9) Sig lines

10) Blogs

11) Swapping Parties - Home, Catalog and/or online

12) Giving Seminars/Classes

13) Promotion Items - I.E. - Pens, Mousepads, keychains etc...

14) Doing Link Exchanges

15) Giving your products as gifts

This is just a start of many ways you can promote your business. Get to thinking, more you promote more business you will have.

That leaves one extremely effective form of online advertising that is in fact free. This is free articles posted at various targeted high traffic web sites.

The net is full of experts and many of them have been quoted as saying that articles alone are not enough to generate sort of traffic that brings success. My advice is that people should not be too quick to comment on and pass sweeping judgment on subjects that they have only had brief experiences in. As you read this there are an increasing number of online entrepreneurs making serious money online using only articles as their marketing tool. Including writer of this particular article.

The other thing that has caused many to doubt effectiveness of articles is fact that they are free. Free but effective? Does it not sound too good to be true?

Actually although using articles as a marketing tool is free, you will be required to spend time putting in lots of hard work consistently, to really reap rewards. So there is a price to pay after all, although it is not in form of hard cash.

In fact in many cases, used skillfully, articles can be much more effective than web sites in generating quality leads. Here’s how.

(.....to be continued - see Part II of this article.)