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 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 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 7, 2008
What do you think of when I mention “investment newsletter”? Many will answer referencing the numerous emails (spam?) they receive on a daily basis with information “that’s guaranteed to triple your money!” While that’s a preposterous boast, I think the most important thing to do when starting a financial newsletter business is picking the theme [...]
by Zack Miller on November 25, 2008
Institutional investors have powerful tools at their disposal to screen through reams of data. Part of the institutional investment process entails screening through thousands of securities looking for a needle in a haystack — stocks that fit certain investment criteria. From thousands of stocks, analysts can filter through a couple of hundred that fit these [...]
by Zack Miller on October 26, 2008
StockTwits.com launched last week after a well-telegraphed development period. Built on top of Twitter, users can use filters to hone in on the type of information they’re looking for and use a search function to search by stock ticker. Read a quick (if not overly smug) review of the site here and Roger Ehrenberg’s take [...]
