Noble Samurai

Hi!

My name is Michael – I’m one of the developers behind Market Samurai – and Brent’s asked me to introduce some new features that we’ve released today!

Have you ever wanted to compare your the SEO stats of your website against those of your competitor?

In version 0.80.18, we added a feature to the SEO Competition module to allow you to do just that: check out the video for a walkthrough of the new feature.

You can put your domain into the list – (e.g. “vintageelectricguitars.com”) – or you can analyse a specific page on your website – (e.g. “http://www.vintageelectricguitarblog.com/vintage-electric-guitar/gabriel-v18-amplifier-fantastic-amp”).

Here are some uses of the new feature:

• Analyze multiple pages on your website to see what it would take to get a double-listing in Google for your chosen keyword;
• Check stats for any website, webpage or Web 2.0 site (Squidoo, Hubpages) that you create;
• Analyze competitors that don’t appear in the top 10 spots in Google.

You’ll find the new button at the bottom right of the SEO Competition module:

You can use this feature to look at the stats for your website against those of your competition – perhaps you need to increase your backlinks, or maybe you forgot to add your site to the Yahoo Directory – now you can find out using Market Samurai.

(Note: You’ll need to create a new project if you want to use this new SEO Competition feature – it won’t work with old, saved projects… And really, you want to look at the latest SEO stats for your site and your competitors anyway.)

Tooltips

By the way – you might have noticed another new feature that we released quietly a few weeks ago – tooltips!

Did you notice them?

You can now hover your mouse over some of the more confusing acronyms – eg, SEOTC in keyword research – to get an explanation of what they mean.

The tooltips, and the “Add Custom URLs” feature inside the SEO Competition module were both feature requests made by Market Samurai users – just like you.

If you want to make a suggestion, send us a note here. Not all suggestions will become part of Market Samurai, but we work hard to make sure the most commonly requested features are adopted.

Mike

P.S. – Andrew, Arlen and I have been working hard on some other new features that are all coming together at once – and will be released very soon.

P.P.S. – Pretty soon we’ll be announcing new stuff so frequently that we won’t be able to send out email announcements to everyone. Instead, we’ll just upload details to our blog.

So if you want to stay up to date, make sure you subscribe to the blog (via RSS, or by entering your email address into the box on the right for email alerts).

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We’ve been “copping a bit of flack” (as we say downunder [read:getting criticized]) for recommending the Butterfly Marketing Manuscript…

And to be honest, I was a bit shocked!

So far, Noble Samurai has recommended Screenflow, the 30 Day Challenge, SEO Digger, WordPress Direct, Hotspot Shield, Jing and the Butterfly Manuscript…

We use them, we like them, we think they’re valuable, and we recommend them – it’s simple.

5 of these 7 resources are free; 3 of the 7 we’ve used affiliate/tracking links; and with the exception of Hotspot Shield (which we recommended to overcome a Market Samurai bug that has since been solved) we would recommend any of these 7 resources again.

(In fact, here’s the link to the free Butterfly Marketing Manuscript pdf again. )

One of my pet-peeves is when people try to greedily “hoard knowledge” rather than sharing it (as if somehow knowledge by itself had value). That they come across a great piece of information, and jealously keep it from everyone – just in case (God forbid!) someone finds out “their secrets”. That creates no value for anyone.

• When we develop something that’s worth having, we share it with you by making it part of Market Samurai;

• When we learn something worth knowing, we share it with you via Twitter, our Blog or our Support area;

• And when we come across something worth having, we share it with you by telling you about it;

It’s what we’ve done for the past 9 months, and it’s what we’re going to continue to do.

I realize that by doing this we’ll help a lot of people, but a few people will get offended along the way…

• Some people will get offended because we see value where others don’t (like this time – some people were probably offended by Mike’s marketing – but we see obvious value in many of Mike’s business systems and the growth they’ve achieved);

• Some people will get offended because we break an illusion by telling-it-like-it-is (like when we’ve told people it’s ridiculous to expect to be millionaires from internet marketing in a year, with no prior experience);

• And some people will get offended just because we’re happy to reveal the knowledge that others are hoarding, and make advanced SEO strategies more accessible to the average person (like when we originally released Market Samurai).

We’ll inevitably end up offending some people, but we won’t be making any apologies. We’re going to keep giving you new Market Samurai tools, sharing internet marketing insights that we find useful, and telling you about the internet marketing resources that we use, get good results from, and recommend.

To everyone looking forward to next things we release – I can’t wait to share with you the next Market Samurai features (which are currently in final bug testing).

Brent

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Hi Samurai – it’s Eugene here!

There’s a fatal mistake in the way most people try to do internet marketing…

They put a whole lot of time, effort and money into building a web-site and creating a product – and then the launch their product with all of the best marketing opportunities available to them (the best affiliates, the best partnerships, appearing on the best sites, targeting the best keywords, etc).

…Only to see their hard work disappear – just after it started paying off.

