by Zack Miller on December 23, 2008
This post appeared recently on IRWebReport as part of a guest contributor series I’ve been working on. I thought it was a good overview and appropriate here for NewRules. Dominic Jones is really a thought leader in his field and is really ramming it home on his analysis of how social media is impacting investor [...]
by Zack Miller on December 22, 2008
I assume one of the reasons you’re looking to run an investment newsletter is because it’s so potentially lucrative. Rolling through your head are thoughts of penning your best stock picks at 3 am and watching the subscription revenues roll in while you take your kids to school in the morning — oblivious to the [...]
by Zack Miller on December 20, 2008
Trying to create, write, and distribute an investment newsletter is a significant undertaking. It’s worth it — if you find the secret sauce, you can make boatloads of money with little overhead. All you need is some good research (you have to provide value), some good packaging (it has to look good), and some good [...]
by Zack Miller on December 16, 2008
TechCrunch has a great writeup today abou upstart, kaChing, the most popular investment app currently on Facebook. It’s a pretty extensive writeup so I don’t have a lot to add here. I would say that unlike Covestor or Vestopia/PersonalRIA, kaChing doesn’t require real money to be put to work behind the portfolios. So, when investors [...]
by Zack Miller on December 15, 2008
There is not a soul in the world that I live in that has not been touched somehow by the Madoff scandal. Read Paul Kedrosky’s take on the “fraud of frauds“. He’s got a great read on the whole thing. There are so many questions still left unanswered but I’d like to discuss what to [...]
by Zack Miller on December 13, 2008
Say what you want, but Timothy Sykes is a master marketer. The young upstart money manager and stock analyst is seemingly ubiquitous these days. He’s cocky – sure, he’s pretty full of himself. But there is so much to learn from Timothy, it’s worth spending some time to understand how a master builds his investment [...]
by Zack Miller on December 11, 2008
We’ve got plenty of collaborative technologies to empower remote teams. Some of these technologies function as beefed-up intranets while others offer more targeted functionality. While I’m not a luddite, I do think that in the case of keeping digital nomads connected, we have an abundance of technology. The most pressing issue is preparing our teams [...]
by Zack Miller on December 11, 2008
The investment newsletter business, similar to other content businesses, is truly about marketing. Getting your content in front of the right readers and convincing them to buy. In an age of free content, this is not trivial. Even getting investors to pony up just $39-$99 (which is where some of the mass market Motley Fool [...]
by Zack Miller on December 10, 2008
After yesterday’s review of the latest entry into the piggyback investing game (read what piggyback investing is and why it’s important), alphaCLONE, I came across a chart that I felt needed to be shared. The chart below is the chart of a fabled value investor, Bill Miller, of Legg Mason. It was part of a [...]
