converse with and ultimately be able or have the opportunity to pitch your product. A few of these sites would be facebook.com, myspace.com and the many different forums that are available.Video marketing is a very easy and free way to market your product or business. You can very easily produce videos with you talking about and explaining the ins and outs of your business. Another way to do videos is purely with words on the screen. Music can very simply be added. If you are going to video yourself I would highly recommend video's with interesting backgrounds. The video with someone sitting at their desk is way over done and has reached the point of being boring. Pick an outside location that is interesting and eye catching. There are quite a few free sites to run your videos on. Of course the most well known is youtube.com.Another free marketing tool is sqidoo.com. Here you create lenses and pages that act almost like a standalone website. The service is free. Your pages are the part of your account that remains constant and the lenses are unlimited in number and are created by you on any subject you choose. You can post comments on other sites and receive comments on your site. These lenses are searched by Google, yahoo, MSN etc. so you do get some leverage from these as well. They also work a little bit like social media but they can become the hub of all of your internet marketing.Last but certainly not least are blogs. You can go to wordpress.com and set up a blog for free. You can do as many posts as you want and you can tie your blog back to your squidoo pages if you would like. Blogs are another great way to maketry (with the possible exception of certain service industries) there is the expense of creating products that must be considered before anything else. Without a product or service you have nothing to offer and no reason to go into business.2) Building. Oddly enough, the building itself (rent, mortgage, construction costs, etc.) may be a drop in the bucket compared to maintenance, lighting, heating, plumbing, running water, and countless other things that are necessary for the building you'd be working in or selling from.3) Packaging. Not only do you need to create the product you're going to sell but you need to spend some time, money, and material into creating packaging for these products that are going to be eye catching and appropriate for the product, product name, and product use.4) Research and development for future products. While it might be tempting to bank on one single product the honest answer is that you nee