First of all, I never recruited (at least until the alliance was half grown), people ''naturally'' joined at the beginning.
You could probably read my alliance's milestones, Saruman. (Long one, sorry
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I started the alliance from big zero last year (July 2018), at first I never intended to recruit. What I did was some kind of preparation. I already had 6 playable (war - ready) accounts at the moment. I only needed 2-3 days to get 4 more, which were also mine, 4 Iron Age accounts
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Then I started wars. It didn't take long, a couple days, a few people joined. Of course they were all beginners, iron age, classical age folks. Some socialized and wanted to war, some didn't. I waited until 3 days; when they got inactive, I kicked them. I waited until 3 got inactive so I could kick all 3 together. Kicking at least 3 members will put you on Alliance Search List whenever the list is refreshed. Need a bits of luck on that one too.
The alliance started to grow to level 4. It attracted higher level players. Prepare for Rejection and annoyance from them
. My alliance was visited by a lot of high level Cold War Age players, and what they told me was pretty disturbing, something like, ''sorry, your alliance didn't fit my criteria''. I got used to it eventually.
Then I started to recruit (end 2018). The medias were Forum and Facebook.
It was the time when I described what we did/needed in alliance. That we were super chill alliance, we didn't war back to back, we didn't care about glory, but cared about perks.
The alliance was growing through the good direction. Of course we didn't always win. And I got upset many times. But we were chill. Even when people (here in the Forum) laughed at my 15K glory alliance (atm) when theirs had above 25K glory
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I appointed trusted allies Co-Leaders and most socialized allies Council, so they got motivated more and more.
Lately I started to recruit in Discord. We got a few good visitors willing to help, some are staying, some continued to travel.
So, what you need is preparation, and you have to be sure about where your alliance will go in the future. If you are war oriented, make sure you join big alliances first, build networks. A lot of people (especially travelers) will be willing to help as long as you stay connected and have a strong network in community.
If you're not really commited to big wars, are chill, want something stress-free, then you can try my way.
Facebook is the main resource for recruiting. But you will probably not get established players. That's fine, if you guys all want to learn. You can also use the Forum, Discord, and Reddit to recruit.
Your recruitment message should be eye catching, so cool people would consider to join
That's a little suggestion (more like Sharing, I guess) from me, who (I proud to call my self) bravely built my alliance from Nothing, to Something, without the help of big guys at the beginning.
Good luck!
I believe it is important Saruman to have a vision for the alliance. Know what kind of “culture” you want to create. This will be your trademark. You will be the one running the alliance initially. Be prepared to teach, teach, teach if starting with many new players. It is a lot of work if you have never been a leader of a competitive alliance, having a core group of co-leads and trusted council working together will steady the ship during the storms. Good luck!
