Thank you for visiting GetPowers.com.

This website was created and is maintained by Mark Powers. This site allows Mark to share his interests and creative energy, as well as make some money (hopefully).

From the Links Area you can explore all the websites Mark has created. Mark's goal is to create a network of webpages that are interesting, interactive and fun. The websites include entertainment such as Jace's Macabre Box of Short Stories and the all-new Fantastic Mark's English Class.

Mark's translation business website can be found at Powers Translation Services, for the translation and proofreading of English and Far East Asian languages. In Chinese, the website is at Powers Translation.com

And finally, for Mark's blog, visit his Journal with pictures about his experience overseas.

His purpose in this project is for a win-win outcome. Mark can share his interests and others can enjoy it as well.  The Internet is truly a wonderful thing. Mark would like to thank his website host provider Free Web Services and Yahoo! and Google, who have done a great job. Mark also wishes to thank everyone who is supports his efforts and hopes that you find these websites to be interesting, useful, and entertaining.

Mark is very excited about this website's development and feels like the the sky is the limit and wants to go as far as he can.

The History of GetPowers.com

The GetPowers.com website was established by Mark Powers in October, 2006. However  Mark's first website started much earlier. First Mark learned how to make websites while working in Japan.

While in college in 2005, Mark took a class on building websites, which vastly improved in knowledge of how to create a website. Mark then designed a website for his father's photography business.

Mark was planning to go overseas to study in China. Mark then launched a blog on Geocities in May, 2005 to stay in touch with his family and friends and share his adventures overseas. Mark got a lot of positive feedback from his friends, family, even former teachers, who liked to know about life overseas and what Mark was doing.

However, in 2006 Mark met a man who told him about Google's Adsense program. A way to monetize your website. Simply put, Adsense allows webmasters to put content-relevant ads on their websites and earn money.

Mark had always dreamed of finding a way to make money on the Internet. So this sent Mark's into a frenzy trying to come up with ways to provide interesting content, attract visitors and earn money from the ads.

First Mark found a web host on FreeWebService.net and launched Powers.max.io. Mark quickly created a Learn English Website and a collaborative effort with his friend Jace to make a website featuring Jace's scary stories, called Jace's Macabre Box of Short Stories.

However, Mark discovered that even though that webhosting service was free, it was too slow, added its own ads to Mark's websites, and did not offer enough features and space.

So Mark checked out Yahoo! Hosting which offered a free domain name lots of space and bandwidth for a reasonable price.

It was difficult to find a good name for his new website. Many of the .com website names were already taken. It was hard to find one that was original, easy to remember, and had some relation to Mark. After nearly two days of searching available website names, Mark was lucky enough to discover the Getpowers.com was available!  After calling his family to see if they liked the name, soon the new website Getpowers.com was born.

Mark was soon at work creating his new website. The original design was based on a space theme. This imagery was symbolic of Mark's belief that this website had unlimited possibilities and potential. The bright blue star was symbolic of Mark's power and enthusiasm for the project.

Finally, Mark realized that the site needed to be more professional looking, offer more and interesting content, and get greater interactivity and participation by visitors.  Thus, the look of the site was changed to be more professional, interesting and user friendly, which you can see today.

Mark Powers

Mark Powers is currently residing in Beijing, China. His interests include culture and languages, health and fitness, philosophy, business and finance, and computers.
For more:  Interview with Mark