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Guilds Advanced

Last updated 01 Aug 2006 · by doug
If your guild has less than 500 members, don't read any farther if you want this article to do any good.

So now what? Your guild has a good amount of members, a web site, an active message, contests, giveaways, and more. Now what do you do to get to that point with thousands of members?

It is actually not that hard. Getting the first 500 is always the hardest. By now you should have the following established, and if you don't do so: a council with at least 4 out of 5 members, a subcouncil (mostly full), some sort of teams system, at least three contests, two active giveaways, a donation shop, some guild accounts, and a couple of exchanges for faeries, codestones, weapons, etc.

More Members

How to rope in more members
By now you've already figured out you want your guild to get bigger, much bigger. But after you get to a certain point you need to do things that get more members. Obviously the newbies are the people you'll need to attract to get more members.

Noticeboard Ads: Some say it is buying members, I say it is wonderful. This is truly the most effective way to get members. However only about 1 in 20 (if you are lucky) members will be active, or post more than 1-2 messages. If you just want numbers, this is the way to go. Be careful when you do this though. Most people make a lot of careless mistakes when posting a notice board. Check it on a regular page. Link to the guild, have the ad look good, and make it graphical (NOT TEXT), that way you can change it if you need to, just by replacing the image. Chat Boards: This is good for the guilds with 50 members or so, but not for a super guild. However most of the members you attract via the chat boards will be at least semi active. Make a recur it team or something similar to that to attract more members, without the council having to do it.

Allies

Should or should you not?
Don't do it. Guild allies can be a quick demise of a guild. Try to maintain peaceful relations with the other guilds (your competition), neomail the leaders say hi, give compliments, etc. This will keep the competition friendly, instead of one guild posting bad remarks about the other. Don't send something saying "Your guild sucks, all your members should be in mine." Think about it.. If you got a neomail or something that said that, would you go out of your way to be nice to the person? I doubt it.

Layout & Website

Information on making it great
I'm sure you already have a layout and web site, but odds are it is not the best one you can get. In all the guilds I've been in, I suggested they have people make them.

Professional Options: What you can do, and probably get the best result is to hire someone to make you a good layout and web site. There are two ways to do this: Number one you can hire a company like Impact Studios
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