by Mark Mason | Jan 7, 2010 | Blogging, Video
When I first started writing about PLR (Private Label Rights) content, one of the most common questions I received was whether using it is ethical. If you publish content under your name that someone else initially wrote, are you misleading your readers? It is a fair...
by Mark Mason | Jan 6, 2010 | Blogging
One of the things that drives me crazy about internet marketing advice is when people say “just hire a writer” without explaining how to actually do it. When I first started outsourcing content, I had no idea where to find writers, how to evaluate them, or...
by Mark Mason | Jan 5, 2010 | Blogging
If you have been blogging for any length of time, you know the feeling. You sit down at your computer, stare at a blank screen, and wonder what on earth you are going to write about this week. The content treadmill is real, and it never stops. I have been creating...
by Mark Mason | Jan 5, 2010 | Blogging
One of the questions I hear most often from new bloggers is deceptively simple: what do I write about? After more than 15 years of blogging and podcasting, I have a go-to strategy that consistently generates dozens of blog post ideas in minutes. It works in every...
by Mark Mason | Dec 14, 2009 | Blogging
Back in 2009, I wrote about a tool called QuickScrib, a simple web-based text sharing platform that my friend Josh Spaulding was building. At the time, I compared it to Twitter, wondering if it might become the next big thing. It did not, and that is actually the...
by Mark Mason | Jan 30, 2009 | Blogging
If you create content regularly, you know the feeling. You sit down to write, and nothing comes. The cursor blinks at you. Your brain offers nothing useful. Writer's block is real, and it hits everyone, whether you are writing blog posts, podcast scripts, email...