Cuttings - how do you do yours?

I have just taken loads of cuttings from a fuchsia and a hebe style plant and used some rooting hormone. I have used sharp sand only as that's what I have used for hardwood cuttings - blackcurrant and gooseberries with an over 90% strike rate.

What way do you do it and does it alter between softwood and hardwood?

I have a rose scented geranium I want to keep over winter.

They seem to work better if you let them wilt a bit first, and keep the pot barely moist.

I often put my cuttings straight into MPC and don't get many fail  Rosemary, hydrangeas, gooseberries; softish stems of fuchsias root well in a jar of water 
I find evergreen shrub and rose cuttings seem to do better in slits in the soil, filled with sharp sand and inserted quite deeply, but the success rate with these isn't as good 

I've recently bought some vermiculite and perlite which I am looking to start using for cuttings but I have a 100% strike rate with using MPC so far (I have 5 sprigs of bay on the windowsill) & mint in water seems to always take.