I’m sure you’ve probably heard about the Doplar Effect? It’s that cool thing that happens when a jet flies over head. You see it……THEN, you hear it.

I’ve come to realize that this same phenomenon happens for online trends.

I’ve been amazed recently at how many different online trends that I thought were long dead or passe were just now hitting the mainstream.

Take for example…well, blogging.

Blog sites were HUGE…no, H U G E in 2005. All the internet hipsters (or dweebs depending on your side of the argument) were blogging. However, should you have decided to come out of your ethernet cave back then, you would have realized that the mainstream had no idea what a ‘blog’ was.

Now take a look at mainstream culture. Blogs are everywhere. In the media. Searched and indexed by Google. Used as resources for news stories (oh dear).

To stretch it even further, I just read a cartoon in the newspaper where the main character was buying something online…FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME! The whole joke was set up around her buying something online and how…futuristic and weird that was.

Myself and my wife bought all of our Christmas gifts online back in 1998. I’m not trying to brag about that. I’m positive thousands were buying gifts online years before that.

My point is this. In 1998 I thought we were ‘finally’ joining in this whole Internet commerce thing. TEN YEARS AGO!

Turns out, we were avant garde.

The good news for making money online in regards to the Webplar Effect is that you can view exciting new trends and plant some seeds in the ones that seem to be growing the fastest and strongest….there’ll be lots of time to develop it before the masses catch on.

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