Well as they say you can lead a horse to water, but, you can't make him drink.  But if you can get a lot of horses to the trough maybe some of them will take a drink.  Try to get as much traffic to your site as you can.  Try using the free traffic exchanges.  If you're interested, I can give the links to the ones I use.    They are my referral links.  If you do not wish to be one of my referrals, I will still give you the links, I know how frustrating it can be.  There are also posts in the forum about getting started and they also list other resources for getting traffic to your sites.  Just let me know.  Have you signed up for the GDI Teambuilder, alot of good info there as well. 

I have tried several different things to promote my business.  Since I don't have alot of money, well in fact no money, live paycheck to paycheck.

Since I don't have alot of money I go the free traffic exchanges, there are tons of them out there.  I see alot of traffic coming to my site, not alot of buyers but I'm getting more traffic.  Go to one of the exchanges and see the ads they are promoting. I would recommend joining more than two or three.  I currently belong to 6 or 7, and I can definitely see which one's are showing my ads.   You must be patient and do not think badly of yourself.  If you make $1, it's $1 more than what you had.  Look around, adapt to fit your style, and relax.  See how other people advertise, see if it appeals to you, adapt it to fit you, and go forth and be creative.

Be patient.  When I started, in May 2008, I was disgusted with myself because I couldn't get one single sign up in over a month.  I was feeling like I was failure because all these other people were making all this money and I wasn't making a dime, so there must be something wrong with me.  But I kept slaving away, checking out different methods of advertising, visiting other forums to see what their members were doing, not necessarily just GDI, other business forums, forums on subjects I like. 

If you like a certain subject, there is always bound to be a forum somewhere for it.   Find a few, join up, just like here, but don't and I can't stress this enough, go in there throwing your links around.  Visit a while, go around to the different topics, if there is something you feel you could contribute to the topic, post your reply.  Enjoy the forum that you join, not just with an eye toward customers.  Have fun, visit as often as you can.  As you get a feel for the forums you like to post in and get to know the people, then insert your opportunities as outlined in the forum rules.

REMEMBER, you have to abide by the forum's rules about posting any type of affiliate link, some will let you do it in the body of your post, some only in the signature line, or some only in a certain part of the forum.  Be nice, be pleasant, be sincere, and be a productive member. 

Hello, everyone!  Carolyn from Richmond, VA.  Just started 7 days ago, still working on my website.  Look forward to much success.