I'm at the point where I'm still "adding" to my list of traffic generating sources, and not "cutting". If something looks even remotely legitimate, I am not afraid of throwing some money and effort in that direction. My goal for this year is to spend upwards of $5000 joining and testing various ad sites, safe-lists, traffic exchanges, lead generators, and so on and so forth. As August is just over half way through, I have spent a bit over $3500 this year on a wide variety of income generating tools, so I still have a bit of money left in my overall ad budget to continue testing. This style of marketing may not offer the highest cost/benefit ratio right away, but what I am doing is gaining a wealth of knowledge as I continue on in my journey. What have I learned so far? A lot actually lol. Some ad sites deliver and some don't. It's usually not that cut and dry however. Usually what I find is there is SOME value in everything I try, but not necessarily enough to continue paying on a monthly subscription for example.