by Mark Mason | Mar 19, 2008 | Make Money Online
I woke up early one morning in a Singapore hotel room, momentarily confused about which city I was in. My day job had me traveling across Asia that week — Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore — living out of a suitcase. But even from the other side of the world, I...
by Mark Mason | Mar 18, 2008 | Blogging Software
One of the great promises of internet business is the ability to work from anywhere. Back in the early days of my blogging journey, I was traveling through Asia for my day job and wanted to keep writing blog posts on the plane. The problem was that WordPress —...
by Mark Mason | Mar 14, 2008 | Miscellaneous
There is a special kind of thrill that comes with launching a new project and seeing someone actually engage with it. I had just launched a small side project — an experimental web application built with some basic PHP code and a city database. It was a simple...
by Mark Mason | Mar 14, 2008 | Make Money Online
Make money online. Those three words might be the most abused phrase on the entire internet. It even has its own acronym — MMO — which tells you just how deeply embedded it is in online culture. Since I started my internet marketing journey, I have seen...
by Mark Mason | Mar 13, 2008 | Web Monitization
Every entrepreneur has projects that start with a spark of curiosity and turn into something real within a matter of hours. The Big World Project was one of those for me — a small experiment that taught me some valuable lessons about what a project launch...
by Mark Mason | Mar 12, 2008 | Web Monitization
In 2008, I was documenting the creation of my “Niche Super-Site” — an Elvis Presley fan site called HistoryOfElvis.com. The entire series was inspired by Caroline Middlebrook's free ebook on building niche sites with WordPress, and it covered...
by Mark Mason | Mar 12, 2008 | Announcements
Sometimes you need to step back and take stock of where you are. When you are building an online business part-time — squeezing in an hour or two after the kids are in bed — it is easy to feel like you are not making progress. But progress is often...
by Mark Mason | Mar 7, 2008 | Web Monitization
In March 2008, I wrote a post about Caroline Middlebrook's StumbleUpon email course and my somewhat elaborate attempt to win her contest. I quoted Shakespeare, bought the word “stumble” from The Big Word Project and pointed it at her site, wrote a haiku...
by Mark Mason | Mar 6, 2008 | Web Monitization
Early in my niche site building journey, I was working on an Elvis memorabilia project and hit a wall. I had the site set up, the content was coming together, but I was unsure about my next steps for growth and monetization. So I reached out to a more experienced...
by Mark Mason | Mar 3, 2008 | Web Monitization
I did it. After declaring my intent to test long tail keyword theory with my Elvis niche site, I managed to rank on the first page of Google for the phrase ‘Elvis Aaron Presley Collectible Necktie.’ Was I now an unstoppable SEO powerhouse? Not exactly. But...
