I suggest...

1. Renew website. It MUST look legit.

2. Look out for local Halo tournament events and even unrelated LAN BASH parties. Have FC Wars members attend, and ask them to try and post up at least one poster (funded by donations of course) or some sort of large graphic that will get people asking. You dont have to sell the idea to them, you can just put it up there with a link and people will wonder. Like a movie poster.

3. With a new website, make 5 pieces of merchandise representing FC War. Maybe something like two shirt styles, 2 kinds of stickers and a patch or something. Anything relatively cheap to produce. Nothing cheesy obviously. And put these items for sale right on the site like a "store" page, really small nothing flashy. And every penny that gets made from that can be put right into funding for the FC community OR making more merch.

(also going to a LANBASH wearing an FC Wars/R.E.D.D./B.L.U.E. shirt could be a good conversation starter and it would be nice to recognize fellow members out in the real world.)

Some advice: Now, im no pro at this kind of stuff, But think of it this way, if you present people with an online community that looks legit and organized, its going to be a lot easier to trust it and give donations to keep the community going. Its kind of tough going on a forum based site and think about forking over hard earned money to keep it breathing.

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