Treating it as a numbers game is the fastest route to burning out — happy to be argued with on that one. What are the most active ebony chat forums online right now? Interested in real experiences — including the parts that did not work.
For what it is worth, patience is genuinely the differentiator, dull as that sounds — worth testing yourself rather than taking my word for it.
For what it is worth, expecting any single conversation to work out is the wrong frame — it is not complicated, it is just easy to skip.