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'Emergency Plan' To Clear Olympic Smog

July 30th 2008 18:27
Apparently the Chinese authorities have an emergency plan to clear the low smog in Beijing, with the Olympics just around the corner.

Who knows what that may be, but it is a real problem, woth some visibility down to 200 metres.

IOC President Jacques Rogges says the marathon and long distance cycling may be postponed, and marathon world record holder Haille Gebreselasse has already pulled out due to the smog.

Hardly the 'green' games promised!

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Let The Open Golf Open Your Route To Online Profits

July 23rd 2008 11:31
July 2008, and the 137th Open Golf Championship tees off at Royal Birkdale in North England, near Liverpool.
Golf is a huge market, both offline and online, and you can use The Open to grab your slice of the pie...

The Open was first played back in 1860, and is *the* tournament to win, so much so that the name The Open is enough to tell any golf fan what you are talking about.
Americans tend to call is The British Open, but the Americans call the Superbowl winners 'world champions', so we can just leave them with their quirks.
What we shouldn't do though, is leave the available profits on the table.


Golf is a big business for 2 main reasons, people love to watch, and consequently love to find information about their stars.
If you can provide information about golf, you will have the attention of targeted traffic. What you can then do is tap into the main money avenue of golf - equipment.

Every golfer wants to play better, it's the reason the game is so addictive, so it's no surprise that the equipment manufacturers constantly seek to improve the science, to make it easier to hit longer and/or more consistent shots. It's why the top players earn a fortune from endorsements, because those endorsements bring in millions to the equipment firms.

These firms are also shrewd in the world of business, and the online affiliate model has not passed them by. With this model, you send the web traffic to their site, and the software tracks it as referred by you. You have to register to do this, but it's free to do so. Then if anyone buys, you get paid a commission, maybe 10%.

That may not sound like much, but if you consider a box of 12 balls can cost $120 in some cases, that 10% can soon add up to some serious money.

Apart from equipment, there is memorabilia. This is always popular in sports, from posters to books. Most top golfers write books at some point, and then you get the market of used gear and signed golf caps and so on.

All of these will have the affiliate model available. For example, a lot of people do not know that eBay has an affiliate program, so you can direct people to memorabilia items, and earn if they go on to buy.

So you can see that golf is great for profit potential, and the 2008 hosting of The Open is as good an opportunity as any.

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How To Profit From 60 Years of Silverstone - F1

July 19th 2008 00:12

Formula 1 motor sport is a huge money making machine, but conversely it can be immensely difficult to get into it and sustain a business unless you have limitless money to start with! However, there is a way you can make profit from Formula 1 and the 60th anniversary of Silverstone is a good example...

July 2008 saw the 60th year of Grand Prix racing at the British track of Silverstone. In fact in 2010 the British race will move to another track because it has failed to keep up with the modernisation required by the sport.
The race was suitably won by British rising star Lewis Hamilton, and he can be used as an example of how to make money from Formula 1.

You could start your own Lewis Hamilton site. You could source products from manufacturers you could maybe get a licence from F1 and Hamilton himself, and make some good money. That's a lot of work though, and you need to invest in stock and take care of the delivery and customer service issues, etc.

An easier idea is to use affiliate products. This is where you send the traffic to another site, say one that sells Hamilton memorabilia, replica helmets and so on. You register with the site's software and if any customer you send goes on to buy then you get paid a commission.
There is no stock to invest in or hold, no delivery issues, the site does all that.

The 3rd model, and this is the one I like, is to provide information. F1 fans love their information, all sports fans do, so if you can provide this information, even about how to earn from their love of their sport, to fund trips to Grand Prix which are not cheap, then you will get a lot of visitors to your site.

So you can see there are several ways to make profit from the 60th anniversary of Silverstone Grands Prix.

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Euro 2008 - It's Why The NFL Will Never Be A Global Passion

July 16th 2008 14:32
Euro 2008 - It's Why The NFL Will Never Be A Global Passion

June 2008 saw Spain take victory in the European Soccer Championships.
Late 2007 saw the first regular season game from the NFL take place outside the american continent, as Miami played New York Giants as Wembley Stadium in London, England...

The tickets for the NFL game sold out quickly, and the NFL was so impressed it immediately set up next year's regular season game, and Commissioner Roger Goodall said he wanted the NFL to be a global passion, played all over the world.
That will never happen and here's why...

The Euros 2008 had 4 groups of 4 teams, that's 16 countries.
But let's nor forget, those countries came through 2 years of qualifying from over 40 countries!
In each country, anyone can start a team and join their football association.
There is nothing to stop them developing and going all the way to the top of their national game.

