6. Go to Blogger.com and start a blog on hiking. Put links to your website on the blog and in the comments. Make at least a couple of posts to the blog each week. Every day might be even better. If you don't know enough or write well enough or have enough time to write your own stuff, go to EzineArticles.com and get some free articles to use in your blog.

7. Join forums related to hiking, or your subject. You can usually put a link to your webpage in the signature that appears with your posts. Concentrate on making sensible, helpful posts and participating in rational discussions.

8. Build a webpage about hiking gear, another about hiking trails, another about cooking outdoors. Link all of these to your first site and then go back to http://selfpromotion.com and submit each of these new pages to the search engines.

I'm not going to put a number on this one, but, when you can afford it, purchase a course on network marketing. It doesn't have to be expensive. Go to ClickBank.com and you can find some for under $20. Holly Mann puts out a decent course for $19.95 at this time. It won't teach you everything, but it will teach you. Dylan Loh also sells a course through ClickBank which outlines how to do a lot of the things mentioned in this article. You can get a very good course from the Internet Marketing Center for over $200. It's worth it, but probably contains more than you need at this time.

Eventually, of course, the hope is that you will begin to see some light with your internet business, and you will be able to move up. Then you can get your own domain name, pay for some decent web hosting, get a well-designed site, and buy some effective advertising. When you are making enough money to pay for all that AND buy tickets at the movies without raising your eyebrows, you'll know you've made it.