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How to Make 300 Dollars a Month Online

One of the questions that I get most often on MasonWorld.com, through support tickets and blog comments ( and directly in email) is from people who are looking to just simply make a little extra money online. Usually they’re trying to cover a car payment or a shortage in their house payment and they want [...]

Transcription Crash Course Review

One of the things that I hear all the time is “Mark, I want to start my online business, but I need to make money right away.” Well, the answer I always give is that it can take some time to make money online as a marketer (weeks or months – sometimes years), but [...]

Internet Marketing Podcasts

I spend a lot of time in my car, so one of the best ways for me to learn about things is through audio recordings. In the past, this has meant buying “books on tape” — more recently “books on CD.” The explosion in podcasting in the last five years has really changed everything. You [...]

Kidnapped Without Internet Access

Last week was an exciting week. My neighborhood was hit by a tornado that knocked out power and satellite, I celebrated a birthday (I feel old) and I was kidnapped by my wife and taken to an exotic hotel location without my laptop. Working on Internet Marketing without electricity, an internet connection or a laptop [...]

Niche Super-Site: Elvis Traffic Starting to Build

Last week, I updated you on my Niche Super-Site Project, History of Elvis. My strategy of going after long-tail keywords paid off, and I demonstrated a front page ranking for history of elvis using link directory submissions. (It is important to remember that there are links from this site to the Elvis site as well). [...]

Filsame is Brilliant — Butterfly Reports is Live

If you’ve been in internet marketing more that twenty minutes, then you’ve heard of Mike Filsame. He is the famous author of the Butterfly Marketing Effect, which he claims is the most profitable eBook ever sold. Mike is the undisputed King of viral marketing and has been for the past several years. But I believe [...]

Breaking Down the Magic of Social Media in a Web 2.0 World

On April Fool’s Day, I was reminded about the power and magic of social networking. Of course, there has been a lot of discussion over the last few years about “Web 2.0.” Now a media buzzword, “Web 2.0″ is usually taken to mean anything that promotes social networking and collaboration. This can include social networking [...]

Moonlighting on the Internet with Yanik Silver (Review)

Several weeks ago, I promised a review of the new Yank Silver release, Moonlighting On the Internet. Here it is.

Niche Super-Site: Checking In On Elvis

Several months ago, I started a case study of the Elvis Niche. I built a site, added content, and demonstrated that I could rank for a very long tail keyword with no competition. As I mentioned in that post, I felt like there was no stopping me after I ranked for “Elvis Aaron Presley Collectible [...]

The Magic of Email Lists

RSS feeds are cool, but to be honest with you, there are times when I get so busy it is hard for me to get to my reader. This, coupled with the fact that I am often mobile and don’t have a great RSS reader for my BlackBerry means that I am never completely up [...]