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I've recently started recruiting/promo-ing my guild. What's the most effective way to do so, other than posting here? I've also posted in Friends Chat. (Is guild recruitment allowed on other places of the site, or can it only be on in the GGN forum?)
Advertising for guilds is kind of a tricky subject. Technically we're not supposed to advertise outside of this forum but there are lots of creative ways to get around that.
The one my guild has had the most success with has been holding events and contests in the appropriate contest forums. People
love prizes and you can make them post in your guild to enter the contest. Unfortunately this does take some serious gold to pull off.
The second most valuable advertising we've done is in guild affiliations. Guilds helping other guilds is quite possibly the greatest thing ever. Done right it can take several different guilds and combine them into one big community. You just have to find the right guilds to affiliate with.
I will always recommend the
Newbie Supporting and Training Guild for affiliations and really just anything in general. They are awesomely wonderful people.
The
12th Annual User Run Ball is also a fun one that gets a lot of action. They've been doing that thing for a while now so can probably give you some good advice if you're brave enough to ask.
And, of course, I'm gonna have to plug my own guild, the
School of Dedicated RPers which has been around about 10 years now in some form or another.
The best advice I can give you though, and something all three of these guilds do (when they're being successful) is to
never stop posting in your guild. Even if you're just running a gold raffle or doing one of those avi above you thread games posting is the life blood of every guild.
And here's a very important side note. On reading over your guild's home page you should seriously take off the "topics discussed may be inappropriate for users under 18" part because that is in direct violation of Gaia's TOS. Sorry, but even guilds have to abide by the PG-13 rule.
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