Editing Building Relationships (section)

=== Relational Strategies ===
We can think of three main strategies for building relationships to recruit individuals to our campaigns:

'''Individuals''': Recruiting by building new relationships with individuals. Organizers develop relationships with each individual they hope to bring into the organization or campaign. Initial contact may be done at tables, street corners, sign-ups at rallies, or through online-to-offline actions.

'''Networks''': Recruiting by connecting with networks built from existing relationships. Organizers draw numerous people in through informal relational networks of which they, or an individual they recruit, are already part of. New relationships are formed mainly between an organizer and the recruit, but the basic approach is to find individuals who can bring other people in through their own pre-existing relationships.

'''Organizations''': Recruiting by building alliances with, or merging with, existing organizations. Organizers build relationships with leaders of existing organizations. New relationships are formed mainly between an organizer and a point person at an organization.

Organizers may use one or all of these relational strategies to build their organization or campaign. Their relational strategies will be implemented by using relational tactics.