As much as we all love free stuff, an Internet business is still a business and you can reasonably expect to invest in marketing. Fortunately, online marketing can be quite affordable -- even to beginners on limited budgets. Here's a quick list of some of more popular paid methods for small businesses.

PART 2: Effective Fee-Based Online Marketing Methods

1. Search engines. Web surfers typically use large search engines such as Google, MSN, and AOL to find information they want. If you can manage to get a good ranking for some of your top key phrases, you can get a steady stream of traffic. Expect to invest funds for review/submissions, and possibly even for hiring an optimization expert or for self-education. A great site to learn about search engine optimization is Search Engine Watch, http://searchenginewatch.com/ .

2. Major indexes. Yahoo [ http://yahoo.com/ ] and Open Directory [ http://www.dmoz.org/ ] are two of best- known indexes. Both of them can significantly increase your link popularity, and provide you with additional traffic. At time of writing, Yahoo charges an annual review fee for commercial websites. Submissions to Open Directory are currently still free.

3. Pay-per-click search engines. With these search engines, you literally pay a certain amount of money for every click they send your way. The more you bid, higher you'll rank for your search term and more visible your link will be. The largest and most popular PPC SE is Overture, http://www.overture.com/. A list of PPC SEs is available from http://payperclicksearchengines.com/ .

4. Ezine advertising. Although this takes a fair bit of practice and experimentation, ezine advertising is potentially one of best and most profitable ways to promote your business online. The editor has already done hard work of putting together a list of opt-in, interested prospects; you just take advantage of it. Search for complementary ezines at NetterWeb.com, http://www.netterweb.com/ or use excellent Lifestyles Publishing Directory of Ezines at http://buildyourhomebiz.com/directory.html .

Weather you know every marketing trick in book or you are just starting out. I am positive that this one technique will earn you more profits in much less time than any other. It is easiest and quickest way to produce a positive cash flow in any business. It's that simple and that powerful!

It's Joint Venture Marketing....

A joint venture is when two or more businesses join together to work on a project. Doing joint ventures with other businesses can increase your sales and your profits very quickly.

A Properly set up joint venture can be a winning proposition for everyone involved. Almost every business can do this with their products and services. It's especially easy since you have all of tools you need to get started online.

Here is a quick example of how joint ventures work.

For this, let's say your potential partner has a list of customers or subscribers and you have a product which is a solution to a problem that many of these customers may have.

If you were to buy advertising space from your potential partner even with an extremely well written offer you may be able to sell 2% of them on your product.

But what if....you offered your potential partner an irresistible joint venture and through combined efforts they recommend your product with an endorsement to their subscribers.