Shawn C. Mason

I’m sure that sometimes you feel like giving up.

It’s hard to start an online business as a single person, when you’re competing with guys who can outsource everything..

So much information, so much technology, it can be overwhelming.

The trick is to not get bogged down with information, it’s really to take action.

Build a list..

If you currently don’t have a list that is where you need to start.

A good way to start is to grab some free plr and create some squeeze pages to give them away.

Then you can participate in giveaway events which are a great way to bring in subscribers and if you upgrade you can set up offers that can bring you in customers.

Building a list of customers should be your ultimate goal, but if you don’t have a product giving away a free report or something else can be a way to get started building that list.

The fastest way for you to build a list is to create a product and get other people to promote it.  Now I’ll admit that this can be a lot of work, and sometimes hard to get momentum going when you’re new but any sales or joint ventures you can create become progress towards the bigger goal.

Now article marketing is another effective way to generate traffic to your squeeze pages.  If you can’t write them yourself you can pay someone to do it for you.  You can post articles to your blog, to article directories, have it ping social media for attention.

One of my last articles got 75 retweets within two days of posting it.  Posting your articles to directories can also get them published on other websites and in some ezines.  Many people rely on these directories for their content, so if you can write a good article it could be published across the web in no time.

The process of encouraging and enabling other people to spread your content around is viral marketing.

Pretty much everything you do should imply, suggest, and make simple the process of sharing that information with others.  This is how you can leverage the popularity of whatever you create, by encouraging it to be shared.

Beyond list building and viral marketing comes the “glue” that holds the whole process together, Copywriting.

What really makes or breaks your business is the words you choose, the way they can affect people is profound and requires a solid understanding of the English language and the psychological effect words can have.

Writing one good sales letter that sells can make you a lot of money.  Maybe your first one doesn’t make millions, but it’s a learning process.  Eventually you will discover what works, just never underestimate the importance of good copy.

I hope I painted you a nice picture of what it takes to achieve online success, what you need to do now is go and apply this.   Without action nothing is gained, it’s going to take some work, and it’s going to take some time.

Enjoy Your Success!

Shawn C Mason is writer, website developer and internet marketer
With over 7 years of experience online. To learn the exact system
he uses to start from scratch you need to check out the internet
intelligence report. InternetIntelligenceReport.com/report/

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It all started one day in the battle.net forums…

See I was addicted to this game called starcraft.

and one day browsing this forum some signature was like “hey I make money online”..

Curiosity got the best of me, and I was thrown into a world of junk pyramid schemes and traffic exchanges.

It took me the better part of two years messing around with free stuff and not making a single dime online before I felt I was ready, to get serious and buy a few domain names.

I started out with a collection of resale rights materials, put my own spin on it.

Just having the site landed me a JV someone who had a similar site, we exchanged free memberships as part of the JV and almost instantly I built myself a list of paying customers.   I began to make real money online, and quit my security job to work from home full time.

The first thing I did was create an offer called “I quit my day job special offer” and reeled in a whole bunch of people to contribute products.   It ended up being a huge success, and after all the years of hard work it had finally paid off.

Without revealing exactly what happened, I let some personal stress get the best of me and I broke down.

Falling into a deep depression despite my success, and with no one to pull me out of it I let it all fall apart.

Working for nearly 4 years to become successful online totally wasted..

I obviously regret this more than I can describe here, but that’s not the point…

The point is that once I finally pulled my head up from feeling terrible, the first thing I wanted to do was rebuild my Internet Business.   I’m sure you’ve heard it before, what would you do if you had no list, no jv partners and had to start with nothing but a few hundred dollars for hosting..

There I was, faced with the task of rebuilding everything from nothing, and so I began.

I had a bit of catching up to do, my head wasn’t really in the game for some time so I spent some money on what information and products I deemed necessary.  I picked I think 18 or so topics and began to build a blog, and twitter following around each one.  I didn’t spend a lot of time on any of them I just kind of threw them up there, as a test.

What I discovered was that some topics, would build because of their own popularity, and others wouldn’t.

Because I carefully tracked all my adsense I could sit back and evaluate which topics were worth monetizing and which ones weren’t.  It was only after I would discover that the blog was getting pagerank and traffic that I would go out in search of a product perfect to sell to that niche.

It’s important to note that I didn’t start off right away in Internet Marketing..  this is a “hyper competitive” niche where you’re really competing against the best guys in the world.  While I did eventually write my Internet Intelligence Report it was only after my work to monetize the niche blogs that I had created.

