Why is everyone so quick to blame the billing company or sponsor when sales are down?

The first week of this period was downright nasty for sales with one of my major sponsors and I was starting to go into crisis mode. Then the last period picked right up and everything's fine. Sometimes it's just how it is.

Don't forget this is Feburary. People are supposed to be depressed ... the February blahs. Also everybody's gotten their Christmas credit card statements by now and the financial reality is setting in.

Rainbo, I visited your inferno site and it took a good 30 seconds to download. I actually thought you had crashed my browser and started doing a control + alt + del. Maybe this has something to do with your woes.

My sales have tripled since Naked Sword moved from iBill to ccbill. And I do next to nothing to promote them, in fact, I have been in the middle of a site reno that took three weeks to finish and I had taken most of my NS banners down. Still sales are up. I have a branded theatre and it does well.

My ccbill sales for affiliates during the month of Feburary hit an all-time record high. They were higher than last month and that's with three days less to convert.

I was talking to another fairly experience webmaster about sales and he simply said, "I've noticed over the years that every year I have two periods that absolutely suck, you never know when they're going to happen, they just do. I seem to be experiencing the first one of 2005 right now."

Maybe, just maybe, these last couple of weeks no one has felt like buying porn. Maybe they felt all of the sites they've visited really sucked. Maybe everyone's credit cards are maxed.

Just some other things to think about in my opinion.
Dzinerbear