Hey Everyone!
Wow, I'm so glad you stopped by today for more about my Recruit A Pal event!
Here are the basic details:
Recruit A Pal will
run the entire month of May through midnight 5-31-15.
Bring a new pal to Blogville or bring back one who hasn’t posted for 1
year.
New/Return pals must post on 6-1-15 to introduce themselves.
New/Return pals must follow at least:
their Recruiter, Sarge, & BCCalendar.
Recruiters must notify me (lfurman1987ATyahooDOTcom) by 6-1-15.
Email must include the names and blog addresses of the Recruiter and
Pal.
All species are welcome.
I will provide 1 prize for Recruiters.
Item from Clara’s Collars.
Frankie & Ernie will provide 1 prize for New/Return pals.
Madi will provide 1 prize for New/Return pals. One handmade scarf.
Murphy & Stanley will provide prizes for Recruiters. Four recipe books.
Oreo will provide 1 prize for a Recruiter and 1 for a New/Return pal.
Oz will do a header design makeover for 1 New/Return pal.
Oz will do a header design makeover for 1 New/Return pal.
A community wide dance will be held on 6-2-15 for everyone in
Blogville.
OKAY: I PAWMISED EVEN MORE TIPS AND HINTS TO HELP YOU RECRUIT!
Today, I want to make a really big suggestion that I think will help tons. Try setting up someone's blog for them!
For a lot of furiends, tech things can be terrifying. I can pawsonally tell you that my peeps had no clue how to even begin blogging. Frankie set up my bloggie for me and then just barked the login and password to my Mom. POOF and BAM and WOOHOOOO I was blogging. Once the template is set up, posting is fairly simple. Adding pix and text is pretty easy. Setting up the template, design, fonts, settings, etc can be very hard for someone new.
Be sure to set up a very basic blog so they are not overwhelmed. The beauty of this idea is that they can immediately start to post! They don't even have to go through the difficulty of learning how to create the blog itself. I can pawmise you that this is exactly how I got started. Tons of thanks and love to Mamaw for creating the blog and handing it over already set up. Your new furiend will feel immediately successful because they can quickly put up a post without the extra work.
Later on, they will be more comfy and can play around with the colors, header pix, and etc. Once they are more seasoned, these details will be fun instead of scary.
I THINK THIS IS THE BIGGEST TIP I CAN GIVE YOU! Just set it up for them. Just do it! If they never use it, fine and dandy. But with it already created, they'll feel more encouraged and less intimidated at the same time. And, this will work perfectly with Oz's pressie of a blog header design makeover! Set up the basics and then Oz can customize it later. Easy, easy, easy for the new furiend.
In case you missed it, I had a post up on Sunday to help you explain what Blogville is all about.
I had a post up on Monday about the time constraints that can worry your furiends.
Tomorrow I will bark about using our past posts as examples of life in Blogville.
Thursday will be information about the Welcome Dance on 6-2-15.
Grr and Woof,
Sarge, Police Commish