Check out my 2011 holiday calendar and you’ll notice that there are a number of holidays, observances and opportunities from which you can earn affiliate commissions in March.
The most popular dates and events are:
- St. Patrick’s Day – March 17th
- Spring equinox – March 20th
- NCAA March Madness
The defining color for the month is decidely green.
But your blog doesn’t need to be dedicated to basketball, holidays, all things Irish, green living or gardening to profit from those topics.
Here are examples of how to integrate these topics into a number of different niche topics.
- Community blog – Write about planned festivities in your town.
- Personal blog – Post about how you plan to celebrate the events.
- Sports – Not a basketball fan? Blog about teams that go green for St. Patty’s.
- Fashion blog – pretty green handbags for spring.
- Cooking blog – your favorite green recipes… and don’t forget to talk about the green beer!
- Health blog – Best greens for healthy nutrition.
- Travel – spring break destinations. Greener travel.
- Mommy blog – kids’ St. Patrick’s Day party.
Use your imagination. Almost any two niches can be married successfully with a little thought.
What should you sell?
Well, you can sell just about anything related to the niche and the theme – i.e. t-shirts, cookbooks, team jerseys (any type of clothing), event tickets, gift cards – you name it.
Be unique in both your content product offerings.
Search your favorite affiliate networks for St. Patrick’s and spring specials. Shareasale in particular always has “Prepare for the Upcoming Holidays” near the top of its interface with holiday names linked to promotions from your affiliated merchants.
Here’s a unique product / service that I came across recently that would work for so many different types of blogs, and not just in March.
It’s called Going Green Today and it’s on the Performance Based ECO affiliate network. What they do is create action plans for 90 day Green Makeovers through free lifestyle assessments. Visitors take the assessments to see if they can save $2000 from their costs of living.
Look for it in the near future on http://RosalindGardner.com which sports a Greener Living section.
See… no matter what the month, you can blog about almost anything. 
What are you blogging about in March?
About Rosalind Gardner
Hi Ros,
Green is good! As usual I’ll be blogging about ponds and water gardens:)
Mark
Thanks Ros,
This post couldn’t have come at a better time, as I’m in the middle of building a ‘green’ site with the help of fellow members at Affiliate Blogger Pro.
Ros, I hope you feel all green and fuzzy for being such a wonderful influence on us all!
Green Beer? OMG looks like I’ll have to drink some so I can give my full review? Thanks ROS for this blog…I love to read your posts.
Paul
Thanks for the green advice. I never thought about “green” travel before!
Hi Tai,
Totally. There are tons of eco-friendly tour operators. Have fun promoting them.
Cheers,
Ros
This is a great tip Ross. I’m going to implement it.
Thanks Ros for the great reminders and tips as usual. You mentioned one I had forgotten about.
St Patick’s day coming up! Time to paint the site green!
I’ve been a website only girl so I tend to think in terms of website pages not blog posts, so the fact that I just started a blog makes this the perfect post to read at the perfect time! Got my creative juices flowing. Thanks!
Hi ros,
Tomorrow will be the St Patricks day! Seems that the ‘green’ beer is so interesting.
Thanks for the informative posts.Have a green day!
I think Going Green shouldn’t be just for the month of March rather it should be observe 24/7, 365 days a year.
That is very kind of you to write this share for us, thanks a lot