by Mark Mason | May 10, 2010 | Articles On Motivation
“Think positively” might sound like the kind of generic advice you would find on a motivational poster in a dentist's office. I get it. But after 17 years of building online businesses and talking to hundreds of entrepreneurs on my podcast, I can tell you...
by Mark Mason | May 7, 2010 | Internet Marketing, Products
When you start outsourcing tasks in your online business, you quickly discover that email is a terrible project management system. I learned this the hard way years ago when I had close to ten virtual assistants working on various parts of my business —...
by Mark Mason | May 3, 2010 | Articles On Motivation
Most of us who get into online business have big dreams. A thriving website. Passive income that covers the bills. Maybe even quitting the day job eventually. There is nothing wrong with dreaming big. But if your only goal is the big dream, you are setting yourself up...
by Mark Mason | Apr 29, 2010 | Internet Marketing
Back in 2010, I published an open letter to ClickBank about a problem that was driving affiliate marketers crazy: commission theft. People were finding products through affiliate links, clearing their cookies, and then purchasing through their own affiliate ID to...
by Mark Mason | Apr 26, 2010 | Articles On Motivation
One of the biggest motivation killers in online business is not knowing what to do next. You sit down at your laptop after a long day at work, open the browser, and then stare at the screen wondering where to start. Twenty minutes later you have checked email,...
by Mark Mason | Apr 22, 2010 | Blogging
Outsourcing was always one of my best time management tips for part-time internet entrepreneurs, and in 2026 it is more accessible and more essential than ever. Whether you are hiring a virtual assistant in the Philippines, contracting a developer on Upwork, or using...
by Mark Mason | Apr 19, 2010 | Articles On Motivation
Getting motivated to start an online business is easy. Read any compelling sales page or listen to a podcast episode about someone making money online, and you will feel a surge of energy. The hard part is staying motivated three months in when the results have not...
by Mark Mason | Apr 15, 2010 | Internet Marketing
Some of the best marketing lessons I have ever learned did not come from a course or a conference. They came from a small traveling circus in Texas. Years ago, I took my son to a local circus — not the massive Ringling Brothers production, but a smaller touring...
by Mark Mason | Apr 12, 2010 | Articles On Motivation
When you are grinding away on your online business late at night after a full day at your regular job, it is easy to lose sight of why you are doing this. The tasks in front of you — writing another blog post, tweaking your website, setting up an email sequence...
by Mark Mason | Apr 8, 2010 | Internet Marketing
Every few years, someone asks me whether it is too late to start an online business. They asked me in 2010 when I first wrote about this topic. They asked me in 2015 when everyone said blogging was dead. They asked me in 2020 when it seemed like the big players had...
