Today we point the compass toward Santa Claus and head up a few miles to cross the border into Canada, where we find the latest teaser pitch coming in from Motley Fool Canada for their Stock Advisor Canada newsletter… the ad comes from Iain Butler, the Chief Investment Adviser for the Canadian version of the […]
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“The Obama Surprise” “The biggest surprise of President Obama’s first term could blindside the pundits… infuriate liberals… and create a decades-long string of profits for financial conservatives. I urge you to read on and get all the facts…” That’s our introduction to the new ad for Philip Durell’s Motley Fool Inside Value newsletter, which aims […]
The carnage in energy and oil services stocks over the last six months or so is causing a lot of contrarian investors to sit up and take notice — the combination of lower perceived demand (because of efficiency, slower growth in China, and the recession in Europe) and increased supply (because of the huge shale […]
That’s our pitch today — that the new “themed” technology investments being teased by the Motley Foolians are as good as David Gardner’s push for AOL and Amazon.com back in the days before the Motley Fool published their current Stock Advisor newsletter. The ad letter actually comes in from a different Fool employee, Todd Etter, […]
I’ve been seeing ads for the Motley Fool’s Stock Advisor Canada service recently that catch the eye… mostly because they promise what we all want, the ability to find that one stock that will turn your small investment into a life-changing fortune. They do this by starting with the story of “Forty-dollar Frank” …. “When […]
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 […]
Ah, I’m back on the horse now after so many days of struggling with boring computer code … and now the Thinkolator can really get a warmup, because we have before us yet another epic tome of teaserdom in the form of a Motley Fool email. This one’s trying to sell us “the unstoppable ‘multimedia […]
The folks at the Fool have issued another novel, this time in service of their Stock Advisor newsletter. In a loooong sales letter, they’re offering up an investment idea that they call “The New Silk Road” that will, one hopes, bring riches to US investors in the same way that the original silk road built […]
The Motley Fool is pitching its Stock Advisor Canada service lately with a tease that refers to Amazon’s “Project Vesta” … and it’s all about some Toronto-listed stock that apparently is about to beat Amazon at something. “Beating Amazon” is one of those stories that appeals to everyone, of course — we all want to […]
The last time I looked in detail at some picks from the Motley Fool Income Investor, it was for their top “Peak Oil Picks,” all of which were at least interesting companies even if they’re all down by 10% or so following the decline in oil prices. (The latest version of that writeup is here, […]
“Now, with an estimated $850 billion projected to flood the market, here are the sectors you need to watch and 3 companies you need to know about right away. Why? Because they could make you very, very rich in 2009…” That’s how the latest (loooong) ad for the Motley Fool Stock Advisor newsletter begins
This tease comes in an ad for the Motley Fool’s Global Gains newsletter, which has brought some interesting ideas to our attention during its relatively short life so far (though I imagine it probably had a terrible year last year — this is one of the few Motley Fool newsletters that Hulbert doesn’t track, and […]
I don’t look at non-US newsletters all that often, but we do have a nice core of readers outside of North America, particularly in the UK and Australia, so I like to take a gander from time to time at the newsletter pitches being spun out by publishers in those countries. And this one certainly […]
It’s not uncommon to see these pitches that are based on daydreams of, “What if you had bought Brand Name Stock X 50 years ago?” And there’s a reason for that: They’re compelling, they help you to think about long time horizons, and they play off of a huge bias that we all have to […]
Few terms get as much of a rise out of investors as “10 bagger”, the term popularized by Peter Lynch that refers to a stock that increases 10 times in value — and perhaps for good reason, since these kinds of hyper growth stories, even if they take a decade or more to unfold, are […]
The good folks at Motley Fool’s Stock Advisor newsletter have another teaser for us … they think they’ve got a “virtually recession-proof” stock for you to buy … in their words: “On Sale Now… a Virtually Recession-Proof Business Poised for 100% Gains… “An investment story like this doesn’t come along very often… “It’s a business […]
Today, for our sleuthing pleasure, we’ll be looking at an email ad that a good number of folks have forwarded to me in just the last couple minutes — here’s how the Motley Fool entices us to start reading … “‘Billion Dollar Blitzkrieg’ “IT’S COMING… And it could make 2010 the most profitable year of […]
I think I saw this ad a few months ago and didn’t write about it for one reason or another, but it just started a heavy rotation again — so let’s have a gander. David Gardner is a growth stock dynamo — he and his brother Tom founded the Motley Fool as an AOL chat […]
We’ve had many questions from readers about this teaser spiel from the Motley Fool Stock Advisor letter, so we’re republishing an excerpt of the Friday File in which we solved that teaser. What follows originally appeared as a part of the Friday File on May 9, it has not been updated or revised — the […]
OK, so this one is quick and dirty. No, not that kind of dirty! Get your mind out of the gutter, it’s not even Noon yet. It’s not from an email ad, but from something else — I have recently noticed that the folks who write the free
The Motley Fool in recent weeks has been ramping up their teaser pitches on the weekend over the past few weeks, sending quite a few questions our way — most of these have been pitches for their higher-end portfolio services like the various Extreme Opportunities services, and that’s also what has caught our eye this […]
The Motley Fool’s Market Pass service offered up a teaser pitch over the weekend about a new stock that is being recommended by Rich Greifner… here’s how the email got everyone excited: “It’s less than 24 hours until the market opens, so I’ll get straight to the most exciting story I’ve ever shared in Investor […]
“Greatest hits” portfolio service that includes several of the entry-level Motley Fool newsletters (Stock Advisor, Rule Breakers, Everlasting Stocks, Rule Your Retirement and Real Estate Winners), with the “upgrade” offer mostly being that they’re picking the ideas they believe are most exciting from those services in an “ultimate portfolio.”
