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This is really a great source of traffic, and it converts! Since they only list models with full names, you need to pick a popular one to get the most traffic.

You could just skim their top girls from their own list:

If you can get listed with one of these girls – you should get anywhere from 20k-50k hits.  And it continues for several months, although it drops down to just a few hundred.  The problem is there is a ton of competition on these girls and getting listed will be tougher.

Another way to look for girls is just type in their name in the search bar:

I just typed in “Jen” for example:

You’ll see plenty of listings with the text “Jen” and a count of searches next to each one.  Pretty much anything over 100k is a winner.  Over 500k is extremely competitive and I don’t get too many listings approved for those.

Now go to your favorite sponsor and look for a model.  Pimproll, trafficcashgold, and NastyDollars all have search by model name.  Type in their name into the freeones search bar and look for the number of searches.

Now visit the models page that comes up in freeones:

Monique Alexander gets about 575k searches and has 5+ pages of galleries.  As you can see, she is very popular, ranks well, and tons of galleries are submitted here.  Unless you have some unique content, it’s gonna be hard to get listed – but not impossible!

Now lets look at a gallery I got recently listed that was no so competitive:

Only 2115 searches and ranked relatively low – but not too bad.  The main thing here is there is only one page of galleries!  So it should be easy to get listed here as I did.  It just got listed last night, and I only expect a few hundred hits by the end of the month on this gallery.

These are the basics to how I find good models to list at freeones.  I got an Aria Giovanni listing last year which still gets a few hundred hits per month to this day.  I got my Rachel Roxx gallery listed the other day and it got over 25k hits.  The key here is consistency.  Like thehun, they don’t just take anything, but you can submit daily – even more than one per day if you have different models.  Read their rules carefully – I think you can only submit one model per gallery.

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Today was a “submit to thehun” day, so I spent some time building a new gallery from scratch.  Of course I’m promoting virtuagirl again – think I made at least $70 on the last submit there.  I used a free template I got from my hostgator account:

I found a nice template for today’s gallery:

I downloaded, unzip the psd and edited it fireworks:

BEFORE:

AFTER:

Here is the finished gallery: Saraliz Miami Beach

Well, I have to run.  Everyone be sure to read Bill’s comment from my last post.  He gave some great stats and insight.

Sorry I haven’t posted in a while.  Been working on my new place I’m moving too.  Working with contractors suck.  I had to take down some drywall and put installation in myself.  They only put the installation in about half way, then stopped when I wasn’t there.  As if I wouldn’t check their work.

I’m still submitting galleries, but haven’t made anything new since my last post – just simply using sponsor galleries.  However, I am getting some great results on the new galleries that I built myself – at least with totemcash.  The other sponsors are still not converting.

There was a nice little spike on the 19th, when my gallery got listed at thehun and freeones.

• Last Gallery Listed: Rachel Roxxx
• Total entry page hits: 75740
• Clicks to totemcash: 3611 (4.8% ctr)
• Installs: 127
• Sales: 19 ($202)

I submitted another gallery to thehun and freeones – one I’ve already submitted everywhere else last week.  Doesn’t look like freeones took it, but still waiting on thehun.

I’ve also been scrubbing my chameleon database – mostly deleting sites that aren’t driving traffic.  Today I found one of my favorite sites has blacklisted me – jackstroker.com.  Not sure why, so I sent an email this morning asking to be reconsidered.  Hopefully he’ll let me submit again – his site did generate some decent traffic – in the area of 500 hits.

I’m also analyzing my fling blogs.  Traffic has been steadily dropping and I haven’t made any sales this pay period for fling.  For the period Feb 1 – Feb 21: I was getting about 76% new visitors according to google analytics.  For the period Mar 1 – Mar 21: I’m getting only 56% new visitors.  This is primarily due to a drop in rankings for the keywords I’m targeting.  I’m going to brainstorm this week and see if there is anything I can do short term to improve my rankings.   This may include posting to other dating blogs, submitting to directories, and posting in dating/adult forums.

One of places I’m considering is: Post2Blogs

Interesting concept – they let you post to their blogs and all you do in return is post a link back.  I’ve already submitted one post.  I think I get to post 20 for free.  No traffic yet from that one post, but wasn’t expecting any.  Doing this purely for seo.  Their blogs are pretty straight forward, but still very new overall.  Hence the link juice coming back may be weak.

