I start each site with a social bookmarking campaign. Then I start adding comments to relevant blogs by hand, as well as commenting on forums, doing directory submissions, and RSS feed submissions.
If, after a month, the site has not ranked on page 1 yet (as some low competition sites will have ranked at this point), then I start article marketing, link pyramid building, and Web 2.0 property development. I keep adding to these links until the site is ranked on page 1 (I often add in .edu and .gov back links during this phase of the ranking process, as well).
If you have any questions you can always contact me via PM or the contact info in my sig.