With any site that requires users to submit the content it's important to get it started by "seeding" the content yourself. THis can be done by writing articles of your own and submitting under different names or by paying others to submit their articles there and give you a review. One way to attract article writers is simply to find someone that offers an article writing service and strike up a deal with them. For every article that they get submitted to the site they get paid a certain amount. These article writers can then suggest to their clients that they submit the articles to your site as well as whatever other sites they were already planning on submitting to. As an extra incentive you can allow this affiliate article writers to give their clients a bump in the rankings for the article that they submit. Gregg
Promote it in forums, as well as offer some type of incentive to the first x number that post x number of articles. The incentive doesn't have to be monetary, but could be something like a "free vip" account for when you grow and then offer paid accounts.