FreeAtLast
Full time employment: Posting here.
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- Apr 22, 2008
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Hi Michelle:
Welcome to the forum.
Welcome to the forum.
I, too, used to read TMF for ideas, but it quickly became obvious that it has morphed into a sales website. Always a tantalizing bit of "shocking information", or "you won't believe this!" kind of siren calls to make one subscribe or buy something.
Quickly got fed up with this technique. I now spend time at forums like this one, Investor Village, and MorningStar, where I am not being pushed to buy stuff.
TMF is appropriately named, only f**ls will visit that website and act on the stuff they find in there. Count me out of it.
Her blog went dark nearly a year ago, no explanation let alone apology. Pffffffttt... short-timer.
I remember when the Fool used to rail against the "Wise" and against the get rich quick investing strategies they sold to people. All we needed was to be armed with information and educate ourselves, and we wouldn't need the "Wise" or the fees they charged.I noticed TMF ads on the AARP website with titles like "Why Wal-Mart is Doomed". If you click for the "free report" you have to enter your e-mail address to get in. Then go through screen after screen where you have to answer lots of questions about your personal and financial profile and preferences. Clearly a way to get your personal details and a subscription. I did it once with a fake e-mail address just to find out the "big news" and got a long diatribe with no concrete information. At the end, they indicated it would be e-mailed to me.
No thanks.
With the size of this board (plus the lurkers) I'm pretty sure she has more phone, e-mail, & PM business than she can handle right now.Michelle has apparently moved on to greener pastures...
I've interviewed a few times over the last five years, and believe it or not the journalists aren't really interested in your net worth or your spending numbers. That turns readers off, either from a "Oh, he's rich, that's easy for him to do" perspective or "Oh, geez, he's so cheap, no way am I living like that" perspective.I cracked a smile when I read all these responses. I for one would not want any of my relatives knowing any details of my finances and they are the type to pay for simple financial advice as they try to find the magic formula to gain riches instead of the old LBYM slow and steady formula. I prefer to have them think we are scraping by which has stopped the requests for handouts.
When Impact and I put together the marketing list of review copies and press releases, it included nearly three dozen financial websites & publications. TMF wasn't one of them. Hopefully USAA is only the first of several media opportunities that are much more closely connected to servicemembers & veterans.Hey Nords! If someone wanted to promote a project such as a book, and this site (hint), This writers offer could be a winning situation for all involved. Promo for book, promo for letting people learn about a better financial alternative (this site), and a writer with a story to write and sell.
Would a sudden influx of new people with new perspectives be good?
It'd probably be good for somebody!Would a sudden influx of new people with new perspectives be good?
Personally I'm still mightily annoyed with how badly TMF has lost its way over the years.
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I made the error of talking to a reporter from Bloomberg News several years ago. I don't know anyone who reads Bloomberg and used that logic to convince DW to cooperate, even allowing the reporter to take a couple of photos.I have talked 3 reporters/journalists of the WSJ in the past few years and quoted in their articles. It turns out to be relatively innocuous. It seems I have no acquaintances who read the Journal.
I have to say MasterBlaster, I find your flaunting your excessive housing wealth both ostentatious and in poor taste.
I see another well-known ER was also in that article too!I made the error of talking to a reporter from Bloomberg News several years ago. I don't know anyone who reads Bloomberg and used that logic to convince DW to cooperate, even allowing the reporter to take a couple of photos.
Unfortunately the day the story was released was a slow news day for the local San Antonio paper. They picked up the story and ran it in the business section, including our photo. I was in the doghouse for weeks.
No more reporters for me.