Tag Archives: investment newsletter

Turning down the noise and raising the profits: an interview with NFI’s Jeff Annello

I frequently get the chance to speak with some really inspiring entrepreneurs changing the face of investing through unique approaches to asset management and Internet distribution channels.  Jeff Annello is one of those people.  I know him as the author behind Noise Free Investing — which has morphed into a full-blown asset advisory.
Please see the [...]

Online finance startups and how to get to $10M in revenues

Steven Carpenter, founder and CEO of New Rules favorite Cake Financial, has been running a great series of articles on TechCrunch in which he decontructs startups revenue and business models.
In this series, 13 Ways to Get to $10M in Revenue (part I, part II), Carpenter takes an in-depth look into what metrics are needed to [...]

Buffett, Algorithms, and Technical Analysis: The Evolution of the Investment Newsletter

The evolution of investment newsletters
Investment newsletters have been around as long as investments have.  Never mind that they used to be delivered snail mail.  Then fax.  Then email.  Given the lag time between publishing and delivery, these old-school newsletters, like the Motley Fool’s Hidden Gems or Al Frank’s Prudent Speculator,  mostly gave paid subscribers a [...]

Crowdsourcing investments: it’s all about chosing the ‘right crowd’

We’ve spoken a lot about piggyback investing (mimicking the moves of top fund managers) and crowdsourcing ideas (using crowd sentiment to generate trading ideas) as two ‘new ways’ investors can devise profitable strategies.  The Internet is producing tons of information – the tradestream – that investors can plug into to get at this type of [...]

Investment newsletters REALLY bearish — time to buy?

Wow! Expectations that U.S. stocks will drop at least 10% has risen to the highest levels since April 1984.
In a recent survey of investment newsletters by Investors Intelligence, Bloomberg reports that:

The following are results from Investors Intelligence’s
analysis of investment newsletters for Jan. 27 through
yesterday. The company determines the proportion of writers who
are bullish and bearish [...]

Investment newsletters sell more with good copy writing

Investment newsletters may be steeped in analytics, fundamental and technical research, and powerful stock screens.  But at the end of the day, they are discrete pieces of content which require people to subscribe to them and eventually, read them.
Here, we want to learn from effective copy writing rules even if they were written for other [...]

New Rules Interview with Jeff Borack, Analyst/Blogger

New Rules of Investing is always looking for advisors/investors using new media tools to help market themselves or their firms.  Jeff Borack is one of those people.
Jeff recently launched an investing blog, A Ship in the Harbor, to help capture his research ideas and cement his positioning as a smart, qualified research analyst.  An intern [...]

How will investors behave with no newspapers?

Slow death of the newspaper and how investment decisions are affected
While news and the proliferation of information is booming, clearly the newspaper industry is on its way out.  Its current revenue model just can’t support a quality newsroom in the face of widely available free information on the Internet.
Numerous industry analysts continue to discuss the [...]

Great idea for a fresh investment letter: mimic Senators’ portfolios

In previous posts, we’ve explored the process of picking a theme for your newsletter.  This is an important process because it really defines everything that you’ll be doing as part of your newsletter business.

It will define what goes into your portfolio
By deciding to go broad or narrow, your theme can differentiate you from your competition
Different [...]

Free ebook: How to Start a Profitable Investment Newsletter

I’ve been getting good feedback on some of the content on this site focused especially on creating, managing and marketing an investment newsletter.  I took much of this information and mashed it together into a free ebook for you guys.
For those of you who have read all the material, you won’t find anything new necessarily, [...]