Retainment/Recruiting

[Kendrick 4,741]

 

You may have noticed in the past that I tend to get a good chunk of recruits every year or so. I want to share an idea I came up with after looking through multiple sim leagues, our very own VHLM system and after watching some Marketing ad on youtube before I finally got to "Birthday" by Katy Perry.

 

So as some of us know, the SHL has a great and easy time collecting new members for their site. The sheer volume of members signing up during their recruitment drives is amazing. However, over here we do things a tad differently when it comes to recruitment. We don't get quite the volume they do, but we do retain a larger percentage of our members. That simply means the quality and length of a members stay may be longer during his initial singing up process. So what does that have to do with the future? A lot.

 

Retainment; to continue to hold or have.

 

Now retainment is one of the easiest ways to expand and grow our VHL community. Why? Because all it is is attracting some members that may have gone inactive or simply clicked on the site, signed up and had no clue what to do. I as well as many others here seem to talk up new members through chat or PM. If you search the VHL by this button:

 

(Found in the top right hand corner)

 

Then it will bring up this menu on the left hand side:

 

 

You can see who just signed up, how many posts they have and even the date they signed up. I encourage anyone to view this every once and awhile and see guys who haven't posted once. PM them or see if they are online and try to coach them through. Also when they do create their player, ask where they came from in addition to who recruited them. It is easier to get ahold of them the next time around. Boom and the rest of the Welcoming committee can't always be online, so it's great if the entire VHL community can help these new guys out. But there is more!

 

Sterling will be introducing an August recruitment drive that has large incentive with grabbing new members from other boards. Before he does that though, I figured I would let you in on a non-time consuming way of getting members and also getting some TPE into your sweet sweet update threads. Listed in the second post of this thread are the current members name and anyone who was recruited by that "inactive" member. I encourage you to contact them via PM, Email, real-life or any other way you know you can contact them. Hint: Going to the site/forum you found them on is also one of the best ways of getting them back. While you are there see if you can update or post a VHL link somewhere.

 

Any questions, PM Sterling, Kendrick or ask below. Happy Hunting VHL'ers!

 

One last thing, go here and Upvote it/Comment on it! http://redd.it/2b9i10

Edited July 26, 2014 by Kendrick

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Corco

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Dooley (Cassius Dooley)

Cawa (Alexander Stepanov)

JJLangabeer (John Langabeer)

Reckless Abandon (Jason Waterfalls)

hockey17jp (Jacob Peterson)

Rehn (Rehn Miller)

Harr1son56 (Lucas Smith)

Obsidian311 (Oliver Closoff)

Hallhopkinseberle (Jordan Hall)

kebrik (Captain Bacon)

Kovy17 (Reggie Dunlop)

 

Seventy-Four

ByrdeMan (Krisoffer Ruud)

marty (Cody Nichushkin)

Essbee (Matti Auvinen)

Greeningific (Cameron Greening)

 

METIS/kesler17

JoBa (Joseph Baker)

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Green

Underoath10 (Edgar Balthazar)

WouldYouKindly (Jack Ryan)

Runny Nose (Kai Randal)

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Advantage

LBC (Mike Jones) *SHL

Diesel (Nicolas Stormborn)

#MTA (Hashtag Manning)

 

gregreg

briten29 (Dexter Jonty)

bmarcel19 (Xavier Troup)

 

BOOM

Ursa (Matthew Jay Banks)

 

RomanesEuntDomus

Flames1848 (Mike McGratten)

elitedangler (Mikhail Mikhailovich)

 

xDParK

lemieux66lemieux (Tobias Funke)

Secord92 (Moe Mills)

Alex (Roland Brice)

 

Shaka

Beast Mode (Guy Lukovski)

Shaka (Landon Roberts)

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fever95

dshervill (Braxton Hunter)

snipealldaylong (Willie Weber)

 

Mike

Nick (Dan Cooper)

 

.eQ

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Justdean10 (Leo Dalton)

 

Kendrick

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Catch22 (Markus Klingemann)

 

boubabi

Drizz (Milan El Shaaraway)

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Just_McC02 (Justt McCauley)

 

Spangle

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Austin Gow

Syraz (Matt Gilbert)

 

Da Trifecta

The Fighter (Rocky West)

 

Jericho

Petr Janus (Petr Janus)

 

philthethrill81

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Victor

ZigZag (Patrik Rolinek)

