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by Zack Miller on October 19, 2011
There, I said it. Facebook is a HUGE TIME SUCK. But you know what? A lot of your prospects are wasting their time there, playing games, reading news, communicating with their friends (are Facebook friends really friends? I dunno). Going about Facebook completely wrong The thing is though for most firms and professionals targeting Facebook [...]
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by Zack Miller on December 29, 2010
Dealbook has an interesting article out this morning entitled Share Rules Could Push Offering by Facebook. The success of secondary markets for private company shares like those traded in Sharespost may actually f0rce leading startups like Facebook and Twitter to go public. A surging shadow market in the privately held shares of Facebook is making [...]
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by Zack Miller on March 23, 2010
Investors continue to cozy up with blogs for investment advice. Kudos to Dominic Jones for uncovering a recent survey that shows young investors rely heavily upon the Internet to manage their portfolios. I’ve embedded the survey below. The survey shows that: Turning to the Web: financial websites and blogs were the most influential external influences [...]
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by Zack Miller on March 24, 2009
Small business, especially ones that cater to local customers, have been slower to adapt to doing ebusiness. These prorprieters gripe that entirely local businesses don’t stand to gain much from going online, other than providing a small web presence for customers and prospective customers. Small businesses have the ability to absolutely “own their geographies” (see [...]
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by Zack Miller on February 15, 2009
Bruce Carton is a smart guy. If you are interested in anything related to securities law, you’ve gotta be reading this guy. In fact, I named his site as one of the 3 best sites to uncover the next financial blowup. On February 17, 2009, Bruce’s Securities Docket is sponsoring a webcast that will look [...]
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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 [...]
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by Zack Miller on November 15, 2008
[Hat tip to Barron's Electronic Investor) A financial services research firm, Corporate Insight, recently published a 173-page report aptly named, Social Media: Trends and Tactics in the Financial Services Industry (see table of contents here). While I don’t have a spare $12k to purchase the report (anyone want to comp me?), it appears to be [...]
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by Zack Miller on November 13, 2008
Just stumbled onto a Yahoo Media Innovation group project recently launched named Hot Stocks. Essentially, its an application that runds on either MySpace or Facebook. How it works Users vote their sentiment on stocks and can watch Yahoo Finance network videos. Once the social aspect is utilized by getting friends to sign up, Hot Stocks [...]
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by Zack Miller on September 11, 2008
We recently had a chance to interview Maureen Wolff-Reid (bio at the end of the article), a pioneer in the investor relations and corporate communications industry. She is a past chairman of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) and President and Partner of Sharon Merrill Associates in Boston. ***************************** It seems in regard to newer [...]
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