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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As I have so little free time to work at my internet business start up, I really try to keep the head down and filter out all the background noise in my head and outside this room I call my office. Well to call it an office is a bit of a stretch! It is also a bedroom, laundry room, room for kids to jump on the bed and dive off, storage room and room for storing bags of supplies to go to charity!

A little crowded don’t you think but if I converted my attic what would I do with all the stuff up there!

Anyway I am getting up to speed with my training on internet marketing and starting to implement some action items for my internet business start up. It is time for action, not re-action any more. I must now step up to the mark and remember the following

1. D’ont get it right-just get it going!
2. Learn as you apply
3. You don’t work forward from the start-you start by planning from the end and working backwards!

Afterall even if I could work 24 hours a day I would still not get everything done….

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Sometimes when everything else seems to fail, there is only one solution and that is to start from scratch. That does not mean, forget all the messes of the past. Instead it is best to remember the good parts and learn from the bad and swiftly move on!

In the past when I studied web site promotion-internet marketing with the aim for an internet business start up, I was an eager beaver, launching myself into everything, reading alot and doing little. I got stuck in information paralysis and got so tired trying to analyze everything that I got exhausted and got distracted by the next best thing.

I was like a busy bee trapped inside a window  beating my wings against the cold hard glass and finally someone has opened the window and set me free to breath nice fresh life giving air! I feel restored and with the rush of oxygen to my brain I am begininng to think and function again.

I am starting from scratch learning internet marketing the right way. Instead of being paralyzed by inaction I am inspired to act. I do little but sometimes its the little steps that end up doing alot!

A little bit of me can be found in a quick video I shot-I don’t think Hollywood will be breaking down my door but who knows maybe someone will think my Irish accent is cute!

When I get my courage back, I hope to post more videos explaining key areas of learning which I found useful. To your success and mine-Orla

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