Its common knowledge to all online company's that without traffic to their site, they will go broke, and quickly. There are a variety of ways to get inexpensive traffic to your web site. One way is pay per click advertising. Pay per Click advertising is where you pay every time someone clicks through to your site from your ad. However, you do not know if the customer is going to purchase your product, so you do lose some money with that. Another way to get traffic to your site is to request links from other relevant and high trafficsites. When you link to other well established sites to your own site, it is similar to establishing personal recommendations, which builds credibility fast, and in turn increases the chances that the customers will buy your product.

You can get free advertising by giving away free expert content to relevant sites desiring new, fresh content. Website owners are always looking for new content. Make sure you write a bit about the author and your web site or product in a resource box placed at the bottom of the content. As long as it is not competing with the others content, they will not mind. Here are a few sites you can post on:

www.ezinearticles.com
www.freesticky.com
www.ideamarketers.com
www.findsticky.com

You can become an active expert in a newsgroup or forum that related to your field. A newsgroup or forum is an online area where people share information and common interests. When you post on the forums, you are literally talking to your potential customers. These people looking to be sold anything. Instead they looking for information from gurus, about the topic they are interested in. Make sure you have a sig file, or signature, with your website link in it, and start establishing relationships and prove your expertise. Stay with forums that do not accept advertisements. This is also a great way to gather feedback from your website, straight from the customers themselves. You can reinvent and fix it accordingly if needed. When you post informative articles, people will begin to look forward to your posts, and eventually you may want to create and direct these people to your brand new newsletter.

About the Author:

Wayne Van Dyck is a former venture capitalist and builder of offline technology companies. He is the founder and developer of Simple Money Machines. Simple Money Machines is all the money making technologies in one, easy-to-use, hosted application. enabling non-technical people to set up online businesses in less than 30 minutes. It's made for people with 9-5 jobs, retired folks, stay-at-home moms and college students. To get a FREE copy of "STARTING A HOME BUSINESS MADE SIMPLE", go to: http://tinyurl.com/ykyoqx.