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Written by pacelattinOctober 4, 2011 # 5:11 am # Expert Guides, Specials # 13 Comments
If you didn’t read, the Femme Fatale Amanda Knox was released from Italian Prison and has started to make her way back to the United States. By the time this is published, she will probably be back here, grateful that her ordeal is over. While it might take a while for her life to become normal, she will find that her life has completely changed and she is now a celebrity. Let’s be completely honest here, the lurid stories of kinky sex, combined with the fact she’s a hottie will keep her in the limelight for a while. Within the next few weeks expect to hear an invite from Hugh Heffner to live in the Playboy Mansion and be the next centerfold. Whatever you think of all this, expect that everyone will be able to make money from her, especially affiliates and marketers.
So you are asking, how do you make money with Amanda Knox, short of being the first person to sell naked photos of her? Simply put, think outside the box. News stories are perhaps one of the best ways to make money on the internet. By finding out what people are searching on Google and then appealing to their interests, you can often find new products and methods of promotions. While these are often short term fads, they can often be great money makers if you know how to work the interest. Here are just a few ideas:
1) Promote a product using the news topic. An obvious connection here is to promote some sort of sex-toy store with ads like “This is the whip that Amanda Knox likes to use on her lesbian lovers.” While that might not be terribly sensible or possible on Facebook, there are other methods including promotes a book about the trial or promoting a publication that carries the story. Heck, how about pushing an “Amanda Knox” costume for Halloween?
2) Sell the “Secrets of Amanda Knox” via Content Unlocking. Right now everyone is looking for more news about Amanda Knox (and photos it seems.) Do a bit of research about her life, most of it is public knowledge and do a small book containing stories that you can find from the internet. Put it behind a content unlocking system and watch the money come in.
3) Make a Public Offer. Before Hugh Heffner can say anything, do a press release offering Amanda something. Nothing will get you more traffic and attention right now than if you are the first person to offer her money to do something… like appear naked, marry you, be the spokesperson for a Ronco Knives or something similarly distasteful. If you can get some press, you’ll gain additional traffic and of course, make more money.
4) Engage in LinkBaiting for Traffic. Yes, obviously that is what I was doing here in using her name. I’m not above that. Everyone is thinking about Amanda Knox since she’s in the news, and I knew that by mentioning her in this article, I’d get additional traffic from people who were curious and then there’s that SEO value.
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Pace Lattin is one of the top experts in interactive advertising, affiliate marketing. Pace Lattin is known for his dedication to ethics in marketing, and focus on compliance and fraud in the industry, and has written numerous articles for publications from MediaPost, ClickZ, ADOTAS and his own blogs.
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I think the key here is that using news stories are a short term fad. While you may get the initial surge in sales and traffic, you must constantly continue to follow the next news story to keep up both. It may be easier in the long run to pick a more stable topic, and while it may be difficult to gain traffic and sales initially, over the long run sales and traffic can become stable or even increase over time.
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Very creative. Content unlocking is an interesting concept. Never really dug into that one but just read your post on it and it was very helpful.
Thanks!
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I wasn’t sure who Amanda Knox even was. Interesting take on a controversial news story.
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Amanda Knox looks interesting, especially the content locker. This is a great way to make some money.
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I’ll admit, I was intrigued by the post title. Good ideas. I’ll keep these in mind with the next big news item.
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I like the bold strategies especially the third one. I like the tip on looking for a controversial story as well. I know a lot of people are eager to know more about the model.
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My only objection to working off of a trendy news story is that a post gets stale pretty quickly. I’m looking to work up a collection of “evergreen” stories. It works, though. I wrote a piece on being afraid to upgrade to the latest version of WordPress. Got a lot of traffic for awhile.
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Funny, I don’t really have strong feelings about Amanda Knox one way or the other, and even so your “link baiting” worked. Still, it seems like it would be exhausting to chase the fad of the moment. Although . . . “whip that Amanda Knox likes to use on her lesbian lovers?” Now THAT has staying power.
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Brilliant idea! And since her story is so controversial and varied, it can be used to promote just about anything. All these celebrities should be useful for something, and since they are not really contributing to making the world better, they should at least be available to make our personal lives/businesses run smoother. This never-ending circle of tabloid stories and artificially generated stardom so far only had negative effects on small businesses, with us, employers, needing to monitor employee activity on computers, to make sure they are working and not reading about the newest scandal of the Kardashians or even Amanda Knox. So I absolutely agree with you and your ideas really inspired me to start thinking in this direction.
Such a nice post in here, really give me an idea and would apply it on how to start earning money utilizing my internet connection at home as well as my strong skills in this kind of job. You really become my inspiration now in taking this new direction of my online career, your marketing ideas and ideas were fantastic.
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I think we should get away from her, give here a break. You know you would not want your life to be ruined too you know. Anyway I do support the thinking of strike whilst the iron is hot to keep the momentum but we should steer away from this kind of things.
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