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Another year, another WGMI newsletter, another million-dollar idea. Here’s what we’ll be talking about today:
- How to find the biggest trends and opportunities in 2024 (5 tools and proven methods) 🔎
- We’re giving away $1,500 to aspiring entrepreneurs like you 🤑
- Quickfire AI headlines and resources 🔥
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How to Find the Biggest Trends and Opportunities in 2024
Every new year brings new trends and hype cycles.
For entrepreneurs like you and me, each new trend brings new opportunities.
Opportunities to invest. Opportunities to make content. Opportunities to start a business.
Spotting these opportunities before anyone else is the key to succeeding in 2024.
Think about it… How successful would you be if you knew about AI, blockchains, the iPhone and Facebook ads before everyone else?
You already know how important it is to spot opportunities early. Now, you just need the tools to actually find them.
Here are 5 proven methods and tools to identify the next big thing before anyone else.
1. Exploding Topics
Russian manicures. Nootropic experts. Red light therapy. Dumpling bags.
When I woke up this morning, I had no idea what any of these were.
After a 20-minute browse of Exploding Topics, I now know hundreds of thousands of people are searching for these topics every month.
What’s the big opportunity?
Within every trend, there is an opportunity to take advantage of the increased demand.
Take ‘walking pads’ for example, a portable treadmill people put under their desks at work.
Demand for walking pads is through the roof… 450k searches every single month.
Armed with this data, there are countless opportunities to invest, make content, and start a business:
- Sell accessories (like anti-slip mats, wall mounts and lubrication kits)
- Create walking pad content (like workouts)
- Sell them to offices and hotels with custom branding
- Offer a walking pad rental service
Your mission: Take 5 minutes to scroll through Exploding Topics and find a topic that piques your interest. Brainstorm how you could use your new knowledge to start or grow your business.
2. YouTube
YouTube is a goldmine for finding new trends and opportunities… if you know how to use it.
The key is to find videos that have an extremely high view count compared to the creator’s number of subscribers.
At WGMI, we used this exact strategy to spot the AI trend early and get millions of views on YouTube.
What’s the big opportunity?
If you find a topic in high demand, move quickly. Learn, make content, and establish yourself as an expert.
For example, the ‘TikTok Creativity Program’ trend is helping relatively small YouTubers go viral as we speak.
Your mission: Browse YouTube and look for new topics you’ve never heard about with high view counts. If the content creator has a low sub number, you might have just struck gold.
3. Discover mega trends
It shocks me that resources like ‘Our World in Data‘ exist… and most people don’t even know about it.
It is a collection of stats, data and research that has been made available to the public to help us tackle the world’s largest problems.
What’s the big opportunity?
For entrepreneurs, every ‘problem’ stinks of opportunity. Solve it, and the market will reward you handsomely.
For example, the data showing the declining performance of 15-year-olds in Maths in the US could inspire a maths tutoring business or an online learning platform.
Your mission: Browse ‘Our World in Data’ to discover mega trends. Use this data to solve problems, make content, and validate business ideas.
4. Public domain
Every year, some copyrighted works enter the public domain. That means anyone can use them for their own projects and business.
Two years ago, when Winnie-the-Pooh went into the public domain, Ryan Reynolds used it to create a viral marketing campaign for Mint Mobile (which sold for $1.35 billion).
This year, Steamboat Willie entered the public domain and some companies are taking advantage… like this game dev making a horror game featuring Willie.
What’s the big opportunity?
Every year, new works enter the public domain. You can find a long list of the works that went into the public domain in 2024 here.
Your mission: Keep an eye on what enters the public domain. Use them creatively to market your products, make content, or start a business.
5. Discover sports trends
The sports industry, especially in the States, is gigantic. It generated $83 billion in 2023, and that number increases every single year.
The SFIA is a resource that aggregates research on current trends in the sports industry.
What’s the big opportunity?
For example, you could use SFIA’s report on the fastest-growing sports in America to find opportunities.
To see how you can take advantage of sports trends, meet Thomas Shields.
When he saw Pickleball was blowing up, he started a newsletter called The Dink. The Dink now has over 150k subscribers, which Thomas will use to promote his line of Pickleball products.
Your mission: If you want to grow or start a business in the sports industry, stay up to date with the latest trends by devouring SFIA reports.
You need a game plan to take advantage of trends…
Over the last 2-3 years, we’ve helped thousands of aspiring internet entrepreneurs take advantage of the biggest online trends.
There’s one thing that separates those who make millions from online trends and those who let the opportunity slip between their fingers…
They have a proven game plan to:
- Spot trends early, and
- Capitalize as quickly as possible.
At the Great Equalizer event, we’ll give you a game plan to dominate the next big thing this year.
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Our $1,500 Giveaway for Aspiring Entrepreneurs
At the Great Equalizer event, we’ll be giving away $500 to three people who attend.
At this free event, you’ll learn:
- The science behind identifying trends early
- A three-step playbook to quickly take advantage of any trend
- Our exact strategy to capitalize on what we think will be the biggest trend of 2024
To learn more about how you can win $500, make sure you reserve your spot on our website.
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Quickfire AI headlines
- 20 faceless YouTube channels making over $100k a year
- ICYMI: This man can make anyone go viral… how he got 2.1 BILLION views in 10 months 🤯
- ICYMI: The Justin Welsh Solo-Business System (he made $2.5m with 0 employees) ✍️
- ICYMI: The man making $6M per year with cold emails 📧
- Midjourney plans to introduce “text-to-video” in the next few months 📹
- Top AI researchers earn $865k / year 💰
- Google DeepMind researchers just made a robot that cooks and cleans 🍳
