Herenvardo - 4:10 pm on Jul 22, 2003 (gmt 0)

I'm trying to optimize a page with PR 1. I've sent many requests for link exchanges. The outbound link is placed in my page even before I send the request, but none of them has linked back.
I supose that a site with PR 1 is not very attractive to exchange links, but I need exchange links to improve the PR.
Is there a solution? Can a small site become bigger? Or I'll be condemned to PR 1 forever?

Is there any way to improve PageRank when nobody wants to exchange a link?