Thanks, Frank.
Yeah, everytime I start thinking "this kind of site doesn't work for me--I'm gonna pull it", it seems like that's when I get my first sale from that type or that sponsor.
Coincedentally enough, one of the sites I mentioned in my first post, PussyCash, brought me a sign up this afternoon. Not in one of the lower cost brackets either, this was a thirty-two or so dollar per signup. Just as I was thinking "screw this pussycash stuff--never gonna hit the hundred-dollar-cut-me-a-check mark." Have to constantly be reminding myself of the, as you said, long-term nature of this business.
(Plus, the pussycash bonus free chat-cam points helps me remember to think of them as "long-term investments",too

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