by Mark Mason | Jan 12, 2009 | Internet Marketing
One of the biggest hurdles when starting a niche website is deciding what niche to go after. Analysis paralysis is real. You can spend weeks researching the perfect niche and never actually build anything. Sometimes the best thing you can do is look at a big list of...
by Mark Mason | Jan 9, 2009 | Internet Marketing
If you are interested in building niche websites, creating digital products, or writing niche ebooks, one of the hardest parts is figuring out which niche to go after. The internet is full of advice telling you to find a niche, but far less advice on the practical...
by Mark Mason | Jan 7, 2009 | Internet Marketing
Back in 2009, I wrote about getting outranked by a thread on the Warrior Forum for a keyword I was targeting. At the time, it was a lesson in domain authority. A single forum post on a high-authority domain had knocked my carefully optimized page down in the search...
by Mark Mason | Dec 31, 2008 | Internet Marketing
Back in 2008, I was heavily involved in a coaching community run by a guy named Josh Spaulding. The program was called Coaching With Josh, and I believed in it enough to serve as a forum moderator. I even offered bonus coaching to anyone who signed up through my...
by Mark Mason | Dec 31, 2008 | Internet Marketing
Back in 2008, I was deep into building eBay niche stores using a WordPress plugin called phpBay. These were affiliate sites that displayed eBay listings organized around specific product categories. It was a legitimate business model at the time, and one question kept...
by Mark Mason | Dec 23, 2008 | Internet Marketing
Years ago, I ran a weekly series called the Internet Business Fortune Cookie where I would crack open a fortune cookie and relate the message to online business. One week the cookie said “Honesty is the best policy.” At the time, I used that fortune to...
