Did you know that folks in nearly every industry and sector of the human endeavor are interested in both near term and long-term trends? It's true, and whereas, you might have suspected this was more apropos to stock market day traders, you'd be surprised just how important it is to people.
Nearly, every industry association has analysts that pour over endless data to try to determine what comes next.
After all a crystal ball would make someone quite successful in sports, life, family, career, business, politics or investing; think about it.
Since so many people are interested in the future trends it is also something that folks search on the Internet quite a bit.
Now, this might be of interest to you, over the past few years, I have written 'hundreds' of "Trends" articles, and today, they are all over the Internet.
I suppose one could find them if they went searching on Google for; "2007 Trends + my name" or "2008 Trends + my name" and that it would bring up a ton of listings.
Now then consider this if you will, I have intense amounts of Internet traffic coming to my websites from writing these trend articles.
So, why not do yourself a favor and write a few trend articles for your industry or sector and see how many targeted web surfers you bring in? Indeed, I discovered this technique accidentally when trying to increase my quantity of online articles.
So, I went through 70 different industry subsectors and wrote down my thoughts on the future and current trends based on my reading in trade journals, research papers, lectures, internet surfing and observations.
After that, I took components of each one and made longer articles based on my thoughts.
Each article has 4-8 trends per industry subsector, and I'd recommend this format to anyone writing about future trends in their specialty.
Now then, where can you stay on top of all the trends in your specialty, some thing, by the way you should be doing anyway - well, I recommend taking Google News Alerts for

• "New Invention + your industry"
•  "New Innovation + your industry"
• "New Report + your industry"

You'll find that nearly every day there are new items, and press releases, it's pretty cool to read about all this stuff, and it will keep you up-to-date and informed.
Please consider these techniques and strategies because they work.