If you’re addicted to Day Time Soap Operas or have your finger on the pulse of other topics related to finance, real estate or entertainment, the knowledge you take for granted may be valuable intellectual property.
Here’s why: traffic to the major news outlets and portals is leveling off.
They’re frantically searching for fresh, new content daily.
Are you the fresh voice they’re seeking?
Niche News Portals Surge in popularity as noted in WSJ.com online:
Six months ago, Minyanville.com was an obscure provider of financial news that, among other things, featured an animated bull and bear named Hoofy and Boo that bantered about the day’s headlines…
Behind Minyanville’s ascent is a frantic search by the big Internet companies for fresh content. For years, AOL, MSN and other Web heavyweights used many of the same sources of news — often traditional media outlets — to fill their finance, real-estate and entertainment channels. Smaller providers of information often had to pay to publish on these sites. But with traffic to the major portals starting to level off, those sites are looking for something new and different to feature — and that, in turn, is creating some opportunities for the little guys.
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