It's an important task, but finding people who want to do it, are able to do a good job, and then actually do it has been less trivial than you might think.

I personally think Valg writes great copy for that kind of stuff, but hardly anyone else has had both the talent and the motivation (at least, for very long.)

Danke!

That said, those ads took me a damn long time to write. If they're good, it's from brute force and not anything I'd consider a personal strength. I'm also more or less completely unable to sit down at my desk and say "OK. Write 5 different ads." -- I'll just end up staring at a screen. Sometimes, I get a random idea and can run with it, but even then I toss the result in a virtual trash bin about half the time.

That's compounded by the fact that I haven't had a lot of luck finding places that will let us advertise for free. Some gaming sites have forums, etc. for that purpose, but they're usually low-traffic. (I've still hit them, on the ground that pasting is easy, but it's of questionable utility at best.) Universities have mailing lists and clubs who would take interest, some trade publications or online sites are probably out there, etc. Takes a lot to find all of that and get rolling, however.

Given a couple people who proved they could reliably turn out good material and/or find places to stuff it, I'd probably be able to chip in there as well. I appreciate that it's important,

Obviously, some people have more of a knack for this-- advertising firms employ a lot of full-timers to do exactly this sort of thing. The key is finding a couple volunteers who can cover the full skillset and get us rolling.

valguarnera@carrionfields.com