations of guild members is something you need to do early on.<\/p>\n<p>It  sounds like you&#8217;re in a position where your guild members want to  do a  lot of PvE activities but you don&#8217;t really have enough members to  easily  sustain the amount of raiding some members want to do. I think  you  might want to talk to your guild about re-prioritising. Try to make  them  enthusiastic about going out and hitting up the end game content.  If  you start encouraging people and they find that their efforts have  some  rewards, they&#8217;ll soon begin to focus on your raids instead of  other  guilds.<\/p>\n<p>You have members who have needs and you have a guild  which needs  direction. If you provide that direction by promoting and  appointing  some pro-active and motivated people to officers, talking to  everyone  about your short and medium term goals and start to shake  things up so  that people think &#8220;Right, lets do this!&#8221; then I think both  of your  above problems will begin to disappear.<\/p>\n<p>Just be careful not to displace your more casual members. That&#8217;s the fine line <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Very Happy\" src=\"..\/forum\/images\/smilies\/icon_e_biggrin.gif\" alt=\":D\" \/><\/p>\n<p>END NOTE: This guide was developed entirely by Icon and the people   credited within the post. This is a faithful reproduction of an 08\/24\/06   web page save of the original post, except for some minor formatting   changes due to the requirements of the new forums. I deserve no credit   for the creation of this guide.<\/p>\n<p>Icon, if you would like to repost  this guide under your own account  so that you can continue to maintain  it, please do so and I will delete  this thread. I just didn&#8217;t want your  work to get lost in the move to  the new forums!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Copied from the original posted by Icon: . . . . 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