How to make money from the global financial crisis
Turn on the TV and you’ll be lucky if you don’t see a story on the big Global Financial Crisis. You don’t have to be a genius to figure out that there are a lot of people out there interested in what is happening globally, and how the financial crisis is directly going to affect them. A quick review of Google Trends shows that the number of people searching for information relating to the ‘financial crisis’ or ‘global financial crisis’ has increased dramatically in the last month.
So, we know this crisis stuff is big news, but how can you turn the global financial crisis business to your advantage? Here are some simple steps you can use to turn the financial crisis to your advantage.
Step One: Write, write and write some more
We know that people are looking for information on what is happening. This is your chance to give the people what they want. Start writing articles and blog posts relating to the financial crisis and how it affects the average human. Break it down into terms people understand. Write a top 10 tips to beating the financial crisis post and get it out there quick. Put an interesting spin on things, or add a dash of humor… heck, even cheesy banking jokes are worth a run at the moment!
One of the keys here, is to make sure you come up with a snappy headline. You can’t go wrong with the ‘ten tips…’ thing, or the tried and true ‘How to…’ headline, but sometimes you’re far better off going with something snappy and original. Take a leaf out of the blankshooting playbook, go the pun, Global Financial Crisis losing interest. Like an onion, so many layers.
Step Two: Choose your monetizing poison
You’ve written a butt load of original content (original is the key). Now you have to figure out how to turn that into cash. A good starting point would be to review financial products through affiliate programs, such as MarketLeverage and COPEAC, and start plugging them to your target traffic. With all the talk about stock markets going down the toilet, no doubt there are plenty of people out there thinking now is a good time to invest. It stands to reason that there are a few stock market virgins out there viewing this as a massive opportunity, they are going to be looking for information and advice. If they have the cash to invest, there’s no harm in pointing them toward any number of products that might help them along the way. Making U Richer anyone?
Financial based keywords are also fairly solid performers when it comes to Adsense, so whacking up a few ad blocks should help turn over some coin also. One thing I've learned, 'financial' traffic is much easier to monetize than 'camel toe' traffic.
Ok, if you’ve read this far, kudos to you… the thing is, you’ve caught me. I have no steps three through to ten. The purpose of this post was to highlight the potential that might be passing you by every day. This is not really about the financial crisis, it’s about taking advantage of current events to turn a quick buck.
Let’s look at it another way, cause sometimes I get carried away and stop making sense. Here’s the only Make Money Online tip you will ever need to know.
If you want to make some cash with your blog, you should start considering yourself to be a member of the service industry! Find out what people want, serve them up what they want, and offer them targeted ads, products or services. Right now people happen to want financial information, and stuff on Wall Street, tomorrow it may be all about Patrick Duffy's bunion, who knows. It’s not sagely advice, it’s not even wisdom, it’s just common sense.
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