Making free sites sucks

[JD]

Yes, I'm a cranky old 35 yo bastard who thinks its bloody hard work making silly little free sites each day, for what, a sale a week if I'm really lucky. I am impatient, and wanting results, not knowing if I'm doing the right thing, using the right sponsors and giving them enough time.
I used to do many sales a day, a long time ago, now I would be happy with a couple a day, that alone would make me delirious right now, how sad is that?
You turn around and a months gone past and u have like 3 sales or something, wohoo, lol. Snow ball effect, yes I hear about it, I hope its real and the traffic will go up, I'm just wondering if I am doing the right thing by just concentrating on one site a day and submtting it to all the sites, maybe I should be trying to make 4 or 5 a day and submit to different LL for each one, maybe that would boost the traffic up.
You really need lets say 5k clicks to a sponsor a day to do 4 or 5 sales (if your lucky right? based on FS traffic) a day, thats a shit load of traffic, I wonder if it will ever get to that level. Then I think, maybe I should try to generate the traffic using paid passes etc for galleries, but then its a risk u might not get your investment back. I probably should do more each day, do some gals and blogs as well, it all takes its toll mentailly I think, keeping on trying to keep doing stuff, at least until some sales start flowing.

Sure I can get them listed, and I have the templates and link lists down ok, the process is streamlined as best it can be I suppose, its still depressing though.
Then I got a sale today, one crappy little sale from a gallery I had listed a couple weeks ago and suddenly one sale makes me feel good. Havent done consistent sales for a long long time, probably because I dont do the same thing every day for 6 months to give it a go, but should I be making free sites every day? Is it worth it more than it is to create and submit galleries each day? I know a couple years ago it definitely was worth it for the free sites, as they did get some good search traffic a month or so after the submission.
Yes I suppose its better than working at Mcdonalds. I have to give full credit to those of u that make your money from free site creation, and webmasters in general who rely on it for their livelihood, its very hard to work by yourself and try to do something that makes money, at least it is for me right now.

I find it hard to keep your mind on the ball and focus every day, even though your not doing sales. Have been slackish for one or two days and now the traffic just dries up (what little there was), how depressing, I suppose there may be residual SE traffic over time, I suppose I"m just too impatient. I do enjoy making them, its a good challenge to not get that rejected email from mr mary lou
Seems like it will take a long time to create an income flow, perhaps I should make a link list or two like others on here, at least then it will be more niche traffic coming in by some submitters.

Oh well, another day tomorrow, I'll get up and try to get motivated to make my little free sites with the hope that they may bring in some sales, maybe picking more sponsors and trying them is the go as well, then you have to start all over again with new sales pitches, new banners, blah blah blah. Yes, better than working at Mcdonalds, but maybe thats where I will end up if I cant get back to making money in adult. Sorry about the long boring rant, I thought it would be good to air it in the noobs section, cos the bottom line is I'm just a noob, one that used to do well, but cant get back on the damn wagon!!!