It’s The Curse of the Launch…

The product makes a huge spike of sales right at the start – when all of the best leads in their marketplace buy.

But it doesn’t take long (a few weeks, or a few months) these best marketing opportunities are exhausted.

The sales dry up, the money dries up – and the only way to start making the big money again is to start again – to put a whole bunch of time, money and effort into creating a new product to launch – just to see the whole cycle repeat itself.

Or they look for other people’s affiliate products to promote – just so that they can get another spike in sales.

Suddenly, You Find Yourself Stuck In A Vicious Cycle

Instead of creating sustainable online businesses that create a constant cashflow for life, without having to work – you find yourself having to work 12-times as hard to create new products, just so that you have something new to sell every month!

It’s a vicious cycle that is so easy to get stuck in.

And even though it works (there are people who make millions of dollars per year living launch-redevelop-relaunch) – living big-hit to big-hit is a harder, more laborious, time-intensive way to make money online.

To be honest, this was one of *MY* biggest concerns with Market Samurai. I always wanted it to be a true online business – I wanted to create something that would grow over time, not die within months.

I Couldn’t Afford To Let All The Hard Work In Market Samurai Go “Quietly Into The Night”

10,000’s of hours of hard work, and 100,000’s of dollars have gone into developing Market Samurai. To see it all go to waste so quickly, and to have to re-create something similar just to keep Noble Samurai running… the thought gives me cold shivers!

So, How Do You Turn A “Spike” Into An Income?

But how do you keep your product burning hot as long as possible – and maximise your revenue stream?

This was one of the big insights I received from reading the Butterfly Marketing Manuscript.

A few months ago, I printed off the original Butterfly Marketing Manuscript to read on a flight between Melbourne and Singapore – and I scrawled notes on practically *Every* *Single* *Page*.

You’re probably hearing a lot about Butterfly Marketing right now – and it’s certainly something I recommend without hesitation.

Why?

Because it’s like taking a “guided tour” of a very successful, very streamlined internet marketing business.

If you haven’t seen the manuscript yet, let me explain what it’s like…

Condense years of experience running a successful internet business – from how to build a successful business from nothing, to how to turn a launch spike into an ongoing revenue stream, right through to how to increase sales in even a mature online business – and put it all into one resource, it what you’ll find will look a lot like what I found in the Manuscript.

There was stuff that we’re already doing, like:

• Offering a free, partially-complete product to build a list (page 16)
• Integrating your product into other companies’ marketing (page 54)
• Getting time leverage in your business (page 104)

And there were also a lot of areas where I thought we could improve in:

• How to motivate affiliates to “compete”, and sell more (page 61)
• Making your site “stickier” using forums (Page 65)
• The ideal marketing funnel structure (page 106)
• Exactly what resources should go into an affiliate pack? (page 44)
• Time limited offer on signup (page 73)
• The value of “carrier pigeons” as reminders (Page 63)

There are also a bunch of detailed case studies of successful marketing campaigns that Mike Filsaime (the author of the Butterfly Marketing Manuscript) did, and even some unsuccessful campaigns and why they failed.

As I say – the resource is literally the sum of years of experience running a successful internet business condensed into 124 pages of information.

And that’s just the Butterfly Marketing Manuscript (ebook) – It wasn’t even the full updated Butterfly Marketing 2.0 pack (which sells for $1995 – but Mike’s going to be giving away for $39.95p&h as part of his latest promo – including thousands of dollars worth of software to IMPLEMENT these techniques, DVD’s, CD’s and course workbooks – something I’ll be waiting in line to get for myself.)

You can download the PDF from here
(Look for the signup box on the right of that page)

As someone who has run his fair share of successful online businesses already, I still got a lot out of it. In fact, I’ve literally been hassling Brent to read this for the past 4 months – long before this Butterfly Marketing promo came up (which is what spurred me to write this blog post now).

Whatever you do, make sure you get the Manuscript.

If you want to get the full Butterfly Marketing course too – that’s great (the $39.95p&h offer includes all of the Butterfly Marketing course manuals, DVD’s, CDs, software, etc). We’ll be trying to get a copy too – even though it launches at 1pm EST on the 24th of March (which is 4am Melbourne time!!)

To be blunt, chances are you’ll miss out.

Mike printed 5,000 copies to give away, which sounds like a big number – but already over 25,000 people have pre-registered for a copy (with just 1 week left before launch). Plus all of the top internet marketers are recommending it too, as I write this blog post – and although we’re aiming to get a copy, we aren’t getting any special treatment – we’re setting alarms for 4am just so that we’re in with a chance to get a copy of our own.

But At The Very Least…

At least download the free Butterfly Marketing Manuscript – the same resource that I printed and read on the plane, and scribbled notes on practically every page.

As I say – it’s the first thing I’d read in a long time that I learned a lot of new insights from (despite running multi-million dollar online marketing projects before) – so I’d highly recommend you get a copy.

Eugene

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