This can never happen in the NFL.
Quite apart from the US college system, the NFL is a business operated a franchise model.
You can't just start a team, you have to buy a franchise!
This ties you in to how the parent company chooses to run itself.

It's why there will never be a World Cup in American football, and it doesn't help when the NFL calls the national champions World Champions!
This is seen as jaw dropping arrogance, and is yet another reason why it won't be played globally.

The sport does have a following in many countries. I'm a fan myself, and the London game showed the popularity, but even when the NFL tried to expand abroad, NFL Europe was no more than a feeder series to the 'main' event - as such it would never take off at grass roots support level, and the idea was folded last season.

So to sum up, while it may be watched in many countries, the Euro 2008 soccer championship showed just why the NFL will never be played as a global passion.

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Bank Profits From The Brutal World Of Boxing

July 3rd 2008 23:15
Boxing is a peculiar sport in that you are watching 2 men trying to hit each other on the head until they lose consciousness.
I guess it's this brutal gladiatorial aspect that makes it so watchable amongst the testosterone driven males, and when you combine this with the long history of the sport, it's not hard to see that's it a great niche to profit from...

You could set up your own site selling all sorts of boxing products. The main advantage with this type of site of that you get to keep all the profits, but the downsides include investing in stock, delivery and customer service issues, and maintaining the site - that's after you created it!
These disadvantages outweigh the advantages in my view, which is why the affiliate model is much more attractive.

With the affiliate model, you send traffic to a site that already sells the products - they do all the delivery and customer service, you don't have to buy or hold any stock, you just get paid a commission on any sales from the traffic you send.
It's possible to earn a full time income from this alone.

One example is posters.
There are a few posters of Mohammed Ali which always sell well, year after year.
Maybe you want to sell equipment, gloves and punch bags - the fitness industry is a big one, and boxing moves are known for their aerobic value, so you could see these to people who don't even like boxing!

Then there are all the books written by boxers, and the books written about boxers.
You get the videos, and can even sell pay per view packages via the affiliate model.

So you can see that the brutal world of boxing has plenty of opportunity to make profit.

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Are You Tapping Into Tennis For Profit?

July 3rd 2008 23:12
The summer month of June sees 2 of the big 4 annual tennis tournaments, and it's a great time to use the power of niche marketing to make some online profits.
Here's how...

The French Open takes place in early June, and then a fortnight later comes the mighty Wimbledon, the tournaments of tournaments in the tennis world.
Tennis is watched and played all over the world, and it's this popularity that you tap into for your profit.

Niche marketing means that you focus on a certain group of people who have the same interest.
Sport is great for this, because each sport can be a niche in itself, and can also be broken down into subniches.

For example, tennis fans like to buy merchandise, maybe you could sell Wimbledon towels or umbrellas, or how about posters of the big stars? (sports posters are a big seller).

You could start your own site and provide these goods yourself, but it's much more efficient to use the affiliate model, which means you send traffic to sites already selling the goods, and make commission on any sales.
The affiliate model had made many fortunes online.

Tennis has plenty of other routes to profit.
There is a market for tickets to the big tournament matches, and travel and accomodation packages.

Maybe you could write a blog about tennis. This can quite easily bring tennis fans to your site all year round, and then you make money from the links on your blog.
Information marketing can be very quick easy and cheap to do online, and if there's one things sports fans want, and tennis is no exception, it's information!

Who said what, about whom, and how so-and-so is playing is the kind of reporting that is lapped up by fans.

Tennis provides massive opportunities for online profits, you just need to apply the techniques.

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Will You Be Making Money From Frilly Knickers At Wimbledon 2008?

June 25th 2008 21:52
We know the summer is here when Wimbledon starts, and the potential for profit is certainly there...

When I first started watching Wimbledon way back when, everyone played with wooden rackets and the ladies played a gentle game.
They wore short dresses, with decidedly frilly knickers peeping out underneath.
Nowadays it tends to be huffing, puffing and lots of grunting, with lycra shorts underneath.

Some of the women still wear traditional sports clothes, while the top players often seem to be competing in the fashion stakes as much as the tennis!

So how do you turn this into profit?
Well, you could be an affiliate for sports wear, be it sensible or fashionable!
Tennis is played all over the world, and the market for sports clothes is huge!

You could maybe set up a site for sporting memorabilia.
Tennis is not the biggest sport for merchandise by a long way, but it's there nonetheless.

Another method, and this is the one I like the best, is to simply voice opinion about tennis.
One thing sports fans *always* want is a view, because they have one themselves!
The huge number of sports journalists is there for a reason, the demand is there.

The internet allows anyone to publish as many views as they want, with very little censorship, no editors over your shoulder or deadline to meet.

