Profitable Niche Blogging - Make money with fast food

Apr 8, 2008

Profitable Niche Blogging - Make money with fast food

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Fast food blogging Have you ever visited a Mcdonalds or a Burger King?

I know, I know, that’s like asking, have you ever answered a phone only to hear a telemarketer. But do bear with me, for I shall reveal to you the Secret Not Known By Sane Adults!

Are you ready? Okay, here goes:

People (real life adults!) collect McDonald’s Happy Meal Toys and Burger King Thrilling Meal Toys and Wendy’s Gleeful Meal Toys and….

It’s actually quite a thriving collectors hobbies (ranking right up there with telephone insulators!).

What’s that I hear you giggle?

"Surely you jest, Barbara!"

Heck I do not, and my name’s not Shirley! Get this - at the time of this writing, there were:

991 eBay auctions for McDonald’s toys
301 eBay auctions for Burger King toys
437 results from Amazon Books regarding McDonald Toys

Oh gee, here are some! Feast your eyes on:

littlest pet shop Mcdonalds green salamander #164 RARE

Kasey Kahne #9 McDonald's 1:24 2007 Charger RARE

100% Rare! Mcdonalds Chips Phone Charm Bag Dangle OZ

Believe me now? And guess what! If you’re addicted to fast food and have an insane desire to make money on the Internet with your blog as well, you can smooshilate the two together and start earning affiliate commissions. Here’s how!

Step 1.) Set up a domain name and put a blog on it.

Yes indeed, you can consider fastfood.blogspot.com, but why be so, well, non-James Bond-like? Consider these domain names:

Want cost-conscious domain resources? Check out:

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GoDaddy
HostGator
DotEasy

Once you have obtained your domain name, you have to discover some fast food-related products to market. Move onto:

Step 2.) Get an Amazon and eBay affiliate ID.

This is critical, because these two programs will deliver the majority of your commissions.

Like I said, there are huuuuuuge amounts of fast food toys and goodies you can find on eBay and Amazon, including limited releases, vintage fast food toys, fast food books etc.. Here’s what some of the Amazon.com stuff looks like:

Tomart’s Price Guide to Character & Promotional Glasses Including Pepsi, Coke, Fast-Food, Peanut Butter and Jelly Glasses; Plus Dairy Glasses & Milk

Customer Reviews — Rating: 4 Date: 2001-07-15 Summary: Helpful but some revisions resulted in even less information … I confess that I am a little disappointed in the revised 3rd edition of this book which I purchased after seeing an earlier edition in the reference section of our local library. I am a collector of Big Top peanut butter song glasses, and this book seems to be one of the few that has information about these glasses. When I looked up the Big Top glasses in this latest edition, there was actually less text and fewer photographs of these glasses than there had been in the earlier edition!! For this reason, I have a hard …more

Hamburger Heaven: The Illustrated History of the Hamburger

Customer Reviews — Rating: 4 Date: 2005-11-17 Summary: Cool pictures, nice history … Hamburger Heaven is a blast to the past, when there were Drive-Ins instead of drive-throughs. Starting with the history of the hamburgers as it related to the Tartars and brings it into the 70’s, 80’s and then 90’s. It reports on the glory days of the Hamburger, when McDonald’s was in it’s infancy and there were far more unique chains than we can dream of today. The history of the hamburger is much richer than most could imagine, and Tennyson does a wonderful job of exploring the past. Presented not only with facts, …more

Next,

Step 3.) Set up your Fast Food Blog

There are three must-do things you really should follow:

Incorporate anti-spam plugins (learn more here)
Set up categories
- I’d recommend to start off simple, like:
  - Fast Food News
  - Fast Food Toys
Incorporate affiliate programs to blog template. Both Amazon and eBay give you tips on how to do this. Often I will simply add them both to my individual postings and the sidebars.

Next, you need some content about which to write. Move to:

Step 4.) Ferret out Fast Food Feeds.

Go to Google Alerts and set up a comprehensive alert for

"fast food" (notice the quotes)

This will ensure you’ll be kept up to date regarding fast food news, fast food blog postings, etc.

Then go to Google and search for

You’ll uncover feeds from sites like:

Add the feeds you’d like to your Feedreader.

Next, search for

fast food blog

This will deliver to your blogs that focus on robotics, such as:

Continue adding feeds until you have about 20 of them; that’s enough to provide you with a continuous stream of inspiration.

Step 5.) Post!

Now you can begin writing at your fast food blog. Start off with some daily news, maybe blog about the dangers of Playplaces, add in some research, etc.. You can even add video clips from Youtube like these fast food ones here.

With patience and persistence, you should see your affiliate income grow as your blog becomes known by fast food toy collectors.

Nice, eh?

Hope the above is helpful!

ThankYouVeryMuch,

Owlbert

#BEGIN highlights of this blog writing post:

Beginners fast food blogging tips: Tackle daily news to start your fast food writing. It’s always in the news.

Intermediate and/or Advanced fast food blogging tips: Incorporate eBay/Amazon fast food resources to your site and individual posts.

#END highlights of this blog writing post

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ps - do you know Fast food even is found in anime?

pps - and speaking about fast food:

TWO FURBYS - MCDONALD'S PROMOS 2000

Mcdonalds Big Mac Hamburger Phone Charm Bag Dangle

NEOPETS–MCDONALDS PLUSH–SET OF 3–IXI

McDonalds 2005 The Dog # 6 Bulldog NIP

Mcdonald Bionicle Barraki # 8 a Lego product

MCDONALD"S SPACE JAM NERDLUCKS - NEW

2008 McDonald's Kung Fu Panda Toy #8 Master Monkey NEW

99 '00 McDonald's Ty Teenie Beanie Spangle the Bears II

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Barbara Ling and Owlbert

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