Internet Marketing is a great opportunity for anyone at home to build their own home based business. Getting that business off to a good start and on the road to being profitable can be a daunting task. You will find that everyone already in Internet Marketing that is successful will tell you that you must build a list. A list of qualified customers that are eager to buy the product you are advertising. The general public is not your list, but the pool by which you will draw from in developing your list.

A good list can take a long time to build, but there is a way to use other people’s list. You can find someone that has been in the business for some time that has a list of 20,000 or more and enter in a agreement with them, but this could cost you mega bucks. It may save you time, but the cost might be too much for someone starting out in the business.

You could pay for an autoresponder service and start building your own list from scratch using squeeze pages. Eventually this is what you will need to do to build your own list, but only when you can afford to pay for the service. Autoresponders offer a great service, but most marketing Newbies don’t have a clue how to use them.

So there is a way to advertise to a list without paying or even having your own list. This way is called advertising by earning credits. There are many services available over the Internet that offer free advertising to their list and their list can be well over 20,000 members. You can instantly reach each member as though they were your own list. Your profit potential just multiplied by 20 or more and the conversion rate will be much greater all in a click of your mouse.

These type services are run by a membership and if you join them, then you too become part of that list. This means that other members can advertise and reach you as well. The list will grow exponentially as new members join. The members are the list and because they opted in to join, that makes them willing customers that are eager to view and buy what you have as well. It is a network list that all members have access to, but in order to send out your advertisement, you must earn advertising credits or pay for them.

How to Earn Advertising Credits

1. Join a membership network that offers advertising credits.

2. As a member, you will receive emails from other members that are advertising their product.

3. Read each email and click on the link that gives you advertising credit for viewing their product.

4. There is usually a timer once you click on their link to allow you viewing time and get credit.

5. Once the timer has stopped (usually about 20 seconds), then a message will tell you that you have received advertising credits.

6. This must be done for all emails sent to you from other members. This is how you build up your advertising credits until you have enough to send out your own advertisement. It does not take long to build up 500 credits or more and in the mean time, you have been viewing some great products advertised by other members.

7. The credits are used to purchase advertisement time for you. It depends on the advertising service as to how much your credits are worth, but usually 500 credits can allow you to send out your advertisement to 500 members instantly. So by earning credits it will cost you nothing to advertise to a list instantly.

8. You can choose to earn credits or buy them through the service. Either way you will have instant access to their member list.

9. Remember to abide by the rules of the advertising service even though the membership is free.

10. You are not limited to just one advertising service. So you can duplicate the process by using other services available on the Internet.

Advertising can be expensive, but finding ways to advertise for free is just fun and very rewarding. Apply these principles found in this article and you too will see how your business can succeed even by using the free services available online.