The number of unemployed workers in the United States continues to rise with the worsening global recession. For February 2009, almost 700,000 jobs were slashed on top of the 600,000 job losses already shown for January, thus, bringing the total unemployment rate to an alarming 8.2 percent. If that number does not affect you, think of 13.2 million Americans surviving job loss anyway they can. And there seems to be no slowing down in the near future, sadly enough.
There is, however, a silver lining to this dark cloud looming over the horizon. You can actually engage in legitimate online money-making activities that can help you survive the recession even without a 9-to-5 job!
Affiliate Marketing
If you have an existing website and/or blog, affiliate marketing is one of the fastest and easiest money-making ideas to engage in. Basically, you just sell the products and services of other individuals and companies in your website/blog just by promoting and marketing them, of which a simple relevant link in your blog entry will do.
You need not worry about inventory, shipping, customer service and other business concerns that challenge novice businessmen.
Indeed, affiliate marketing is the simplest and quickest route to surviving job loss even with minimal skills in online marketing. How so? Well, you just join a merchant’s affiliate program, strategically place the affiliate link in your website, encourage website visitors to click on that link and buy products from the merchant, and the merchant sends you the income you earned from that sale. As the Britons will say, it’s easy-peasy making money during depression through affiliate marketing.
Freelance Service Provider
If the storefront companies have no need of your services for various reasons during these recessionary times, then have heart because many Netizens will appreciate your expertise and experience.
With websites like E lance, GetAFreelancer and oDesk, to name a few, you can advertise your services – copywriter, article writer, web designer, graphics artist, bookkeeping and accounting, and virtual assistant, among others – and bid on these jobs to earn money online. Now, this is the best method of surviving job loss by finding another job in the same area!
Make an Info product
One of the most lucrative albeit one of the most difficult online businesses to engage in, you can manufacture, market and sell your own product. Among the bestselling infoproducts are software, e-books, audio books and CDs/DVDs telling people how to do a certain thing, say, how to survive a break-up and a job loss.
Lest you start thinking along the lines of “I can’t do that”, you have to remember that somebody somewhere has need of your talent and just waiting for someone like you to fill in the gap in the market.
Indeed, when you are sliding into an emotional depression due to the economic recession, you only need to look to the Internet for job opportunities and you will definitely be able to find them. So, whoever tells you that surviving job loss in these ever worsening economic times is very difficult certainly must not be listened to. Whatever for when you have already made your first affiliate sale, submitted your first web design, and sold your first info product through the wonders of the Internet?
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