by Mark Mason | Feb 15, 2010 | Internet Marketing
In 2010, I wrote about a strategy that combined two of the most common questions I received: how do I rank in Google, and how do I outsource work in my business? The answer at the time was to hire a virtual assistant to manually build backlinks from a checklist of...
by Mark Mason | Feb 11, 2010 | Internet Marketing
Back in early 2010, I stumbled onto one of the most effective motivation tricks I have ever used. It was not a book, a course, or a mastermind group. It was a coffee cup. The Coffee Cup Story At the time, I was working full-time as an engineering manager at a large...
by Mark Mason | Jan 31, 2010 | Internet Marketing
One of the most valuable experiences in my early internet marketing journey was sitting in a mastermind session at the Niche Affiliate Marketing System (NAMS) conference in Atlanta. About 20 of us gathered in a room with Mark Hendricks, who was one of the sharpest...
by Mark Mason | Jan 30, 2010 | Internet Marketing
At an internet marketing workshop in 2010, I watched a speaker named Kevin Riley do something simple that stuck with me for years. He asked the room a question that cut through all the excitement of a weekend conference: what are you actually going to do next week?...
by Mark Mason | Jan 30, 2010 | Internet Marketing
Back in 2010, I watched a panel of experienced internet marketers debate whether social media was real or just a fad. The question seems almost quaint now. Social media is not just real, it has become one of the primary ways people discover content, build audiences,...
by Mark Mason | Jan 30, 2010 | Internet Marketing
In January 2010, I attended the Niche Affiliate Marketing System (NAMS) seminar in Atlanta, Georgia. It was one of the first internet marketing events I attended, and looking back over 16 years later, it was one of the most important investments I made in my business....