How has the IM market changed over the last year

I see the home based business industry to multiply atleast 2 times in one year!

Adil

I have noticed a little more difficulty selling ebooks and products the past 6 months or so. Having said that, it is not always necessary to sell something to earn online (google adsense, cpa offers, etc.)

And : While the economy of one country or a few countries are declining, there are other countries where the middle class are growing rapidly and have disposable income, such as some countries in South America and several Asian countries. I have thrown up some sites in Spanish and one in Indonesian using google translate to add content to them (outsourcing translation is another option). One of my spanish sites is ranking in the top 3 of google for a very popular keyword and is doing quite well.

Hope that gives some insight.

Well i noticed that many people have got fired and are trying to make a living by working from home.

I haven't noticed much difference to be honest.

I agree with X3. With the overwhelming market saturation, branding and trust are key factors more so than ever. People are becoming streetwise, or perhaps netwise, and are becoming aware of the presence of the online salesman, who's role it is to serve and protect the customer. They will "return" to the salesman that pleases them best, no matter that the product is the same in many places.

The Internet is a busy place, getting busier every day. That includes the gazzilions of business being started on a daily basis. Lots more competition in the past year, fer sure.
Of course there's the "Front Page of Google" to keep one abreast, LOL
Best get creative if you can't afford the money that the big dogs are starting to toss around out there. There's a corporate takeover coming in every niche that pays, you can be sure of that...

Don't think that much will change. There will be the ever present newbies making the guru's rich and the same ways of making money will still apply.

I did not noticed any differences in the internet marketing from the past year an now.

If the economy continues to improve I think you'll see a lot of people who are experimenting with internet marketing returning to their day jobs.

We see a lot of people around these parts who are diving into internet marketing not so much because of desire but due to circumstances.... they lost their job and need money.

Think of the great depression, everybody was moving to California because they heard there were jobs out west. Internet marketing was this recessions California.

If the economy improves and employers start hiring in greater numbers I expect many will migrate back to where they came from.

More predictions...

Internet marketing will continue to grow but at a slower pace.

Government regulations and state taxes will screw American marketers.

Google will do something that spawns a 33 page thread on the warrior forum.

Facebook will continue to grow and add more features becoming the new AOL (1990's) with people using a single website service for most of their internet activities.

Bill Platt will still be writing really really long posts that follow the plot of The Sixth Sense (a twist at the end you should have seen coming)

People will still be skimming Bill's posts.

Sock Puppets are the Tickle Me Elmo of Christmas 2011

I don't know about the market as a whole although I have certainly changed, I unsubscribed from all the so called 'marketers'(I use that term loosely) who abused my inbox with emails telling how wonderful x's new product is when I know that they copied and pasted a swipe email from a JV page offering the affiliate who generated the most sales in the first week going live a $10,000 reward for promoting a $39 product which only had 200 copies available for sale, among other rubbish.

Chris