According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the beginnings of the current economic recession can be traced back to December 2007. But few people, least of all the ones marketing on the Internet, were talking much about "recession" back then and even today many feel that they do not need to worry about the recession because the Internet continues to grow apace.

That has not stopped many people from looking back at the Great Depression of the mid 1930s and wondering, is it about to happen again? However, even if things do get that bad, the savviest Internet marketers will adopt Napoleon Hill's attitude and seek out the new opportunities that will inevitably grow out of a climate of economic retrenchment.

Think And Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill was one of the most memorable books to be written during the Depression. Hill saw the depression as a great opportunity for ambitious self-starters to set aside the doom and gloom of others and take advantage of the new opportunity it gave people to start all over again.

If what he wrote was true in his day, then it will certainly be true that the current recession, coming as it does in an age of advanced communication technologies and the widespread access to the Internet, offers many new opportunities for people to thrive and prosper. This is especially true for people marketing on the Internet.

As companies continue to cut jobs, a large supply of people will be looking for new jobs, either full or part time or by beginning an Internet business of some type. No matter what each person decides to do, many of them will start to search for their solution on the Internet.

People will do job searches or look for training courses so they can learn new skills and be more attractive to employers. Others will want to learn how to earn money on the Internet doing jobs such as form filling, typing, online surveys and so on. Then there will be many who will seek out a way to start a business marketing on the Internet but have no idea how to go about doing it.

Each scenario offers Internet marketers opportunities to respond by providing the products and services to help those people get to where they want to go. As I said, the first place that a lot of these "new seekers" will turn to is the Internet. So, if your website has the answers they are looking for, presented in such a way as to inspire their confidence in your services, and if you put in the virtual spadework to make sure your website is the one that those people stumble across, your business will certainly thrive throughout the recession and prosper when the good times come again.

So to answer the question that is in the title of this article, I believe that it does not matter whether we are in a recession or not. If people marketing on the Internet learn to respond to the current situation and offer what people are looking for, they will have no need to worry.