Setting up a business with zero or no capital is challenging. But there is no doubt it can be done.

And the easiest way to set up your own business is to start up online, on the internet where the only tools you will need are a computer and an internet connection. Most people have a computer with access to the internet but if you don't you can still access all the tools you need at your local public library.

Your business, given the constraints of little or no capital, can involve you selling your own information products online or working as an affiliate by selling other peoples products and earning a commission.

There are a large number of very successful affiliate program providers online such as ClickBank.com for electronic information products and Ebay.com and Amazon.com for all types of physical goods. If you are truly short of cash and can't afford to pay around $8 per month for domain hosting or $8 annually for a domain name then you can still get in the game with a bit of intuition and by working your head.

Because in the early stages you can host your own webpages and make your own preselling strategy on sites such as Hubpages.com and Squidoo.com. Once you have made some sales you can invest your earnings into your own hosted blog and set up a blog in many different niches. The key to your success will depend on generating traffic to your webpages, wherever they are hosted, and to do this cheaply you will need to rely on a strategy called Article Marketing.

Article marketing is ideal for promoting your offers with a limited budget and is a big topic in it's own right which I will deal with in another article. For now though you can learn more about setting up a business with zero capital at my blog..