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How to Make 300 Dollars a Month Online (Simple Math That Still Works in 2026)

Mark Mason — Sat, 15 May 2010 13:44:43 +0000

One of the questions I have gotten more than any other over my years of podcasting is some version of this: “Mark, how can I make a little extra money online?” Usually it is someone trying to cover a car payment, chip in on the mortgage, or just have some breathing room in the budget. […]

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Transcription Crash Course Review: Lessons from an Early Freelance Business Guide (Updated 2026)

Mark Mason — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:40:43 +0000

One of the questions I heard constantly in the early days of Late Night Internet Marketing was this: “Mark, I want to start my online business, but I need to make money right away.” My answer then was the same as it is now. Building a profitable online business takes time, sometimes weeks, sometimes months, […]

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Internet Marketing Podcasts: How Audio Content Changed My Business

Mark Mason — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:57:30 +0000

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 changed the entire trajectory of […]

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Kidnapped Without Internet Access: What Happens When You Unplug

Mark Mason — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:12:08 +0000

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 my laptop. Working without internet on your […]

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Niche Site Traffic Growth: Lessons from Building an Elvis Fan Site

Mark Mason — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:49:42 +0000

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 techniques. The results taught me lessons about niche site traffic […]

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Product Launch Strategy: Lessons from a Viral Marketing Master

Mark Mason — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:30:00 +0000

In the early days of internet marketing, a handful of marketers figured out something powerful about product launch strategy — if you give people something genuinely useful for free, a percentage of them will happily pay for the premium version. This sounds obvious now, but in 2008 it was revolutionary. The Free-to-Paid Funnel One of […]

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The Magic of Social Media Marketing: A Case Study in Viral Traffic

Mark Mason — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:03:43 +0000

Early in my blogging career, I accidentally stumbled into a social media marketing case study that taught me more about viral traffic in twenty-four hours than months of reading ever could. It started with a late-night instant message from a friend, and ended with a 176-fold increase in daily traffic to my brand new blog. […]

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Moonlighting on the Internet with Yanik Silver: A Review for Beginners

Mark Mason — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:22:00 +0000

Several weeks ago, I promised a review of the new Yank Silver release, Moonlighting On the Internet. Here it is.

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Niche Site Progress Report: Checking In on the Elvis Case Study

Mark Mason — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:00:00 +0000

Several months into my public niche site case study, I had some genuinely exciting progress to report. What started as an experiment to see whether a part-time internet marketer could rank for competitive keywords was turning into a real lesson in how niche site progress happens — slowly at first, then all at once. From […]

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The Magic of Email Lists: Why Your Email List Is Your Most Valuable Business Asset

Mark Mason — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:14:06 +0000

Back in the early days of my internet marketing journey, I was an RSS feed subscriber like everyone else. The problem was that life got busy, and my feed reader would pile up with hundreds of unread items. I was constantly mobile — traveling for my day job — and the RSS experience on mobile […]

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Make Money Online from Anywhere: Why Location Does Not Matter in Internet Business

Mark Mason — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:17:05 +0000

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 was working on my internet […]

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Make Money Online: How to Separate the Good Advice from the Scams

Mark Mason — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:25:52 +0000

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 that phrase used thousands of times, and the […]

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