by Mark Mason | May 26, 2008 | Blogging, Web Monitization
Link cloaking is one of those topics that has been debated in the internet marketing community since the earliest days of affiliate marketing. Some people swear by it, others think it is shady. The truth, as with most things, is that it depends entirely on how and why...
by Mark Mason | May 16, 2008 | Announcements, Internet Marketing
Early in my internet marketing journey, I did something that turned out to be one of the smartest moves I ever made: I wrote a free ebook. It was called “Join The Club: The Ten Things Every New Internet Marketer Should Know,” and it was born out of my own...
by Mark Mason | May 9, 2008 | Internet Marketing
Article marketing was one of the first traffic generation strategies I learned when I got into internet marketing. It was 2008, and everyone in the online business world was talking about submitting articles to directories like EzineArticles to drive traffic and build...
by Mark Mason | May 8, 2008 | Miscellaneous
When I sat down to write my first ebook in 2008, I had been doing internet marketing for about six months. I was still working my day job as an engineer, and I distinctly remembered the overwhelming confusion of being brand new to online business. Terms like squeeze...
by Mark Mason | May 5, 2008 | Blogging
One of the best things about learning internet marketing is the moment you realize you actually know enough to help someone else. That moment hit me over lunch with a friend back in 2008, about six months into my online business journey. My friend wanted to start a...
by Mark Mason | May 3, 2008 | Blogging
Back in 2008, I was fascinated by a concept called lead blogging — the idea that your blog's primary job is not to attract random visitors, but to convert those visitors into email subscribers. A blogger named Aaron Abber demonstrated this powerfully by building...
by Mark Mason | May 1, 2008 | Internet Marketing
The dream of the internet lifestyle has been around for as long as internet marketing itself. Make money from your laptop on a beach somewhere. Work four hours a week. Travel the world while your online business generates passive income. It is an appealing vision, and...
by Mark Mason | May 1, 2008 | Internet Marketing
Back in 2008, there was an unofficial holiday called RSS Appreciation Day. The idea, originally proposed by blogger Steve Rubel, was to raise awareness about RSS feeds and feed readers. At the time, a huge percentage of internet users had no idea what RSS was or how...
by Mark Mason | Apr 30, 2008 | Blogging
In 2008, the blogging community celebrated something called RSS Appreciation Day — an informal holiday designed to raise awareness about RSS feeds and how they worked. One blogger organized a cross-promotion event called FeedaPalooza, where bloggers agreed to...
by Mark Mason | Apr 29, 2008 | Blogging
If lead blogging is the answer, what is the question? The question is this: what is the best way to monetize a blog? And after nearly two decades of blogging and podcasting, I am more convinced than ever that the answer is your email list. What Is Lead Blogging? Lead...
