Dust isnt properly out yet and it has yet to be seen how much of a cross over there really is going to be, and to what degree. People are going to wait n see on that front.

The single best piece of advice for starting a corp, IMO, is to hold off doing it until you already have a decently sized group of like-minded friends. A corp has to start with a community, or it likely won't ever go much farther than being a failed patchwork of corp-hoppers and non-contributors.

Any tips on recruitment threads?

Why does EVE need yet another corp?
What are existing corporations doing wrong that you can do better?

If you have good answers to these questions you will find recruits.

If your only answer is "I am the most awesome CEO you will ever have" you have a problem as people can only verify that statement after having joined you - but you might still grow as you achieve notoriety.

If you don't have any answer, then why are you creating a corporation in the first place?

Well ask yourself this then? What is the eve universe gonna do with all those dust corps that will have a eve side.

The only thing that i can come up with is that we will want to offer PvP runs in low and null sec to cover our dust buddies.
Industry and mining ops of course.
We have a TS server and are good people if thats not enough then that's too bad.

What ever happens i will continue with this corp, i just want a lot of feedback.

Thx Mme Pinkerton

Im afraid I think going at it at teh angle "building a corp that will support our Dust play" is probably a bad idea, people dont want a corp that supports something else, they want a corp that is built for its members.

wrote an addition to my original post but re-posting it here for visibility as "Industry and mining ops of course." caught my eye:

The most common mistake new corporations make is that they are afraid to lose potential applicants and instead try to cater to every possible gamestyle - they would be better off finding a (relatively) unoccupied niche (think along the lines of "Finnish corporations that specialize in BlackOps warfare") and sticking with it.

Best bet is to make sure (as others have said) that you have a group of like minded people who really want to do the same things as you. If you only have a few people or your new to eve and want to pvp try Faction warfare to get the ball rolling because your not just relying on your corp members to be active and motivated. Also if your new to eve as much as you hate the idea joining a bigger corp for 6 months is a better plan or you can just stagnate. You might find you love the new corp and want to help merge your two communities or you'll learn what the corp you joined did right and wrong while hopefully learning from those mistakes.

When I first set up my corp I made a few mistakes and tried to lead a new alliance straight off the bat and it basically built to a 500 man alliance in 2 weeks and fail cascaded back down within 6. I learnt from those mistakes and while I still make some I lead a fairly successful pvp corp in which real life comes first so the amount of people playing ebbs and flows. My other main bit of advice is have a plan cos if you don't have one people have nothing to work towards get bored and either quit or go afk in place.

like many of the posters pointed out
you need a well defined goal and purpose for your corporation, and put that in your recruiting poster
Tell people what your goals are and what you can offer them , make sure you don't promise them things you can not fulfill
and work for that goal , people tend to be more loyal if there is a common goal

Male sure you delegate some of the workload to directors , make sure those are people you can really trust, if thezre is something possible like that in EVE

be warned it isn't easy and i seen my share of CEO s and directors leave the game because of a burn out
organize and be there for your members when they have questions or have a problem

But most of all have a set of goals your members can work toward as a team

small tip if you are planning a industrial corp with research , put up some pos towers in high sec now ( if you got the standing ) before you start recruiting
they don't have to be online till needed and nobody of your members needs to know till they ready to use them

Well the people that i delegate some of the tasks to will be people i have known for a while and are to be trusted, new people will have to show loyalty, which i am very big on.

Explain the pos tower thing a bit more, i might have someone that can do that. Also what will it take to get the standing?

if you intend to use a high sec pos for research , you need atleast a corpstanding of 5.0 with the faction that owns the space where you are setting up your pos only for high sec
Since the corporate standing is calculated from the average faction standing of all your corpmembers that have been member of your corp for more than 7 days , it becomes almost impossible for a corporation to set up a pos when their corp start growing
faction standing is gained thru either storyline missions , cosmos agents , database agents epic mission arcs etc

there is a good article about it in the eve wiki , sadly i can't acces this right now , maybe somebody else will be so good

The corp I run is along side one of my best friends. We are only four players large with 10 accounts total. Though we do exactoy how anyother corp plays, its all about the atmosphere of your corp.

Ours is probably near every other immature corp out there. If you say please we will kick your teeth in. We like it rough and gritty to scare off any people that cant take criticism or just too much of a ***** lol, maybe thats why we are so small, but it works and we make billions of isk a month between the four of us while playing other games together. Starcraft, DotA, BF3, etc. Thats what makes us a little bit more unique is that we just are all more friends than corpmates.

Well it has to serve as a cash cow for our Dust endeavors but also want to give the hardcore eve player a great experience.

This corp is founded from a clan that was on PS3 and wants to spread into more since dust is coming out.

And i think we will need some experience players for PvP in eve and orbital strikes delivered through eve into the dust side.

So.....

So.... you want to harness to power of EvE Carebears for your own gain. Good luck recruiting with that tagline:

"Come Join the Great *mumble* Corp, and Pay Taxes so that your directors can play DUST!"

I would advise you to be very careful about how and where you recruit because this is the fastest way to get war decced by more experienced players who want easy kills. Running a corp is a daunting task and is not suited for new players, no matter what your previous gaming experience is. Im not saying dont do it but be prepared to deal with the consquences. As others have said you will be far better served joining a corp with some like minded veterans until you really get a feel for the game and how people can attack you.

I understand you are skeptic, but we don't have any taxes why would we tax people, who am i the IRS? Come on