After one month, I have managed to get about 200 visitors with approximately 450 visits. I've still got a long way to go until I get 1000 hits a day.

Actually, I found out that there's alot of ways to increase traffic without having to use a pay service such as Google Adword. Here's a list of free website promotion services that I am using:

http://theorangeox.blogspot.com/2007/07/free-website-promotions-services-and.html