It can be done in your own time, and you use the fact that tennis fans read your views, to generate the traffic which you can then send to a site you monetise, or if it's a blog you can make money from the site there and then!

So to sum up, the frilly knickers may have gone, but the potential for profits at Wimbledon 2008 certainly have not!

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A Great Weekend For Sporting Profits, Jun 21/22 2008

June 25th 2008 21:44
Saturday June 21st and Sunday June 22nd 2008 saw a vast array of big sporting events each one of them giving opportunity to make online profits...

I love that fact that I can make money writing about sport, because I love watching sport - I always have done, I was brought up watching it on TV.
Yes, it turned me into telly addict, but at least I now know how to profit from it!
This weekend has seen a load of events...

2 quarter finals at soccer's Euro 2008.
Royal Ascot horse racing.
The French Grand Prix motor racing.
International cricket.
International test rugby union.
International athletics.
Amir Khan boxing.

That's quite a list, and all of then have big following around the world, and a big following means profit potential, as you have a ready made marketplace.
You know who to target, and you know what to give them.
Maybe it's access to cheap tickets - you can set up an affiliate site.
The affiliate site also works for equipment for the people that play rather than watch the sports.

Maybe you could set up a sporting blog, either for each individual sport, or a general one.
You can then monetise that blog with various advertising methods.

Or you could go for the technique I use, which is to provide information to the fans on how to make some extra income, which they would no doubt love to spend on their hobby!

Yes indeed, the middle of summer always has the sporting events packed in the schedule, and for those that know the techniques, it's profit on the table waiting to be picked up

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Make Euros From Euro 2008!

June 23rd 2008 18:22
Summer 2008, and the Euro 2008 football tournament is in full swing.
The biggest tournament in world football outside the World Cup, it's a big event, and there are ways that you can make money from it...

Of course you will be making pounds or dollars or euros, depending where you live, but the techniques are the same around the world.

You could set up a site dedicated to the tournament, with news updates, interviews, and links to affiliate sites for merchandise, like kit, footballs and posters.
When you send traffic to these sites, you have already registered with them, and this traffic is logged as having been sent by you.
If anyone buys, you get paid a commission.
It's a great way to earn money without holding any stock, or having to worry about delivery issues.

The main disadvantage to this model is that once the tournament is over, the interest in your site will fade, and quickly too!
It's possible to use this idea as a site within a main football site though.

Another way to use the Euros 2008 for profit is to tap into the fans.
There were around 40 countries trying to qualify, and 16 teams in the final stages.
That's a lot of fans!
England for example, did not qualify, and yet every match is shown live on tv.

How about providing information to those fans about how they can profit from their love of football!
Providing information is a great internet technique, as it can be done at very little or no cost at all.

Fans of football spend a lot of money, that's why the sport is so sponsorship laden, and those fans would love to know how to get more money to spend!

So you can use the tournament as a subject to drive traffic, then send it to a site where they can get the information at low cost.

There is no doubt that the Euro 2008 tournament provides opportunity for online profits, it's simply a case of knowing the technique to use.

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Did Justine Henin Retire Just In Time?

June 21st 2008 14:33
May 208, and Justine Henin announced her retirement from tennis.
This seemed a shock on the surface, but a closer look may reveal it was good timing...

She was World Ranked Number 1 player at the time, with the French Open just around the corner, a tournament she had won 4 times.
So, why would she retire - surely it's too early?

Well, she said she had simply had enough, and after 20 years simply couldn't muster the drive needed to be a top of the world tennis player.
Yes, she was well rewarded from a 20 year career with over $19 million in prize money, but to keep at that level means a punishing travel schedule, and more punishment from the training required.

Henin said she was looking forward to living a little, to traveling the world and seeing more than airports, hotels and stadiums.
She was looking forward to spending time with her family, and enjoying going out for a run because she wanted to rather than because she had to.
She had never been skiing, and was planning to 'maybe spend the whole winter trying it'.

It's a great career record to look back on - 7 Grand Slam titles, although Wimbledon eluded her.
That must hurt, because despite 2 appearances in the final she never managed to win what is the ultimate prize in tennis.

Oh yes, don't forget to add Olympic Gold to the tally.
Lets face it, the Olympics means nothing in the big scheme of tennis, but nevertheless Henin was one of Belgium's best medal hopes for Beijing, and the small country where she is an icon is still coming to terms with her retirement.

It is possible, that at just 25, a couple of years away from tournament play may re-ignite the drive within her, but it's very rare for retiring sports stars to come back and achieve the heights they managed before.

Overall, I think it could be said that yes, Justine did retire just in time!

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