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Manual Recruitment For Beginners
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Beginners Guide to Recruiting


Like all great organizations and groups, in order to grow membership steps must be taken to build awareness of the organization. In NationStates this is no different for regions, who in order to survive must continue to attract new members. The easiest way to grow membership is through recruiting and some of the basics to this will be discussed here.

Feeders/Sinkers
Feeders are the regions on the NS site where new nations spawn all the time. All regions are allowed to recruit from these regions and there is no lack of competition here. Similarly the Sinkers are the regions in which old nations who haven’t logged onto NS for awhile are “re-founded” or re-spawned. These nations are fair game for recruiting as well. Below is the list of the feeders and sinkers:

Feeders:
The North Pacific
The South Pacific
The East Pacific
The West Pacific
The Pacific

Sinkers:
Balder
Lazarus
Osiris


How Do You Recruit?
Recruiting is done by sending a telegram to nations that have been founded or re-founded in the feeders/sinkers. People who recruit for The Allied States currently send this message or something very close to it:

Code: Recruitment Text
 
Greetings %NATION%,

Thank you for taking the time to read this telegram! I would like to invite you to join [region]The Allied States[/region]. We have two primary activities: a [b]government roleplay[/b] where members of the region take jobs such as President, Senators, and Governors and control a nation as well as a [b]forum economy[/b] where you can create your own business and buy and sell goods and services to other citizens. Here are some of the reasons you should move to The Allied States:

* [b]All citizens[/b] are members of the House of Representatives, which means you immediately get a say in how the region and the roleplay nation is run!

* We are a medium sized region which means that [b]we are active[/b] but it also means that you won’t have to compete with hundreds or thousands of other nations in the region.

* We have lively [b]political discussion and debates[/b] as part of our government roleplay.

* We hold [b]frequent elections[/b]; once every month. That means that you have plenty of opportunities to enter elective office!

* We also have a [b]roleplay map[/b] for diplomacy and war that's linked to the forum economy.

To participate, head on over to The Allied States today! The forum is where most of the government activity occurs. There you can apply to be a citizen, vote, and make your voice heard!
If you are stupid, CLICK HERE, and learn to write your own recruitment telegram!

I’ve previously mentioned that recruiting is done in the feeders and sinkers and now I will show you how we spot potential recruits. If you click on any of the feeder/sinker region links above it will take you to its home page. The key section here is the Regional Happenings. In a feeder you may see something like “The Republic of France was founded” and if you are in a Sinker you would see “The Republic of France was refounded”. These are the nations that you should send recruiting messages to but do so quickly because once they move to another region you can no longer recruit them. If in the regional happenings you see “The Republic of France departed this region for Other Region” they are off limits. In order to send a telegram you have to click on the link to a nation and click Write Telegram. From there you would hit the 'little black arrow' sign next to the To: Header and select “This is a recruitment telegram”. Then paste in the message and send.

New Version :: Recommended
In recent days NationStates has created a activity feed, here you can see all happenings in the whole world (including Founding and Refounding). Activity Feed, I have already selected foundings, so the only thing you have to do is to copy the recruitment telegram (perhaps create a template, explained below), click on the link, then choose a nation that has recently been founded (within the last 10 minutes), right mouse click on the name, open new tab and do as stated above ^.


Templates
An easy way to speed up the recruiting process is to build a template of the recruiting Telegram that you will send to nations. The basic steps on how to do this are located in this link: http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.ph...32374#p12932374 . But here is a list below:

1. Compose a telegram as normal. If it is a recruitment/campaign TG, be sure to check the appropriate box. You may wish to use the %NATION% token, which converts into the name of the recipient.

2.Wire your telegram to "tag:template".

3. You will be shown a special token that will look like this: %TEMPLATE-12345678%. Copy this.

4.Address a new telegram to whoever you want to send a copy to. (Yourself, perhaps, to test.) It doesn't matter whether you do this on the Telegrams page or a nation page.

5. Paste your %TEMPLATE-12345678% token as the entire message. Click Send.

6. Repeat Steps 4-5 to send more copies to more people.

7. Keep an eye on the telegram's Delivery Reports.
Edited by The Rhein States, Mar 3 2015, 08:05 AM.
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I think the same information that's on the link is below (the steps 1-7)
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Don't worry, this is a old topic. The New topic is pinned and I will close this one.
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- Director of Communications (March 2015)
- Secretary of Foreign Affairs (April-May 2015)
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