Starting your business online does not have to be expensive. Marketing your business on the net is the best way of growing a residual income and building your goal of financial freedom.

The two most important factors to consider in starting your own Internet marketing business are time and financial resources. You need to accept the fact that in order to make money, you must have at your disposal sufficient time and financial resources. It is not advisable to start your online business if you are not prepared to sacrifice sufficient funds and time in order to be able to sustain your own business in the long run. Keep in mind that everything worth doing is worth doing well.

Getting a large amount of web traffic to your online business site is your main priority in starting your Internet marketing business. You can achieve it through advertising your site. However, you will soon find out that the cost of advertising is not cheap! So, how then can you get good traffic and convert them into long term clients without blowing your budget? Keep in mind that without a strong clientele base, your Internet marketing career does not get off the ground.

Despite the hype and popular belief on the internet that promotion without pricey advertising is not effective, there are targeted free to low cost alternative methods of advertising your Internet business. Do not be misled by the common misconception that free or low cost advertising does not work. The fact is that it will promote your business and it will help you get the targeted traffic that you need.

On the contrary, the most expensive advertising mediums do not always work. Confidence and ingenuity go a long way to making your brand of marketing as effective as the expensive advertising packages on the Internet.

The best way of advertising to consider is writing original descriptive articles that will inform your website visitors about your business and the products and services that you are offering. Write your own original articles and distribute them to free or low cost article directories. Through them your articles will be distributed to publishers around the Internet. For a wider distribution of your articles, some directories have the option to provide increased awareness for a small fee.

Once your articles are distributed and published around the Internet with hyperlinks directing to your site, you will have your first set of new web visitors in no time. If you do not want to write the articles yourself, there are good article writing services that will do the job for a small fee. Article writing and distribution is one of the best means of Internet marketing promotion.

Just like article writing, weblogs, simply called blogs, are also very effective for your Internet marketing business promotion. Blogs are completely free of charge and an ideal way of getting quality content on your website as well as getting repeat visitors who are interested in reading what you have to say. You can write about your business and include photographs of the products you are offering. Do not forget to include your site link on your blogs so that your readers can visit your site if they want more information.

Posting to online forums is another free yet effective way of getting your hyperlinks noticed by Internet users. There are thousands of online discussion forums that are related to the nature of your online business. You may also help other individuals by posting your comments or suggestions that you know with regards to a certain issue. It is one of the best ways of making sales without even selling actual products or services because they now trust you!

Why spend a lot if there are free and low cost advertising alternatives for your Internet marketing promotion? With some careful planning and little spending, you will be able to soon profit from your online business.