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by Defalcone » 2013-01-11
Lord Dubh is right on that, make a schedule and stick to it, even if there is only you. What if someone sees your ad and decides not to contact you first but just show up? If no one is there, you have lost that player. I have been part of a group that I help start here in Montana 7 years ago. When we started we had 3 members, we quickly gained a fourth and we stayed there for awhile. Mind you we didn't push the game to much when we first started we spent some time and learned the rules, we tried everything just to see how it worked, after we were comfortable with our knowledge of the game we began to advertise, mostly by word of mouth early then pushing into flyers and local newspapers.
You will have ups and downs in player attendance, we 7 years later we have over 40 registered members. One thing you will see is your attendance depending on the weather. We notice that when the weather is good, not to hot, not too cold, not raining etc. We will have 20+ members on the field, but too hot, too cold, or too wet, then only the dedicated players will come out.
HAVE LOANER WEAPONS! Thats right build extra weapons for potential new members can use! We we first started we built all the weapons in the rulebook, for the club, not for our own personal use. This gained us many new members.
Teach others to fight, dont just beat on them then go home, even throw some fights to lesser players, nothing will drive most players away more than losing all the time.
