As a buyer of PR services at different times in my career, I probably wasn’t a great client to work with. Having cut my teeth on Internet marketing, where everything is measurable, everything is quantifiable (if you believe the numbers), I wanted to know what I would receive in return for my dollars earmarked for [...]
by Zack Miller on May 26, 2009
Jakob Nielsen has been writing about web usability since time immemorial (or at least, 1996). I frequently recommend anyone thinking about writing for the Web, sending marketing emails or designing websites to sign up for his weekly alertbox at useit.com (For another oldie, yet goodie, I typically include a suggestion to check out Philip and [...]
by Zack Miller on May 19, 2009
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that this financial crisis was totally avoidable. No, not the popping of the Greenspan debt bubble — that was inevitable — but the slamming of the stock market in its wake. This recession and destruction of financial firms was certainly probable – if not [...]
by Zack Miller on February 9, 2009
We sat recently with Darrell Heaps, CEO and founder of Q4 Systems. Darrell is a serial entrepreneur and on the forefront of the corporate side of financial communications. His firm, Q4 Web Systems, has created a publishing/work flow optimization platform suitable for the financial communication needs of publicly-traded corporations and is on the verge on [...]
by Zack Miller on January 20, 2009
This interview is with George Tsiolis, CEO of pure online IR firm, AGORACOM. George and I have conversed for years about the cutting-edge of the IR world. George is a forward thinker and an indefatigable executive and shares his thoughts about his firm, the state of the art in financial communications and the future for [...]
by Zack Miller on January 12, 2009
It appears as if Smith Barney is preparing to leave the Citigroup umbrella and join Morgan Stanley as troubled Citigroup looks to unload assets and raise capital. Over 9 million investment accounts and over $1 trillion in assets look ready to join Morgan’s extensive brokerage operations. As more and more consolidation occurs in the investment [...]
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 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 November 30, 2008
Watching the financial crisis unfold, I’m struck with a cacophony of feelings. On one hand, like many investors, I’m in awe of the speed at which everything is changing before our eyes. On the other hand, what’s occurring seems to make so much sense in light of the entire system we’ve built up over history. [...]