First of all, nice work you've done and I understand you want to get money for your time and energy, but why not ask for more help? The more help the project gets the workload gets split and you have more time to do whatever you want. I think this is one thing that really hurt this distro is the charge to download it.
Second get a nicer logo for this, the logo isn't horrible but people judge a project by the logo or website it has, as sad as that is to say. I would really like to see this become a big time distro and not a small project anymore.
That's my suggestion.