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Trial By Fire: Developing A New Sales Letter

by Mark E. Mason on March 18, 2009

Several months ago I posted that I would be working on my sales letter for Niche AdSense Themes for WordPress.  You probably remember that this was one of my very first products, and that I am always learning by doing.  Man, that first product seems like a lifetime ago.

Edit -- See my special guest post invitation to real copy writers in the post comments.

Since I was "learning" on that product I did a "toss" rather than a launch.  What I mean by a "toss" is that I did not do a full court press trying to get anyone and everyone to promote the themes.  Rather, I worked with a few friends to do an initial promotion:

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Adding Google Custom Search To Your WordPress Blog

by Mark E. Mason on December 29, 2008

Let's face it. When it comes to search, there is only one game in town -- Google. Another fact that you should face is that the built-in search in WordPress is not that great. Put those two ideas together and it's clear that what you need to do is integrate Google's Custom Search (GCS) into you blog. You get a better search, and some opportunity to generate AdSense revenue.

To be honest, I'd be surprised if you generate much in the way of revenue. The reason to do this integration is to improve your readers experience. Frankly, if you always use user experience as the reason that you do things to your blog, you will often come out ahead in the long run in any case.

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Niche Adsense Themes Lessons Learned (Part 1)

by Mark E. Mason July 14, 2008

Well, it has been about two weeks since I did a trial launch of my first product, Niche Adsense Themes for WordPress.  As you may know from reading my about page, I started working on internet marketing in November of 2007 as a part time hobby.  The goal of this blog is to tell people [...]

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First Product Launch Coming June 30

by Mark E. Mason June 20, 2008

Hello all; Well, I am finally launching my first product on June 30.  I have done a ton of research and testing and I have collaborated with a couple of super-secret underground adsense gurus to create 12 adsense-optimized wordpress themes, complete with niche graphics.  The adsense placement is based on research by a known (but [...]

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Conn Creaming Cow: Comm Contributes Classroom Course

by Mark E. Mason May 29, 2008

I think most of you are probably aware of the contest that Garry Conn is running against John Cow. Basically, the two of them are in a death match to build and sell the best blog in one month. The winner is the site that sells for the most on SitePoint.com.  Participation in this contest [...]


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Always Use Protection (When Writing Code)

by Mark E. Mason April 21, 2008

I hear a lot of the Internet Marketing gurus brag about how they cannot even write their own landing pages. They argue that most (or all) of the technical stuff should be outsourced so you can spend time on marketing instead of hacking. There is no money in hacking, they proclaim. I see their point, [...]

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A Micro Niche Finder Experiment

by Mark E. Mason March 24, 2008

So, I was crusing around on Spyfu.com today, and I saw lots of listings involving mesothelioma. Now, to be completely honest with you, I did not know that mesothelioma was the disease that you get from asbestos. Go figure. It is a high cost keyword (from an Adwords point of view) – no doubt because [...]

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Niche Super-Site: Adsense

by Mark E. Mason February 15, 2008

So far on our journey to build the Niche Super-Site we have discussed: Definition of the Niche Super-Site case study List of Niche Super-Site design goals How to select your niche Choosing your keywords Choosing a domain name Setting up your niche site Making things look nice Installing Plugins Getting listed in Google Making Money [...]

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