Sorry for the delay - I had a busy week. I'm going to post this here - it seems as good as place as any.
Recruitment SeminarWhat is Recruiting? Recruiting is what is says it is plain-and-simple, it’s the recruitment of nations to your region. You can recruit in a multitude of ways, the ways we will get to at the end of this seminar.
Why Should you Recruit?Recruiting is an important aspect for bringing in new nations to the forums and your region, and can expand your regional population and make your region more noticeable. Even if you get no response, or a person doesn’t join your region after a recruitment message, the regions name can be sealed in their mind for later.
What would a region be without members? A region with a lack of members is a non-noticeable region, and recruitment can easily fix that by bringing in people to your region and increasing forum and game-site activity, making your region more noticeable.
So in short, recruitment can be claimed to be the backbone of a region.
How can you successfully recruit?In order to recruit successfully, you should have a good idea of what makes your region special and sets it apart from others. Newcomers get twenty telegrams - an average number- and all of them have the potential to be regions for the newcomer. You need to have a message better than your opponents, or simply, have a message that shows what makes your region special and sets it apart from others. After this seminar, it would be great if everyone can brainstorm what makes your region special and sets it apart from others- is it a friendly crowd of people? Or the organization of the region? Or something different entirely? In order to successfully recruit you need to have a good idea of what sets your region apart and convey that into a message.
What comes after Recruiting?Retention of newcomers, and Integration into your region, which will develop over time.
Recruitment Telegram Daemon- A Lesson from Europeia’s Admin and Veteran RecruiterThere are three ways to recruit:
1. Manual: Slow, requires work, free, effective
2. API: faster than manual, slower than stamps, less effective than either, but also free and automated
3. Stamps: faster than either, less effective than manual, more effective than API, costs moneyStampsStamps are a game credit that can be purchased from the NationStates Store. Once stamps are purchased, they can be used to automatically send mass telegrams.
Everyone who has a nation can purchase stamps for their nation or to gift them to another nation (for storage and mass telgramming). Once stamps are purchased or gifted, you can not transfer them back! For $1 US dollar, you can purchase a total of 1,000 stamps and payments can be made by Paypal or Google Wallet. Stamps can be used to mass telegram every nation founded in a feeder region, every nation ejected to the Rejected Realms, etc. On average, it may take around 30,000 stamps per month ($30) to fully recruit every nation.
Donating stamps is very very important to mass telegramming using stamps because of the speed and unneeded work that comes with it. Here is the NationStates store:
www.nationstates.net/page=storeOf course, it has its cons, such as a somewhat congested queue and a monetary cons.
ManualA manual way of recruiting that requires more work than stamps, but are handy for regions that do not have the funds for constant stamp purchases. The most important thing to remember is that the nation you are recruiting from must reside in the region you are recruiting for! The age of your nation determines how fast your nation sends telegrams, so use the oldest nation you have to send these telegrams (but remember, this nation has to be in the region you are recruiting for).
www.nationstates.net/page=faq#technical The Technical FAQ section explains how to send telegrams.
First, I would wholly recommend that you personalize your telegram a bit and add something about you, and what you like about your own region (this should be added onto your normal telegram that you use which we should create after we find out what makes your region special).
1. Copy and Paste your text in the Box
2. In the ‘To’ box, put in tag:template
3. Mark as Recruitment
4. Click Send
5. Copy and Paste your template code somewhere for yourself.
Once you have done these steps, you have created your first template for manual recruitment!
1. Copy and Paste your code into the text box for the telegram
2. For Maximum Efficiency, put in 8 newly founded or refounded nations in the text box for recipients with a comma separating them. (
www.nationstates.net/page=activity/view=world/filter=founding Use the NationStates activity page to find newly created and refounded nations!)
3. You DO NOT need to mark this telegram as a recruitment telegram because you already did so when making the template!
Send the telegram and watch the delivery reports as they are sent to those eight regions! (A cool-down period will be needed after to prevent spam)
The last thing you need to do is respond to ANY questions a new nation may have for you about your region, and do so effectively and efficiently.
Once you do that, repeat the process!
APIThe last way to recruit is API, and has the most congested queue of them all, and someone will have to code the script for usage, and host the script for usage (a computer to run the script). Don’t let that frighten you, API is fully automated after that. You can run it all day if you need to, just remember the limit of sending of one telegram per minute!
If you have any questions on this type of recruitment feel free to ask!
A BlendYou can, of course, blend all three together! An ideal recruitment system will do this, and will use all three to their advantage. Quite like this- stamps for sending to all new nations, an API Script running non-stop and sending recruitment telegrams every three minutes, and members sending recruitment telegrams whilst they have the chance. As they say, the more the merrier!
So yep, this is the whole Recruitment Seminar. If you have any questions for me to follow up on feel free to ask and I will gladly answer. I will leave this open for discussion on this and open up a new thread for discussion on what makes this region unique, as well as a recruitment telegram thread afterwards whilst you guys are discussing the system you would like to impose!