Another tool I found is Comment Kahuna

It searches for blogs by keyword, then you post in the comments of the blogs.  Haven’t used it yet, but it is free with your email.  Looks pretty powerful – yet not spammy since everything is manual.  I’ll do a post later on this.

There is a post by mikesinner of blog directories – MP Forum

Here are all the directories from that thread.

• http://www.adultblogresource.com/submitter/
• http://www.adultwebmastergroup.com/submitter/
• http://addyourblogs.com/
• http://www.1blogsubmitter.com/
• http://submitter.supersexblogs.com/
• http://www.hornysexblogs.com/easysubmit.php
• http://www.adultblogresource.com/submitter/

I have a few on my vg blog here: blog directory

Note: there is some overlap between the two lists, so don’t submit twice to the same directory.

Generally the forum community is not kind to blog directories.  They think it’s a waste of time.  While I generally concur, it is another source at your disposal.

Well, I’m off to my new place to do some cleaning.  Thanks again for reading.

Hope you all are making lots of money!

My new galleries are performing really well for virtuagirl.  Here’s a quick update

Here are the numbers for March 1 – March 15:

• Entry Page Hits: 14325
• Clicks to totemcash: 1848
• CTR: 12.9%
• Signups: 8 ($87.48)
• Galleries submitted: 3

The ctr continues to climb down, however it’s still very good for tgp submits.  I’ve only submitted 3 galleries for the above numbers.  I made a new one tonight – which brings me to the title of this post.

When digging around for free hosting, I found one that offers free templates.  They are all mainstream categorized by niche, like health, beauty, law, etc…

Unfortunately, they don’t offer free hosting for porn sites.  However they will allow adult sites with a paid upgrade.  You can check out all the features, but that’s not what I’m interested in.  I just wanted another source for templates.

Here’s the link: 000webhost

Just fill in some basic info like name, address, email – no credit card required or anything! Pick a domain name to host – cannot be porn – but most of you probably have some mainstream ideas anyway – so this is a great place to try stuff out free.  Once you’re in the cpanel, you’ll click on the “free templates icon”.

Most of the templates are for full websites, so you have to cut out a lot of stuff to make a tgp.  Looks like they have over 100 templates to choose from, so you should be able to find something you can use.  I’m gonna pick one out and showcase them here to give you some ideas.

Here is the free template I used called PARTY TIME:

I simply delete the unwanted graphics:

Put my stuff in:

And that’s it.  Here’s the gallery I submitted tonight: Rachel Roxxx & Shay Laren

The only thing you have to be careful of are some of the photo images.  I always delete any photos I see unless I can confirm they are public domain.  Generally all of the shading and background images are free of copyright, but not always.  Be sure to read any license information before using templates – particularly the images.  For mainstream templates you pretty much have to delete all the photo images since they’re not appropriate anyway.  Funny, eh?

Hostgator has a great free template area as well, so if you’re hosted there, check those out as well.  I’ll try and pick some out of their batch and see what I can come up with.

I’m so happy to see some of you getting some sales! Let’s all congratulate Bill on his totemcash sale! It’s a nice one too, at $22.  I’m averaging about $11 per sale, so it’s nice to get a big one once in a while.

I’m still working on my fling sites.  The traffic is wavering a bit, so I need to get on it somehow.  TGP submits are  big waste of time in terms of ctr and sales, but I think there maybe some backlink value there.  So be sure to anchor text all your galleries with the keywords you want whenever possible.  If you’re submitting 2-5 galleries per day anyway, why not through a fling gallery in every few days or once a week?

My other sponsors are still not making any money for me.  I haven’t had time to make a nice gallery for them like I do virtuagirl, but when I do, I’ll post the results.

Well, got a fling free signup yesterday, but no paid signups.  Sometimes just wishing for something doesn’t work.  However, did make a virtuagirl sale for $5.79! Whoo Hoo.

update: just got another sale on virtuagirl for $12 on a submit I did to the hun a few weeks back.  So it can take a while for installs to convert.  But at least totemcash doesn’t have expiring cookies!  Once a user installs the software, anything they buy in the future will get credited to you.  This is the only program I know of that does this.

