I'm curious, what's everyone doing these days to drive sales?

TGP's have moved on to paid spots and from what I'm reading sales aren't that great and spots aren't worth the money. And some, but not all, link lists put the kibosh on site builders who were looking to drive traffic to sponsors and started wanting more quality sites rather than tons and tons of submissions with what was essentially the same sponsor content.

What's your routine these days?

Have blogs replaced free site building? I know I much prefer to write a blog post than to build free sites and galleries.