Building the site was the easy part getting traffic is another story

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So let me tell you a little story....

One day a few months ago I decided to start a niche classified ads website. I am a licenced professional related to the niche and saw an opportunity. My problem I don't know jack @#$# about web programming, IT, or internet marketing aside from what I have learned since beginning this endeavor. Not letting that get in my way I have managed to get my website built .

Building the site was the easy part, getting traffic is another story. Some stats from my modest marketing campaign:

-online 2 months
-300 registered users so far
-50 to 100 daily unique visitors slowly growing
-10 to 20% of traffic is organic search engine
-no page rank yet
-the site's Facebook page has 2000 real likes
-not yet monetized the site

So to the experts is this a good start? My main and basically only source of attracting new users has been to contact them directly via other classified ads (20 to 30% success rate converting new users) I can't do this forever though. I need a new method of attracting users. I need some scalability and critical mass. Oh yea and I am basically doing this with a zero $$ budget.

I have been encouraged by the positive feedback from new users who initially discover the site. Its only the technical and marketing side holding me back now.

Any advice, comments positive or negative please.