Every now and then, something happens that makes you stop, smile, and think: “Wow… I’ve really been here a long time.”
That happened to me today.
Someone mentioned remembering me from all the way back in 2013—noticing my presence and signing up under me long before either of us fully understood the depth of this industry. Honestly? That comment hit me in the best possible way.
When you’ve put in years—decades, even—you sometimes wonder if anyone noticed. You wonder if the consistency meant anything. Hearing that someone remembered me from that far back was the full-circle moment I didn’t even know I needed.
As I was digging through my old blog posts recently, I found myself smiling at memories I’d nearly forgotten. I bought my first traffic exchange in 2008. I’ve been building, learning, connecting, and showing up ever since. And yet, looking at the calendar, it doesn’t feel like it’s been nearly twenty years.
The Romans had a phrase for this: Tempus Fugit. Time flies.
But as I look back, I realized the years didn’t just disappear—they carried me. They shaped me, challenged me, and brought me so much joy that I didn’t even realize how fast they were flying by. Maybe that’s the real proof of the old cliché—time really does fly when you genuinely love what you do.
This industry has shifted and evolved, and so have I. But the heart of it—the creativity, the community, the connections—that’s what kept me here. That’s what made the years blur together in the best possible way.
Now, as things come full circle, I’m reminded that none of it was wasted. Every hour, every project, every late-night idea… it all mattered. It was all building something.
I’m just grateful—for the journey, for the people, and for the fact that after all these years, I still love the “hustle” as much as I did on day one.
As a TE owner, there are times that extra prizes are given for different reasons at a site and I was working on awarding prizes today to find that alot of members profiles were not updated.
Now I’m not sure when this happened but from what I hear there is a new plugin that some sites have added and this is another reason why you should keep your profile updated.
It’s funny how conversations in Skype rooms can give you a topic for a blog post and this one is going to surprise you on how to get traffic to your blog.
This last 6 months have been a challenge for me – as most of you know I have had some health issues – so thought I would share with you one of the things that I have done to prepare for the unexpected.
With all the bad weather that has been happening around the country, this is a must for anyone who wants to help keep their sites or advertising showing when the unexpected happens.
While I am one that surfs many sites – today I was just thinking (scary thought
Now I know most of you get that page what was the last site you seen? How many of you get it right and how many of you don’t. I know lot of people don’t like that mod but I really think that is great as it does help to wake you back up from just the click, click, click and not really paying attention
Over the years, I have watched text ads and headliners to solo ads and I can tell you there is a trick to all this that I discovered. One when you are viewing ads – that text ad is competing with other things on that page and it has to jump out at you and say click me.
So the next time you are adding your TEXT ADS – stop and think about what your a adding and ask yourself will someone click on it. Making your text ads from lessons I have learned is not that hard – just put a little thought into it the next time you are just going to add a site name – you will be surprised