World is buzzing with downsizings, layoffs, outsourcing and corporate bankruptcies.The best thing to do in this kind of economy is learn how to employ yourself.

Creating muliple streams of income by employing yourself is the best way to protect your income, family and your future.Creating multiple streams of income is possible through internet.Here are some possible ways to use the internet to employ yourself.

1.Become an Ebay Seller

Ebay is the most powerful ecommerce web site and fastest growing business of all time.As of April 2005 there are an estimated 135.5 million users trading over 30 billion dollars worth of merchandise each year.You can learn how to sell on ebay from the official ebay website.

2.Create Information Products

If you love writing and educating others, you can create information products and sell these products at the world's largest digital products website which is called Clickbank.com.All you have to do is that you have to sign up with Clickbank as a Publisher.

3.Promote Other People's Products through Affiliate Marketing

If you are good at marketing and don't want to write information products by yourself, you can start promoting other people's information products and get affiliate commissions.This is also can be done with Clickbank.com website.All you have to do is that you have to sign up with clickbank as an affiliate.

4.Get a Work from Home Job

You can browse the freelance and work from home job listings from sites like elance.com, odesk.com, guru.com and other similar websites.If you can get a long term contract with any of the project buyer, you can be happily start working from home.The skills in demand are writing, research, web design, web programming, web marketing, logo design, SEO, Blog writing, Article writing and many more.

5.Become a Teacher

If you have teaching skills, you can start online tutoring in the established websites or you can offer your customized training programs, podcasts online to the interested customers.

6.Start Day Trading from Home

You can learn day trading from companies like hold.com and other day trading companies.This is a good way to make profits daily by simply working from your Desktop PC or Laptop computer.You must be a avid reader of news articles and be analytical in making trading decisions.

7.Get Paid to Blog

You can stat looking for companies which will pay you to write blog posts for them.You can regularly write blog posts and earn a decent income from paid blogging.If you goto sites like indeed.com and search for paid blogger, you can find some decent job listings which will offer this kind of opportunities.

All the best.Stay alive in this tough economic situation by employing yourself.