Not crazy about the idea of selling more seed accounts -- especially since it's less than a year since the last sale! If it were going to happen, dire need or a longer anniversary (5th anniversary, 10th anniversary) seems like it would be a better time. (An anniversary sale would also be a good way of "proving" that a permanent account is a good investment -- "we've been here 5/10 years, we're in it for the long haul".)

I do like the "special sale" for paid accounts, whatever form it might take!

Swag sounds awesome.

Get on those v-gifts, I say! The dreamsheep stand ready to flock on profile pages! (I would send dreamsheep to everyone I know, I am just sayin', to say nothing of, y'know, other things. I think it's funny that I'm resistant to v-gifts on LJ but am chomping at the bit for them here!)

Could you round up comm leaders to do some kind of raffle? I run duesouth, for instance, and I was thinking that everyone who posts to the comm before a certain date (halfway through April? end of April? as a warm-up for the three weeks for DW?) could be entered into a random drawing for six months of paid time to go to the journal of their choice. It might also be a good way to get more people actually posting in the comms! (I'm sure even if the comm leaders can't afford those paid account prizes, surely someone else in the comm could...)