You could be more trendy
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Stay on top of the news!
Be ahead of it, and you can dress like this too!
If you’ve been paying attention to search engines, or Twitter, you’ll know about “trending topics”. It’s the thing everyone’s talking about. I’m certain a lot of you are sitting there, reading this and thinking “yeah, if I knew what was going to happen before everyone else, I would sooo have an huge cash making machine of a campaign!”
The fact of the matter is you can! Kind of…
Believe it or not, the news media is a 24 hour kind of thing. The news that people get on TV, on radio, in print. It’s all old by the time it reaches them. Even online news is old when it reaches the front page of a news site, even if it’s under the “Breaking News” headline. But you can access this news faster than that.
First off, a little back ground.
I was just like this, but less charming and more hobo and no magic newspaper
Years ago, I used to be a total insomniac. I’d go for days without sleeping, so I’d find myself wandering around my suburb with my dog and generally having people assume I was homeless because I also didn’t bother to shave all the time. In actuality, I would often wander by the local 7-11, and pickup the newspaper to go and read in the park while mindlessly tossing my dog’s ball. Tomorrow‘s newspaper! You see, newspapers are actually printed the day before, and come off the press around 10pm, so they can be at major distribution points prior to 1am, and into most places in the general public before 6am.
I was lucky enough to live near a major distribution point, which meant I often got access to the news by 11pm the day before it hit most stands.
Most of the information in it was thoroughly useless to me, although a few nuggets here and there allowed me to run a PPC campaign well before the rest of the country had woken up, and when they hit up Google for more info on something they’d read, there were some of my ads.
So how does this relate to the earlier part about getting the news before anyone else does?
Well, think about it for a moment. Where does the Newspaper actually get “the news”? They sure as hell don’t have their own staff anymore for any real journalism. That’s mostly left up to bloggers… and freelancers at press agencies like Reuters and Associated Press. Go to their websites, and get yourself onto the RSS feeds for anything that might take your fancy. If you’re using a proper RSS feed program or plugin, limit it to the last hour or two of news only. This way you won’t be distracted, and you’re likely to not have had news media outlets or other people using this trick jump the gun on you.
If you are past hour 5, give up on that trend. You have been beaten.
Considering Affiliation Cash’s programs are predominantly download based, you can limit it even further if you want to entertainment sections, but that’s up to you. Whatever it takes to make sure you don’t get distracted from what you should be doing, which is building a PPC campaign, or throwing up a spun article on your own site and then social bookmarking the bejeezus out of it (remember, sites that just copy and paste from others don’t rank as well, especially for news).
The reason for all this effort is because if you’re jumping onto the bandwagon when the topic has already hit the trend graphs, you’re too late. Other people are watching those to see what’s popular. This may take more effort, and there may be less volume, but there’s also a hell of a lot less competition.
Consider this nugget an early Christmas present.
Happy Hunting - Harvey
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