Late Night Internet Marketing Blog
Internet Marketing Musings From Mark MasonThe Late Night Internet Marketing Blog has been up and running since late in 2007. Originally the “MasonWorld” blog, the posts here chronicle my journey first practicing, and now practicing and teaching, internet marketing.
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Niche Super-Site: How to Select Your Niche
How to Select Your Niche So far on our journey to build the Niche Super-Site we have discussed: Definition of the Niche Super-Site case study List of Niche Super-Site design goals Remember, our overall goal is to build a niche site that returns $2/day in residual...
Niche Super-Site: Begin With The End In Mind
As promised yesterday, this is day 1 of my case study on building a "Niche Super-Site." I'm an engineer by training. For me that means we need to know what we are trying to do before we get started. (Note that this does not completely explain why I always need to make...
Niche Site Case Study
It's been almost two months since I initially got the bug to "make money on the internet." At that time, I stated my goal was to work at this part time, and that I was not interested in "black hat" money-making schemes. Just before Christmas, I published my initial...
Perfect Season?
That was about the best SuperBowl that I have ever seen. I think that the Patriots choked, but I must admit the Giants defense was fantastic. Best part was this product on Amazon.com. Wow, how great is this. I guess the only people that blew it bigger than the Pats...
Amazon Kindle
Is anyone actually buying the Amazon Kindle? According to that Amazon website, the Kindle is a revolutionary portable reader that wirelessly downloads books, newspapers, magazines and blogs to a crisp, high-resolution electronic paper display that looks and reads like...
Kiss Kiss by Chris Brown
My niece likes this song. What album is it on? I've never heard of Chris Brown. Does that mean I'm getting old? I guess the fact that I call it an album and not a CD is a clue. This is a link to the single on Amazon for $30. Who puts out a $30 single?
Drobo may change everything
I love gadgets, but I am an electrical engineer with years of experience playing with gadgets, so it takes a lot to impress me. Drobo impresses me. In case you haven't heard, Drobo is a "data robot" that offers fault tolerant data storage. For the average consumer,...
Niche Stores: phpBay an Excellent Choice (review)
This is a completely unsolicited review of phpBay Pro WordPress Plugin (but it does contain affiliate links). According to the Wired Studio's website, phpBay Pro enables web publishers to quickly and easily add keyword rich Ebay auction listings to Wordpress or php...
Great Internet Monetization Site
I was looking around on ShoeMoney last night, and I ran across Caroline Middlebrook's Blog. It really resonated with me. Caroline quit her day job about six months ago in order to follow her dreams of becoming an Internet entrepreneur. Her blog is the record of...
MasonWorld.com back on the air
After a several day hiatus, we are back on the air. I converted the blog from b2evolution to wordpress, and things seem to be running well. A server move is next, but that should be transparent. Comments were not easy to migrate. If you commented on a previous...
Motorola RAZR2 Luxury Edition
OK – You have got to be kidding me. I am looking at the new Motorola: RAZR2 Luxury Edition cellphone. The special edition RAZR2 has gone nuts with 18k and 24k gold plated accents on a black metal finish. It has pin stripes on the lens, an engraved diamond-cut pattern...
GlowCap Featured on the Today Show
The Today Show is at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week, and this morning they featured something called a GlowCap. The GloCap is a smart pill bottle cap that can talk wirelessly to the internet. This GlowCap device can report when it is removed, allowing...
World's Largest TV
Man, I wish I was at CES in Vegas. What a party. Today, Panasonic showed off the world’s largest television. The viewing area measures 11 feet by 6 1/4 feet. It has 8.84 million pixels of resolution. Panasonic has not announced a model number or a release date. You...
My Dad's Potato Soup Recipe
Actually, Dad got the recipe from his friend Marie and tweeked it some. He made this potato soup over the holidays. It was great. We discussed that it might be even better with a couple of teaspoons of flour and a stalk or two of celery. 1 large onion chopped 1 bag (5...
Adding FeedFlare to b2evolution with Multiple Blogs
b2evolution is a great blog tool that includes all the features of traditional blog tools, and add cool stuff like file & photo management, advanced skinning, multiple blogs support, detailed user permissions and third party plug-ins! FeedFlare is a way to give...
New Year's Resolution: Easy Plan for Losing Weight
Well, my New Year’s Resolution (one of two resolutions this year) is to lose weight. Now that is a big surprise. Each year I resolve to lose weight, and most years I fail. This year will be different, however, as this resolution will be blog-powered. I figure that if...
Making Money Selling eBooks
You will recall that I am generally interested in the topic of how people are making money on the internet. One of the ways that you often hear about is through the sale of eBooks. Well, I figured the best way to learn about this was to investigate directly. I bought...
The Rise and Fall of the Sun on Earth
My buddy Tom recently emailed to remind me that here in Texas, now is a great time to show your kids the dawn and nightfall shadows on http://www.die.net/earth/hemisphere.html and see how much the shadow is tipped. Then, come back in 3 months and see that the shadow...