by Mark Mason | Dec 13, 2008 | Announcements
Back in December 2008, my friend Forest Parks was in the middle of a competition for a store-building contest run by Pepperjam Network. He needed votes, and I rallied my small but mighty community of readers to help him out. Forest ended up doing well, and the whole...
by Mark Mason | Dec 12, 2008 | free stuff
Back in 2008, I used to run a Friday Freebie series on this blog where I would share free resources with my subscribers. One of the most popular giveaways was a pack of PLR articles about Christmas toys. It was simple, seasonal, and people loved it. But the bigger...
by Mark Mason | Dec 10, 2008 | Internet Marketing
This is part of my Internet Business Fortune Cookie series, where I extract business wisdom from actual fortune cookies. The fortune this week came from Pei Wei Asian Diner, which makes what I would call Americanized Chinese food. The lemon pepper chicken was solid....
by Mark Mason | Dec 9, 2008 | Announcements
Back in 2008, I was promoting a tool called Firepow that helped internet marketers build landing pages and manage their online campaigns. Firepow is long gone, but the problem it solved is still very much alive: how do you create effective landing pages without being...
by Mark Mason | Dec 8, 2008 | Internet Marketing
Every year around this time, I start thinking about goals for the coming year. I have been doing this since 2008, back when my internet marketing work was a serious hobby that I squeezed in late at night after my family went to sleep. Seventeen years later, the habit...
by Mark Mason | Dec 6, 2008 | free stuff
I have been a computer geek my entire adult life, and if there is one lesson I have learned the hard way it is this: back up your stuff. The stupid feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when you realize you have lost hours, days, or months of work is something I...
by Mark Mason | Dec 5, 2008 | Internet Marketing
This is part of my Internet Business Fortune Cookie series, where I find business lessons in actual fortune cookies. This week I was at a Chinese fast food chain. The food was nothing special, but the fortune was fantastic. “You Will Be Travelling And Coming...
by Mark Mason | Dec 1, 2008 | Internet Marketing, Video
Back in 2008, I recorded a video showing how I used a keyword research tool called Micro Niche Finder and a WordPress plugin called phpBay to build a niche eBay affiliate store in about an hour. The specific tools are long gone, but the underlying strategy of finding...
by Mark Mason | Nov 29, 2008 | Miscellaneous
In 2008, I shared a story about a marketer who claimed to have made over eight thousand dollars in three days starting from scratch in niche marketing. At the time, these kinds of income claims were common in the internet marketing world. A decade and a half later, I...
by Mark Mason | Nov 28, 2008 | free stuff
Back in 2008, I shared a report about using Google to find hot-selling eBay products. The idea was simple: scan eBay for items with a high number of bids, then build niche sites around those product categories. The specific tools from that era are long gone, but the...
