I have a bit of an apology to make. I may have been a little over zealous when I promoted Market Samurai last week. As Dennis pointed out in his comment:

This is not a put down but an observation, so please don’t take offense…I think you’re taking a big chance on trust going for the sale BEFORE the posts on features and benefits.

I totally agree Dennis, I guess since I already use the product – that I know how fantastic it is, but for someone who has never heard of the product, it may seem like I was trying to thrust the product down your throat.

Now, I hope you do take advantage of the Market Samurai discount, but so that you can have a better understand of the benefits of using the software, I want to start doing some free keyword analysis right here – and I want you to give me the niche (so I don’t just pick the easy ones!

What’s In It For You?

What I want is for you to start throwing me niche suggestions in the comments below.

This could be the:

• Current Niche of Your Blog
• A Niche You Are Looking To Enter
• Or Just A Niche That You Think Will Stump Me And Prove That Market Samurai Doesn’t Really Work!

What Will I Provide?

Using the Market Samurai software, I will:

• Find A Series Of Long-Tail Keywords Related To The Niche
• All The Data On Those Keywords You Will Ever Need
• The Process And Criteria That I Use To Select Keywords That Will Drive Traffic

So hit me up with your niche suggestions and I will choose one from the list ( or maybe even let your guys decide) and create and post the keyword analysis over the weekend – posting it early next week!

The one product that I would call my ‘find of 2009′ was Market Samurai.

If you have no idea what Market Samurai is, it is a fantastic all-round keyword research tool that has some of the best features (so many that I haven’t even had a chance to look into them all), that will help you pinpoint target keywords that not only have traffic, but also have low search competition.

The one thing I absolutely love about Market Samurai is that I can do all the keyword analysis for my Australian blogs and find all the information I need based on Australian searches (and you can do the same for your country!).

Now I know I promised a Market Samurai discount in the post title, and I am not going to disappoint.

I plan on going into some of the features of this fantastic product in upcoming posts – and even am in the process of working out a weekly post that will highlight the capabilities, but today I want to show you how you can get a Market Samurai discount!

How To Get Your Market Samurai Discount

Now if you visit the Market Samurai website, they do kind of dodge the whole price question and focus on how you can get free access to the keyword analysis program.

However you will notice that they say Market Samurai is ‘valued at $149′ and in fact if you click the ‘full version’ tab on their homepage and order the program, you will be charged $149 – which I still believe to be amazing value. But why pay $149 when you can pay $97?

The process of getting your Market Samurai discount is quite simple and if you are familiar with the internet marketing process and the squeeze sale concept you may have already guessed it – but for those of you who have not, here is how it works.

When you sign up for a trial of something, you show and interest. And in an effort to capitalise on that interest the internet marketers will offer you a time-limited offer that will hopefully encourage you to purchase their product.

So In Market Samurai’s Case…

1. Sign Up For A Trial Of Their Software
2. You Are Offered The Opportunity To Purchase At $97 ($52 Savings!)
3. You Have 12 Days To Take Advantage Or The Price Rises Back To $149.

It is a really good marketing strategy, and one that has worked extremely well for them. So if you are considering purchasing Market Samurai – don’t pay full price!

Problogger Darren Rowse has sweetened the pot even more for those who have been considering purchasing his hugely popular ‘31 Days To Build A Better Blog‘ by providing a new years incentive – that includes 3 hot free bonuses!

Check Out These Fantastic Bonuses:

(That you will receive free when you purchase the ProBlogger ebook)

• Free Report: 9 Things to Do to Get Your Blog On Track in The New Year

• Podcast with Leo Babauta from Zen Habits

• Podcast with Neil Patel from QuickSprout

Time Limited Offer

If you have ever considered purchasing the ‘31 Days To Build A Better Blog‘ ebook or are serious about building a successful blog then you will are sure not to get better deal on this ebook then the next 7 days,

That is right, Darren has only got these bonus’ on offer for the next 7 days – so seriously, don’t wait.

Over 19,000 bloggers have purchased this ebook – I think that should be enough credibility for those of you worried about his content. But if you have been a reader of ProBlogger.net for any amount of time you, you will know that Darren doesn’t provide average content.

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As I posted a couple of days ago. One of my goals for 2010 is to focus more on list building, and mentioned that I had signed up for the New Year Giveaway which is a collaboration of internet marketers who are working together to build each others lists, by each offering a free gift to visitors with everyone promoting it!

Well today the giveaway launched and I was looking through the free products that some of the internet marketers have on offer and the quality is high! (I am going to grab a few myself!) This is why I wanted to let you all know – because why pay for information that you can get for free!

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Here are just a few of the topics of products that you can access for free by visiting the New Year Giveaway!

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Over the next couple of days I am going to be highlight a few of the products that sparked my interest from the giveaway as I work towards a successful 2010 of blogging, list building and internet marketing!

One of the resolutions that I have made for 2010, is to put much more of a focus on list building. As you may know, StandOutBlogger has an email list, and currently I have almost 450 subscribers. However I know it is no where near as large or effective as it could be.

I have a goal of 2,000 by 2011, which means about 1,500 new subscribers, which equates to just over 4 new subscribers each day!

Looking at those figures,  I could probably reach them if I optimised my email capture and did a little marketing  – but I want to be sure that I make it this year, because looking back on last years goals I didn’t even come close.

Joining Giveaway Events

This is going to be the first strategy that I test. I was reading that people can add up to 3,000 new subscribers EACH MONTH, from this strategy alone – so I thought it would be a good place to start.

What Is A Giveaway Event?

A Giveaway Event is basically where a bunch of marketers get together and offer visitors free gifts in return for signing up to their newsletters.

It is a win/win situation, supposedly, all you have to do is join as a JV Partner (doesn’t cost any money) add your gift (the thing that will convince people to join your list) and then promote their the Giveaway once it starts.

There are usually 4 or 5 of these going around and anyone time, but I didn’t want to get overwhelmed – so I decided to join just one (the biggest of course :D) and become a JV Partner.

The New Year Giveaway

This event is going to be huge. If you visit their contributor signup page, it states that some marketers added up to 20,000 subscribers to their lists.

I would be happy with just 1% of that figure!

Already, they have over 1,500 contributors. That means that even if they launched now, you would have 1,500 people promoting your free product! But I am sure that this number will dramatically increase over the next couple of days before it launches and I am excited to see what results I will achieve.

If the New Year Giveaway is a success for me, I will be signing up for more over the coming year, as I see this as a great way to build subscribers.

Are Giveaway Subscribers Worth Having?

Before signing up for the New Year Giveaway, I stopped and thought about whether these extra subscribers would be worth having, Would they be profitable?

Then I thought anyone who has subscribed to your list can be a profitable asset – AS LONG AS YOU TREAT THEM RIGHT!

I bet that a lot of people on the New Year Giveaway are just going to spam their new subscribers with offer after offer – and they will have a lot of people unsubscribe, but if you are adding value, teach and informing your subscribers, you will build trust and create a highly profitable list.

So, who is going to join me and make 2010 a ‘list building year’?