Can Internet marketing tools help you make a lot of money? Some of them can, but if you want tools you need to add them as the money comes in. There are a few tools you should have when you start your business, but I just don't believe you should go out and buy a large amount of tools starting out. After you have some money coming in and you find a tool that will make your job a little easier go ahead get it, but if you are not making some money in your business now chances are the tools are not going to do it for you.

There is one tool I recommend every marketer have starting out. I can't think of any type of marketing on the Internet where an auto responder would not come in handy. I'm not talking about a free auto responder, because after you have made some money on the Internet you will realize the importance of paying for a good auto responder, but what happens with the prospects you built with the free auto responder, you will probably lose most of them, because your new auto responder will require them to sign up for your paid auto responder and most of them won't sign up.

If all you had was an auto responder you could build a business on the Internet without buying any other tools. Just building a list of prospects is building is a business. So you could build a business on the Internet for $17.00 to $25.00 a month. I'm not sure what every auto responder cost, but I think that would be in the ball park. It's really a fantastic deal, where else can you start a business for $25.00 a month? The auto responder may be the most important tool you will ever purchase, so go ahead and get it now, you are going to need it, believe me.

I guess a website is a tool and you may want to have a site, but many people are starting a blog instead of a website. You can find a free blog at blogger.com and not have to pay for a domain and hosting if you are just starting out, providing you have bought your auto responder. If you decide to use a blog we are still at the $25.00 a month level. There is another tool you could purchase, but it may not be a necessity, it all depends on how you are going to market.

I bring a lot of traffic to my site by writing articles. You may find other ways of bringing traffic to your website or blog, but if you decide to write articles to bring traffic I would invest in an article submitter. There is a wide range in price here, but I pay $40.00 every three months for my article submitter. The submitter I use will let you use their submitter for free, but you won't get the results you are looking for unless you sign up for the paid account.

There are other tools you may want later, but you can start with the tools I recommended and do very well on the Internet. If you use the tools I talked about you will be spending about $33.00 a month to start your business. In three or four months you could be making more than that from your new business, where else but the Internet is that possible?

Good Luck!

Clint Pollard has been marketing on the Internet for 9 years. If you would like more information on some of the tools he uses please visit his site at http://ncave.com/sites/internetmarketingtools.html