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Have you said to yourself “What should I promote?” It happens to me and everyone. Though I have my stronger niches, I always want to venture out and try other niches no one does or a niche everyone is ballin in and try to conquer that specific niche. But sometimes you want to ride a new niche because you have a feeling it will bank, but later found out you wasted your time.

Sometimes niche marketing can be a tedious task to research and find what can be profitable in the future. I tend to ‘think’ a niche will do well after a month or so and then it just flops. So the question becomes not what niche to concentrate in but what profitable niche.

I had the opportunity to take a look at the Internet Time Machine and it is a live search engine that lets you know what people are willing to take action on tomorrow. Such information is critical because you can now decide what you can promote.

The time machine collects apparently collects information from 40 million sources. Not sure how accurate that is but it work on a 24 hour cycle. The interesting thing about this system are the reporting and I can definitely say that the data they are collecting is all about trending topics and volume. I want to know how they are actually doing it and not just going by searchable terms.

There are analytic on most mentioned terms, potential terms, popular mentions, etc. Also, their recent mention and potential trends is an interesting report. It shows you the multiple searches via total search engines.

To test if this wasn’t copying Google Trends, I actually compared it t Google Hot Trends and found none of the mentioned terms are not being listed on Internet Time Machine. That is interesting. ITM does mention celebrities but not what is currently trending on Google, so it may see the future on upcoming niches.

The system separates searches by 3 categories: SEO, PPC, Product Creation and each has their own set of trend searches. Which all produces different results because each is different in it’s own. Separating this actually helps me when I am doing a PPC campaign or creating a product. It is real interesting because I found a niche that I would be interested in doing a product for!

Just knowing what is going to be trending and then riding that trend and/or being the only advertiser on that trend can mean a good amount of cash. Being the first is always the best because you set the tone and everyone follows. Knowing what is going to happen or what is going to be popular can give you the advantage over everyone else.

Since this is a launch they are having an Internet Marketing Contest, which consists of $20,000!! The winning affiliate will receiving $10,000 in cash and the person who refers that winning affiliate will also get $10,000! Watch the video below and checkout the time machine.

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A new version of Facebook’s iPhone app is now available in iTunes. It follows up on the one released a couple of weeks ago by adding support for Apple’s new iOS 4 software. The new 3.1.4 version includes features enabled by the latest version of the operating system, including fast application switching and high-resolution icons. It also has some minor bug fixes and translations into Russian and Korean — two of the few markets that Facebook has yet to do well in.

The previous release included the ability to watch videos, view and write on Events walls, and upload photos up to 720 pixels wide.

Along with many other apps, this one appears to have been undercounting monthly active user data until the middle of last month. A change on the 16th showed it with 54.1 million MAU, up from a slowly-climbing 37.1 million MAU the previous day, according to AppData. It now has 56.3 million MAU. The daily active user count did not see a similar surge, growing slowly to 20.6 million today.

Facebook is moving to a simpler data authorization model for third-party access to user data as we’ve been covering since the company announced the change at its f8 developer conference in April. The new model is coming today, as planned.

Developers get access to basic information, including names and friend lists, with the change, but are required to ask for all specific pieces of extended data — and it’s all within a single interface. This replaces the platform’s previous multi-step process that could allow developers to obtain more data access, possibly with less clarity around what data users were sharing.

[Editor's Note: Facebook's growth and traffic stats in India are excerpted from Inside Facebook Gold, our membership service tracking Facebook's business and growth around the world. Click here to learn more about our complete data and analysis offering.]

We estimate Facebook’s country market penetration monthly as part of the Facebook Global Monitor report. Typically, market penetration figures are determined by the percentage of the population that’s on Facebook. For most of the developed world, this metric provides a good view into Facebook’s popularity. But what about poorer countries, where many people lack internet connections? Measuring Facebook’s popularity, in these countries, quickly becomes complicated.

