I somewhat agree but the freerolls have been running for months now and are starting to be abused instead of attracting new players.
I know. But freerolls won't attract players on their own. New players won't register to play the freerolls if they're not even aware that your site exist. It has to go in line with advertisement/other promo actions.
I do agree more GTD's i think will help. What type of GTD's would players be willing to join? Higher or lower than the current 25GTD's?
If there aren't many players around, even 10mBTC GTD could be attractive. You could mix it up, add few low ones, few medium ones and maybe one high one (like once a week on Sunday) and see what's popular and what's not.
Its really hard to "giveaway" free chips seeing how we have been doing that for sometime now with no much success.
What if you giveaway free chips that are not withdrawable until rake paid by player reaches X amount? That would guarantee that chips given away will be used for playing not for immediate withdrawals. But if you do so, be 100% clear on the rules to avoid disappointment.
We have thought about adding bonus chips for those that get a Royal Flush or Straight Flush in cash games, but not sure how much this would keep players interested.
That's a good idea, but works only if you have steady number of active players, it won't attract new ones on its own, so I'd probably leave this one for later.