Advice for a small Free Company starting out?

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Not too long ago, three buddies and I made the decision to leave out previous Free Company to start a new one due to overall inactivity. It took a bit for the four of us to make our new FC, Legion of the Echo (thank my corny naming prowess), due to our conflicting schedule, but we did eventually get it done and have been looking forward to our growth as a fun, productive, helpful Company.

Well, we're having much difficulty with said growth. Since we've established our FC, we've only had two new recruits. One is very recent and the other has been MIA ever since acceptance.

We're all just having trouble figuring out how to go about bringing in new members. We try to not be annoying while doing so, so we stick to occasional shouts and being open to those we meet in dungeon runs. Obviously, we've had very little success.

We could always take the easy route and join an already well-established FC, but that's not within our best interests. We put forth the effort to create this and we will keep putting in effort to make sure we can get to where we want to be. In short, we feel that quitting and joining up with a different FC is a cop-out.

So, for the sake of my pals, I decided to reach out and see if I can't get some advice on how to get the ball rolling. Our short term goal right now is having at least four others that will be active enough to run end-game content together. That isn't to say we wouldn't take in lower-level people, though. We love helping others out and would be more than happy to tag along with them in whatever it is they need to get done.

We've all put everything past Praetorium on hold for this purpose. Meaning the most we've done is gotten ourselves our Grand Company weapons.

Any bit of advice would be very much appreciated (as long as it's not overly negative, of course). Thank you for your time.