Anyway, thought I’d share some stats on my new galleries for something other than virtuagirl.  The ctr on the virtuagirl galleries are nothing short of amazing.  So how do my new galleries perform in normal niche – teen amateur?

Here are the numbers for March 1 – March 12:

• Entry Page Hits: 5346
• Clicks to  TopBucks: 88
• CTR: 1.65%
• Signups: 0
• Gallery with most hits: Kari Nude

Wow!  So what’s happening here?  My best guess is I’m promoting a general teen amateur girl and sending clicks to a megasite pass.   Here’s a short list of the problems I see here:

1. discontinuity between the what the surfer is looking for vs. what I’m selling
2. no free pass – credit card required with trial payment
3. sponsor not unique – tons of reality megasites out there
4. using my content – not content from sponsor (see #1)

My virtuagirl galleries don’t suffer from any of these problems – hence the huge difference in ctr.  I’m gonna work on my next galleries to fix the above potential problems and see if I can get the ctr to improve.

In the milf niche, I used virtual copies of the sponsor galleries.  I’ve don’t normally like to use the sponsor galleries, since I’m not convinced that sponsors know how to sell – ironic isn’t it?  Anyway, let’s see how they performed for me.

• Entry Page Hits: 6456
• clicks to  Pimproll: 82
• CTR: 1.25%
• Signups: 0
• Gallery with the most hits: Fuck My Mommy and Me

Only real problem with this gallery is that there is no free trial either.  Other than that, it pretty much is perfect in terms of content, continuity, and quality.  So saying things like “get your password now” gets a very low ctr, even when everything else is right.

Anyway, gonna review this data again and see what my next steps will be.   This business should not be about getting tons of traffic, but converting the traffic you have.

Hope this helps some of you put your own efforts in perspective.  I know many of you get tons more traffic than me.

Gonna be very busy next couple of days, have to start cleaning up my new place, so I may fall behind a bit.  But I hope the rest of you keep going and make some sales!  Till next time…

Bill asked me this in the comments section:

One question, as I agree Fling fo rTGP submits is fail, how many hits are you getting to your blog, all SE? I seem to get real good hits to 2 or 3 of my 11 blogs then weak to no SE hits on others dispite loads of back links and google tools showing the keywords I have targeted

Most of the hits I get to my hotfling.com blog are type-in direct traffic.  Here’s a 30-day google analytics snapshot.

If you look closely, you’ll see that traffic is dropping off a bit.  I need to revisit my seo strategy, since I really want this thing to go up – not down.  However, considering the traffic was virtually zero back in Oct 1, not too bad.

The rest of my blogs are doing much much less.  One blog I’ve recently started promoting is ratedxpics.com  Here’s a snapshot 30 day:

78 of the “referring site” hits are from this blog or the mp forum, so total visits is really 266 in 30 days.  That’s not too bad considering it was virtually zero on Feb 8, the day of launch.

From what I’ve read in the forums, blogs take about 3-6 months to build traffic.  From looking at the stats, that seems to hold true.  I’m doing the basic seo stuff, but haven’t really gone hardcore seo.  I’m trying out some tools – both free and paid on my mainstream stuff – directory submitters, rss submitters, social bookmarking, etc…  Once I get a feel for them, I’ll do a post and show some results.  The initial results are promising, but it’s way to early to tell.

So it’s Friday again and fling has the $100 Friday special!  As you may know by now, I’m a big believer in positive mental thinking.  So let’s put our minds together and wish for a fling sign up today!

Between 6pm – 9pm EST – just before you login to your stats – think:

“I WILL GET A FLING PAID SIGNUP!”

It worked last week for me, so I’m 1:1 in conversions using this method.

Quick update on my virtuagirl stats – my new galleries are kicking ass in terms of ctr and installs – however still no sales.  But it does take a few days for people to buy into it, so I’m hoping to see some sales here any day.

I got one of my new galleries listed on freeones, so traffic is through the roof now!

Here’s are the number March 1 – This morning:

• Entry Page Hits: 8366
• Clicks to Totemcash: 1403
• CTR: 17%
• Installs: 61
• Signups: 2 (no new sales)
• Gallery with most hits: Rachel Roxxx (5779 total, 4743 from freeones in 2 days)

Still a respectable ctr – especially for a tgp submit.

