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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11 Essential Copywriting Tips You Can Use Today To Improve Your Business [LNIM128]
These 11 Essential Copywriting Tips will help you do whatever it is that you are trying to do. That’s a bold claim. As it turns out, copywriting is one of the very few things in life that you can use to improve almost anything that you are doing. In this episode I...
LNIM127 Transcript: Email Marketing Tips with Terry Dean
(Transcript continued from the Episode 127 show notes and audio podcast) Mark: I am very excited. For years I have been around this guy, I have heard about this guy, my friends are friends with this guy, but I’ve never actually talked to the Terry Dean. I have him...
Email Marketing Tips with Terry Dean from MyMarketingCoach.com [LNIM127]
Need actionable email marketing tips that you can put to work in your business starting today? This week we welcome Terry Dean to the podcast. Terry has been making a living online for over two decades (wow), and is an email marketing expert. Terry offers amazing...
LNIM126 Transcript: Six Tips for Great Calls to Action
(Transcript continued from the Episode 126 show notes and audio podcast) Marketing Lesson from Apple I just got these amazing, fantastic Apple AirPods finally. I was a little late. By a little late I mean a few days late ordering them when they came out. I just...
Call To Action Tips: Six Critical Principles For Optimizing Conversions
Call To Action Tips are at the top of the agenda this week. Last week I spent time talking about Cliff Ravenscraft’s thoughts on Call to Action fatigue. He responds to my commentary in this episode. After hearing what Cliff has to say, I flip the script and offer six...
Google Voice Search Optimization – Content For The Next Search Wave [LNIM125]
Google voice search optimization is becoming more important as the frequency of voice search increases. Hands-free mobile search use is on the rise. Given that, understanding how to optimize content to take advantage of the increased use of voice in...
Oversleeping And Canonical URLs in WordPress with HTTPS [LNIM124]
This week on the Late Night Internet Marketing Podcast, we explore how Canonical URLs in Wordpress interact with HTTPS. I know, that sounds a little dry, but trust me -- you're going to love it. Listener Gil has a question about what happened to his rankings for a...
Search Engine Results Page Optimization: Converting Rankings Into Clicks [LNIM123]
Search Engine Optimization is not just about rankings. Once you get rankings, you must optimize the conversion of those rankings to clicks (and ultimately, to reader action). We call this Search Engine Results Page Optimization. In this episode, we talk about the...
Ray Edwards On Achieving Goals And Breakthrough Growth [LNIM122]
Do you have a magical breakthrough goal strategy? I thought not. More likely, you often feel like you are in a loop (kind of like the movie Groundhog Day). Each December you get excited about the coming year and set some wonderful goals to be accomplished in the...
WordPress Website Hacked: Prevention and Cure [LNIM121]
Ever had your Wordpress website hacked? Want to keep it from happening again? This week on the Late Night Internet Marketing Podcast, I talk all about my holiday excitement which involved 17 (count ‘em, 17) hacked Wordpress websites. I also discuss the new “State of...
MailChimp Terms Of Service For Affiliate Marketers [LNIM120]
Are you using MailChimp for your affiliate marketing? That might not be OK. This week I talk about some issues with the MailChimp affiliate marketing terms of service described in MailChimp’s knowledge base that seem to be hostile to affiliate marketers. I also give...
How To Calculate Your Affiliate Site Earning Potential [LNIM119]
How much money can you REALLY make with affiliate marketing? How can you calculate an affiliate site earning potential? This is an important question when you are deciding to build your first site and can help you understand how much to invest. In this episode, I...
Easy SEO Strategy For More Traffic From Existing Content Keywords [LNIM118]
Easy SEO Tips and Strategies for getting organic keywords are sort of like "fast weight-loss" programs: they are everywhere, but most of them don’t work. This week is different. This week on the Late Night Internet Marketing Podcast, I offer you a simple, common sense...
How To Overcome Procrastination – A Five-Step Process That Works [LNIM117]
Learning how to overcome procrastination is a critical skill for anyone who needs to get things done (and isn’t that essentially everyone?). This is especially true for online marketers because procrastination is one of the most debilitating conditions that a solo...
Best Year Ever Review (Michael Hyatt — BYE)
The Ultimate Best Year Ever Review Updated for 2017 -- my third year straight as a Best Year Ever student! More awesome each and every year. In a hurry? The bottom line of this review is that I have used the Best Year Ever (BYE) system for several years in a row and...
Facebook Live Ads On TV [LNIM116]
This week on the Late Night Internet Marketing Podcast, we get caught up on a bunch of things that have been on my list of nifty things to cover (or are currently on my mind). It’s almost the end of 2016, so of course we mention Michael Hyatt’s “LifeScore” assessment...
Setting 2017 Goals – Envision The Outcome [LNIM115]
It’s hard to believe, but it’s Thanksgiving Day in the United States (again) and time to start setting 2017 goals. It's seems like we were just here in this situation, but that was a year ago. This week on the Late Night Internet Marketing Podcast, week we talk about...
Switching To HTTPS: SEO Implications And How To [LNIM114]
Switching to https can seem like an alphabet soup of acronyms and tech gibberish. This week on the Late Night Internet Marketing Podcast, I talk about moving LateNightIM.com from the insecure http protocol to the secure https protocol that takes advantage of SSL. HTTP...