[Allurre]

Aside from promoting on popular web forums, networking sites, how else would you guys market online without spending much on paying for ad spot?

[Josephian]

digg/facebook/delicious/myspace/blog comments/writing articles

[faint]

im gonna go with adsense/words

[buynick]

Sell on eBay and use that to create backend sales.

[richkid]

Originally Posted by Josephian

digg/facebook/delicious/myspace/blog comments/writing articles

these are probably the best free advertising you can get. I have been told 'hit the first page of digg, and expect over 30,000 unique visitors'

[matthaus]

adsense is great I agree

[Dylan Phelan]

I consider SEO as the basis for my online marketing strategy, I use adwords when in areas where i can't get good SERPS through optimization. Make sure to have a database and communicate with it effectively... dont spam them.

[gofrugal]

Originally Posted by faint

im gonna go with adsense/words

You mean adwords right?
I think adsense is the one you put google ads on your pages.
How that is going help?
Sorry , I am newbie.

[gofrugal]

Originally Posted by Josephian

digg/facebook/delicious/myspace/blog comments/writing articles

Could you give some detail on how to get on delicios?

[samtlich]

Matthaus, adwords are useful for certain site/campaign and total rubbish on the other. I once spend US$4000 over on adwords for my clients, yet the result are not very promising. Once I spend just US$200 for my client sign-up links, the result are great! They got 160 over sign-up, with 65% active members.

The tips:

Good with adwords.
If you are not selling anything.
You reward the sign up.
Free stuf inside
Information/news website.
Beta version website. (internet user are always eager to be the 1st one)

Don't even think about adwords:
Online shopping
e-commerce
Targeting foreigner at your site.
Paid sign-up.

[john82]

Also ads on classified site/ yellow pages could work nice implementing few offline marketing techniques as well.