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 9, 2009
Financial newsletters have been around as long as investors have been investing. What used to be distributed via snail mail and then the fax have migrated to email and blogs. As publishing costs continue to spiral downward, the barriers to entry keep getting lower for those wanting to sell their investment advice. That said, readers [...]
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 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-$99 (which is where some of the mass market Motley Fool [...]
by Zack Miller on December 9, 2008
Why create new, unfounded and unproven investment strategies when you can piggyback on top of the world’s best investors instead? Lots of investors are using the ideas of guru investors like Ken Heebner and Warren Buffett to mimic their investment strategies or build an all-star portfolio based on the best ideas of leading hedge fund [...]
by Zack Miller on December 4, 2008
We’ve spent time exploring expert investing communities on the site recently. Activity in these communities contribute to certain experts bubbling up to the top, thereby revealing and tracking those actions of a select few emergent experts. We now turn our attention to sort of the other side of the coin: crowd sourcing for stock picks. [...]
by Zack Miller on November 26, 2008
Interesting how an investor relates to a deeper understanding in a portfolio company after making the investment. Roger Ehrenberg is an investor in StockTwits. As Roger mentions in a recent blog post, StockTwits recently release a new version of StockTwits where users can insert a ‘$’ sign before any mention of a specific stock, effectively [...]
by Zack Miller on September 24, 2008
Covestor, a leading investment expert community site, announced yesterday that they have begun a program where Covestor members can write articles to appear on TheStreet.com site. These articles, after passing through an editorial filter, will appear in The Street Picks section on the large financial media site. In addition to expert content cross-posted to TheStreet’s [...]
by Zack Miller on July 20, 2008
Many investors have a couple of preferred stocks thrown into their portfolios. Reasons vary for the introduction to investor allocation but many preferreds have steady dividends. I don’t know if you’re like me but it’s a tremendous hassle to find information on preferred stocks. Of all the places I’ve looked, I have to say that [...]
