To have friends in the game who want to join a clan. Or make friends. Either way: advertise advertise advertise!
One thing to help a lot is you might want to HLBC first for the funds to hire newbs an build them up do it right and get them hooked to stay active. Try and have an active cc as much as possible to have people laughing, staying, and telling their friends about how great it is.
I used to own a clan and i had been told i was a lunatic on cc. But the members who dont care about cc will want to grow quickly, so youll need to do ebs with good payouts. Asks for mercs on world chat or the forums to help.
Back before eb's, at start of pw era, I had quite the clan going, back to back pw's, and once a week we'd pick a random person and give em plunder. And I'd get plunder myself.
Confangaling: (v). Definition: whatever i damn well please Roots: con- english for "swindle" Fan- japanese for an item that moves air in a rapid and controlled direction to an object, usually for the purpose of cooling. Gal- american western slang for "girl" Ling- asiatic proper name. Altogether it means "girls getting swindled out of their fans by an old asian person."