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I was racking my brains last night on a new gallery to submit – particularly when it’s time to submit to thehun again. I really want to get listed there, duh.

Last time I got a vg gallery accepted there and made a couple of sales.  I’ve submitted at least 2 more vg galleries since then – and they have not gotten listed

After looking at my various sponsors, their galleries and content – this time I decided to go with topbucks.  I really like their pink visual pass site and really think it should convert.  Only problem right now is they don’t give me content, so I have to use my own.  I bought some nice stuff cheap at scarlette – like $2 for a set of 100+ pics.  The quality on these ‘bargain basement bin’ pics is about a 7 out of 10.  You really have to cherry pic the individual pics, but you do get some gems out of it.

The good thing about using your own content is you can watermark your domain name into the pic.

Now my problem was picking a template, coming up with some sales text.  I usually just hit the sponsor’s site and rip off what they use.  I try to pick the things that highlight their best features.

My last post showing how I made a gallery was fairly popular, so I’m gonna repeat that briefly here using my new gallery as an example.

I’m using a free template I got from a now pay only membership site (so sorry it’s not free anymore).

BEFORE:

Clean out the old graphics and text:

Put my stuff in:

All done! – Look Here: Ellen Nude

I spent about 2 hours making this gallery.  That’s a lot longer than the usual 1 hour, but this is a relatively new sponsor for me, so working out all the sales points was tuff.  I tried several different ways of presenting the sponsor before deciding on the final gallery.  Hopefully this gallery will get listed at thehun and convert like virtuagirl does for me.

EDIT: Another new thing I’m doing here is linking directly to the join page instead of there landing page.  I say “CLICK HERE FOR INSTANT ACCESS” instead of “CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE FREE…”.  I’m going to expirement with going to the join page this month and see if I get any better conversions.  Right now I’m getting so little conversions by going to a landing page with more free samples, I figured it wouldn’t hurt.  I kinda got the idea from mikesinner at mp forum – remember the guy who just builds blogs on free hosts? I think he said he just links to the join page.  His conversions seem pretty good, so why not?

One nagging thought that keeps coming to mind is a post I read somewhere at greenguys about how fancy galleries don’t convert as well as plain jane 10 year old looking stuff.  When you look at all the galleries floating around, that’s pretty much what people are doing – simple thumbs and text.  Occassionally you’ll see some nice work – but for the most part – something a 5 year old could do.

I don’t know, I like to take pride in my work.  Even if the galleries take longer to make, I want to look back and say to myself “I did a good job on that.”  I’ve said it before – making money is not the end all be all for everything.  You have to enjoy what you’re doing or you’ll quit.  If you don’t quit, you’ll be carrying around negative energy and just become a mean person.

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I’m pretty excited to see us all helping each other out in the comments. I’m trying to get this buddypress plugin to work so we can be more web 2.0 and interact a little better. Although I love being center stage – where my posts get all the attention – I’d really like to build a friendly community where you can shine – make your own posts, links to your blogs, and network with other like minded webmasters.

Right now, this theme is just not working with the buddypress plugin – something to do with the permalinks I think. I’ve tested some buddypress compatible themes and they work – but I really like this theme. So until I get this worked out, you may see a different theme every now and then when you come back.

Well, that’s all for now. Now make some sales on fling today!

Okay, I have a little time to put together a larger and accurate sample.  Basically the sample in the previous post was just too small.
NOTES:
February -

Of the 104596 hits, about 74,000 came from thehun.

Gallery with the most hits: Lea Tyron (83,644)

In all fairness, I would expect thehun to have a very very low ctr.

So what it’s like without thehun?

January -

Gallery with the most hits: Tess (1522)

Ah, much better.

Up to March 10th (today):

Gallery with the most hits: Manon Starry Sky (522) & Virtual Tie Rachel Roxx (495)

Now as you can see – my new galleries seem to have an unprecedented ctr!

I’ll revisit this end of March to see if the numbers are still holding – but this is very encouraging.

Sorry about the previous posts showing closer to 30% ctr.  I was rushing to get the post out and got the numbers wrong somehow.

I’ll try and do figures for other sponsors, but it’s gonna take a lot more time since the stats are all over the place across different hosts and affiliate areas.  Suppose once I start making some serious money, I’ll look into a stats program, but for now it’s manageable.

