It’s no big secret why most people fail to make money online. They fail because they lack traffic. They either don’t know where to get the traffic from, or don’t have money to get the traffic or maybe even both.

I’d like to help you out and give you a few tips that will help you save a little money which you can then invest back into advertising your business.

• Bring your lunch to work – This one sounds so easy I know! The truth though is most people who work, go out to lunch or find themselves putting quarters in the vending machines. When I worked at my office job the guys would always get together 3 – 4 times a week and go out to lunch.

  Eating out will usually cost you $5 or more. If you pack a lunch you’ll save money which can be spent on advertising your online business. In my case I use to spend over $300 a month on going out to eat for lunch at work. I stopped and invested 50% of that into my business and the other 50% went to bills J
  
  

• Car Pool – I know not everyone can do this, but if you can work a deal where you and a co-worker drive each other every other day you can save a ton of money on gas. I use to have an hour drive to and from work. I spent over $80 a week on gas! Then I started to car pool and that dropped down to just $35 a week I spent on gas.
  
  
• Cut out your landline phone – Almost everyone today has a cell phone. Most of us use our cell phones more then we do our house phone even when we are home. Plus if you are like me the only people calling your house phone are people trying to sell you junk! Cutting out your house phone can you can save $35/m (that’s how much I saved).
  
  
• Go to red box rather then the movies – Going to the movies will cost you about $20 for 2 people now. Then if you hit the food stand you’ll probably spend another $20. Stop doing that if you have a red box near you! You can rent DVD’s for just $1 at red box and they have the latest and hottest DVD’s. Don’t get me wrong it’s good to go out to the movies from time to time, but cut it out at least once a month and save some money.
  
  
• Write down everything you spend/buy – If you write down how much you spend and what you spent it on you’ll start to see things you could cut back on or stop doing completely. Sometimes we don’t even know we are spending money until we write it down and see for ourselves!
  
  
• Stop your gym membership – If you go to the gym great for you! However I know a lot of people who signup to the gym go for 3 – 6 months then stop.

  However just because they stopped going doesn’t mean the payments stopped coming out of their bank account. I must admit I did this for almost a year. I kept telling myself next week I’ll start back up (never happened).

Ok so there you go. These are a just a few of the little things that I must self did to save money when I started my business. Some are easy to do while others are a little harder and require more work.

If you can cut back on just a few things each month you’ll be amazed by how much money you can save. Then with the extra money you’ll be able to buy advertising and give your business that big jump start it needs!