by Mark Mason | Sep 22, 2008 | Internet Marketing
I grew up in Texas, and if there is one thing Texans understand, it is that stealing is wrong. Unfortunately, not everyone got that memo. Years ago, I woke up to an anonymous email telling me that the download page for my first product, Niche Adsense Themes for...
by Mark Mason | Sep 16, 2008 | Internet Marketing
I wrote the original version of this post in September 2008, flat on my back with some kind of virus, while Hurricane Ike was hitting Houston where my parents lived. They lost power for weeks. Many internet marketers in the Houston area went dark — their sites...
by Mark Mason | Sep 10, 2008 | Products
The ultimate goal of outsourcing is to build a more profitable business while keeping yourself sane. But outsourcing done poorly can actually make things worse. You spend more money, get worse results, and end up doing the work yourself anyway. After years of working...
by Mark Mason | Sep 8, 2008 | Internet Marketing
If you are promoting affiliate products, you need to cloak your links. Naked affiliate links look spammy, they are easy to hijack, and they make your content look unprofessional. The good news is that cloaking affiliate links is dead simple in 2026 and completely...
by Mark Mason | Sep 6, 2008 | Announcements
Back in 2008, I wrote a quick post about a free hosted WordPress blog offer. The original post was basically a heads-up that someone was offering to set up a blog for you at no cost. That offer is long gone, but the underlying question is still one I hear all the...
by Mark Mason | Sep 5, 2008 | Internet Marketing
In 2008, I joined the Internet Business Mastery Academy and was genuinely impressed. Created by Sterling and Jay (Jeremy Frandsen and Jason Van Orden), IBM was one of the first comprehensive online business training programs built around the idea that entrepreneurship...
by Mark Mason | Sep 1, 2008 | Miscellaneous
Labor Day in the United States has been celebrated since 1882, when the Central Labor Union in New York City created a day off for working citizens. It has always made me reflect on what work means and why we do it. When I originally wrote this post in 2008, I made a...
by Mark Mason | Aug 28, 2008 | Internet Marketing, Products
Back in 2008, I dropped $77 on Commission Blueprint, a video course that taught how to make money promoting ClickBank products using Google AdWords (now called Google Ads). I stayed up until the early hours watching all 14 videos and wrote my honest impressions. This...
by Mark Mason | Aug 27, 2008 | Announcements
Back in 2008, I wrote a post about a desktop software tool called Article Post Robot that automated the process of submitting articles to hundreds of article directories. At the time, article directory submission was a legitimate traffic and SEO strategy. You would...
by Mark Mason | Aug 25, 2008 | Internet Marketing
Writing sales copy is probably the most challenging skill in internet marketing. I have been studying it since 2008, and I am still learning. But understanding the basic anatomy of a sales letter gives you a framework that makes the process far less intimidating. Here...
