So what are some of the things you could be doing each day to promote your business? I will run through some ideas for you. This is not a complete list - just some ideas to get you started.

Write An Article.
A great way to demonstrate your expertise and to entice people to your web site is to write an article and submit it to various newsletters. Ensure that you choose newsletters your prospective customers are likely to be reading. Ensure that at the end of your article is a resource box that refers the reader to your site or your ezine.

Place Some Free Classified Ads>
Look for places where you can place some free classified ads. A good place to start is the classified ads at Yahoo. This is a high traffic site that is well worth posting to. If you don't get responses to your ad on Yahoo - then it is likely that you won't get results anywhere else also. So spend the time to get your ad right on Yahoo before trying other places. Test and test and test until your ad is pulling responses on Yahoo. Then place it in other free classified ad sites.

Invite Referrals
Amend your site or add to your ezine a request that your visitors to refer your site to their friends. If you don't ask people to do this, they usually won't. It doesn't take much to add this request. Recommend It http://www.recommend-it.com/ is worth having a look at and trialing on your site.

Develop A Doorway Page
Spend some time developing a doorway page based on some specific keywords that relate to your site. Once you have done this, submit the page to the search engines. It is wise to spend time working on improving your rankings in the search engines. After all, they do provide a stream of free targeted traffic. The only cost is your time to get your page just right to achieve higher rankings.

Add Interesting Content
Add a new page to your website that contains content that your visitors will be interested in reading. Ensure that the page is submitted to the search engines also. This page could be an article you wrote for your ezine (or other ezines) or something topical that your visitors will find useful. Again, demonstrate your expertise and through this work on building trust with your visitors. Trust will translate into orders for your product or service.

Bid On Some Keywords
There is a new breed of search engine that allows advertisers to bid on certain keywords. The advertiser pays for the traffic sent to their site. For example, if you have a health business and your best key words are "low fat diet", then you can bid on these words. If no-one else has bidded on these words, you may be able to bid as low as $0.01 - therefore, for each visitor they send you, you pay one cent each.

The best search engine available is http://goto.com - they provide a very good service and are worth checking out. A newer search engine that may be useful is SearchHound http://www.searchhound.com/

Look For Reciprocal Link Opportunities
Spend a little time looking for places where you can request reciprocal links. These are almost as effective as the search engines in providing free targeted traffic to your web site. Consider sites where you can have your articles appear with a link to your site. Be creative in your thinking and don't just search for opportunities to trade links. Don't be afraid to ask for other sites to recommend your site to their visitors.

Review Your Banner Ads
Is there any way that you can improve the click through rate of your banner ads? Consider the design of your banner. Test some improvements and see what difference they make. Look for ways that you can improve the targeting of your banner. Maybe even look at changing banner exchanges or joining an additional banner exchange that could provide you with better targeting opportunities.

The ideas I have discussed above are just some of the things you can do to continually promote your business on the internet. It is important to remember that you need to be doing something everyday to promote your business. This list should help you get started.