Need ideas for stirring interest in a our 1st meet

1) PROVIDE YOUR MEET INFO IN THIS THREAD 2012 SCY CV Masters Lucky Leprechaun Meet Mar 17, 2012: SCY at Chartiers Valley High School Bridgeville, PA Sanctioned by the Allegheny Mountain LMSC of USMS View Details MEET INFO 2) check the meet calendar to see if there are any USMS meets within 0 - 200 miles of yours, 3) host the meet in an awesome fast pool, yours looks pretty good 4) give the meet a great name, y'all did 5) design the meet well, order of events, plan breaks if it's small, 6) have your info up on www.usms.org/.../event_search.php you do 7) send a series of emails announce it remind remind last chance reminder 8) offer online entries 9) send emails to coaches of large USMS teams that are 250 miles or less Primarily Great Lakes Zone & colonies zone AM, LE, OH, VA, NI, DV, PV, AD, NJ, MD 10) drum up lots of local attendance call swimmers and ask em to come have fun 11) create an incentive to enter early, 12) allow deck entries Our masters club has our first scheduled meet on March 17th. I don't know how to stir interest to get people to come. We have 3 entries and may have to cancel. This will be the last and only attempt at a masters meet from our club(which is a USA driven board and hold 3 USA meets a year, one is the biggest in the lsc). I know I have support from my club(the kids parents esp.). I have emailed a lot of folks on our LMSC privately. And some have pasted it on(thanks Jim). I've attend a meet at a local LMSC and brought meet invites. It's on the calender of events. I'm from Allegheny Mountain LMSC, if you want to check it out... I have to attend our board meeting in a week..ekkss.. I hate to cancel, I have a month...any ideas?!?! HELP

1) PROVIDE YOUR MEET INFO IN THIS THREAD 2012 SCY CV Masters Lucky Leprechaun Meet Mar 17, 2012: SCY at Chartiers Valley High School Bridgeville, PA Sanctioned by the Allegheny Mountain LMSC of USMS View Details MEET INFO 2) check the meet calendar to see if there are any USMS meets within 0 - 200 miles of yours, 3) host the meet in an awesome fast pool, yours looks pretty good 4) give the meet a great name, y'all did 5) design the meet well, order of events, plan breaks if it's small, 6) have your info up on www.usms.org/.../event_search.php you do 7) send a series of emails announce it remind remind last chance reminder 8) offer online entries 9) send emails to coaches of large USMS teams that are 250 miles or less Primarily Great Lakes Zone & colonies zone AM, LE, OH, VA, NI, DV, PV, AD, NJ, MD 10) drum up lots of local attendance call swimmers and ask em to come have fun 11) create an incentive to enter early, 12) allow deck entries Our masters club has our first scheduled meet on March 17th. I don't know how to stir interest to get people to come. We have 3 entries and may have to cancel. This will be the last and only attempt at a masters meet from our club(which is a USA driven board and hold 3 USA meets a year, one is the biggest in the lsc). I know I have support from my club(the kids parents esp.). I have emailed a lot of folks on our LMSC privately. And some have pasted it on(thanks Jim). I've attend a meet at a local LMSC and brought meet invites. It's on the calender of events. I'm from Allegheny Mountain LMSC, if you want to check it out... I have to attend our board meeting in a week..ekkss.. I hate to cancel, I have a month...any ideas?!?! HELP