Trying to start up an Internet business when you have neither time nor money is the ultimate challenge to overcome. I know because that is exactly where I am coming from. Without going on a “poor me rant”, I had to find a way around these hurdles and fast!

To do anything effectively, the time you have to work must be undisturbed or it will take sooooooo much longer!

OK so what can you do in 2 hours a day which won’t cost money to build an Internet business from start up ?

I asked a number of professional marketers what they would do, as they have the wisdom and experience of hindsight and they said the following:-

  • Focus on forums doing relationship building, answering questions and doing constructive commenting
  • Write keyword focused articles in your niche
  • Do blogging and commenting on other blogs of higher traffic and high page ranks.

These were the main areas I was recommended to focus on. Others said to use social networking as a means to get my message out there, video marketing and to get involved in free giveaways.

All these ideas are very valuable and I do hope to apply them all. However when starting any online business, building a reputation and building up visitors and traffic to your site or blog is a priority.

It has taken me a long time to get to this stage but I now find I am learning more by visiting blogs in my niche and finding articles of interest and trying to write comments of value to others. In the past I would just comment on how good I found the article-and this was genuine on my part, but I found I need to do more than that if I want people to become interested in what I have to offer.

I don’t just comment on blogs with high page rank as I find there is a lot of traffic passing through blogs of lower page rank also. Just by looking at someones blog, you can see if there is a buzz element to it, i.e is it a place people like to hang ?

I find it great to read blogs of other people who have recently started online as they share what works for them. We all tend to like different ways to promote our blogs and sites so everybody has something to contribute.

Having 2 hours a day to work ( I know its crazy), I have started and I emphasise STARTED as of today to do  more blog commenting and using trackbacks and zemanta to get more traffic to my blog.

My next post will go into these areas in a lot more detail and I will share with you how exactly I do this.

The upshot of this is that I now need to whip myself into gear and keep my blog updated with useful information and not the ramblings of a woman demented by 2 young kids doing a merry dance on my head(only joking-well half the time anyway)!

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If someone tapped you on the shoulder, and handed you the EXACT system they used to make money, would you stop to listen or would you say "here we go again, another sales pitch". I don't blame you. I felt exactly the same way .There is no magic bullet to success but there are loads of shortcuts you can take when you are shown and taken by the hand until you succeed. Would this help?