SuperKanga:
I also wish you the best with your CC, but I'm afraid I'm in total agreeance with Dazza501.
Your recruitment message is superb, but I feel you need to keep it aimed at players who are currently not members of a CC.
I don't appreciate recruitment messages on MY members' walls, and I don't care how you dress it up with fancy vocabulary...poaching is poaching!
Rob ( Scoundrels & Wenches Owner )
Hi Rob, many thanks for the constructive criticism, it make a refreshing change I have to be honest.. And I appreciate your opinion. I've written quite extensively elsewhere regarding recruitment, and this "thing" so many call poaching, and I'm guessing you've read it; but if not you can read them here.
In my opinion, owners demanding that nobody is allowed to communicate with "their" members is akin to insisting that estate agents don't advertise their properties to people already living in homes; that they can only market their properties to people without a home.
I've also mentioned elsewhere that the demand of owners on others to self censor their access to the universally available player directory is ludicrous.
Picking members from a country club list of members isn't a very nice thing to do, and if anyone found themselves needing help against such an attack, I'd be there at the front offering my services.
But trawling through a larger, more general list of players generated by the WGT directory is absolutely fair game. We are very select in who we choose to post our adverts to, but if they play regularly, irrespective of their current club status, we will post our ad, then send the invite a day or so later.
If they are happy where they are, it's likely the last contact we'll have with them, as they'll decline our invitation ...and stick with the status quo. Or, they've been thinking about leaving for some time, or fancy a change of scenery ...and they accept our invitation, and move on!!
I guess we just see things differently, and I'd be comfortable standing up in a room full of non WGT players and explain my position, and the logic that lies behind it. I wonder how many of the owners on here would be prepared to stand up in a more general public forum and attempt to rationalise this apparently governing concept of poaching, and account for its "fairness". I'd pay money to see that ;-)
As I said earlier, thanks for your input, constructive criticism is always welcome. I however believe in a more equitable solution; one of free access to and from all, a free market economy, with members free to receive "junk mail" ...and just as free to bin it, or read it some more.
Roddy