Many people who are interested in starting an online business assume that because the country is in a major recession right now, this is not the time; however, I ask you to consider the facts:

1. As with most of the major life decisions, e.g., getting married, having a child, starting a business – there is never a “right” time; there is only today.

2. If you want to get rich, you need to own your own business, as 93% of the already wealthy do.

3. In 2006, Fortune magazine called direct selling, including network marketing, “the best kept secret in the business world” with a 91% growth over the previous 10 years. It has a market of $30 billion in the United States and $100 billion worldwide. By 2012, that figure is expected to reach 6 billion.

4. Financial experts call network marketing a “recession proof” industry.

5. Warren Buffet called his purchase of a network marketing company the best investment he’d ever made.

6. Tom Peters, author of In Search of Excellence, called it the first truly revolutionary marketing shift in the past 50 years.

7. Online businesses aren’t as impacted by the high cost of gas, parking or daycare.

8. Owning a home business provides significant tax advantages.

9. You can become a success online if you can point, click, follow directions and have some basic language skills.

10. If you’ve always wanted to be your own boss, let the internet put you in the driver’s seat with your own online business! The upside potential is great.

Affiliate programs are doubtless the easiest methods to initiate an internet company, and a lot of them also offer training referring to the product that you will be promoting for them.

The difficulty with many online programs, however, is that their training is narrow, and often focused only on teaching you about their product (s). Sadly, you will have to have more data and skills than that.

One excellent place to start for obtaining all the rest of the understanding about internet marketing that you’ll need is to enroll in the Online Success for Beginners program.

Don’t be discouraged if you want to start a new business – hundreds of thousands of new businesses will launch in the next 12 months; yours could be one of them. Is this the right time for you to join them? Aren’t you ready to leave all the job-related stress behind you?

Carpe Diem! Don’t waste any time, seize the day! Today is the time to start an online business .