When anyone starts up a business, there are costs involved. These might include such things as rent, utilities, inventory, personnel, etc. With traditional “brick and mortar” business, cost can be overwhelmingly prohibitive. Some of these can be reduced or eliminated if you are only person involved and you work out of your garage, off your kitchen table, or whatever. However you still are investing time, effort, and if you are making and/or selling something, you invest in inventory. If your business involves a service rather than a product, there may still be inventory and personnel involved. Think maid service or day care, for example. No matter what, there is always your time and effort. It takes that four letter word, W-O-R-K.

When you start up an internet business, you usually work from your own home on your own computer. So far, so good; no additional costs here. However, you still must advertise and/or market whatever business you are in. Amazingly enough, even though nearly every “brick and mortar” business has a website, there are people who sign up to join an internet business opportunity who balk when it comes to having their own website to market their business. Perhaps they think cost is prohibitive, or they think they have to understand html or something. But registering a domain name (you know, www.whatever.com or .net or .biz or…) can be done for $5-10 per year (not month) and there is plenty of software available that will allow you to design a web site without knowing anything about any of computer languages. There are hosting plans that put your site on internet for $30/month or less. Some even pay you for recruiting others so that you wind up with your site being hosted for free!

So if you are serious about starting an internet business and claiming your share of abundance that’s available, leave your nest a.k.a. comfort zone, invest your time, your effort, and your money wisely, and let’s get started!

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Sandi Moses has been involved in internet marketing since November, 2003. Visit her sites at http://www.123iwork4me.com and http://www.123-home-based-business-works-4-me.com

Trade With Other Publishers-Start Your Own AutoSubmit

Do you publish an ezine of your own? If you do you know that it is tough to constantly come up with fresh articles of your own. How about finding other ezine publishers that would run an article of yours in their ezine in exchange for you running their article in yours.

Run a few ads in an ad group like Theresa at MyWizardAds: offers: http://snurl.com/ufs

Or here with 2 Bucks An Ad: http://www.team-schuman.com/2bucks

Set up an autoresponder and call it something like "publishers." Load your first message with an offer to trade ads and articles. Set a goal to add 5 publishers a day to your autoresponder. I prefer Aweber or GetResponse.

http://www.team-schuman.com/aweber

http://www.team-schuman.com/getresponse

Add publishers of ezines you have subscribed to. Then subscribe to more. Keep adding publishers everyday to your autoresponder.

Whenever you write an article shoot it out to everyone in your autoresponder. In a year's time you could easily have over 1,000 publishers hearing from you about your new article.

Your cost for this was a little bit of time everyday.

Submit It Manually

I saved this for last because it is my least favorite, but if money is an issue for you and you have time then just start contacting ezine publishers and article directories one at a time and offer your article. Do a Google Search:

http://www.google.com

Type in ezine publishers. Then type in article directories. Start submitting your articles to directories and to other ezine publishers.

Here are 3 very good places to manually submit your articles:

http://www.AuthorConnection.Com

http://www.IdeaMarketers.Com

http://www.EzineArticles.Com

Over a period of time you will see your articles popping up all over place. All of this takes time, but is well worth effort.

What is point of writing a great article and never having anybody see it.