The highest priority when first starting our marketing business online is to obtain a large traffic of consumers and visitors. The key to obtaining this is through website advertising - the least expensive online business advertising that is available. We don't want to go into debt before we make our first dollar, and we need to keep in mind that there is free advertising available if we look for it. The focus should always be to develop an income that is continuous and growing, in order to become successful and to achieve financial freedom.

But we also need to keep in mind that marketing is not a bed of roses. We need to find the time to set it up and develop it with the best marketing strategies available to us. To do so, also requires enough money to pay the bills while we develop it, and also to purchase the necessities for online development - computer, Internet hookup, software, domains, etc. All of this is basic and necessary for an online website with marketing potential. We need to sell what we have or do not have to purchase outfront before the company can become started. So by using free advertising would be to our favor, as we can then disperse our money to another needed area.

Alternatives for advertising can be found that are low-cost and free, in assorted ways to advertise what we want to let the world know is available. Advertising is found in many forms whose purpose is to promote and direct target traffic to our site and product. Cheap and free ads are not any more effective than expensive ones - what does work is confidence that our product will sell, which will be reflected in our articles and web design. Clever and quick thinking for promotional ideas are also a high priority, which do not necessarily reflect on money value, but product "know-how" and the ability to foresee what the public wants, based on client feedback. Many factors will make the website and its products successful, with the clients as the main target.

A good idea for a less expensive way to promote our site is by writing original articles about products or services we offer through our website. By doing so, we let the consumer know of our expertise about the product and the skill we have with it. Each article can be signed with low-cost Internet article services for distribution, while some may even be free. The articles will then be distributed to publishers around the Internet. For distribution to a larger audience, a larger fee may be required, but an increase in sales will compensate for it. Each article will lead the readers back to the website for more information, and an increase in consumers and visitors will begin the database. There are many services that do writing for websites, so if we choose to not write for many reasons, a fee can be paid to these companies for doing it. Writing articles and their distribution are considered to be the best advertisement methods available for Internet marketing.

Another idea would be to begin a weblog or "blog" for our site promotion. Free of charge, it is considered by many to be a perfect way to get quality writing on the website with targeted traffic interested in what is on the web. Photographs, business reviews, product information, plus product reviews are part of the content we choose to put on our web logs. The most important thing is to make sure we put our link in the blog for the readers to have a way to visit our sites.

Online forums for posting are another promotional way to attract targeted consumers. To get our hyperlinks noticed, online forums offer many subjects that could be related to what we know and sell. If we post information that we know or have expert knowledge on, then our reputation becomes well known throughout related webs and consumers. Eventually, our names begin to stand out as an authority on the subject, and the more likely our website will become hyperlinked from many forum readers, in order to find out about our webs, us, what we do or what we are into. Many consider it to be the highest sale making promotion available.

Regardless which of the promotional tools we choose to use, the main thing to remember is that there are free and low-cost ones out there if we look hard enough. We need to promote our website and sell our product, and the best way possible needs to be chosen along with staying out of debt.