Recruiting Competition....Roll-Out The Green Carpet!
Posted by birdman at April 2nd, 2008, in
Do you have friends who might be ready to join the Rally? If so, Earth Day (April 22) is the perfect reason to get them on board.
So far, each of us has eliminated an average of 130 pounds of CO2 in Carbonrally, and we’re just getting started… imagine if we get thousands more people following in our footsteps!
In honor of Earth Day we are introducing a new competition category to see who can best spread the word about our community. We’ve deployed a new Leaderboard that tracks top recruiters, and also added some upgraded tools to make recruiting easier and more fun.
Prizes? Heck Yeah! The top three recruiters on April 30 will each receive 6 of our organic shopping totes. Why so many? To share with friends!
Here’s some more detail about our new recruiting tools:
- We now keep track of how people join Carbonrally. If they join as a result of your invitation or your web badge, then you get a recruiting credit! This credit is shown on the lower section of the Leaderboard and also on your personal profile. This tracking works with all the recruiting methods listed below.
- Upgraded Friends Invitations. On you’re MY CARBON page, clicking on the “Invite Friends to Carbonrally” button brings you to our upgraded invitation form. Here you can quickly import addresses from your Outlook, Yahoo, Gmail, and AOL accounts. You can also manually enter email addresses (must be separated with commas). Each of your friends will receive an individual email from Carbonrally on your behalf.
- Upgraded Team Invitations. If you are on a team, go to MY TEAM page. Here, the “Invite Friends to Team” button brings you to an upgraded invitation form. It has the same new features as the Friends Invitations except that the link brings people directly to your team so that they can join it.
- Note about invitations: to help us maintain our good standing with the Spam Lords, please only send invitations to people you know.
- Upgraded Web Badges. You will now see Carbonrally web badges available in the lower left of your My Carbon Page and Team Page. These badges can be posted on your personal webpages, blog, or anyplace else where javascript works. When somebody enters Carbonrally through a badge, and signs up, you will receive recruiting credit.
- If you are already using a Carbonrally badge on your blog or website, don’t worry. They have all been upgraded automatically.
- Note for Company Teams: Your team badge is not designed to recruit people to your team. For company teams, folks should rely on Team Invitations to recruit new members.
Have questions? Please post them as a comment below. Thanks.
5 Responses to “Recruiting Competition....Roll-Out The Green Carpet!”
I’ve invited a lot of people, but it’s all by word of mouth, not electronic. Many of them have joined. This challenge seems kind of useless that way.
Jennifer:
Hmmm. Maybe we should provide a way for people recruited by word-of-mouth to credit the person that told them about Carbonrally. Thanks for the feedback and idea. We’ll work on that!
-Jason
Word-of-mouth invitations don’t have to be useless. Perhaps our team can add to the recruitment sign-up form a SPACE in which the new recruit writes the NAME of the person who invited him/her.
I invited a few people when I first joined, but can’t remember who. I don’t want to re-invite people. Is there a way to track who I’ve sent invites to?
PJ: I’m afraid we don’t yet have a tool for you to actively track your invitations. Please bear with us while we make that possible. Thx, Jason
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