So my co-founder and I have launched venuevortex.com 2 months ago. We're still in the early stages of marketing it and have already hit a brick wall. The elevator pitch is that we connect event planners with top quality venues and make it easy for them to communicate and book the venue online.

What we've tried: - Facebook Ad's (sending the users directly to the site) - Google Adwords. - Reaching out to planners on Meetup.com - Reaching out to PR firms (got a few write ups) - Writing blog posts and distributing them via Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, HN etc...

All of these things have gotten us a total of about 20 users. None of which have sent a venue a request yet.

We've cold-called and on-boarded 60+ top venues in Toronto and the metro areas and since we've initially launched in Ontario we've got some great venues throughout.

Any other creative ideas on how to market this product and get it to the general consumers/mainstream?