Market Samurai: Today, and The Future

You already know that there are a lot of features in development inside Market Samurai.

But unless you’re a part of the Market Samurai team, chances are you don’t know about all of the cool new features that the Market Samurai team has been working so hard on.

So let me take you behind the “Shoji Screen” here at the Samurai Dojo, and show you what we’re up to right now!

You’re Getting These Ones Right Now

Have you been using Market Samurai in your internet business daily?

If you haven’t, shame on you ;) – but if you have, then you’ve already seen all of the updates that we have released in the past few weeks.

These updates were like flying Samurai roundhouse kicks that knocked-out a series of annoying glitches that some Market Samurai were battling.

PLUS… a whole bunch of new feature improvements were added.

Most of these improvements were behind-the-scenes – performance enhancements that turn your Market Samurai into a leaner, meaner, faster internet marketing warrior.

Others were more prominent – like the new “DoFollow” Backlink source option added.. Check it out:

Market Samurai Promotion Backlink Tool screenshot

…And More are On Their Way…

As I’m writing this, the team is releasing the final touches on Market Samurai v0.79 (chances are they’ll beat me to the punch, and it will be out before I finish this blog post!)

Market Samurai v0.79 contains even more performance enhancements – these ones are designed to speed up the gathering of SEOC data, and several other types of data.

PLUS it contains some enhancements around SEO Digger keyword generation that speed up data gathering in these areas too!

After this is released, the Market Samurai development team will focus their efforts on a series of (big) new features.

These features will be releases as-they-are-completed over the coming weeks and months – so expect to have Market Samurai ask you if you would like to update to the latest version fairly regularly for a while yet, while we give you more and more features and updates.

So What’s On The Cards?

Well, obviously there are 3 modules in-development right now… the 3 “Coming Soon” modules that are already inside Market Samurai.

But there’s one more to add…

It’s something that has been kept very quiet – a mystery module…

Details haven’t been released around how this module works (or even what it will do) yet.

It’s taken us several months to get Market Samurai this far – and it’s going to take us several more months to complete all of the remaining features.

While we’re developing new features, we’ll focus the bulk of our efforts on a single area of functionality…

The good news is that as soon as each area is complete, it will be released direct to you via Market Samurai’s automatic update system for immediate access – and as an owner of the full version of Market Samurai, you’ll receive access to all of these new features for free (despite planned price rises in the future).

…Before I forget…

Finally, several people have asked about the Market Samurai registration system.

For several weeks, we’ve held back on “flicking the switch” on the Market Samurai Registration System.

Currently, all copies of Market Samurai think that they’re registered (because we have turned off the activation system on our servers). However, very soon we’ll have completed some changes to the activation system on our server and will be flicking the switch to turn the activation system on.

This means you will be asked to enter your Market Samurai trial version or full version registration key.

For the moment, there’s nothing to worry about. We’ll give you roughly 1 week’s notice, and email you with your details (as a reminder / just in case you’ve lost the original email).

In the mean-time, keep an eye out for our ongoing roll-out of Market Samurai updates.

I think all of the updates will start to annoy you soon ;)

Brent

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Here’s What You’ve Missed…

It’s been a whirlwind 3 months!

I’m conscious that I haven’t blogged for a while, and you’ve missed out on a lot of news…

So let me take you back in time to share with you Market Samurai’s short history for a moment.

(In my next post, I’ll share with you Market Samurai’s future…)

July 2nd: Early Lessons

Market Samurai Lesson #1: Never tell Ed Dale a secret…

Ed Dale leaks photos of Market Samurai via his Flickr account.

Enthusiastic internet marketers start “hunting us down”, finding the Market Samurai web-site and contacting us wanting to find out more. Too early! We’re not ready yet!

July 9th: The Holy Grail!

The day after “completing” a proof-of-concept version of Market Samurai (while we’re still testing ahead of release!), Google releases actual (accurate) keyword search traffic data from their own data centres!

The Holy Grail of Keyword Data is released!

The Market Samurai development team scrambles, working 22 hour days, to include this data into Market Samurai.

July 15th: A Legend Begins…

First floodgate is opened!

Immediate Edge members begin downloading Market Samurai.

Managing the roll-out, the support team works a 37 hour day, before dropping back to 16 to 22 hour days, 6-7 days a week for the next 7 weeks.

Feedback for Market Samurai is glowing… but they ain’ seen nothing yet!

August 2nd: …Suddenly, there’s a massive change…

Thirty Day Challenge launches; Market Samurai “grows up”.

Market Samurai now looks like this. Only Keyword Research features are available – other modules are undergoing final development.

The development team lives in the office for the next two weeks, sleeping in 4-6 hour shifts on mattresses set up on the floor whenever they can.

There are a lot of features to finish-off – features need to be completed before they’re used inside the 30 Day Challenge training itself, and deadlines are fast approaching!

August 3rd: A Second Module is Released

Market Samurai’s “SEO Competition” module is released.

A huge “WOW” factor!

The Market Samurai team continues to release a regular stream of updates and improvements to the system.

August 15th to 28th: Gets Better With Age

Numerous new features are released, including the “Find Content”, and “Promotion” modules.

September 12th: Groundbreaking 42% Conversion Rate!

13,000+ of internet marketers are now using Market Samurai, with around 42% choosing to upgrade to the full version when it is released by purchasing Market Samurai early.

September 20th: Far Too Successful!

The percentage of Market Samurai users who are using the paid version rises to 46% – an incredible conversion rate on a paid product!

Market Samurai has surpassed everyone’s wildest expectations of success, but it’s meaning that we haven’t been able to give users the kind of service that we initially aimed for.

The #1 focus of the Market Samurai team becomes serving our existing customers.

All Market Samurai promotions are ended.

September 30th: Users Achieve Huge Successes!

We take some time to review Market Samurai’s testimonials and feedback.

A massive number users are achieving [literally] overnight rankings for high-traffic, low-competition, high-value keywords that they have found using Market Samurai.

It’s one thing to prove Market Samurai works for us. It’s another to have 100’s of success stories flooding in from users themselves – with many of these people being internet marketing “newbies”.

The system works!

October 7th: MORE Bugs are Stomped!

The Market Samurai team is back to its previous fast turn-around times on support…

…And the Market Samurai development team has released several bug-fixes and updates that seem to address [almost] all known issues that Market Samurai users have faced.

Today: Big Things Ahead…

To date, over 60 “builds” of Market Samurai have been created and tested, with most being released.

Right now, the development team is conducting final testing on Market Samurai v0.78 – an update to the way Market Samurai handles proxies that will give a significant performance boost when gathering some types of data.

In addition to this, the next set of features is well on its way.

So what’s on its way?

Well, you’re going to have to wait until my next post for that! ;)

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