Talented graphic designer, Tim Monson, got us there last week and we couldn’t be happier. As a surprise for being numero cien, Tim will be receiving a copy of Sell With Your Ears by our own Bill Zipp. Comes in real handy growing a small business. (And if you haven’t registered for Bill’s free marketing workshop on March 17th, that will come in real handy too.)

So if you are a business that needs the creatives, geeks, and guides that Matchbook contains, all it takes is click, click, and a boom for access to all three figures of them. That’s a load of talent. That’s our big, grownup Matchbook.

These are milestones. Benchmarks of success. Or maybe just nice, round numbers for the OCD in all of us.

How about one hundred members? We know. It has a nice ring to it. In fact, it’s the reason for this post.

Our creative talent directory Matchbook has been very successful. Since it’s inception, 82 super-talented creatives, geeks, and guides have signed up. It’s attracting the very best the Willamette Valley has to offer – exactly the people we at the MAC had in mind when we set out to create it.

But we need more. 18 more.

We could be satisfied with 82, but (blame it on our fragile egos) it just won’t feel legit until Matchbook reaches one hundred. So how do we get the last dozen and a half members to reach it? And, we hate to be picky, but we’d like them from some pretty specific places.

Here is a fact. The majority of our members are in the greater Corvallis area. That’s not a bad thing. However, Matchbook happens to be a service for Corvallis and Salem and Eugene. No doubt there is an abundance of talent in those cities. We think they should be listed too.

It’s just that finding them has been tough. So we are open to your ideas. Should we run a giveaway? A booth at the fair? Fall in behind the Slug Queen at the Eugene Celebration Parade?

Help us spread the word about Matchbook. Hey, if you don’t think it’s worth your time, no worries. We won’t be hurt. However, if you think it’s a service worth talking about, fire off your ideas in the comments.

“I found my perfect match on Matchbook. Johnathan Curry was willing to work with our non-profit budget (small!) on a database rebuild project. He understood my needs for keeping things simple, making it functional and still managed to add flair/creativity to a project as boring as a database. Best yet, he was very nice to work with and stayed within our budget.”

Awe… that just makes us feel special. Thanks, Cynthia.

Have you had a good experience with Matchbook? We’d love to hear about it.