If idea of starting a venture of your own, or getting your feet wet in an affiliate program appeals to you...then come on!!! Join rest of us. However, don't forget to take stock of what you know about business and what you don't. It is what you don't know that you should be doing two things:

1. READ, STUDY and APPLY information in eBooks that you buy or member's area of programs you join, and

2. Talking with others who do know - visit forums, talk to your uplines, etc. Learn from then...and again STUDY and APPLY.

The more you learn, more you are able to expand on both your business experience and of course success. DON'T fall into trap though of thinking that what worked a specific way for one person will work for you. Another process after APPLYING comes into play, I call it ADJUSTING. Sometimes a certain tactic won't work way you anticipated, that is where you need to keep an eye on it and adjust it until it DOES work for you.

Don't forget...read information you are selling, go through your applicable member's area with a fine tooth comb. Take tactics and apply them to your own business...it is BEST WAY TO LEARN!!

3. Customer Referrals - Go to your current customers and get power of referrals working for you. Set up some sort of a contest or special offer for them in exchange for them helping you. Create that win/win - you'll be surprised at how well it will work for you.

4. Advertise - The idea during slow times is NOT to quit your advertising. Unfortunately when times are slow that is first thing that we do. If you have been tracking a particular ad and it isn't pulling then revise it and keep revising until it does pull, but don't pull out all together.

5. Write Articles - You need to get exposure and drum up new business, articles are certainly one of THE most cost effective marketing tools...AND THEY WORK.

6. Joint Ventures - Find a few other eBusiness owners who target similar markets and see if you can build an alliance and do some sort of a joint project together.

7. Off Line Marketing - A biggie and nearly everyone lets this slide. Use cost effective off line marketing strategies to drum up new business. Take in a networking circle at Chamber, place an ad in your town newspaper, do up some flyers and hand them out, coordinate a workshop of some kind. The possibilities are as endless with off line marketing as they are on line.

There you go, seven strategies that you can take a look at and see what you can implement today that will help drum up some new business and weather your business lows.

In all honesty, you should be using all of these tactics throughout year, but if for some reason you aren't, well then get cracking!!