by Mark Mason | Apr 27, 2008 | Blogging
Have you ever felt like you are spinning your wheels? Working and writing and publishing, but getting no visitors, no engagement, and no revenue from your blog? If so, you are not alone. That feeling of effort without results is one of the most common reasons people...
by Mark Mason | Apr 27, 2008 | Blogging
When I first started learning about internet marketing, it felt exactly like drinking from a fire hose. Every day brought a new blog to follow, a new strategy to learn, a new guru to evaluate. The sheer volume of information available to someone trying to build an...
by Mark Mason | Apr 23, 2008 | Blogging
One of the biggest challenges of part-time internet marketing is finding enough hours in the day to actually do the work. When you have a full-time job you love, a family that needs your attention, and an online business you are trying to build on the side, every...
by Mark Mason | Apr 22, 2008 | Internet Marketing, Make Money Online, MasonWorld Internet Marketing Podcast
I spend a lot of time in my car, and that commute time became one of my secret weapons for learning internet marketing. Back in 2008, I was loading up my iPod with every internet marketing podcast I could find. What started as a way to fill drive time eventually...
by Mark Mason | Apr 21, 2008 | Blogging
I hear a lot of internet marketing gurus brag about how they cannot even write their own landing pages. They argue that all technical work should be outsourced so you can focus on marketing instead of coding. There is some truth to that, and I am not going to argue...
by Mark Mason | Apr 16, 2008 | Miscellaneous
Sometimes I step back from the daily grind of building an online business and marvel at the technology that makes all of this possible. We talk casually about websites, email lists, and digital products as if they are the most natural things in the world. But...
by Mark Mason | Apr 14, 2008 | Make Money Online
Last week was one of those weeks that reminds you life does not care about your content calendar. A tornado knocked out power and satellite in my neighborhood, I celebrated a birthday that made me feel old, and my wife kidnapped me to an exotic hotel location without...
by Mark Mason | Apr 8, 2008 | Announcements
Sometimes things just come together at exactly the right moment. I had just finished writing about wanting to focus on my niche sites and the core parts of my long-term business plan when I discovered a new coaching forum that aligned perfectly with what I needed. Why...
by Mark Mason | Apr 8, 2008 | Getting Organized
Early in my blogging journey, I made a mistake that a lot of new bloggers make. I assumed that posting more frequently would automatically lead to more traffic, more subscribers, and more revenue. So I kept pushing to increase my blogging frequency, even as my to-do...
by Mark Mason | Apr 7, 2008 | Experiments, Make Money Online
In the early days of my internet marketing journey, I ran a public case study building a niche site about Elvis Presley. The goal was to demonstrate that a part-time entrepreneur could build a site, rank for competitive keywords, and generate traffic using basic SEO...
