Which brings me to my idea, good or bad. I think it may have a shot.

I think if we had a interesting spawn, much like the last piratespawn but with a different theme we could help keep the interest of players joining. Now here's is the crazy part, I want to build it almost all alone. If adv builder wants to help or higher, be my guest. I would enjoy if you gave theme ideas in the comments
Not only that but i think we could try and find some more ways to possibly advertise the server a bit more if we aren't already on every server site or such.
And the last one for now, a youtube channel with regular posts. Youtube could help a lot with bringing people in, i am going to try and startup one after i move in 14 days. Doing some builds, and probably a full minecraft series, maybe even some other games with junkie members to show the great community we have to maybe reel in some people who want to play. I have a lot of idea's but i don't want to fill up the plate and take more than i can chew.