That's the thing. We're getting about 3K visitors a month. Now, granted, a lot of those are going to be bots, but there's quite a few real people in there, too. And I just don't know how to convert people from visitors to members. I didn't want to make just a static site where people come and go and never interact. My whole goal in this was to make a place where local folks could talk and get to know each other. But it's just seeming more and more like an unattainable goal.

I haven't had a lot of luck getting links on other sites. We get a lot of people from the search engines, though, which is why I keep trying to add content like the area information. I've also ordered some "business cards" for the site that I'll hand out to people. They should be coming in about a week. I need to start focusing on "real world" advertising with flyers and such. I keep suffering from "not good enough syndrome, though" I keep thinking I'll make up some flyers when I get X done on the site. I think I just need to convince myself that it's usable as it is, even if it's not done, and just do it already.

Whew... Hopefully I'm not scaring people away wearing all my fears on the outside. Tell me, will you lurkers join if I stop whining about you not joining?

Michelle