How do you promote a product online if you do not have any money to do it with. In this article we will look at free advertising and how you can use it to make money.

The internet has made it so anyone can build a business and make money online. What you lack in time you can make up for in money and vice versa. That is why you read everyday how ordinary people are making money.

No mater who you are or where you live you need visitors to your website to make sales and earn money. What is great is you can do that for free. The obvious great thing about free advertising is the cost. We all like to get things for free. The other good thing about free advertising is that it can actually work.

It can all start with something as simple as setting up a 3 line classified ad with the signature for every email you send out. How many emails do you send a day? This is all potential income for you and it is free to do.

You can take the same signature and use it to do forum marketing. Join a few discussion forums and get involved. Every time you make a post your signature is under it giving you potential visitors when they click on the link leading to your website.

Programs like InstantBuzz earns you advertising credits for surfing the web naturally. You earn credits for sending emails, installing code on your web pages or for surfing. It is very easy to do and a way to do free advertising for your business.

Traffic exchanges are another way to earn credits and in turn get your website seen. All you do is view ads online. If you see one that interests you click on it. Someone may be doing the same for you.

Safelists are a way to earn credits and in turn send emails to other safelist members. You read emails to earn credits and get free advertising when someone views an email of yours.

Other ways to promote online for free is article marketing, ezine ads, classified ads, start pages and exit pages, and anything else you can think of. You can even get 250 free business cards form VistaPrint.com and hand them out. All that takes is some of your time.

So now you have several ways you an use free advertising to make money. The rest is up to your efforts.