It’s more than a merely academic question. On Monday, we reported that Facebook’s new office in Hyderabad, India will hire up to 500 people. The office will serve as a global sales and operations node — but it also seems likely that Facebook has some confidence that India’s penetration levels will rise, providing a viable market for the company. So today, we’re taking a closer look at India’s present, as well as its possible future.

At first glance, Facebook appears to be a failure in India, which is well known as one of the two bastions of Google’s Orkut. Out of a total population of 1.14 billion people, India has only 9.5 million Facebook users — a market penetration rate of only 0.8 percent.

The story changes when we begin looking at India’s much smaller internet population, for which we’ll use the World Bank estimate of 51.7 million. Here’s how India’s growth on Facebook looks over the year when using that number:

Other estimates of India’s internet population vary — a more recent measurement by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) puts it at 71 million — but any measurement we could use shows a penetration of at least 10 percent, growing fairly quickly. This is especially impressive considering that most data connections in India are not broadband.

India’s internet penetration will rise over time, and it’s likely that a significant number of its citizens could be internet-connected within a few years. However, an even more interesting consideration is the growth of the mobile web.

While wireline connections are few and far between ( a fact that also reveals part of the problem in connecting more Indians to the internet) wireless phone ownership has grown by leaps and bounds. India added 16 million wireless users in May alone, according to government statistics, which count 617.5 million wireless users as of June, over 50 percent of the population.

The problem is that few of these wireless connections are being used for data; another IAMAI study, from January, showed that only two million users make significant use of their mobile internet connections. However, as you can see on the IAMAI chart at right, the younger generations — those most likely to be using Facebook — are the heaviest mobile data users. Yet another study predicts 260 million mobile internet subscribers in India by the end of 2015.

For Facebook, these various statistics won’t add up unless the social network can easily connect with users, load data and, most importantly, serve ads. That’s where Facebook Zero comes in: a stripped-down version of the site that some have suggested could become Africa’s Agora. India’s population being larger than that of the entire continent of Africa, it’s not unreasonable to consider that the country is more important to Facebook.

Much of this could take place without anyone realizing — Facebook currently offers no public accounting of how many users access it through mobile connections. What is clear, however, is that mobile is Facebook’s market of the future, at least for countries like India.

We’ll be publishing Facebook’s latest global traffic growth data tracking the site’s growth in markets around the world, including India, in the July edition of the Facebook Global Monitor report. The Global Monitor is available as part of a membership to Inside Facebook Gold. To learn more or join, please visit gold.insidenetwork.com/facebook

Most people use Facebook to connect with friends, including long-lost ones, and the company’s contact importing tool has been a key way to help them do so. Users can import address books from their phones, or email and instant message services. Beyond having the option to invite these friends to Facebook, directly, the company also puts this information into its “Phonebook” and uses it to provide more relevant friend suggestions to users and their Facebook friends.

But sometimes users find particular friend suggestions to be a bit odd. Maybe they see a suggestion for someone they don’t know — or know but don’t want to be friends with.

If you’re a Facebook user seeing unwanted Phonebook contacts or friend suggestions, one option that Facebook has provided for awhile (albeit a bit obscurely) is for you to delete your imported contacts.

But first, be sure to note the consequences. If you use Phonebook to make calls to Facebook friends from a mobile device, removing imported contacts may remove some friends’ phone numbers if you imported contacts from your phone. If you’ve been liking the friend suggestions tool, well, you’re about to make it less relevant to you. That’s not all. Facebook uses your imported contacts to try to make more relevant suggestions to your existing Facebook friends, so deleting your imports may make the feature less valuable for them, too.

All that said, here’s what to do: Go to this page, called “Remove Imported Contacts” and click on the “Remove” button. In order to get all the imported contacts out of your Facebook mobile app, though, you’ll also need to delete that data directly from the device.

LivingSocial Deals, the group coupon arm of LivingSocial, just expanded their services to the United Kingdom by opening in London today. The company is set to go live in other major UK metropolitan areas, such as Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool, as well as dozens of other global markets in the coming year.

