Emerging business trends are excellent platform for the launching of your blog theme. Look at it this way. People may still be searching for keywords like ‘typewriters’. However, the reason arise not because that the searcher wants to learn about how to use a typewriter, but most probably because he is a collector. Anyway, these are the global business trends that you should be taking advantage of in order to attract traffics to your blog or even to your website.

1. The Great Depression

There is a Chinese saying “heroes are bred during the chaotic eras”.

The real economic stimulus does not come from the USD 700 billion bank bailout. The actual stimulus comes from the Great Recession itself. Challenger, Gray & Christmas’ job market index reported that 8.7 % of job seekers gained employment by starting their own business during the second quarter  of 2009; as compared to 2.7 % in the last quarter of 2008.

Dane Stangler of Kauffman Foundation says, ” Ten, fifteen years from now, there will be a slew of companies that we’ll point to and say they started in the recession. You don’t see them yet, but you can be sure they are out there.” Do you know that more than half of today’s Fortune 500 companies were founded during a recession?

2. The Green Awareness

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The government incentives and public sentiment have powered the green movement. Stimulus plan poured billions into renewable energy, automakers are all predicting the emergence of the electric gridlock within the next few years.

Cleantech Group revealed that venture capitalist are in full force into green technology; solar, biofuels, batteries and the smart grid, which overtook IT and biotech for the biggest piece of the VC pie.

3. The Aging Population and Wellness

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Do you know that The Chronicle of Higher Education has named gerontology as one of the hottest academic field for the future. For example, the University of Southern California debuted a new master’s degree in aging-service management to meet the growing interest in the field.

Businesses targeting the retiring baby boomers are like it’s name sake, booming.  Bladders are deteriorating, visions are blurring and all these are spelling opportunities for savvy business (and even bloggers) executives.

4. Thrift

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Consumer spending is reportedly down for more than 30 % from this time last year as reported by Gallup poll. Wal-Mart’s earning increased more than 5 % in 2009 whereby Neiman Marcus reported a 15 % drop in sales.

Imagine owning a website selling cheap accessories. In 2009, secondhand shops reported an increase revenue of USD 223.3 million, according to Ibis-World.

5. Buy Locals

Demand is sky-rocketing for locally grown and made products. Governments from around the world are trying their best to stimulate domestic demand through various incentives like tax-cut for local manufacturers and sales coupons to consumers.

Many may not be aware that the “buy local” has its roots in the farmer markets movement. Nearly 60 % of consumers from the United States say that they try to shop at farmers market. Such awareness is of course further enhanced by USDA’ own “Know Your Farmer, Know your Food” marketing campaign.

6. Education

As with all recessions, this is the time when many people are going back to school, thinking that education would give them a new lease of life after being redundant for so many f******g months. There are others who revisited education for other purpose, maybe as a get away from all the depressing news, skill enhancement or what have you.

Anyway just some facts and figures. IbisWorld senior analyst reported that the total enrollment at universities and colleges is closing 12 million and climbing, most likely due to unemployment. 2010 will be a booming year for higher learning education.

Rest assured that people will be interested in learning about how to blog for business, social media marketing and other related topics so that they won’y be phased out due to their lack of knowledge in the new media.

7. Life Support

Despite the depression, more people are paying professionals or free lancers or whatever you call them in helping out the domestic chores like baby sitting, checking in on mum, tutoring, scrubbing toilets. They call this ‘Parental outsourcing’.

From an entrepreneurial perspective, many of these businesses are low cost start up. Maybe you can set up a blog teaching and guiding these would-be-entrepreneurs in finance, inventory management and human resource to make their life more bearable.

8. Texas

Ok ok I may not be an American. But all of us who follow the news know that Texas has fared better in this recession than most other part of the US! According to Brad Burke, the MD of Rice University’s Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, Texas has become more diversified over the last decade. The state is investing in growth industries, cost of living relatively lower and real estate still inexpensive.

9. Pets

The recession may have destroyed the manufacturing and financial services sector, but not the pet industry. According to Nobel laureate Albert Schweitzer once said, “There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.”

Do you own a pet? Why not start a blog about your lovable pet; its nutritional needs, habitat and diet.

10. Booze

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The alcoholic beverages industry grow steadily for the past 3 years and is expected to reach USD 455 billion in 2009.

If you are a beer lover, you know what to do.