Article marketing is a great strategy and works well also.
The list of article ezines bellow mentioned by a member are a good direction to go to submit your work.
Ezinearticles.com
Goarticles.com
articledashboard.com
Write 10 articles and submit them to one directory and wait a week and I think you would be pleasantly surprised. Search engines love this and will rank you high.
Also there is time involved but that is just the beginning. You use this form of advertising along with other traffic sources your use and then hire someone to write and submit articles to directories on a weekly basis.
If you want to get into high gear fast read about this free method that is taking the internet by storm:
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The BumMarketing Method
Hope that helps.