Rather than rewrite this entire post – Please see new post above this one.

Jim asked me the following question:

Your methodology is interesting. Did you compare the results between “professional” ladning pages and those that you designed yourself?
Is the CTR/final conversion just the same/better/much better?

Good work
Jim

I’m going to use March 1 – March 9 stats since I can put those together quickly.  I may come back later and edit this post if I find a made some mistakes in counting, but this is what I think I have right now.

CTR is very good for virtuagril.  I seem to have that nailed – it’s seems to always be above 30% no matter where a gallery gets listed. (see new post – I screwed up the numbers) Conversions are much harder for me to track since totemcash doesn’t have a very good “referral” link tracking on sales.

Just my opinion, but I feel like if I get the ctr – it’s up to totemcash to convert it into a sale for me.  But, based on my gut feelings, I don’t recall ever seeing a conversion from persian kitty or tommys, but do have some from thehun and freeones.

For other affiliates – my traffic is so low it’s really not statistically relavent.

Galleries I made myself from “internet marketing templates”:

VirtuaGirl: 2900 unique hits – 1080 clicks to sponsor – 35 installs – 2 sales. (See New Post)

Fling: virtually no clicks to sponser and no sales 1235 entry page hits – 0 free joins – 0 sales.

NastyDollars Daredorm: free site I made myself 336 entry page hits – 33 clicks – 1 sale

TopBucks: lesbian and amateur galleries I made: 4400 uniques – 46 clicks – 0 sales.

Virtually copied sponsor gallery templates:
Trafficcashgold Milf: 190 entry page hits – 18 clicks – 0 sales
Pimproll milf: 1200 uniques – 25 clicks – 0 sales

Hopefully I answered the question.  As you can see, the ctr is all over the place.  But comparing topbucks galleries I made my self to the sponsor templates is interesting.  I get about 1% on my homebrew topbucks gallery vs. the 2%s on pimproll.

My last few posts have been sort of fluff and puff.  Not much meat for you to chew on.  Sometimes I just like to ramble about how I think about things – random thoughts and philosophy.  But I really believe that shit.  Like in my last post about “wishing” for a sale on fling to get the $100 bonus on Friday – yep, I got it. (at least I should, but it’s showing as $35 right now).

Anyway, I wanted to share how I build galleries.  It takes me about 1-2 hours to make a gallery, submit it with chameleon, and do all the confirmations.  I’m really proud of them, even though I don’t make them from scratch.  But I don’t have to with all the free templates you can find online.

I use a lot of internet marketing templates.  I’m going to showcase some here that I got from landingpageclassroom.com.  You have to sign up with your email, but it’s free and they got some great video tutorials that will help you with any online marketing efforts.

UPDATE:

Sorry, landingpageclassroom is no longer free.  I got in at “launch” and assumed it was still free when I wrote this post.  Guess they really mean it sometimes when they say “limited offer”.

I will share some other places I get templates from in my next post.

Basically the templates are grouped into categories like “insurance”, “health”, “dating”, etc…

As you know, I promote the hell out of virtuagirl.  Here is a gallery I made this morning.  I used a “life insurance” template and modified it.

BEFORE:

AFTER:

I touched on how I promote virtuagirl in an earlier post.  I incorporated all those techniques plus something new – I added a user testimonial - a stock internet marketing technique.

To build my galleries, I use dreamweaver and fireworks.  Dreamweaver has a nice little macro that builds the thumbnails and links to the full picture automatically.  All I have to do is select the thumbnail size and images.

To build the template, I simply load the provided psd file into fireworks from whatever site is providing the free template and edit.  In this case I delete the stock family image and put in a profile pic of the liliane.  Changed the text to “RatedXPics.com” plus all the other text to read “Absolutely free Download – Click Here”, etc….

I then replaced the “As seen on: cnbc, cnn, aol” graphic with the RTA, ICRA, and verisgn logos.

BEFORE:

AFTER:

Now I add some graphics back in:

Then the text:

Now I download the Girls Free Content from totemcash – I get 16 high quality images that dreamweaver can create a simple thumbnail gallery.  I run the macro and get something like this:

To insert this thumbnail gallery neatly into the template I made, I break the template into three parts – a top, bottom, and middle.