Internet Marketing is no joke, if you want to compete (as a single human being) you need to know a lot of stuff.

You need to have a passion for something so that you can write about it and not go insane.

Many people do not like writing articles and outsource it.  I would hardly say I like it but you read my story I’m pretty positive there is a part of me that enjoys this..   It’s important because from product creation to product promotion it’s all about your content, your sales letter, your articles.

If it’s not your thing you can outsource it, but there’s a big price range between writing articles, and writing copy.  Copywriting is important for every aspect of your marketing.  The words you choose can easily make or break your website.  If you’re like most people and can’t afford a copywriter you can study it yourself.

Beyond buying some popular copywriting courses you can simply look for appealing sales letters (in your market) and create a swipe file of the good stuff.  You can learn a lot just by reading into a few good sales letters to understand how they work, and the language that they use.

Enjoy the success!

Shawn C Mason is writer, website developer and internet marketer
With over 7 years of experience online. To learn the exact system
he uses to start from scratch you need to check out the internet
intelligence report. InternetIntelligenceReport.com/report/

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Well this is truly inspirational and if you have any doubt in your ability to make money online you need to read this..

A Fellow over at the Warrior Forum came up with a plan to write and submit 5 articles a day, 150 articles a month..

Now he admits that before making any sales it was hard to keep going..

But then he made 1!

So he continued this 5 article a day system and in about 3 months time he was earning $3000 per month..

It’s PROOF positive that success online is all about your content, your consistency, your patience.

Now before you go submitting a million articles everywhere there are some things to consider.

He did some research and picked 5 niches, so one article per topic per day.  He wrote original content based on “How To Fix Problem” type articles.  He submitted them to article directories, blogs, web 2.0..

All he did was set himself a reasonable daily goal to implement a good plan, and he stuck it out until it paid off.

Article Marketing is powerful, if you have the ability to write even one article a day, eventually.

Just don’t quit, don’t doubt for a second that you can do it.

You only waste your time and energy by questioning yourself, write and learn.

The crazy part is that he did all this without any kind of list building just articles and affiliate sites.

So, set yourself some realistic daily goals.  I personally don’t spend 100% of my time on article marketing but it is a huge part of my online strategy.

Many marketers will base their article marketing around ezinearticles.com and while I obviously do submit my articles there, I find that the time it takes to get published can put a “wait time” on your efforts.

What I’ve been doing lately is submitting my articles and product reviews to Articlebase.com which as long as you follow the pretty basic guidelines you can get your articles submitted almost instantly.  I published the reviews under a pen name, and then used the profile rss on the sidebars of my blogs, and pretty much anywhere else where I can submit or syndicate rss.

I then copy and paste from the article base editing page into Mass Article Submitter and send it out to a bunch more sites quickly.  Then to blogger, Google sites, squidoo, articles to wordpress.. (they didn’t like my product reviews)

There’s no real secret formula, just to create valuable content and put it out there.  It’s going to take some time but if you can just write 5 new articles a day, you can make incredible money online, it just takes some time.

Now I’ve been splitting my time between optimizing my review site, getting links as well as promoting my Internet Intelligence Report in every possible way I can.  Your business plan might require you to do a few more things than just write 5 articles a day, but if you follow a plan and don’t give up you can only succeed.

Enjoy the success!

Shawn C. Mason

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Have you noticed The big lie With much of the information regarding Online Success.

It’s The illusion that With just some simple “secrets” All it takes is push this “magical button” And never have to lift a finger again!

Naturally you understand how silly that sounds.  .. Regardless You see new products everyday With the “Single Answer To All Your Problems”.

Truthfully, there are “secrets” And there are a lot, about a lot of things.  There is no need to learn everything To win the internet game, Honestly It’s much better To concentrate on learning Just a few things As oppossed to stuffing your head with all the information out there.

Many people take part in product hopping, This is where they hop from one product into another And put more info into their heads than they do into their websites.  Trust me a simple thing applied Will help more than hundreds of ideas in your head.

You need to take action now!

So don’t delay,  Get it done!

It can be difficult to figure out where to begin, Doesn’t matter if you’re new or just confused with information overload.

When I was forced to restart my websites and list I knew the first thing to do was To set up an autoresponder to build my list.  Working to grow your opt-in and customer lists is the best long term plan for Internet Marketing Succcess, Truthfully, use this information!

Growing that list is The real effort Driving all that You do with your website content.

It’s going to take some time and paitence, Overtime as your list grows You can begin to use Your list to create joint ventures Like ad exchanges  You can easily use To build your list ever bigger.

