by Mark Mason | May 16, 2011 | Articles On Motivation
One of the most underrated skills in business is knowing what to ignore. Highly successful people tend to be excellent at filtering out noise and capturing the essence of an idea or project without getting bogged down in every detail. Information Overload Is Worse...
by Mark Mason | May 10, 2011 | Internet Marketing Product Reviews, Video
Back in 2011, I was excited about a WordPress theme called WP Fan Pro that let you create custom Facebook Fan Pages using iframes. I bought it for $97, stayed up until 2 AM building a fan page for MasonWorld.com, and gave it my full endorsement. It was a legitimate...
by Mark Mason | May 9, 2011 | Articles On Motivation
Motivation is ultimately internal. No poster on the wall is going to do the hard work for you. But your environment matters more than most people realize. The space where you work sends signals to your brain about what kind of work happens there and how seriously you...
by Mark Mason | May 2, 2011 | Internet Marketing
Back in 2011, I received a spam email that still makes me laugh when I think about it. Someone emailed me asking if I had any niches for sale. Not niche websites. Not niche products. Just… niches. Like they were something you could buy in bulk. I had so many...
by Mark Mason | May 2, 2011 | Articles On Motivation
Sometimes the most productive thing you can do for your business is stop working on it. When you are at the end of your rope, running on fumes at 10 PM with nothing left to give, forcing yourself through another hour of mediocre work is not discipline. It is just...
by Mark Mason | Apr 25, 2011 | Articles On Motivation
Reading is one of the most reliable ways to refuel your motivation. When you are deep in the grind of building a business on the side — writing content, tweaking landing pages, analyzing traffic at midnight — it is easy to lose sight of the bigger picture....
by Mark Mason | Apr 19, 2011 | Internet Marketing Product Reviews
In 2011, I reviewed a membership product called Income CPR created by Nicole Dean, one of the internet marketers I most respected at the time. For $10 a month, you got a monthly lesson where Nicole showed you exactly what she was doing in her own business, complete...
by Mark Mason | Apr 18, 2011 | Articles On Motivation
When you are deep in the weeds of building an internet business — tweaking landing pages, writing email sequences, debugging code at midnight — it is remarkably easy to forget why you started in the first place. You get so lost in the details of what you...
by Mark Mason | Apr 18, 2011 | Articles On Motivation
Reading about other people's journeys — how they motivated themselves, how they overcame challenges, and how they eventually succeeded — is one of the most effective ways to refuel your own motivation. There is something powerful about seeing someone else...
by Mark Mason | Apr 12, 2011 | Internet Marketing
Back in 2010 and 2011, I participated in something called the Niche Site Duel — a public challenge where internet marketers built niche websites from scratch and documented their progress. My site targeted the keyword “learn guitar basics,” and my...
