by Mark Mason | Jan 31, 2011 | Articles On Motivation
Everyone talks about breaking bad habits. And sure, that matters. But I think the more powerful move is to focus on building good ones instead. When you fill your schedule with productive routines, the bad habits naturally get crowded out. Why Good Habits Beat...
by Mark Mason | Jan 26, 2011 | Internet Marketing, Video
A few years ago, Volkswagen ran a campaign called “The Fun Theory.” The idea was simple: you can change people's behavior by making the right choice the fun choice. In one experiment, they turned a set of subway stairs into a giant working piano keyboard....
by Mark Mason | Jan 24, 2011 | Articles On Motivation
One of the most common reasons people give up on their goals is that they hit a wall and could not figure out how to get past it. They sat there frustrated for days or weeks, and eventually the frustration turned into discouragement, and the discouragement turned into...
by Mark Mason | Jan 23, 2011 | Articles On Motivation
This might sound like strange advice for an internet marketing blog, but hear me out: one of the best things you can do for your productivity is to stop working, get up from your desk, and move your body. I am not talking about procrastinating. I am talking about...
by Mark Mason | Jan 19, 2011 | Internet Marketing, Video
Back in the early days of this blog, I made a silly video with some friends — Pat Flynn, Nicole Dean, and Willie Crawford — where we cast ourselves as heroes in a Star Wars parody fighting the “evil forces” of internet marketing. It was a joke,...
by Mark Mason | Jan 18, 2011 | Articles On Motivation
I have a confession to make. I am a world-class procrastinator. I have been building an online business part-time since 2007, and there have been stretches — sometimes months at a time — where I barely got anything done. Not because I did not have time,...
by Mark Mason | Jan 17, 2011 | Articles On Motivation
Building an online business can be one of the loneliest things you ever do. You are working late at night while your family sleeps. Your friends and coworkers do not understand what you are doing or why. And when things go wrong — which they will — you...
by Mark Mason | Jan 10, 2011 | Articles On Motivation
Visualization is one of those ideas that sounds a little too self-helpy to be taken seriously. Close your eyes, picture success, and it will magically happen? Not exactly. But the research behind visualization is actually solid, and it is worth understanding how to...
by Mark Mason | Jan 4, 2011 | Internet Marketing
Growing an affiliate niche site is not complicated, but it does require consistent effort in the right areas. Whether you launched your site last month or have been at it for years, the fundamentals have not changed as much as people think. What has changed is the bar...
by Mark Mason | Jan 1, 2011 | Internet Marketing
Every January, entrepreneurs set ambitious goals for their businesses. And every February, most of those goals are already forgotten. I have done it myself more times than I care to admit. The problem is not a lack of ambition. It is that we tend to focus on the wrong...
