Brent Hodgson, Copywriter

It’s been an incredible few months since I last had a chance to blog.
In that time, I’ve been working to release Market Samurai - an all-in-one internet marketing software package.
Market Samurai is the Swiss Army Knife of internet marketing - it does market research, keyword analysis, SEO analysis, fetching and analysing content, building backlinks - [...]

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Have the “Gurus” lost touch with the joe-average internet marketer?
Not all of them, but MOST of them…
Do they realise how much work it takes to actually start an internet business anymore?
Sometimes I wonder about this when I read about the latest “Get Rich Quick” software they’ve developed, and wonder how it could possibly deliver any [...]

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At lunch during Ed Dale and Dan Raine’s Over the Edge conference in Beechworth - in the middle of … well, nowhere…
Just finished listening to Pete Williams‘ presentation on using offline media for promotion.
Check out the video Ed produced on-the-fly, just during a break before Pete Williams’ session:
http://seesmic.com/v/7lGar8juPy
Check it out!
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The hardest part of living the “Four Hour Work Week” is something that is only glossed over in the book…
It’s actually creating the income to fund your business, your outsourcers, and your lifestyle.
This is a pretty big black hole in the book.
Tim Ferriss’s release of the Four Hour Work Week has created a new gold-rush [...]

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Just a quick post…
I’m heading to Ed Dale and Dan Raine’s “Over The Edge” 2008 Seminar in Beechworth.
It’s going to be an interesting few days. The guys have become masters of “quick-hit SEO”.
Invariably, the strategies that they talk about at these events are the strategies that will be released as the “cutting-edge” strategies in 3 [...]

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A friend recently noted how much time and effort I put into this blog, and asked me:
“Why do you do it, Brent? Surely there’s more productive things you can be doing.”
Sure there are more productive things I could be doing… And more profitable things too!
For starters, I could be billing hours to clients - there’s [...]

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I stumbled across this video today, and I want to share it with you:

It’s a speech recorded by philosopher Alan Watts, set to an animation produced by South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker.
Interesting, isn’t it?
What I got out of this video is a reminder to take stock of life. I agree with this [...]

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Greetings from the Sunshine Coast in sunny Queensland, Australia!
Evelyn and I decided to take some time off over Easter, and head up to Coolum for a few days.
This picture was taken at sunrise, just a few minutes further up the beach from where we’re staying.

Nice, huh?
The sun is shining, and the weather is a warm [...]

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It’s the paradox of the internet marketing industry.
Thousands of people want to quit their day-jobs using internet marketing… But they end up working twice as hard, trying to get one business running profitably while they’re still stuck in their usual daily grind.
Don’t get fooled by the get-rich-quick hype - internet marketing is hard work.
It’s like [...]

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