We’ve written previously about LivingSocial Deals and its main rival, Groupon — the former company got its start building Facebook apps, and continues to rely on Facebook friend connections to help users share group deals with their friends. In April we reported that LivingSocial had raised millions, $49 million total to date, in order to expand its Deals service. This is LivingSocial’s first international market, whereas Groupon has already opened in Canada.

Essentially both companies provide similar services, in that they offer the users of their service special geographic-specific deals and incentives to get their friends to also purchase the deal. In LivingSocial’s case the user may get the deal free if they can cajole three of their friends into also buying it. While LivingSocial Deals home base has been Facebook, it is also available on Twitter and mobile devices.

These deals often include restaurant deals, but also services such as discounted spa treatments and activities such as golfing specials. London’s addition to LivingSocial makes it the twenty-seventh city to provide the company’s Deals.

You’ve probably heard me talk about the guys from Tatto Media before. Here is why they rock. This summer marks Tatto’s 5 year anniversary and to celebrate, they are throwing a sick contest that ALL affiliate marketers can participate in http://www.tattomedia.com/anniversary/

Between July 1^st and December 31^st, they are running a sweepstakes for all Affiliate Marketers – the Grand Prize is a Lamborghini Gallardo. You choose: http://www.tattomedia.com/anniversary/

Now you might be thinking “I don’t do enough revenue to win the Gallardo.”

Well, let me break down the contest – it’s easy.

Prizes are separated to 5 items per level for a total of 5 levels. Winning affiliates choose their preferred prize within levels and there is no limit as to how much swag you can win.

Level 1: Revenue Reach of $1,500

-       Limited Edition Tatto Media 5 Year Anniversary T-Shirt

Level 2: Revenue Reach of $15,000

-       iLuv Stereo Speakers with iPhone + iPod Dock

-       Bose In-Ear Headphones

-       $100 iTunes gift card

-       $100 Morton’s Steakhouse gift card

-       $100 BestBuy gift card

Level 3: Revenue Reach of $35,000

-       iPod Touch

-       iLuv Portable DVD Player with Apple® iPod® Dock

-       Flip MinoHD Camcorder

-       $250 GameStop gift card

-       $250 Apple Store gift card

Level 4: Revenue Reach of $65,00

-       iPad

-       Canon Powershot Digital Camera

-       Logitech – Harmony 1100 Advanced Universal Remote with Color Touch Screen

-       Samsung Blu-ray Home Theater System

-       $500 JetBlue gift card

Level 5: Revenue Reach of $105,000

-       Golden Ticket towards Lamborghini Gallardo Raffle

If you already have an affiliate account with them, get ready to drive traffic starting on July 1^st to earn Golden Tickets. If you don’t have an account, visit the site: http://www.tattomedia.com/anniversary/ and sign up for one now. It takes 2 minutes.  If you have additional questions, contact: Mike Cataldo, Michael.cataldo@tattomedia.com

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Since all of the changes with Facebook ads, a lot of internet campaigns have not been working for me any longer. The campaigns that made me 100k profit over the last year are not an option to run any longer. I’ve been trying to focus my time on more stable income, such as building sites and using SEO to get them to the first page of google. Then I monetize the site with a CPA offer, or Adsense. It takes a very long time to get sites to the first page of Google, even when you are being aggressive. I have not given up yet and I know I’ll reach the 5k-6k a month range soon. They don’t call SEO a marathon for no reason.

I finally got around to getting up an affiliate program on my affiliate marketing store. You can check it out here.

Basically, it’s no different than any CPS offer you’ll find on your average CPA networks. You generate a sale, and are payed out a 20% commission for all goods and services offered there. This means, you could potentially make up to and over $30 per sale with one sale (For example, if someone orders a custom landing page through your link). I’ll eventually create a page for my consulting/coaching program, as well, so you can generate more commission through that!

It’s an exciting time for my store, and I’ll be sure to welcome this affiliate program with a bunch of daily updates and new landing pages I have planned. So hop on to the affiliate program and start making more money! To join, click here!

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