How to recruit members for your club?

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Avatar of soumyakothari21

https://www.chess.com/club/unbeaten-players    This is my club Unbeaten Players, and I am not able to recruit members for it.  What shall I do?

Avatar of CatsWithWings00

There are a few different things: 

Advertise in forums and blogs. 

Spread the word to your friends

Promote an admin especially for inviting people to your club. (This has helped a lot for my club.) 

Avatar of JustADude80

I don't. We have too many members now.

Avatar of jackputt99

Following.    I send personal messages , very few at a time ,  get little response.  But the 1 positive New Active member makes it all worth it.    still feels like poaching  a little. ....

Avatar of RejZePrez

You have chosen a very tough club name to actually realise

You seem's to have 3 options

- find a lot of very very good players and keep the name of the club

- find only a couple of average players and change the name of your club for somethink like Oftenbeaten Players

- don't find any players, and the name will still be good as no players connot be beaten

Now, how to find good players seem's to the the same problem of almost all the other clubs

Avatar of Pantera23

Let's say you bring players to your team, but don't forget to knock out those who aren't serious (don't play at all, lose games without playing or abandon them through timeout)! This is the secret of an active team!

Avatar of MGleason

Don't spam.  Some people think spamming invites via PMs or in people's notes is acceptable.  It's not, and people get muted for it.  It's one thing to message a friend about a club you think they will be interested in, but spamming is not acceptable.

Use the built-in club invite tool.  That's what it's there for.  It's limited to 30 a day for a reason - to limit how often people get spammed by club invites, and to give them a way to block invites without turning off PMs altogether.


If you want people to accept your invitation, there needs to be something about your club that people will find appealing.  Do you play team matches and vote chess?  Great, but so do hundreds of other clubs.  What's unique about your club?  Why should someone join your club instead of one of the many other clubs?

If can't think of anything special about your club, then come up with a way to make it special.  Some clubs have a theme - Vikings, pirates, music, a particular opening, a particular top player, etc.  Others run unique competitions.  Find a way to make your club different, and then talk about why it's different in your invite message.

Avatar of EternallyBad
MGleason wrote:

Don't spam.  Some people think spamming invites via PMs or in people's notes is acceptable.  It's not, and people get muted for it.  It's one thing to message a friend about a club you think they will be interested in, but spamming is not acceptable.

Use the built-in club invite tool.  That's what it's there for.  It's limited to 30 a day for a reason - to limit how often people get spammed by club invites, and to give them a way to block invites without turning off PMs altogether.


If you want people to accept your invitation, there needs to be something about your club that people will find appealing.  Do you play team matches and vote chess?  Great, but so do hundreds of other clubs.  What's unique about your club?  Why should someone join your club instead of one of the many other clubs?

If can't think of anything special about your club, then come up with a way to make it special.  Some clubs have a theme - Vikings, pirates, music, a particular opening, a particular top player, etc.  Others run unique competitions.  Find a way to make your club different, and then talk about why it's different in your invite message.

Ya. 

Another nice way to invite is to create an alt account (but makes sure to cheat a bit on your original one so no one gets suspicious)

Send an invite to your alt, then copy and paste the message and PM everyone on chess.com and now you have much more than 30 invites!

Avatar of wormrose

If your club builds a good reputation you do not need to send invites.

I have never invited anyone to join my clubs.

I have seven clubs and they are populated as follows:

KIA - 500
1...g6 - 393
Pirc - 402
Hippo - 85
1.b3 - 417
1.g3 - 100

Avatar of blackfirestorm
Leon_Likes_Chess wrote:
MGleason wrote:

Don't spam.  Some people think spamming invites via PMs or in people's notes is acceptable.  It's not, and people get muted for it.  It's one thing to message a friend about a club you think they will be interested in, but spamming is not acceptable.

Use the built-in club invite tool.  That's what it's there for.  It's limited to 30 a day for a reason - to limit how often people get spammed by club invites, and to give them a way to block invites without turning off PMs altogether.


If you want people to accept your invitation, there needs to be something about your club that people will find appealing.  Do you play team matches and vote chess?  Great, but so do hundreds of other clubs.  What's unique about your club?  Why should someone join your club instead of one of the many other clubs?

If can't think of anything special about your club, then come up with a way to make it special.  Some clubs have a theme - Vikings, pirates, music, a particular opening, a particular top player, etc.  Others run unique competitions.  Find a way to make your club different, and then talk about why it's different in your invite message.

Ya. 

Another nice way to invite is to create an alt account (but makes sure to cheat a bit on your original one so no one gets suspicious)

Send an invite to your alt, then copy and paste the message and PM everyone on chess.com and now you have much more than 30 invites!

