by Mark Mason | Oct 16, 2008 | Internet Marketing
This was the first in a series I called Internet Business Fortune Cookies — wisdom from actual fortune cookies that somehow always related to my online business. The fortune that started it all: “Your efforts are budding — results will appear...
by Mark Mason | Oct 15, 2008 | Internet Marketing
In 2008, I maintained a ranked list of over 400 article directories and was genuinely proud of it. The strategy was straightforward: write an article, submit it to hundreds of directories, and earn backlinks from the resource box at the bottom of each submission. I...
by Mark Mason | Oct 10, 2008 | Internet Marketing
In 2008, I wrote about lifestyle design and got a mixed response. Some readers connected with the idea immediately. Others thought it sounded goofy — like something from a self-help seminar that had no place on a blog about making money online. I understand that...
by Mark Mason | Oct 8, 2008 | Internet Marketing
In 2008, I was deeply influenced by Sterling and Jay from the Internet Business Mastery podcast. They were among the first people I encountered who framed online business not as a way to get rich, but as a vehicle for designing the life you actually want to live. The...
by Mark Mason | Oct 7, 2008 | Internet Marketing
In 2008, I was promoting a tool called Firepow that cost around a hundred and twenty dollars per month for building and managing niche WordPress blogs. I had negotiated a twenty-five dollar per month discount for my readers and was enthusiastic about the value...
by Mark Mason | Oct 6, 2008 | Internet Marketing
In 2008, I wrote a post called “Make $5000 A Month Online, One Hour A Day.” I did some back-of-the-envelope math about building thirty niche AdSense sites, each getting a hundred visitors per day, each earning about five dollars and sixty cents in ad...
by Mark Mason | Oct 3, 2008 | Announcements
In 2008, I wrote a quick post promoting a friend's coaching program. The program is long gone, but the question it raised — whether mentoring and coaching are worth the investment for online entrepreneurs — is one I get asked about constantly. After nearly...
by Mark Mason | Oct 1, 2008 | Internet Marketing
In October 2008, I announced an ambitious plan: build thirty niche AdSense sites in a single month. Each site would target a handful of low-competition keywords, run Google AdSense ads, and generate passive revenue. I was going to do keyword research, buy domain...
by Mark Mason | Sep 29, 2008 | Internet Marketing
In 2008, I wrote a detailed guide about configuring Article Post Robot — software that could automatically submit articles to over 400 article directories. The tool also included content spinning, which let you create variations of a single article by inserting...
by Mark Mason | Sep 26, 2008 | Internet Marketing
I first published a checklist for creating and selling ebooks back in 2008. At the time, I was experimenting with Jonathan Leger's $7 Secrets approach and thought the checklist might be helpful. That original guide referenced tools and platforms that no longer exist...