 

David Knight

McJones (Walter Mitty)

Kullumnati (Bossman Johnson)

 

 

Miscellaneous

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Jesster (Christian Thorstrom)

Barber (Jack Voratek)

TickledPink (Haggard Slobban)

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KCCO (Michael Haan)

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Arik (Darius Fisher)

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BLUEBLOOD (Connor Elliot

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dman29 (Willie Kutyanutzov)

NBecker15 (Nick Becker)

Despaties (Kevin Despaties)

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Drakalor ('Reficul 1134)

LVShark (Cody Inko)

Solduc77 (Krill Lokomotiv)

Quik (Matteo Gallo)

Nad The Bad (Chad Werek)

th3captain (Cap Walters)

Lehner (Olli Brunnstrom) *Google

Claudio (Mario Corvia)

tay0214 (Hattrick Shwayze) *Claudio

Cretetts (Boone Cassidy)

Dion (Frederik Ernst)

elliotegg (Queen Latifah)

Adamsv7 (Gordan Bombay)

dabs (Dabs Ondabs)

Ace (Kaspars Tsizling)

Kraphf (Prizza Dringus)

UateBeast (Akila Beast)

JBlaze (Seth Rollins aka. Mike Boss)

CanucksFan (Ludovic Kabambi)

DanitQC (Daniel Kreutzer)

dougiedaniels (Herman Mudgett)

matthewlemire (Matthew Lemire) *crazylemire

Lightdeath (Mark Sanders)

mnskater (Andrew Sorenson)

WheelSnipeParty (Antoine Sauve)

Handling (Mirko Draisatl)

Nuka (Noah Jackson)

swoosh (Tihon Kalstad)

idot (Emma Watson) *SHL

Joester09 (Josef Andersson) *SHL

JumpierPegasus (Franz Monster) *SHL

SomeCanadian (Henrik Hedman) *SHL

jCousins12 (Jordan Cousins) *SHL

MacH (Daniel Acker) *SHL

The Number 1 (Lauris Prikulis) *SHL

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Buster (Andrew Jihad) *SHL

Jaden20 (Jaden Button) *SHL

Defenseman x10 (Chris Serpe) *SHL

Ramicus (Eli Ben-Lev) *SHL

JMHockey (Matt Reilly)

Zach (Dale Kent)

@dam (Adam Harris)

badvintage (Lars Lessio)

Backlun (Blake Knight)

jphinney (Jeff Phinney)

Gamingexpertzcom (Vladimir Bodnar)

Mira (Matthew Mira)

Cowboy (Remy Devereux)

TheBear (TotallyNot ABear)

WoldenGhore (Markus Bjorkstrand)

Apollo (Peter Keller)

Taurus (Ryan Barrett) *SBA

LeBron King Gonzalez (LeBron King Gonzalez) *SBA

marshall_22 (Ashton Galbraith)

Chad (Spud Murphy)

TheDanglingCellist (Alfred Leskowski)

francis2466 (Jarome Ritchie)

The Mystical Cha (LaMichael Charmander)

FURY (Dylan Raseri) *Recruited by Bailey?

Roqueginger (Mikael Svensson) *Reddit

Ruski (Vasily Miroshnychenko) *Reddit

Vas0917 (Alex Vaklav) *Reddit

dfreak (David Sharp) *Reddit

RandomHero (Jakob Linholm) *Reddit

mr.pringle (Walt Pringle)

.cLassic (Aaron Hartley) *HFBoards

jeben23 (Fredrik Andersson) *HFBoards

hockeynerd67 (Kitsune Yamasaki) *HFBoards

DS1 (Nathan Levander) *HFBoards

JORDAN22 (Vincenzo Valentini)

Kitnox (Santeri Heikela)

MaxwellDorian (Maxwell Dorian)

King Heffy (Phillip McCracken) *Canucks.com

Mikeyboy44 (Mike Lein) *Canucks.com

forest322 (Forrest Josef) *Canucks.com

Really (John Heffney)

Daug (Andrej Hasek) *Twitter

The Q (Earl Parker)

ErectionForOvechkin (David Hall)

Aether (Kristian Stormborn)

Edited July 26, 2014 by Kendrick

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Bumpcity Population: 1

[JardyB10 4,869]

Good work with this Shmendrick.

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Thanks JardyB10, all for a good cause!