Blogging
The book I read to research this post was Blogging by the Million, Selling by the Millions by Laura Maya which is an excellent book which I bought from kindle. Some of you may remember a while back I did a post on social bookmarking which was based on an ebook which was promoting a book you could buy. This is the book & although it's fairly short there's a lot of information covered. The book is basically about selling digital products which are things like mp3s, ebooks, web space, domain registration & affiliate marketing where you sell something on your web site & somebody sorts out delivery etc. I've some affiliate sites which are.
www.ebay.co
www.amazon.com
www.yahooshopping.com
Some resources are
www.befree.com
www.linkshare.com
I think the best ebook conversion is
adobe.com
Apart from things like a computer & broadband connection there is very little outlay. Another idea in the book is you can rent so much space on a server & sell it off in 20MB web site segments. There is a company called exabytes that will do it as an affiliate marketer. www.exabytes.com
Also although I don't think it's such a good idea there's selling forex & commodities etc
www.easy-forex.com
These are some ecommerce sites
zencart.com
paypal.com
A blog is a good idea as they are often free & can drive traffic to your main site. Some less well known ones are
vox.com
xanga.com
blog.com
Also often you can copy & paste from one site to another.
Apparently there's a search engine called baidu which is very big in china which I'm definately going to submit my blogs to. Did you know if you go to a foreign language site most browsers will translate it.
If you are interested in search engine optimization there's
seolite.com
Some blog catalogs are
www.blogcatalog.com
www.bloglisting.com
Here's a couple of article submission sites
www.articlerich.com
goarticles.com
A rather less well known social bookmarking site is
socialize-it.com
Finally some rather less well known social networking sites are
hi5.com
xanga.com
tagged.com
xing.com
I have only used a fraction of the sites in the book & if you are serious about promoting a web site or blog I would recommend it.