Making money on the Internet today is something you can get pumped up about. However this is partly to blame for why so many people start and stop Internet businesses so quickly. The hard part is finding ways to promote your business and turn it into a profitable venture.In this article we will talk about 2 successful free online business advertising ideas anyone can do regardless of their current financial situation.The main thing to keep in mind is you are going to be using the Internet to do all of your marketing. This makes it possible for you to sit in front of your computer and promote your business all over the world.All you need is a computer with Internet access and the ability to focus on developing Internet marketing skills!1. Article marketing is the first tactic we will look at. There is a skill to promoting anything with article marketing.You can not specifically advertise a product when you do article marketing. The approach you will take is writing articles that people find interesting.At the end of every article you can include a resource box that contains a link back to your website. By writing a quality article people will be more inclined to click on the link in your resource box and that gives you the opportunity to turn that visitor into a potential customer.It doesn't cost anything other than your time to write the articles. And you will need to submit them to the top article directories. If you choose to do so you can automate some of this by outsourcing the article writing and submission to freelancers.However when you first get started you can do all of your own writing and submitting. You can go to a directory such as Ezinearticles.com and look at some of the expert authors to get ideas on what a well written article would look like.2. Starting your own blog is another way to promote your business on the Internet. You can go to Blogger.com and set up a free blog in 3 easy steps.com which is owned by Google.You then take the articles you are using for article marketing and rework those in the shorter blog articles. Generally blog articles can be 200-300 words and article marketing articles run 400-500 words.You will want to bookmark your blog articles into social directories which is similar to submitting them to article directories. The more articles you have online in both your blog and article directories the more potential readers you'll get and they can also serve a search engine bait.These are 2 proven successful free online business advertising strategies. If you are willing to put some effort into learning how to do this effectively they can drive traffic to your online business.