When you first start your own business at home you are faced with the obstacle of how to promote it. If you don't have one you're going to need a website and you're going to need traffic coming to it. If money is an obstacle then you are going to need to find ways to promote your business for free. In this article we want to talk about free Internet advertising, and how you can do that to get traffic for your new business website.

The first thing to understand about marketing on the Internet is that if you do not have to have money to drive traffic to your website you're going to have to make up for that by investing time. This is one of the great things about the Internet, however. Anybody regardless of their present income status can start their own business at home and make it profitable by doing just a few different types of free advertising methods.

Using a blog to promote your business is a very effective marketing tool. What is great about using blogs is that you can promote your business absolutely free. On gibLink, you can set up a blog without it costing you a single penny. With a new home business it is important to maximize promotion without spending all your profits on advertising and marketing. Using a blog is one of the methods that you can use to promote your business without it emptying your business budget.

You do not have to be a computer wiz, internet wiz or programmer to set up an attractive blog. All that you have to do is select the name for your blog and start making blog posts. It’s literally that simple without requiring that you know how to program or pay any type of membership fees or hosting fees. This is why blogging is ideal for promotion because it’s so simple to do.

$42 Billion Annually in Online Advertising by 2011!
 
The latest forecast for Internet advertising is out from eMarketer, which says that in the U.S., online advertising dollars will rise from $21 billion this year to $42 billion by 2011.  Web advertising's share of the overall ad U.S. market during that period will also roughly double.

Meantime, the average American's online spending will also grow from $114 in 2007 to $199 per person in 2011. These latest numbers are based on data from the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

Adam Bernard, Cofounder and CEO of gibLink.com, the Global Internet Business Link ( www.giblink.com )  says "These latest numbers mean this is the time to start or expand a small business via the internet.  And internet advertising sales will be making themselves."

If this is "The Year of Social Networking," then gibLink.com is the social network for small businesses and entrepreneurs!

gibLink.com is helping small businesses and entrepreneurs take advantage of the social networking boom with internet advertising, web-hosting, and chatrooms services packed into a community designed for entrepreneurs and home and small businesses.

Email, once the gold standard for simple and effective communication, has now become a daily burden for many people.  The average business person now receives 142 emails a day, according to a recent study by the Radicati Group. That's up 55% increase since 2003. By 2011 that number is estimated to be 228.  They estimate all of us will spend 41% of our time managing our email box.  Add in 90 billion SPAM emails sent every day, and you'll see why many internet-savvy business people are weaning themselves off email. 

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