TOP: (top.jpg)

MIDDLE: (mid.jpg)

BOTTOM: (bot.jpg)

I then create a html table with the exact dimensions of the template width with three rows.

<table width=”780″ border=”0″ cellspacing=”0″ cellpadding=”0″>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
</table>

Then I simple insert the graphics into each corresponding row.  The top header graphic into row one, the middle graphic (as a background) into row two, then the bottom graphic into row three.

<table width=”780″ border=”0″ align=”center” cellpadding=”0″ cellspacing=”0″>
<tr>
<td><img src=”/pics/vg0138/graphics/top.jpg”/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td background=”/pics/vg0138/graphics/mid.jpg”>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img src=”/pics/vg0138/graphics/bot.jpg” width=”780″ height=”14″ /></td>
</tr>
</table>

In the second row of the table, I cut the entire thumbnail gallery that dreamweaver made and insert it.

I add some more text and sponsor banners, 2257 info, etc…

You’re welcome to peek at the code.  Here is the link to the gallery I submitted this morning:

Liliane Tiger

Even if you don’t have dreamweaver and fireworks, there are free tools available that do essentially the same things I did above.  Check out download.com for some free thumbnail gallery builders.  Can’t think of any off the top of my head, but you’ll find plenty there.

I also recommend you read Howling Wulfs How to create a TGP Gallery. He’s the master of tgp submission.

The above gallery took exactly 1 hour 34 minutes to build, submit to 200 galleries with chameleon, and do email confirmations.  Almost 25 minutes of that time was just writing the damn descriptions for the submits.  You know – 20, 30, 35, 50, and 100 character length descriptions that chameleon asks for – I just suck at writing for porn.  About another 10 minutes of just uploading the files.  When I’m on a role – meaning I can write descriptions in 2 minutes instead of 25, I can pump a nice gallery out in 1 hour flat.

Some other things I think about when building the galleries is color.  I always try to match the color of the template with the colors in the pictures.

Like this one: First Porn Audition (blue jeans, blue sofa – hence blue template)

and this one: Belicia Purpler Night

This last one I’ve shown before, and I wasn’t sure if I should go with red or blue.  However, the red drink she is drinking ties it all the colors together nicely: Hot Fling with Samantha

Anyway, you get the idea.

Well there you have it!  How I build galleries.  Hope I gave you some insight and ideas on how to build your next galleries.

Well today I was totaling up my numbers and found I broke $1000 as of yesterday for this year!  After all expenses – hosting, chameleon, new domain registrations, I’m up $800. So there is money to be made in porn after all.

Each month it feels like I’m just barely scraping by, and yet I hit this number.  Little by little it adds up I guess.

I really hope this helps motivate some of you who are still struggling.  I mean seriously, I’m not doing anything particularly special.  Just submitting galleries and making blogs.  If you’ve seen my galleries and blogs, I’m sure you weren’t too impressed either.  Sure, some of them are pretty, but all I did was use those internet marketing templates you can find all over google.

Sometimes I wonder if it’s just the positive mental attitude I carry with me.  Can it be true that’s all it really takes?  Is that the difference?  Or is it that I don’t really care if this makes money or not, but do it because I just enjoy it.  Does that somehow translate into making better converting galleries and blogs?

I’m really racking my brains here because I see in the forums all the time about newbies busting their asses off and not getting results. I’m working hard, but not all the time.  I take plenty of breaks.  Sometimes days at a time – either by choice or because I’m just too tired after my day job.  I haven’t submitted anything the last two days.  Hopefully tonight I’ll pump one out after this post.

So today I present to you this thought.  Don’t buy into all the chatter about how you have to bust your ass off and how this business is so hard to get into now.  If you look for reasons to fail, you’ll find them:  “It’s too saturated, everything is free, and it’s not how it used to be. ” My favorite one is “You need a gazillion hits a day to make any sales.” or something like that.

Yes, it’s all true.  But I remember something else I heard years ago. – “The opposite of a truth is another truth.“  So I say: “It’s not too saturarted, nothing is for free, and it’s better than it used to be.“  Oh, and: “You don’t need that much traffic to make a sale.”

Look here:

Sometimes just wishing it to happen works!

Fling is running a special this month – $100 fridays.  Guess what I’m wishing for right now?