by Zack Miller on May 18, 2009
Slow death of the newspaper and how investment decisions are affected While news and the proliferation of information is booming, clearly the newspaper industry is on its way out. Its current revenue model just can’t support a quality newsroom in the face of widely available free information on the Internet. Numerous industry analysts continue to [...]
by Zack Miller on April 14, 2009
Overview of the Financial Advisory Business The current financial crisis has small business owners scrambling to bring in new customers and batting down the hatches to protect their existing client bases. Nowhere is this more acute than in the financial advisory business — ground zero for the current financial crisis. Advisors make money in 3 [...]
by Zack Miller on February 1, 2009
Do you use a friend’s subscription to log in to a premium finance site? C’mon, we all do it at some point. Whether it’s an expensive investment newsletter or a premium version of the WSJ or some other news/research platform? Well, whether you admit it or not, we’re in good stead. AllThingsD reports today about [...]
by Zack Miller on January 15, 2009
Time is money Patience is a virtue. In tough times like this, though, we all want a quick fix. Some of us find it but I bet for the majority, achieving true success takes more time. It’s tough and I know you’re getting squeezed from all sides. Advertising revenues are shrinking. Speaking gigs are few [...]
by Zack Miller on January 8, 2009
In the wake of the Bernie Madoff scandal (Clusterstock has some great coverage), the Satyam fraud, and whatever else lurks around the corner, investors have lost billions of dollars of investable assets at the hands of hucksters. While most investors shrug off fraud as improbable, there are those analysts who studiously work to uncover inconsistencies, [...]
by Zack Miller on January 7, 2009
When we started our investment newsletter business, we were immediately faced with a quandary. We wanted to be pure. We wanted to avoid salesy, spammy email campaigns. We wanted to be the go-to people for small cap, technology stocks. In short, we wanted to be about ideas. So, in crafting our newsletter content plan, we [...]
by Zack Miller on January 6, 2009
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 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 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 [...]