The Motley Fool is out with yet another “upgrade” portfolio service in their Discovery series… this time, Tom Gardner and the gang are flogging The Ownership Portfolio, a service that aims to recommend the best founder-led stocks in an attempt to find their next Tobi Lütke, Reed Hastings or Jeff Bezos. As with most of […]
This is one of the upgrade “portfolio service” offerings from the Motley Fool, promising more specific portfolio allocation advice in a concentrated portfolio built around a specific theme — in this case, the theme is “Ownership-Minded companies” “run by leaders that treat their stakeholders like owners”. Edited by Fool CEO Tom Gardner. Formerly called Motley […]
Lots of readers have asked about this latest ad from the Motley Fool Stock Advisor, so we’re going to dig in and see if we can get a good answer from the Thinkolator… don’t worry, I’ll be quick this time. I promise. Tom Gardner was pitching this last week as a “I’ve decided to do […]
Motley Fool’s Pot stock next Amazon in CanadaHi – Travis and members ” Anyone know or suspect what the pot stock is that Motley Fool is touting as the future Amazon of Canada?
TLDR MF number one small cap stock is KNSL Kinsale Capital Group Once again I watched the Motley Fool webinar so you don’t have to (don’t worry i was at work so it wasn’t just a wasted hour i got paid to do it). First it started off how Small caps have been outperforming large […]
TLDR MF number one small cap stock is KNSL Kinsale Capital Group Once again I watched the Motley Fool webinar so you don’t have to (don’t worry i was at work so it wasn’t just a wasted hour i got paid to do it). First it started off how Small caps have been outperforming large […]
One of the Motley Fool Everlasting services, portfolio advisories that specialize in one growth niche — this one is teased as having a startup portfolio of 20 “cloud” stocks to capitalize on “The Motley Fool’s No. 1 Technology Investment for the 2020s,” which will be added to with regular new recommendations. Formerly part of that […]
I’ve had a bunch of new questions about this almost evergreen Motley Fool ad for their Stock Advisor service, so I thought I’d share some answers with you here — partly because this is a stock that I write about a lot for our paying members, since it’s a substantial part of my portfolio, but […]
It’s not uncommon to see these pitches that are based on daydreams of, “What if you had bought Brand Name Stock X 50 years ago?” And there’s a reason for that: They’re compelling, they help you to think about long time horizons, and they play off of a huge bias that we all have to […]
Remember when an Apple product event used to be exciting? Waiting on pins and needles for that “one more thing” to be pulled out of a hat by Steve Jobs? Those memories made yesterday’s product intros just plain depressing (slightly better iPads! Slightly better phones! Guess what price our streaming service will be!) … but […]
Another week of fussing about macro issues that we can neither control nor predict, what fun! The Federal Reserve did exactly what the market demanded in cutting rates, but the market was still mad because they failed to promise that they would give us each a pony. President Trump seemed angered by the lack of […]
This ad, yet another one that focuses on the potential for 5G cellular data networks to rewrite the investing world, comes in from the growth-happy folks at Motley Fool Rule Breakers… the ad letter that I saw was from Rex Moore, one of their analysts, and this is the section that caught my attention: “One […]
I did miss a few things while I was on vacation, and one of them was the briefly-teased “First official marijuana recommendation” from Motley Fool co-founder Tom Gardner… and that intrigued me enough to go back and dig into the ad from early July, even though the ad is no longer active and the service […]
Just posted about AI/AR SERICes of Motley Fool & how disappointed I was. Need to revise: They did respond to an email which I did not receive. I Pd $1499 not $999 because the lower price was for previous users of AR service. Makes sense. The services sometimes overlap in recommendations but no portfolio is […]
Eric Bleeker at the Motley Fool came out with a big “presentation” recently where he walked around the stage pitching a new high-end project that they’re calling Extreme Opportunities: AR — a $999 no refunds one-year subscription to their thinking about augmented reality, starting with a 15-stock model portfolio and including whatever changes or updates […]
I’ve had a bunch of new questions about this almost evergreen Motley Fool ad for their Stock Advisor service, so I thought I’d share some answers with you here — partly because this is a stock that I write about a lot for our paying members, since it’s a substantial part of my portfolio, but […]
I’ve been seeing ads for the Motley Fool’s Stock Advisor Canada service recently that catch the eye… mostly because they promise what we all want, the ability to find that one stock that will turn your small investment into a life-changing fortune. They do this by starting with the story of “Forty-dollar Frank” …. “When […]
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