I did not realize exchanges charged for voting. Shows how new I am. Thanks for the answer. The plans sound good.
People charge for all sorts of things - it's the way of the world.
The plans are nascent, as is the coin. However, the effort at contacting people has stepped up a notch. My team has contacted 130 different websites since Friday to see if they'll add ProCoin. We'll continue to contact at a high rate to spur adoption.
Right now the basics seems to be:
1) More mining/hash = larger float/market cap
2) More service adoption = more wallet downloads and higher end user adoption
3) More exchanges - greater investment and liquidity.
These are the steps that I feel should be handled by an altcoin team in its nascent stage. That's where we seem to be now and successfully journeying through this stage will help us move on to the next phase.