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 - and even more features are in development.
If you haven’t played with it yet, you can download a free trial copy from the Market Samurai web-site.
The past 10 weeks in particular have been an incredibly big period - not just for the release of Market Samurai, but for the team.
For several weeks, the Noble Samurai team was working huge rotating shifts (including some 37 hour days) just to manage the three launches.
The first, a limited “alpha” launch to the Immediate Edge. The second, a “private beta” launch to the 30 Day Challenge. And the final, a “public beta” to the general public.
It’s encouraging to see that Market Samurai is already proving itself “in the field” - even just a few weeks after launch.
Obviously with so many automated features, it’s significantly cutting the time spent on critical internet marketing tasks - but it’s also creating significantly better results too.
Already, 10,000’s of people have downloaded their copy of Market Samurai, and around 40% have upgraded to the full [paid] version - a phenomenal conversion rate, and a testament to what it does.
Here’s an example…
Within hours of setting up their first blog ever (on a brand-new domain), we had complete internet marketing “newbies” ranked on the first page of Google - for real keywords with real traffic and real customers!
Here are just a few of their results (taken from the 30 Day Challenge forums)…
#2 ranking in Google after 2 hours, #1 within 12 hours, #5 ranking after 2 hours, #1 & 2 (two listings for the same keyword) within 1 hour, #15 ranking after 30 mins, #1 in 16 hours, #5 after 5 hours 42 minutes, #7 after 9 hours, #5 after 4 hours, #4 after 8 hours, #1 after 13 hours, #3 after 6 hours, #4 after 5 hours, #1 after 5 hours, #1 after 4.5 hours, #1 in 15 hours, #3 after 5 days, #6 after 5 days, #3 after 16 hours, #3 after 6 hours, #1 ranking after 24 hours, #3 & 4 after 2 hours (rising to a double-listing at #2 & 3 shortly after), #1 overnight, #2 in 6.5 hours… etc, etc, etc…
It gives me a “warm fuzzy feeling” to see these types of results. 
Anyway, if you haven’t had a play of Market Samurai yet, go download a free trial. It really is the bees-knees - the kind of software you wish you had whenever you have to go without it.
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1 Your page is now on StumbleUpon! // Oct 10, 2008 at 9:24 pm
2 Gavin Allinson // Oct 10, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Brent,
It’s a fantastic tool, I’ve looked around and played with most of the others and this is teh only one I want to use.
I’ve trained one of my outsourcers to use it and she is saving me even more time and doing work for my clients too.
Gavin Allinson
3 Oliver // Oct 11, 2008 at 12:12 am
Hey Brent and fellow warriors,
I would like to add to this. Not only is Market Samurai saving hours of work for us, but I also want to highlight the incredible customer support you guys give. This was actually the reason we jumped off the fence and made the purchase.
First of all, all questions asked on the forums and the support system are answered very quickly. Second, bug fixes and improvements are released incredibly fast. I stopped counting the number of updates were made since I got my hands on this tool (as a software developer I predict you guys are using agile development methodologies in the process, and use them very efficiently).
As a customer, this has been a really great experience!
Oh, and one more thing. I was about to buy a second license for my partner in crime and life, when I learned that you can use one copy for two seats. Awesome.
I know this sounds like an infomercial, but we’re just pretty excited about this tool.
4 Harjit Irani // Oct 14, 2008 at 2:38 pm
This is really cool. Takes away all the hard work and gives you something new. Make your money before the word spreads around.
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6 Brent Hodgson // Oct 19, 2008 at 1:26 am
By the way, Gavin - I noticed your name on the list of people who won copies of Market Samurai in our survey draw. Congratulations!
7 gavin // Oct 19, 2008 at 8:14 am
Yes thanks Brent, I was amazed.
I got a message from paypal saying my money had been refunded. I thought whats going on here, are they refunding people and then are going to hike up the prices or something.
Then I got the message about 30 mins later saying I had won a prize.
so thanks for that it was a real surprise.
Gavin
8 Chris // Oct 22, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Hey Brent,
Came across your site after someone mentioned Market Samurai to me. I had to check it out since I am an inbound marketing guru such as yourself and am always interested in new fun tools to play with. I was curious to know if you pull your data from google.com/au or google.com? We’ve done some really cool stuff over at the company I work for, HubSpot, that might give you some good ideas for your tool’s development. Check us out and hope to keep the conversation open.
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