Writing and Branding eBooks Depending on your business, this may take some adapting to fit your personal business mold, but many people have made a lot of money by writing an ebook that promotes heck out of your service, and giving it away to as many people as possible. Befriend other online capitalists that can promote and your book to their list. Submit your ebook to websites with free ebook directories. You could also find ebooks with subjects or information that is very close to your niche or product. Read them, and if you can find a way that your product would benefit reader of that book, pitch your product to author, and if he agrees to include your product in an updated version of book, split profits of traffic that came through book.

Walk-Thru Tool If designing your business model or even promoting your business lacks structure and coherence, Marketing Dashboard ($59.95) at www.Getitgoing.com organizes everything for you. From your marketing vision to your profit plan, stats tracking and task organizing, it keeps your business plan focused.

Web Toolbar This is more for traffic you have already achieved. Give away a web toolbar (which can be made at www.webtoolbars.com) that is tailor-made to promote your business. It allows you to inform anyone that downloads toolbar of updates to your website, new products you have to sell, forum topics, etc. This will keep people from forgetting about your website and makes them much more likely to visit again. The Basic is $5 and Pro is $45.

Advertising Offline Many online entrepreneurs forget that advertising offline can be just as powerful as online. Never miss an opportunity to plug your business. You never know who you might bump in to. Definitely invest in some business cards. You can also purchase magnetic signs to place on your car, fliers to pass out at high traffic areas (be it people or cars), rubber stamps for all your letters. The possibilities are endless. You can buy all of these products at www.iprint.com .

As you can see, there are still many avenues to promote your site very cheaply. Most of these are free, and none of above have residual costs. As your business slowly makes more money, you can eventually start placing well-tested ads in extremely high-traffic sites. Until then, use these ways to get your feet off ground.