Need ideas for stirring interest in a our 1st meet

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
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  • Relax. Nobody enters a local meet six weeks in advance. They wait until the last minute to put down their money, because they don't know if they'll be sick, if they'll have child care, if they'll have some work emergency that consumes the weekend, if it will be snowing, if their best friend will want them to help give a dinner party, etc. You have to host it the first time no matter how many people attend. Then next year, if you ran it well and it was a good addition to your local meet schedule, people who did attend will talk it up and your attendance will grow.
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  • Relax. Nobody enters a local meet six weeks in advance. They wait until the last minute to put down their money, because they don't know if they'll be sick, if they'll have child care, if they'll have some work emergency that consumes the weekend, if it will be snowing, if their best friend will want them to help give a dinner party, etc. You have to host it the first time no matter how many people attend. Then next year, if you ran it well and it was a good addition to your local meet schedule, people who did attend will talk it up and your attendance will grow.
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