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The Digital Cap Raise Conference is Coming: October 2022 in NYC
I’m excited to announce that I’ve partnered with my good friend Vince Molinari at Fintech.tv to collaborate on a new conference, the Digital Cap Raise Conference. I visited Vince at the Fintech.tv studios inside the New York Stock Exchange to record this conversation about why we believe this is such a big opportunity for all […]
Insights into the Motley Fool’s unique approach to financial publishing
The Motely Fool is easily the most recognizable brand in financial publishing. When people explain the industry to someone for the first time they conversation almost always includes the phrase, “you know, like the Motley Fool.” The idea of building a strong mainstream brand is something many direct response marketers tend to look down on […]
Porter Stansberry’s Journey from a startup with $36k in financing to $3 billion IPO
Porter Stansberry shares the story of how he founded Stansberry Research with a laptop and 36k of financing from Bill Bonner. To their eventual 3 billion USD IPO under the brand MarketWise. This is the first of two conversations Porter is having for all of us. Porter will also be speaking at The Financial Marketing […]
Addison Wiggin, founder of Agora Financial & why your ideas matter.
Addison founded the Agora Financial group and was Executive Publisher for 17-years. One of the things I love about Addison is he has the increasingly rare quality of actually believing in the ideas he writes about and publishes. I see Addison as one of the few intellectuals in financial publishing. One thing many marketers & […]
Mark Ford, of The Agora Companies, talks engaging investors online & the direction of the industry
Mark Ford has been in involved in dozens of multimillion-dollar businesses. He and Bill Bonner built the Agora Companies, which has dominated the financial publishing industry for over a decade, and broke over a $1 billion in top-line revenue. I met him the first time back in 2016 or 17 when my business partner, Jami […]
Capturing Customer Value in Fintech vs. Financial Subscription Publishing
Imagine being one of the big drivers of new customers for a fintech startup you love. You’re there pretty much at the beginning. You wear the hat. Proselytize to the customer. Send tons of customers you paid to acquire over to them. Then, when that startup sells for a $1 billion – you got exactly […]
How do you win as a financial publishing or trader educator in this regulatory environment?
How do you win as a financial publisher or trader educator in this regulatory environment? That’s the conversation I had with Bret Holmes, who is one of the business builders in the industry I respect the most. Bret has been part of many of the largest success stories in financial publishing over the last decade. […]
The FTC crackdown is good for the industry.
After our conversation Aaron remembered why he had the one slide he spaced on in our recording and sent me this follow on point. It’s important so check it out: https://youtu.be/JjH-BeOiGKA The FTC crackdown is good for the industry. Full Stop. That’s Aaron Dehoog’s view and when Aaron talks publishing I listen. He’s one of […]
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Being an entrepreneur or marketer in finpub feels like living in a Dickenson novel. The two sides of the coin below will be the focus of the next Financial Marketing Summit June 14-15th in Orlando, register now if you haven’t already. “It was the […]
