The folks at the Motley Fool have been promoting Dave Gardner’s Rule Breakers newsletter for years by using the same basic theme for their ads: Cloud computing scared Bill Gates into retirement, and the “Kings of Cloud Computing” in the next era will make you rich. If you’re not familiar with Gardner, he’s basically a [...]
What is this “Christmas Internet Outage” that Louis Navellier is teasing us about? Well, the short answer is that so many folks will get online goodies from Santa that they’ll swamp the Internet. Which is sort of possible, I guess — like most holidays, Christmas web traffic as a general rule is down substantially from [...]
Here’s how the teaser ad from Eric Dickson for his Breakaway Stocks newsletter starts: “Warning: The Internet Is Shutting Down! Microsoft And Amazon Are Turning To This Company To Survive… Giving You The Chance To Grab 3,210% Before The Web Comes To A Grinding Halt! “This is not a joke. The internet is coming dangerously [...]
We’ll be skipping almost all publishing next week, including the Friday File, as Stock Gumshoe closes down for a few days for vacation and redesign prep on the new and improved StockGumshoe.com — so I’ll try to make this one good enough to last a couple weeks for you! The new site, in case you’re [...]
Catching up on old Picks, and answering some questions.This is paid content, to view it, log in or register as an irregular.
Catchup, part two: Buys, sells, holds and “I dunno’s”This is paid content, to view it, log in or register as an irregular.
The Motley Fool folks have been using the “3 Kings of Cloud Computing” special report to pitch David Gardner’s Rule Breakers newsletter for a couple years now, and have occasionally even given away all three of those stock picks for free as part of their “give us your email” list building exercises — but I [...]
Updates on a Few FavoritesThis is paid content, to view it, log in or register as an irregular.
Well, it appears the secret’s out on how to get the Gumshoe’s attention: It’s not enough to have a hype-filled ad that promises huge gains, the ones that float to the top of my to-do list often also have perfect, pithy headlines like the one I’ve quoted above: who can resist “The Almost Perfect Stock?” [...]
Most of the newsletter ads I see come pouring in through the email floodgates, but there are still a few publishers who invest in good ‘ol direct mail campaigns and send you actual letters in the mail — they realize, no dummies, that most of their potential customers are old enough that they might even [...]
September Idea of the Month: Akamai = Clever … and maybe “Cheap” tooThis is paid content, to view it, log in or register as an irregular.
This ad from the Motley Fool has been around for a while, and they’re now giving away some of the teaser stock names for free — but they’re still keeping one “secret,” so I thought I’d revisit that part of the pitch and let you know who it is. For those who don’t know what [...]
