Hey not to change the subject (I would totally hook my laptop up to a pool but everyone tells me I will burn it up. Also I don't know how so it's fine I will just buy them) but really see the importance of promotion/exposure with coins in general. VTC has a lot of advantages where most of what is out there is relying on hype or marketing. I know multiple translations are in progress, and also the fork is ~this weekend and exchange announcements etc.

So have you guys thought of using PR Newswire?

http://www.prnewswire.com/

I don't know how much effect it would have outside the existing community but it is fairly inexpensive. $200-250 a year and I think a small fee per press release. I have used them in the past to promote businesses in the mainstream financial industry and their reach is impressive.

If Vertcoin wants to open an account, I would be able to put out fairly frequent press releases, same as any company does announcing new products or developments with the market (new exchange listings etc).

This is in my experience the best way to get information out to where it can be picked up beyond the existing community without full time PR people. If the idea is to get to bitcoin/litecoin scale it may be advantageous to position outside altcoin forumland fairly early on.

just putting it out there and if there's any interest I'll draft up some releases.