With the global economy in decline and more people than ever losing their jobs, the security that many people once felt they had has been slipping away in recent times.
Fortunately there is an alternative and in fact a far more secure form of income in online marketing.
It is also one of the easiest ways to start supplementing your income with a view to replacing it completely.
Anyone, even a child, can create a professional looking blog and get some content online promoting one of the many thousands of products where there is a commission to be made if people buy through the links that you place on your blog.
All of the tools that are necessary for the correct market research are already freely available online and a 6 figure yearly income can be created without having to spend any money - just an investment of your time.
The biggest hurdle newcomers will face is finding the right information to guide them in the right direction from the outset because there is a lot of uneducated advice presented on the marketing forums.
There is also a lot of conflicting information, however in many circumstances both sides can be right because two people can successfully use completely different methods to build their business online and both profit from their form of marketing.
That is one of the exciting things about Internet Marketing - there are so many variables that can and do work, that there will never be a shortage of opportunities for people to start building a business while still working at their day job.