A lot of people ask me how to get started blogging their investment ideas. While this isn’t a catchall list, it does begin to bring together the various tools you’ll need to run a great investment blog. Vote on your favorites and add what you use for your financial blog.
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We’re still jaded with stories of self-made dotcom millionaires making money out of thin air. Building a financial services practice takes sweat, energy and time. Nancy Butler’s back was against a wall. She was 31, in the midst of a divorce, with 2 kids when she embarked on building her financial planning businesses. 20 years [...]
Morgan Stanley dropped a bomb this week with an announcement permitting the firm’s brokers to begin testing social media using Twitter and LinkedIn for communication and business building purposes. We’re joined by Bruce Johnston, CEO of DBJ Associates and Advisolocity. He’s got 30 years of experience helping financial businesses adopt next-generation marketing and technologies to [...]
By Zack Miller
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Also tagged advisolocity, broker, bruce johnston, dbj associates, financial advisor, financial advisors, financial services, interview, investment advisor, marketing, podcast, radio, ria
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Get ready to make lots of money. In Get your Investment Book Published, I wrote that business book publishers and their industry has gotten extremely aggressive about publishing new authors and new titles. I have at least 5 friends with new book contracts in hand and another 10 working on proposals to get their ideas [...]
Tadas at Abnormal Returns had me on last week for a conversation about all the crazy things I do. From my book, Tradestreaming, to the ebook I published to help financial people get books published, to my free download on how to grow a financial services business like Ken Fisher did. We talked a lot [...]
Behavioral science is helping us make better investment decisions. It’s also really useful for attracting new clients. AdvisorInsider, a subscription email list for investment professionals serious about simplifying their marketing and using current media tools to grow their businesses. AdvisorInsider growing investment businesses with tips, tech, and tools Mind games. One of my football heroes [...]
Join us this coming Monday May 9th @ 4pm ET for a free online discussion on the “5 Myths About Cloning Hedge Funds”. We’ve been following hedge fund replication strategies (what I call piggybacking) since the early days of this blog and back to 2009 on NewRules. It’s not only a topic I like to [...]
By Zack Miller
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Posted in Stock market
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Also tagged alphaclone, best ideas, cloning, events, hedge fund, invest, new rules, piggyback investing, replication, tradestream, webinar
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I woke up in the middle of the night to learn of the demise of terrorist mastermind, Osama bin Laden. What really got me, though, was the fact that he lived in a periphery city in a million dollar mansion — and ostensibly, everyone knew. He lived in a close-knit community in which his neighbors, [...]
