Does the recession have you down? Far too many people are running around wringing their hands, worrying about whether the recession will end. The reality is that the recession does not apply to everybody. In Bismarck, North Dakota, for example, the unemployment rate is a meager 3.7%. Last year happened to be very good for energy and accurate culture, two of the state’s major exports. The Internet is the same way. Even if the recession has hit the town that you live in very hard, major commerce is still being conducted online every day. The key is to start a home-based business that leverages the Internet and that can produce a recession proof, highly lucrative income.

Motorola’s prototype for the first cellular phone — descriptively called “the brick” because of its appearance — dates back to 1973. Of course the inventor of the phone, John F. Mitchell, had no idea that by 1998 wireless products would account for almost 70% of the company’s revenue. The same holds true for the Internet. In the early 90s, marketing online was yet to happen. Today, with the advent of Web 2.0 technologies, the Internet is the world’s most dynamic marketplace. Internet millionaires are being created every day, and this trend will only continue to pick up momentum.

The world would be a better place if we could all have a career in something that we’re passionate about. Unfortunately, we are often limited to the type of business we can be in by our geographic location and job availability. There is one place though where these limitations don’t exist: the internet.

Successful online entrepreneurs are the select few who realise that the internet is a great way to build a virtual business of their own and not just a way to make a few extra dollars. With the right skill set, anyone from a retiree to a stay-at-home mom or even a university student looking to be his own boss can be an online entrepreneur.