Hi Mo,
Thank you for your thank you to my thank you to your thank you...(there's a pattern here, don't you think?

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I understand what you're doing, too, with your posting to build your list--and not wanting to monetize too soon, etc. I do know all this does take time, too.
If you haven't already thought about it, once you have some subscribers, you could stay in touch with them by sending out a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly ezine/newsletter. Doesn't have to be a long newsletter; you could even take one or two of your blog posts and put them in the ezine and send out.
Karen