Today more and more people are turning to affiliate marketing to produce an alternative income. The internet offers the quickest and easiest opportunity to make a fortune. If you have what people want to buy and know how to promote it to your customers then you will succeed.

Contrary to what most people believe, you don’t have to be a genius or have any special skills. With the vast amount of information available for free on the internet anyone with a persistent mindset can achieve success.

I doesn’t matter how old you are, where you are from or what your education level is. No prior experience is mandatory. You can learn as you go along.

Right at this very moment the economy is not going to recover anytime soon. There is no definite time when it will recover. What this means is there are more and more people looking for other means of income. The people who are working are trying to find out how they can stop working for someone else. They are tired of working for peanuts and barely paying the bills. The people who aren’t working are looking for work and cannot find any.

This is where you as an affiliate marketer can become prosperous in a recession. I’m sure you are asking the obvious question as to how. Well if you go to the Google Keyword Analyzer and type in the phrase "work at home" you are going to see there are 1,830,000 searches for this phrase in a month. If you are an affiliate member of a well known work at home program you can make a huge percentage just to send people from your coded affiliate link to your affiliate programs work from home landing page. You do not have to have to have a website you can do this from a free blogger. You do not have to pay the affiliate program to join. You do not have to spend a lot of money on ads. You do not need to be website designer or know html.

Affiliate Marketing is a simple solution for anyone who would like to get out of the rut of working for someone else. Or a definite solution for someone who is unemployed. The level of success depends on your level of desire to change your life and your motivation.