If you’re just starting out it can be difficult, It always takes some time, never give up!

Don’t waste another minute With all the newest things You’re not going to use and Invent a way To start building that list.

Use some of that information You know already To get some results Just never give in!

In time you will Become successful online!

Enjoy it!

Shawn C Mason is writer, website developer and internet marketer
With over 7 years of experience online. To learn the exact system
He uses to start from scratch you need to check out the internet
Intelligence report. Http://InternetIntelligenceReport.Com/report/

I’ve been talking a lot lately about list building as it is the most important thing you need to do to establish a successful online business.   Well if you’re looking to build your list this is a chance you really cant miss.

Here are the 4 upcoming giveaway events.

Starrs Giveaway

Build Your List Giveaway

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If you’ve got a product to give away you can easily get a ton of subscribers in a few minutes it takes to add it to all four sites.  This is a chance for you to build your opt-in list, your marketing bread and butter, what are you waiting for?

More subscribers, in minutes!  Don’t miss out!

Enjoy!

Shawn C. Mason

Dear Friend,

I want you to seriously ask yourself this question.

What is holding You back from success online?

It’s far to easy to get distracted, learn too much too fast, and not take enough action.

Product surfing leads to information overload, and suddenly you’re broke and confused.

Let me tell you right here, that internet marketing is no “one trick pony”…

You’re going to have to understand the process, from keyword research to content publishing.

It’s honestly about what you can give upfront to gain trust, this can be done a number of ways.

Write articles, post them to your blogs and article directories.

Create videos and post them on your blog and other video sites.

Create ebooks from your articles ..

Encourage others to share your content too.

Tell the reader exactly what to do. (Feel free to reprint this article as long as it remains unchanged)

You see?  It’s really that simple.

Just like this retweet button at the bottom of my post! Why not share this article with your followers?

It’s all about taking action, stop messing around and put what you know to work for you.

Keywords, Content, Traffic!

It’s not that complicated really just put something out there and see what you can do.

If you would like a free 5 day ecourse covering some of these topics in more detail be sure to check out The Internet Intelligence Report.com

Enjoy The Success!

Shawn C. Mason

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I’ve got a confession to make..

I was playing games for almost a week!

I want you to know that my overall business plan involves many topics, most of which I enjoy.

I create gaming videos, marketing videos, fitness blogs, diet blogs.. you get the point?

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket?

Until recently my Internet Marketing list was the one getting the most traffic by far, this was because my main twitter account http://twitter.com/shawncmason is the biggest one so it brings in a lot of traffic in comparison.

However, throwing up these 2 gaming blogs one on a new game and one just about to come out has actually managed to get as much traffic to each as my im list with far less followers.

It’s because there are die hard fans out there looking for information.

I mean I’m one of them.  Seeing a starcraft 2 video in the top of google videos says it  all.

These gaming blogs made me money in just days..  with very little work.

You’ve got to roll with the trends and make your money where your heart and mind are.

What do you know and love?  What topic do you want to follow?

If you know what you want to sell, but you really don’t know exactly how you need to check out my free 5 day e-course at http://shawncmason.com

Enjoy Your Success!

Shawn C. Mason

I just discovered google gadgets and I am pretty amazed.

These are a great way to add interactivity to your website.

From quotes to games to social media feeds .. it’s easy and fun!

In just a few minutes work I threw up these 4 gadgets which will allow someone to follow twitter, facebook, and play games all right here .. http://socialinternetintelligence.com

This is just a bare bones page but these widgets can be a nice way to make your blog interactive, and dynamic.

I’m interested to know what gadgets, widgets, games or anything else that you like, or would use.

Please comment and let me know!

Enjoy the Success!

Shawn C. Mason

http://shawncmason.com

So I stumbled upon a real no brainer offer today..

It’s a viral retweet system that not only can get you more followers but a whole bunch of free gifts.

Put simply the more you promote it the more followers you are going to get.

The problem I see is that they concentrate on building their list and upselling you and don’t really give you the information you might need to promote it..

http://www.retweet4.me/shawncmason

All you really need to do (after you retweet the message) is to put your own username at the end of their site url like mine is in the link above.

It can be really effective if you promote it in your welcome messages, a few extra tweets, a post on the blog.

Whatever you can do to get it rolling.  I can see because of the mass  of free gifts they’re giving away that this one can really get a response.  They really should do a bit better job of helping people promote it.

Let’s see if I can’t work out my own little way to do it

Stay Tuned!

Shawn