How to Make Money — You Asked for It

At the end of year I like to reflect. Reflect on the year that is ending. Remember all the things that continued. We often forget major occasions in our own lives, not to mention major world events.

Of program it’s hard to document each and every major event in 2015 as well as rank them. Putting the most important first and then working down isn’t an easy task — unless you are Google.

You see, Google Developments is one of the most fascinating tools on the internet. You can go to the site and see what is ‘trending’ on Google right now. You can also see what was trending last week, recently and last year.

And every year Search engines has a look back to see what individuals were searching for. It’s a pretty good tool to see what was important to people throughout the year.

Here are the most significant things according to Aussies in their Google searches in 2015.

In Feb the ‘Oscars 2015’ was the most important thing on Aussie minds. Over 406 zillion searches.

• Feb/March: Cricket World Cup (323M+ queries)
• April: Nepal Earthquake (85M+ searches)
• May: Princess Charlotte is born (105M+ searches)
• June: China Crisis (12M+ searches)
• September: Australia’s new Prime Minister (22M+ queries)
• Sept/October: Rugby World Cup (246M+ queries)
• November: Paris under attack (897M+ queries)

That’s a lot of searches, and some substantial global events. Of course, Search engines goes much deeper with its research analysis than just major occasions. On the site you can drill down and find other top lists for searches.

For example, the most popular research starting with the phrase ‘What is…?‘ was ‘What is Netflix?‘

Considering Netflix [NASDAQ:NFLX] launched around australia in 2015, that’s no great surprise. And I’m sure the head honchos at Netflix are delighted with that gem of information.

But there is something else on another checklist I found particularly interesting. It had been the 10th most popular search for ‘How to…?‘

How to make money

According to Search engines, Australians are particularly interested in how to make money. A little deeper and you find this flow onto other how to make money searches.

These consist of how to make money online, how to make money quick and making money.

What I also found incredibly interesting is the increase in interest for ‘How to Make Money’ over time. You can clearly see in the graph below this is a subject many Australians want to know about.

Source: Google Trends

So how do you? How do you earn money? Well is surprisingly easy. And I’m going to tell you just how, right now.

First off, you make money by performing a service for someone or selling someone something that you own. In other words this is called using a job. That is the number one easiest way to make money.

But if you’re looking to make money outside of your job, there’s a simple premise you ought to get used to. Investment. To make money with time in excess of your salary and wages, you need to start to commit.

Now that can be in a range of various things. You could invest in property, cash, wine, classic cars, actually collectibles like vintage The exorcist figurines.

Investing in stocks

But for me the best way to invest is in the stock market. Purchasing shares in a company. And when that company is successful then your chances are their stock cost will rise, increasing the value of your investment.

If the company does very well…then you could see your initial investment double, triple, quadruple or even increase 10-fold.

Investment is one of the best ways to make money a high level salary and wage earner and wish to set up your financial long term. Of course it can be scary as well as intimidating if you’re a newcomer into it.

That why here at Money Morning we try to take the difficulty out of it. We are here to provide you with the information you cannot find in the mainstream papers or news. We look from investments and uncover firms that the big end of town don’t see, don’t understand and don’t know about.

These companies are the kinds that are great for investment. These companies, with excellent products, innovative services as well as aspirational leaders, are the ones that can move from zero to 100 in the blink of an eye. And also the shareholders in these companies are the ones that make money — and make it quick. These are the kinds of companies that I spend my days hunting for in my paid newsletter, Australian Small-Cap Investigator.

So if you’re thinking about how to make money, then look no further. Keep reading Money Morning. Or if you happen to be for a while and are looking to go ahead and take next step then think about registering to one of our investment services. Give it a try, see what you think — and hopefully you’ll be on the right path towards producing some money.

Sam Volkering,

Editor, Australian Small-Cap Investigator

From the Port Phillip Publishing Library

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