Mark Smalley began his Internet career in 1994 as a web review author for Yahoo! Unplugged, an IDG Books Worldwide, Inc. venture. Mark's website reviews and commentary has appeared in many of the top trade and consumer publications. Mark reviewed more than 8500 web sites in his Yahoo! Unplugged column.

Mark's quick-witted commentary has also been featured in Wired, Yahoo! Internet Life, Web Guide Monthly, eBusiness News, The Internet Edge, The Great Bear Market Letter, The Online Press, Digital Week, Early to Rise, International Living, Fast Company and many others.

Mark produced and hosted the popular cable TV program The Internet Edge.

Mark is a lifelong entrepreneur and has launched several successful ventures. He developed one of the first paid inclusion "niche" engines (before it was cool) called Best Rated Travel www.bestratedtravel.com

In 1997 he launched a second niche engine devoted to helping investors, traders and speculators locate the best precious metals dealers in the world — that conduct business over the Internet. It's called BullionCoin.com http://www.bullioncoin.com.

Mark has generated millions of dollars in advertising sales publishers since 1996 with his unique system and approach. He's also trained advertising sales teams around the world.

He developed the first email newsletter "advertorial" in 1999. The best email advertorials are written from a "news" and "advertorial" point of view.

The "Advertorial Approach" continues to be one of the most powerful marketing tools on the Internet.

But that's not all — Mark is considered a foremost business development guru on the Internet. He's helped hundreds of entrepreneurs, companies and startup ventures become hugely successful. Three of ventures became million dollar plus ventures with pathetically limited marketing budgets.

In addition, Mark was a successful commodity and currency trader. He was one of the first independent traders to access financial information and data via satellite to his home office (just prior to the World Wide Web).

Mark's commodity trading seminar is still considered one of the best How To trading courses in the world.

Mark's unique insight of advertising sales, business development and marketing is legendary.

His first ebook, "Formulas That Guarantee Advertising Sales" became an "underground" best seller: http://formulasthatguaranteeadvertisingsales.com

The print edition was published in 2002.

Mark has been retained by of top Internet dealmakers, entrepreneurs, start-up ventures, direct response marketers, publishers and venture capitalists.

Mark's most recent venture is a paid subscription email newsletter that focuses on legitimate business opportunities. He has several new books in development including one, which describes the Formulas of 500 of the Top Money Making Monster Businesses in the World — it's a reference book that he claims will be a blast to read.

Other current ventures include The Liberty Street Letter (subscription newsletter), The New Real Estate Riches (ebook, course, tutorial), China Import Secrets (ebook and course) and consulting on new Internet based projects.

Mark lives in Owls Head Maine with his wife and three kids.

You can find him on the Web by performing a quick search of his name on Google or at http://www.marksmalley.com