by Mark Mason | Jun 7, 2010 | Articles On Motivation
This might seem like strange advice on an internet marketing blog, but after years of building businesses from behind a desk, I am convinced that exercise is one of the most effective productivity tools available to entrepreneurs. And since most of us spend our...
by Mark Mason | Jun 3, 2010 | Part-Time Internet Business
If you are thinking about starting a part-time internet business, the first thing you need is not a product, a website, or a marketing strategy. It is the right mindset. Everything else builds on that foundation. I am not going to give you a shopping list of tools to...
by Mark Mason | May 31, 2010 | Articles On Motivation
There are times when quitting makes sense. If a marketing strategy is hemorrhaging money with no results, stop. If a business model has been thoroughly invalidated by the market, pivot. Quitting a specific tactic is not failure. It is intelligence. But quitting your...
by Mark Mason | May 27, 2010 | Part-Time Internet Business
I get this question more than almost any other, and the short answer is yes. Absolutely yes. I know because I have been doing it since 2007. The motto of this show has always been “Building Internet Businesses One Night at a Time.” That is not a marketing...
by Mark Mason | May 24, 2010 | Articles On Motivation
One of the most powerful things you can do when you are building an online business is read about people who have actually done it. Not the hype-filled sales pages or the guru launches, but the real stories of people who started where you are and figured it out. I...
by Mark Mason | May 18, 2010 | Internet Marketing
Back in 2010, I reviewed a product called Plug And Play Niche Cash from Andrew Hansen. It promised 150 pre-researched niches with keywords, articles, and landing pages so you could build a portfolio of affiliate sites without doing the research yourself. At the time,...
by Mark Mason | May 17, 2010 | Internet Marketing
This post was originally a test post generated by a desktop blogging app called Blogo. It was never meant to be published, but it ended up staying live for years. Since we are cleaning things up, let me turn this into something actually useful: a quick note about...
by Mark Mason | May 17, 2010 | Articles On Motivation
If you have ever set a massive goal for your online business and then felt completely paralyzed by it, you are not alone. I have been there more times than I can count. The goal sounds great when you write it down — build a six-figure online business, launch a...
by Mark Mason | May 15, 2010 | Internet Marketing, Make Money Online
One of the questions I have gotten more than any other over my years of podcasting is some version of this: “Mark, how can I make a little extra money online?” Usually it is someone trying to cover a car payment, chip in on the mortgage, or just have some...
by Mark Mason | May 10, 2010 | Articles On Motivation
“Think positively” might sound like the kind of generic advice you would find on a motivational poster in a dentist's office. I get it. But after 17 years of building online businesses and talking to hundreds of entrepreneurs on my podcast, I can tell you...
