As I see it, you're not fighting the marketing battle since we have a very small community which is unnoticed, hence no "glorius marketing" battles to attract miners from other communities. What we do need is a pool, a basic marketing, something we could offer others to join MCN community. This way, those with enough hash power will solo mine till the price gets to the point where it isn't profitable to mine MCN at all and even if look a case of attracting more, new miners we would only raise the diff and that would lead us to rapid price drop 'cause the more would dump on daily level.

So, the best solution would be to get a pool with merged mining or at least MCN only pool.