As one of those CDBs Jamie talks about, I want to thank everyone who supports this site with their participation and their business.  We are dedicated to adding new services for you and expanding our existing services, and we need the revenue you provide to carry out our plans.  By the end of March next year, when our initial subscribers come up for renewal, we hope to have substantially expanded our news coverage, and we have several new services and improvements of existing services planned. 

For people who do not subscribe, we still appreciate your participation in these forums and will continue to host this for free of course.  Free business listings will continue to be visible to subscribers, and from our initial response, it appears that many active searchers of the directory will be subscribing, so free business listings will continue to get substantial exposure, we believe.  However, the relative advantage of having an Enhanced Listing will increase on March 28, so we are urging businesses with free listings to consider enhancing their listing.

We hope that the changes we've made will help our small business to eventually operate with a profit instead of a loss, but I assure you that I'm not asking for a raise and nobody's taking any South Pacific cruises with your money just yet, especially not Robert, who I think is pictured in the dictionary next to the term "workaholic".  Instead, we will be reinvesting in the site.  I hope that you will see your subscription fee as sort of an investment as well.

--Slade, SOT Web Developer