Tutorial: Recruiting Tools

Here’s some detail about the new recruiting tools we deployed on April 2, 2008:

• We now keep track of how people join Carbonrally. If people join as a result of an invitation you send or through your web badge, then you get a recruiting credit! This credit is shown on the Leaderboard and also on your personal profile. This tracking works with all the recruiting methods listed below.

• 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.

• 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.
  
  Important: You can also use your own email service like Hotmail or Outlook to directly send personal invitations to your friends. This can be especially effective if you are inviting work colleagues using corporate email. If you’d like to receive recruiting credit for this method, you should send yourself a Carbonrally invitation through the methods described above. Then, copy and paste the “join me on Carbonrally” link you receive into a new email invitation you send to your friends via Outlook, hotmail, etc.

*Note about invitations: to help us maintain our good standing with the Spam Lords, please only send invitations to people you know.

• Web Badges. You will 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. Here’s an example:

• Note for Company Teams: Your team badge is not designed to recruit people to your team. For company teams, folks should send Team Invitations to recruit new members. Here’s an example of a Company Team Badge: