by Mark Mason | Mar 10, 2009 | Internet Marketing
If you are reading this, chances are you have been thinking about affiliate marketing as a way to earn money online. Maybe you have heard the term thrown around on podcasts or in YouTube videos and you are wondering where to actually begin. After more than seventeen...
by Mark Mason | Mar 5, 2009 | Internet Marketing
Editor's note (2026): PL Secrets, the private label rights (PLR) membership service reviewed here, is no longer available. The specific product, pricing, and bonuses described in the original 2009 review are historical. However, the two core principles I discussed...
by Mark Mason | Mar 4, 2009 | article marketing
One of the most common questions I get from new affiliate marketers is simple: what should I actually promote? The answer has evolved significantly since I first started writing about this topic, but the underlying principles remain solid. Let me walk you through how...
by Mark Mason | Mar 3, 2009 | Miscellaneous
People often ask me what I do for my day job. The short answer is that I work in semiconductor microelectronics research and development. It is a highly technical field that most people find either fascinating or instantly boring, with very little middle ground. But...
by Mark Mason | Mar 1, 2009 | Internet Marketing
Early in my blogging career, I wrote a post asking whether my blog was better than my friend Garry Conn's site. The honest answer was no, and it was not even close. When I first met Garry, I had 25 RSS subscribers, and my wife and I were responsible for five of those....
by Mark Mason | Mar 1, 2009 | Tech Tips
I got a question by email years ago that reminded me of something important: a lot of online entrepreneurs do not know much about web servers, and that is perfectly fine. You do not need to be a systems administrator to run an online business. But knowing a few basic...
by Mark Mason | Feb 27, 2009 | Internet Marketing
Internet marketing is an incredibly competitive space, especially if you are trying to compete in the make money online niche. The people you are up against are experts in SEO, content marketing, and paid advertising. They use the very skills they are selling to...
by Mark Mason | Feb 25, 2009 | Announcements
Back in 2009, I wrote about PepperJam's eBay Text Ads product, a JavaScript-based tool that automatically turned keywords on your web pages into affiliate links pointing to eBay products. At the time, it was an innovative approach to affiliate monetization. You added...
by Mark Mason | Feb 22, 2009 | Internet Marketing Terms
Years ago I woke up one morning, logged into my blog, and found seven new comments from people I had not heard from before. I was thrilled. New comments meant people were reading and engaging. Then I looked closer and discovered that four of the seven were pure spam,...
by Mark Mason | Feb 20, 2009 | Miscellaneous
This post started its life as a quick test to verify that the PowerPress podcasting plugin was working correctly on my WordPress installation. Just a few words to confirm that the shortcode rendered properly and the audio player appeared where it was supposed to. It...
