I laugh at the marketers who tell me that the only way to make a lot of money online is to spend a lot of money on advertising. Boy, they should look at my puny advertising budget. They’d laugh in my face. I spend about $200 a month on advertising. I earn over six figures yearly. Quite a return, wouldn’t you say? Well, the reason is simple. There are some excellent forms of promotion out there that don’t cost a lot, if anything at all. As a matter of fact, I get my best results from free advertising. I’m going to share some of those methods with you in this article.

My favorite form of promotion is article marketing. It’s free and it’s easy. Not only that, it’s probably the most effective way to get your opportunity in front of people. Why is that? Well, in case you haven’t noticed, the Internet is basically made up of content. Go to any search engine and look up just about any subject in the world. What do you think you’ll find? You got it. You’ll find articles on the subject, and tons of them. If it weren’t for articles and other forms of content, we wouldn’t have an Internet. At least not the one we know today.

Another great form of promotion is forum participation, which is also free. You’re probably wondering how participating in forums is promotion since in most forums you can’t actually promote. It’s called making yourself known. Marketers who go to forums and contribute to the content of the forum are usually the ones who earn the respect of the other forum members. When this happens, these members tend to come to the marketer asking for advice. Many times this will lead to sales. Just having a link in your signature, once you’ve gained some respect, can lead to sales.

Finally, there is pay per click. Now, I know that you’re thinking that this is very expensive. Actually, it doesn’t have to be IF you build your campaigns correctly. There are keywords out there, highly targeted to what you’re selling, that don’t cost a lot per click at all. I have campaigns that do very well at 10 cents a click or even less. The problem with pay per click is that most people just don’t take the time to learn how to use it.

So as you can see, you don’t have to spend a lot of money on advertising to make a lot of money.

I’m living proof of that.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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