I have to confess that I have not yet done what is advocated in my title.  I ought to do so, and have been reminded about it by an excellent blog post entitled “Year in Review Article Template” by Chris Knight of EzineArticles.com.

To supplement that article I looked around on the web and found a few different examples of recent Year in Review writing.  Here are four, including a narrative report, a video review, a simple list and even a spreadsheet format. Between them they may give some ideas.

Commercial Open Source Blog: Another Year in Review

Commercial Open Source blog few days ago has completed another year of life, a good excuse to make another write-up about the past year. Over 300 posts covered many open source related to.

Wrecked Magazine – A Drifting Magazine featuring Formula D, D1GP …

Scion Racing 2009 Year in Review. The 2009 Scion Racing team video has quite a few drifting highlights from their respected stars Ken Gushi and Tanner Foust. The video is mixed with some other Scion assets but the bulk of the video …

Josh Ellingson Illustrator – Battle Damage – 2009 Year in Review

2009 Year in Review. Holy smokes, it’s almost 2010! It’s been a very interesting year, and about a million things happened. Here’s a meager rundown of all the trouble I got into this past year: My artwork went to SPACE! …

Data Breaches in 2009 – a year in review | Assassin's Blog

Announced Where the Data Breach Occurred Details of Breach Amount of Stolen Records October 28, 2009 Bank of New York Mellon Corp.

What will my own review look like? Watch this space!

Today I learned of the launch of a new ad exchange, and took a close look at it. It is so new that when I checked a few minutes ago it only had less than twenty members. I’m confident that this will change quickly.

The basic format is like a standard text ad exchange of the type popularised by Frank Salinas, and therefore similar to our own, Text.AdMastery. However there some fresh twists. There’s a section which allows surfing of sites very much like a traffic exchange, and another that behaves like a credit-based safelist. This last is similar to the existing solo ads facility but instead of requiring a substantial number of credits to send a solo to the entire membership the safelist allows the sending of smaller numbers.

I suggest you take a look at it by clicking on the banner below.

I’ve been working today to revive some of the AdMastery.biz sites.  Some of them have been sadly neglected during my recent long period of weak health, and as I worked away it dawned on me suddenly that I’d never updated the name of this blog.

This has been done today and the banner above now reads, “The AdMastery Blog“. Several of my other related advertising sites are shortly to be brought consistently under the AdMastery banner. There are other developments planned for the coming months also – including things that according to previous plans should have been launched earlier this year, if only I had not been forced to take time off.

I’m intending to add posts here several times a week and to expand the coverage to assist small-scale internet marketing businesses much more comprehensively than in the past. In summary this blog will now be designed both to support users of the AdMastery.biz advertising services, and also to provide helpful content and references for people developing their knowhow in home-based internet marketing – including email advertising, various type of ad exchange, traffic exchanges and safelists, to mention just a few of the topics to come.

You may notice that traffic exchanges are mentioned there. Because the AdMastery.biz portfolio does not include a click exchange (as traffic exchanges are sometimes called) and at present it is not intended to launch one, I’ve never paid much attention to them here.  However, on recent reconsideration of their potential I’ve returned to using them considerably more myself and will therefore be referring to them periodically.  For example, you’ll find in yesterday’s post a brief note on my initial impressions of HitSilo, the new traffic exchange from Logiscape Technologies.

Also, given that this site is itself a blog, I’ll also include material on blogging and you can look forward to some changes in The AdMastery Blog itself. I’m hoping shortly to include a review of Alex Sysoef’s training programme for bloggers, “Expert Wordpress“, once I’ve been through the materials myself.

Wishing you success,

- David Murray -

After many years of ignoring them I started to use Traffic Exchanges back in early 2007. Having tried many different exchanges (I think about a hundred in all) I concluded that there were a few from which significant income could be generated – from using them to advertise other products and services, and also from recruiting new members to the exchanges themselves.

For the past year or so my mind has been on other things, not least my own web sites, but recently I’ve come back to traffic exchanges and have been surveying some of the more recently launched sites. In a previous post I referred to the new exchange launched by Tony Tezak, but today I’ve been taking a look at the latest offering from Logiscape Technologies, HitSilo.

I am impressed. It has a more complex method of operation than most hit exchanges, but having experimented with it I’m pretty well convinced that HitSilo is going to be a winner, one of the popular exchanges of the future. For greater benefit join now, upgrade and benefit from its remarkable range of advanced features.

If you have used Traffic Exchanges in your promotional work you will probably have faced the following problem.

On some exchanges you’ll have assigned credits to display one of your sites,and then waited for days or even weeks for them to be used.

On others you’ll have looked at the exchange stats after two minutes and found they’ve already gone, in a flash.

Well, I suppose I’d rather have the second problem than the first, but if I’m allocating a lot of hits to a particular promotional campaign I’d like some degree of control over how quickly they’re used up.

For some years several exchanges have allowed their users to specify a maximum number of of hits per day. I can, for example, allocate 700 credits and say they must be used over the next seven days at the rate of 100 per day.

That’s certainly an improvement, but Tony Tezak’s new exchange goes further.  He allows you to specify not only hits per day, but within the day how many per hour – and so to spread them around the clock.

Take a close look at Tezak Traffic Power and see how it might fit into your promotional portfolio.

Wishing you success,

- David Murray -