Not even funny

Avatar of MGleason
Leon_Likes_Chess wrote:
MGleason wrote:

Don't spam.  Some people think spamming invites via PMs or in people's notes is acceptable.  It's not, and people get muted for it.  It's one thing to message a friend about a club you think they will be interested in, but spamming is not acceptable.

Use the built-in club invite tool.  That's what it's there for.  It's limited to 30 a day for a reason - to limit how often people get spammed by club invites, and to give them a way to block invites without turning off PMs altogether.


If you want people to accept your invitation, there needs to be something about your club that people will find appealing.  Do you play team matches and vote chess?  Great, but so do hundreds of other clubs.  What's unique about your club?  Why should someone join your club instead of one of the many other clubs?

If can't think of anything special about your club, then come up with a way to make it special.  Some clubs have a theme - Vikings, pirates, music, a particular opening, a particular top player, etc.  Others run unique competitions.  Find a way to make your club different, and then talk about why it's different in your invite message.

Ya. 

Another nice way to invite is to create an alt account (but makes sure to cheat a bit on your original one so no one gets suspicious)

Send an invite to your alt, then copy and paste the message and PM everyone on chess.com and now you have much more than 30 invites!

Good way to get banned tongue.png

Avatar of EternallyBad
MGleason wrote:
Leon_Likes_Chess wrote:
MGleason wrote:

Don't spam.  Some people think spamming invites via PMs or in people's notes is acceptable.  It's not, and people get muted for it.  It's one thing to message a friend about a club you think they will be interested in, but spamming is not acceptable.

Use the built-in club invite tool.  That's what it's there for.  It's limited to 30 a day for a reason - to limit how often people get spammed by club invites, and to give them a way to block invites without turning off PMs altogether.


If you want people to accept your invitation, there needs to be something about your club that people will find appealing.  Do you play team matches and vote chess?  Great, but so do hundreds of other clubs.  What's unique about your club?  Why should someone join your club instead of one of the many other clubs?

If can't think of anything special about your club, then come up with a way to make it special.  Some clubs have a theme - Vikings, pirates, music, a particular opening, a particular top player, etc.  Others run unique competitions.  Find a way to make your club different, and then talk about why it's different in your invite message.

Ya. 

Another nice way to invite is to create an alt account (but makes sure to cheat a bit on your original one so no one gets suspicious)

Send an invite to your alt, then copy and paste the message and PM everyone on chess.com and now you have much more than 30 invites!

Good way to get banned tongue.png

That too wink.png

Avatar of DJM473
MGleason wrote:
Leon_Likes_Chess wrote:
MGleason wrote:

Don't spam.  Some people think spamming invites via PMs or in people's notes is acceptable.  It's not, and people get muted for it.  It's one thing to message a friend about a club you think they will be interested in, but spamming is not acceptable.

Use the built-in club invite tool.  That's what it's there for.  It's limited to 30 a day for a reason - to limit how often people get spammed by club invites, and to give them a way to block invites without turning off PMs altogether.


If you want people to accept your invitation, there needs to be something about your club that people will find appealing.  Do you play team matches and vote chess?  Great, but so do hundreds of other clubs.  What's unique about your club?  Why should someone join your club instead of one of the many other clubs?

If can't think of anything special about your club, then come up with a way to make it special.  Some clubs have a theme - Vikings, pirates, music, a particular opening, a particular top player, etc.  Others run unique competitions.  Find a way to make your club different, and then talk about why it's different in your invite message.

Ya. 

Another nice way to invite is to create an alt account (but makes sure to cheat a bit on your original one so no one gets suspicious)

Send an invite to your alt, then copy and paste the message and PM everyone on chess.com and now you have much more than 30 invites!

Good way to get banned

LOLOLOLOLOL!

Avatar of CatsWithWings00
MGleason wrote:

Don't spam.  Some people think spamming invites via PMs or in people's notes is acceptable.  It's not, and people get muted for it.  It's one thing to message a friend about a club you think they will be interested in, but spamming is not acceptable.

Use the built-in club invite tool.  That's what it's there for.  It's limited to 30 a day for a reason - to limit how often people get spammed by club invites, and to give them a way to block invites without turning off PMs altogether.


If you want people to accept your invitation, there needs to be something about your club that people will find appealing.  Do you play team matches and vote chess?  Great, but so do hundreds of other clubs.  What's unique about your club?  Why should someone join your club instead of one of the many other clubs?

If can't think of anything special about your club, then come up with a way to make it special.  Some clubs have a theme - Vikings, pirates, music, a particular opening, a particular top player, etc.  Others run unique competitions.  Find a way to make your club different, and then talk about why it's different in your invite message.

I didn’t know that was classed as spam but thanks for letting me know.