by Mark Mason | Jan 23, 2009 | Blogging
One of the most rewarding things you can do as someone who knows their way around the internet is help a friend start a blog. I have done this multiple times over the years, and it never gets old watching someone publish their first post and realize that they now have...
by Mark Mason | Jun 9, 2008 | Blogging
Every email marketer knows the feeling. You craft a carefully written email, hit send, and check your stats the next day. You made some sales. But you also lost subscribers. Three percent of your list hit the unsubscribe link. If you have ten thousand subscribers,...
by Mark Mason | May 30, 2008 | Blogging, Web Monitization
Affiliate link cloaking is the practice of disguising long, ugly affiliate URLs behind clean, branded links on your own domain. For example, instead of sharing a link like https://affiliateprogram.com/?ref=abc123&tracking=xyz, you would share something like...
by Mark Mason | May 29, 2008 | Blogging
In 2008, Garry Conn and John Cow went head-to-head in a competition to see who could build and sell a blog for the most money in 30 days. The winner would be determined by the final sale price on SitePoint's marketplace. It was a fun, public challenge that taught the...
by Mark Mason | May 26, 2008 | Blogging, Web Monitization
Link cloaking is one of those topics that has been debated in the internet marketing community since the earliest days of affiliate marketing. Some people swear by it, others think it is shady. The truth, as with most things, is that it depends entirely on how and why...
by Mark Mason | May 5, 2008 | Blogging
One of the best things about learning internet marketing is the moment you realize you actually know enough to help someone else. That moment hit me over lunch with a friend back in 2008, about six months into my online business journey. My friend wanted to start a...
