by Mark Mason | Nov 8, 2010 | Articles On Motivation
If you are building an online business by yourself, especially as a side hustle alongside a day job, accountability is your single biggest challenge. Nobody is checking your work. Nobody notices if you skip a night. Nobody cares if you binge Netflix instead of writing...
by Mark Mason | Nov 2, 2010 | Announcements
In November 2010, Jason Van Orden launched a course called Traffic Attraction Formula. I was one of the beta students, I promoted it as an affiliate, and I genuinely believed the course was worth the money. It was a solid training program on driving traffic to...
by Mark Mason | Oct 28, 2010 | Internet Marketing
One of the biggest challenges of being a part-time internet entrepreneur is managing multiple projects. And in October 2010, I had to confess: after a promising start on my Niche Site Duel project, I had completely ignored it for two months. This was not surprising. I...
by Mark Mason | Oct 18, 2010 | Articles On Motivation
Fear of rejection is one of the most insidious enemies of progress in your online business. It rarely announces itself. It does not show up as a conscious thought like “I am afraid people will reject me.” Instead, it disguises itself as procrastination,...
by Mark Mason | Sep 20, 2010 | Articles On Motivation
This should not need to be said, but it does: if you do not enjoy what you are doing, you are going to have a very difficult time achieving your goals. And I am not talking about loving every minute of every task. I am talking about the overall direction of your work....
by Mark Mason | Sep 15, 2010 | Internet Marketing
This was the fourth update in my Niche Site Duel series from 2010, where I was building a small niche site about learning guitar alongside Pat Flynn's parallel project. At this point, the site had been live for a few weeks and I had done very little promotion. My...
by Mark Mason | Sep 13, 2010 | Articles On Motivation
We are constantly told to do more. Work harder. Hustle. Grind. And if you are not doing as much as the next person, you are somehow not worthy of success. I used to fall into this trap all the time. I would look at someone like Pat Flynn, who is an absolute machine...
by Mark Mason | Sep 9, 2010 | Internet Marketing
In September 2010, something surprising happened with my Niche Site Duel project: the site hit page one of Google. Specifically, it was ranking number nine for the term “learn guitar basics” — and I had barely done any promotion at all. Was I...
by Mark Mason | Sep 9, 2010 | Part-Time Internet Business
If you are a part-time internet entrepreneur, your inbox is your worst enemy. Every day, a stream of product launches, special offers, and shiny new tactics pours into your email. Each one promises to be the breakthrough you have been waiting for. And each one is a...
by Mark Mason | Sep 4, 2010 | Internet Marketing
In the second update of my Niche Site Duel alongside Pat Flynn and Tyrone Shum, I moved from the planning phase into full site construction. My approach was different from both of theirs: I was outsourcing everything I possibly could. Four Phases of Niche Site...
