If you are someone who works from home or is trying to find out how to work from home and make money you first must know how to market online. This can be very hard for some people, and can cost a lot of money if you dont know what you are doing.

For starters you are going to have to run tests. This is the part that can end up costing you money. You must first test ads and advertising methods before you can put them into full force. You must do this so in the long run you do not end up throwing money out the door.

Some good ways to advertise and help increase sales are using Google adwords, yahoo, msn, and ask. These are all of the major search engines that you should try to place a PPC (pay per click) ad in. With adwords you will spend the most money, where as for the others you many only have to spend half of what you do in adwords.

Once you have those set up its time to move on to the more cheaper places to advertise. These are still very effective so you should use these as well. Goclick, Miva, Search123, and 7 search. These are some of the top cheap PPC places. Here you will be able to spend as little as a penny for a click. Although they might sound cheap they still do work.

Now that you are all done with your PPC advertising and you have some good traffic coming in now its time to get some article writing in. Article writing is a good source of advertising cause it helps bring in good targeted traffic, and gives your website 1 way links helping increase your PR (page rank).

When you have a article done and ready to go, you must submit them to article directories. Some of the top places to submit articles are ezinearticle, go articles, buzzle, article factory, and article city. These are just a few of the places you can submit them to. I suggest you do a Google search for article directories and find your self a good list to use. Also make sure to submit at least 3 articles a week to keep the traffic coming.

If you set everything up like I have explained you should see and increase in the number of sales you make, and the amount of traffic your site gets. This is by far one of the cheapest, and easiest ways to help your business grow and make money online.