My biggest concern about 1012 is that it is an election year in the US.

Political campaigning started right after January 1. In 2010, the last national election year, my worst month for sales of 12 months before and 12 months after, was October 2010, the final weeks before the November election.

The negative ads make people depressed. The TV news shows are dominated by this day-to-day horse race, that's going to last 10 months and 1 week. People do contribute money to campaigns. People volunteer time to go door-to-door and telephone. Election years are not our friends.

Also, it has been a mild winter up until just a week or so ago, so people are not staying indoors. The Super Bowl occupied some people's attention.

When I used to work in the niteclub business, we always pretty much wrote off the time period between New Year's and Valentines Day.

While in the past, January was a big month for me, like December, this year, January was down 10% from the December high.

Can't ignore Tube Sites and blogs that still give away too much, and torrent sites that still exist to give away it all. With gay porn, just giving away the full frontal reveal can be enough to satisfy the viewer so he/she clicks on to the next offering on the buffet line.