Two places I think it is essential to keep tabs on if you want to know what your market is talking about is Facebook and Twitter. In this article, Sullivan gives a great overview of using Twitter to find out what questions people are asking in your niche.

Coming up on my second year of blogging and internet marketing and I find myself with dozens of domains and at least 12 blogs that I want to keep up to date with fresh content.  Until recently this had been a major challenge but I have finally come up with a process that simplifies the task.

How many emails did you receive this morning for the launch of Affiliate Marketing 2.0?  I deleted at least six before starting this post.  I read two because they came from folks I really like and have met personally which goes to show that relationships (ROI) do work.

So why am I not jumping on the Early Bird Link and signing up? 

Reason 1: If you watched the first four videos you will noticed they touched on the necessity to pick a strategy and sticking to it.  That is exactly what I am going to do.  It is not that I think Affiliate Marketing 2.0 is not an excellent program.  It looks GREAT.  It is just that I am already following a great program and I am convince that any of these wonderful programs advertised online and via email will lead to success IF a person starts at step one and follows through to the end of the program.   So that's what I am going to do, stick with the one I am currently do until I have completed the entire process.

Reason 2: Reason 1 is really the motivation of my actions but I am giving reason two for disclosure purposes just so someone doesn't call me later.  Affiliate Marketing 2.0 doesn't accept affiliate partnerships with folks like me who don't have a list of at least 5000 followers so even though you will find links to the program in this post they are one of two things, links to contest that is running along with the launch, and yes I get points if you enter the site from that link or links that will take through the affiliate link of one my favorite marketing gurus, Bill McIntosh.  So if you are not currently working through a marketing program and you decide that Affiliate Marketing 2.0 is the package that you want to buckle down and work through and you buy it through Bill's link be sure to follow up and send Bill a copy of your receipt so you will get his bonuses along with your purchase.

So that's it.  Whatever your choice, good luck on your business adventure!

ps..  Photo of AF logo was blatantly borrowed from AffiliateDotCom site, hope they don't mind .
As mentioned above, I may get contest points or brownie points for the above links and thus may receive prizes or cash as a result if you decide to purchase through one of the links.

You know how it is when you watch one of those promotional videos and some guy demonstrates how he brings in thousands of dollars over night with just the drop of a hat?  You sit and think, well maybe this is finally the answer to your prayers, may this is the program that take you out of debt and over the top in this Internet marketing business.   Last week I thought just that.  I had watched the the Mobile Monopoly video through a half dozen times and it seemed like a sure thing but I still resisted the urge to jump in feet first.  It wasn't until I saw the same results demonstrated in a live broadcast done by a marketing pro I knew and trusted that I finally bought the package and set up a trial run of my own.

Not having a lot of cash to play with, I set up three different tests and my results were much less impressive.  A total investment of $100 (not counting the cost of the program) generated 55 leads in one niche and 16 in another.  This calculates to 71 cents a lead.  Not the outstanding results shown in the demos but the difference in results is likely due to my inexperience at copy writing and page design.  If I work at improving my followup emails I can see a good possibility that I will regroup my investment over the course of the next month.  Not a overnight success, but I do now have the beginnings of a niche related list and it includes people who have already demonstrated they are interesting the topic.  A step forward, however small.

My final vote on Mobile Monopoly is thumbs-up.  Even if my results are less than overwhelming, I think the program offers a great tool and educational videos on how to get started in marketing to the five billion cell phone users.  It is certainly the next move in marketing and MM is well worth the purchase price.

A couple of tips I picked up on my first efforts:

• Your display page is critical, keep to light backgrounds and clear readable type fonts.  It is a good idea to view your landing page on a cell phone.  You can see what it looks like on a mock phone display on http://testiphone.com.

The question is, how soon until Facebook takes on Google directly?

Places is the latest example of Facebook adding a feature that knocks a would-be competitor out of center stage. Foursquare, Gowalla and other location-based "check-in" services have to take a back seat to Facebook's, since most iPhone-owning Facebook members in the U.S. will automatically have access to this soon, if not already.