by Marty Foley
Marty Foley of ProfitInfo.com and AffiliateProfitInfo.com Among other things, Mark was instrumental in sparking the [Marty]: Mark, can you give us a little background on your [Mark]: Well, I started on the Net back when I was a very young In 1994, when e-commerce was just starting to happen on the Net, Our latest project is called ROIbot. With this, we started out [Marty]: What are some keys to Internet success that you've [Mark]: Two things: Testing and persistence. There is so much advice out there... Some of it's very good, So what do you do? You can test! When you test, you know exactly what's working. And when you Try some simple math. Imagine you have a website that is If you get 3,000 visitors per month, you're making $500 per Then you test out 5 new websites and find one that gets you one For the same traffic level, 3,000 visitors per month, you are Here is where persistence comes in. You have to be willing to Many make the mistake of trying out one thing and then giving up One problem with the Net is this - what may be working one day [Marty]: What specific types of online tools are you using [Mark]: I mentioned ROIbot above. One of the many tools that I don't do any marketing at all without using our ROIbot You're invited to check out the powerful Internet marketing [Marty]: That's great advice, Mark. I'm always glad to run As an Internet marketer myself, I've become very serious about What major mistakes do you see Internet entrepreneurs make? [Mark]: Wow - there are so many. The biggest one is: "making People in general don't care about you - they care about [Marty]: Do you have any other advice to those wanting to build [Mark]: You bet - you're probably going to hear from everyone I can't begin to tell you all of the "authoritative" statements
interviews Mark Joyner, one of the true pioneers of online
marketing.
e-book marketing craze, wrote an e-book which has been
downloaded millions of times, and is responsible for one of
the greatest success stories in Net history: the building of
SearchHound.com on an ad budget of $0 - and selling it for
millions.
online business operations?
man and the Internet was then called the "Arpanet." My uncle had
an Arpanet teletype machine in his house and from that point on
I was hooked.
I opened my first business and acted as a software reseller. Now
I own my own Internet software company - Aesop dot com.
by asking "what does everyone doing business online really need
to be successful?" and we built tools that answered that
question.
discovered?
some of it's horrible. To make matters worse - some of it may be
good advice for someone else, but bad advice for you.
know what's working, you can duplicate that success again and
again.
generating one sale of your product for every 300 visitors. You
net $50 per sale.
month in net profit.
sale for every 50 visitors.
now earning $3,000 per month, rather than $500.
try out different things and accept that most of what you try
will fail. If you keep trying, sooner or later you'll hit on
some winners.
when it doesn't work. You should just assume that your first
round out of your gun is going to be a dud. Accept it and keep
firing!
could soon become obsolete! The only thing that stays consistent
is testing.
successfully?
ROIbot gives you is a detailed tracking system that will allow
you to track and measure the results of your marketing - without
question.
tracking tools. I honestly can't sell a product that I don't use
personally. With ROIbot it's not a problem, as it's simply an
essential part of good marketing.
benefits that the collection of ROIbot tools offers by visiting
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across other marketers who appreciate the power of testing. I'm
also a ROIbot Pro user and know how helpful those tools can be.
testing, and have created a different type of testing tool; one
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tandem with ROIbot, and is described at:
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your site for you rather than for your customer." So many people
build sites that are shrines to themselves. Who cares, right?
themselves. You've got about 2 seconds to get your visitor's
interest - or he will turn around and leave!
successful online businesses?
that you're crazy. Don't listen to this!
I've heard from nay-sayers:
"Your business model will never work." "It's too late to start a new business on the Internet." (I "It costs millions of dollars to do business online" (A lie If I had listened to any of these statements I wouldn't have And those that have said such things to me are making just what [Marty]: Thanks for taking the time for this interview, Mark. Related Help... Mark Joyner is the author of 1001 Killer Internet Marketing About the Author
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heard this early this year when I started ROIbot.)
perpetuated by those charging millions to set up online
businesses! Doing business on the Net is cheap if you do it
right!)
nearly as much money as I do now.
they've always made. Bottom line.
Tactics (http://www.roibot.com/kt.cgi?IM10766_mji)
and creator of the ROIbot suite of Internet power tools
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