Think for a few minutes just how vast the Internet really is, and how immense its potential is for marketing your products, and generating an income from.
The Internet is often portrayed as a cloud that PCs and other computers connect to.
Hosted web services are even called 'cloud computing'.
How big is that cloud? How many computers are connected to it? How much money can potentially be earned from it? Can you really earn a passive income for life from the Internet? Well, think of it like this.
The Internet is not so much a cloud, but like a whole series of clouds, a whole series of interconnected clouds, clouds that join together with other clouds.
It's so big that it is more like a whole sky, a whole solar system, almost like a whole galaxy of clouds.
One way or another, almost every computer on the entire planet Earth is connected to the Internet, even if there are a series of firewalls in the way.
But not just computers in offices, data centres and peoples' homes, either.
The move nowadays is to connect not just computers to the Internet, but everything else that has enough power to run a web browser.
That includes netbooks, laptops, palmtops and desktops; mobile phones, PDAs, eBook readers, and just about anything else you can think of.
All a device needs to be connected to the Internet is a browser and a network cable, and some software.
The costs are becoming cheaper and cheaper all the time.
People can therefore connect to the Internet almost any time, from almost anywhere.
You could be in the office, at home, on the bus or train, or on holiday, and still be able to connect to the Internet.
The Internet never sleeps.
Someone, somewhere will be using the Internet, in one country or another.
When you sleep, hundreds of millions of people elsewhere on the planet Earth will just be waking up, ready to start their internet-connected day.
When they end their day, you will be coming home from work, ready to connect to the Internet in the evening.
People use the Internet for all sorts of things.
It is used for shopping, for fun, for pleasure, for booking holidays, for advertising, for entertainment and just about everything else.
The Internet is so vast, and there are so many billions of people around the planet using it, that it presents marketing opportunities like no other medium.
If you produce any sort of goods that people might want to buy, or services that people could take advantage of, you need to have an Internet presence for those goods or services to stand any chance of selling your wares.
People using the Internet only see a website, and do not know who is behind the website.
This allows tiny independent people to compete with major international companies, if their websites look as though they have been professionally designed and if their goods and services appear to be worthwhile or competitive.
Since everyone who has something to sell will ultimately want to advertise and sell it on the Internet, it follows that the potential for selling on the Internet is equal to the sum of everything that can ever be bought or sold.
Imagine that! Imagine all the money on the entire planet being potentially able to be tapped into.
It is vast, and there is plenty of room for everyone.
That is why the techniques of Internet marketing are being taught for free in this book.
You don't need to worry that if you share your ideas with someone else, they will muscle in and compete with you.
Everyone can benefit, to everyone's mutual benefit.
These, then, are the opportunities presented by the Internet.
Just try to imagine the marketing potential of an entire planet of around six billion people, all connected to the Internet at multiple times through a variety of devices: maybe a laptop at home, a desktop at the office, a PDA or mobile phone on the way to and from work or on holiday.
Everyone browsing the Internet, clicking, shopping, and looking over what goods and services are available.
If you want to make a living by using the Internet to generate a passive income for life, the Internet is your answer.
There is no bigger market than the Internet.
There is no easier way for you to carve out a living from this enormous marketplace, a marketplace so big and so ripe with potential that it is simply staggering.
But first you need to learn how to take advantage of that enormous global marketplace.
You need to learn what the concepts are and how to apply them to start generating an ongoing income stream from all those products and services.
You need to avoid the pitfalls and the scams.