by Mark Mason | Oct 29, 2008 | Internet Marketing
Everything you need to know about building an internet business can be learned from fortune cookies. This week the cookie is delivering a message that every aspiring entrepreneur needs to hear, especially the ones who have been reading about online business for months...
by Mark Mason | Oct 27, 2008 | SEO
One thing I know for sure about Google search rankings is that it is nearly impossible to know anything for sure about Google search rankings. The algorithm is a moving target. What worked last year might not work this year. What the SEO community believes today might...
by Mark Mason | Oct 24, 2008 | Internet Marketing
Are you interested in making money online but you do not know where to start? There are hundreds of strategies, thousands of courses, and millions of opinions about the best approach. After years of building online businesses, here is my honest advice: start a blog...
by Mark Mason | Oct 24, 2008 | free stuff
Affiliate marketing is one of the most accessible ways to start making money online. The concept is straightforward: you recommend products or services to your audience, and when someone makes a purchase through your unique link, you earn a commission. No inventory to...
by Mark Mason | Oct 23, 2008 | Internet Marketing
Back in 2008, I started a series called Internet Business Fortune Cookies — lessons from actual fortune cookies that somehow always seemed relevant to my online business. Fortune Cookie number two arrived at the perfect time: “The thing that you lost will...
by Mark Mason | Oct 22, 2008 | Internet Marketing
Back in 2008, I came across a Flash-based arcade game that let you “shoot the marketing guru” in a cartoony shooting gallery. At the end of the game, you landed on a sales page. There was an affiliate program behind it — if you bought through the...
by Mark Mason | Oct 21, 2008 | Internet Marketing
In 2008, I wrote an enthusiastic multi-part review of a tool called Firepow. It was a web-based platform for creating and managing niche WordPress blogs — handling setup, content creation, and promotion all in one place. The tool no longer exists, and honestly,...
by Mark Mason | Oct 18, 2008 | Announcements
In 2008, I wrote about a friend's seven-dollar ebook on email marketing. The product is long gone, but the core message — that email marketing should be the foundation of your online business — was the best advice on this blog at the time. Nearly two...
by Mark Mason | Oct 17, 2008 | free stuff
My original version of this post from 2008 was barely a hundred words. It pointed to a free PDF report about writing articles for article directories — a strategy that was all the rage at the time. The report is gone, the article directories are gone, but the...
by Mark Mason | Oct 16, 2008 | Announcements
In 2008, I wrote about Micro Niche Finder — a desktop keyword research tool that cost about sixty-seven dollars and promised to take the guesswork out of finding profitable niches. I was genuinely enthusiastic about it at the time. It was the first keyword tool...
