Building your work from home online business with zero cost is easy to do. Following these few promotional tactics will allow you to sky-rocket your sales in a few weeks, if not immediately. What I'm going to share with you here are some of the most effective, zero cost and practical traffic driving tactics online.

One of the ways I live by is writing and distributing articles. Write quality articles on your niche and distribute them to free article directories. I would strongly recommend Goarticles, Ideamarketers and Ezinearticles for this purpose. This is an effective way of creating backlinks to your website thus, pushing your website up the search engine ranking. The next marketing tactic is mainly meant for product owners.

That is, striking joint venture deals with other product owners in the same work from home online business niche. A good place to look for potential joint venture partners is at Clickbank. You will find hundreds of product owners in their market place. Then, start writng them joint venture proposal emails. Having a mailing list of your own here is an advantage in initiating cross promotions.

The secret to a successful joint venture is to first get to know your target by subscribing to his newsletter. Read the newsletters and get an idea what kind of a person he is and the products that he promotes. After about two weeks, send him a joint venture proposition. Introduce yourself as his subscriber and how you enjoy reading his newsletters and that you have a product or service that you think would benefit both your businesses and suggest a JV.

Another form of no cost promotion tactic I simply can't live without is viral marketing. It has been known as the "online word of mouth" so to speak. What you do here is create good content pdf format ebooks to be distributed. You can do this by using OpenOffice's free word processing software. Include links to your website or products you are affiliated to in the ebook. Also include distribution rights to it. Why? The more times your ebook is being passed around the more exposure your business gets. Think about it. That's the power of viral marketing.

With the marketing tactics above, you don't have to spend anything to market your work from home online business. Having said that, you definitely can speed up the response to your promotional efforts with the paid options however, you can always do that after you have made the money.