I know it’s tough to get started in the internet marketing business. It’s a different kind of environment with click through ratios, pay-per-click, and other ways of looking at the world. In the real world, things happen slowly. People actually have to drive from one store to another. People have to reach in their pockets for wallets or in their purses. Customers have to actually walk around your shop, call price checks, and stand in line at the register. What a waste!

On the internet, where the real hustlers do their bidding, we don’t have time for playing around. We get straight to the point and we usually have less than 5 seconds to catch someone’s attention before they click away from our website with their “Paypal dollars” tightly clutched in their hand. But that’s the great thing about the internet. In about 2 hours you can have a business set up for completely free. All you have to do is be willing to put in a little time and effort.

Real stores are expensive, they cost to build and maintain. If not, you’re paying rent and having to hire employees anyway. There are all kinds of regulations on what you can and can’t do. You’re endlessly limited by physical constraints and your liability is greater than online ventures. I have about 10 Blogs (businesses) running on the internet right now and I do not pay a single penny for web space. Oh yea, and I’m also able to do whatever I want on my blog. Check out blogger.com and wordpress.com to get a free one. You can even have as many as you want on the same account. Just pick a decent neutral template for this project though; wild colors do not stimulate wallets if you catch my drift. Just help you look like an amateur or hobbyist, not a business.

Here is the way you can set up an online business and see for yourself how quickly you can begin earning a serious income online for free.

Now, I won’t go over how to pick a topic in detail for your website right here, but just go with something you know enough to talk about. Something you’re knowledgeable on and can form a respectable opinion about. Do some reading online about the topic and learn the style of the highest rated articles about the topic. Learn more about this on my website.

Create a blog about your topic and populate it with a few articles you picked up and liked online. Your next move is then to write your own articles about the topic. To show you how this works, just write two 500 word articles about the topic. Make sure to have a headline that engages readers and makes them want to continue to your article.

Submit these articles to ezinearticles.com, goarticles.com, amazines.com, and articlesbase.com. Once you have completed that and are awaiting approval, just post the articles on your blog. Get a stumble upon account, and post your articles as Blogs that links back to your website. Stumble your blog by clicking the “I like it” tab and writing a review about it.

Here is how you’re going to motivate yourself after this. get a free hit counter that only counts unique visitors to your blog. Do a search on Google for a free web counter and copy the code to your website. You will begin to notice a few hits every day on your website from people that are looking to learn more from you. This can be your motivation to keep writing, just so you don’t waste all the attention.

A step further is to get an autoresponder, offer something for free on your website in exchange for subscriptions, and see how many email addresses you begin to receive from these two articles. You can then go on to write more, submit them to more websites, and see your blog grow into a real business.

You have to first get going on the articles though, this took me the longest to get right, but once you do start writing, you’ll never go back!