Dear I3investor.com,

here is my analysis and suggestions on how you can double or triple your generated  company income, create a better community, build better subscribers base and increase the quality of the reporting analysis.

Currently, investor main income is from Ads. I believe you probably make around RM5 million per year on it, with managed websites  in Australia, Canada, Malaysia, Singapore, United Kingdom and United States. This is your main income source.

Partner or Advertise with I3investor

Reach MILLIONS of visitors online

• We have statistics of visitors/page views by country
• 20% of our registered users connect through Facebook
• 70% male
• 60% age between 25 to 45 years old
• > 10 minutes average time on site
• > 7 pages per visit
• 80% visited site multiple times per day
• 20% visitors use mobile or tablet devices

Ad Types

• Monthly Ads
• CPM Ads
• Premium Branding Ads

Ad Units

• 970 x 90 Large Leaderboard
• 728 x 90 Leaderboard
• 160 x 600 Wide Skyscraper
• 336 x 280 Large Rectangle
• 300 x 250 Medium Rectangle
• Custom sponsorships

Please contact advertise@i3investor.com for an Ads Media Kit and detail pricing information.

Partnership Opportunity

If you are interested to collaborate with i3investor to provide value-added services to our users, please send an email to partner@i3investor.com

The good news is , this is an unbelieveably cheap and low expense business to run. You just have to upkeep the costs of running a website (without graphics, music and sound) which is enjoying higher visitor throughput, and at minimal website bandwidth load increase paid to site adminitstrators. You also only need to do mainly administrative work (gathering data, archiving and reposting results and stock data) and leave the community to populate their analysis and reports and comments on your website for FREE.

This is highly efficient. You probably have around 5-10 full time staff, with a generated revenue of 4-5 million a year, that would be amazing!

HERE IS HOW I THINK YOU CAN DO BETTER.

This is an example for one of the best american stock analysis websites driven by community sharing that I regularly use (seekingalpha). On top of your existing model of free posts and analysis, they also have premium articles (have to sign up as as a paid subscriber to access) done by professional analysis and expert bloggers (like kcchongz,choivo, icon, cpteh, felicity, tradewinds, and KYY) who are paid to churn out good, informative articles.

Here is the gist of it, to become the GO-TO  website to view asian stocks articles (singapore, malaysia, china, etc etc), you need to have wonderful articles and money earning stock ideas. To get money earning stock ideas, you need to reward your article writing analyst( just look at the amount of words that young Jon Choivo spews out. I assume he does it for free, as do I). And as you had a very successful investment blogging day, I believe this scenario will become more and more important in the future.

A SIMPLE FORMULA:

BETTER WEBSITE CONTROLS + BETTER WRITTEN AND MONEY MAKING ARTICLES = MORE READERS = MORE MONEY = 1ST MOVER ADVANTAGE = LONG TERM PROFITS

Think moodies, bursa, nestle. You have something good going on here. Time to capitalize. How?

SA has added earnings and AGM call transcripts (which I would pay to read what transpired during an AGM), they have breaking news emailed and information tracking on your monitored stocks in your portfolio. Author sentiment ratings and so much more

And you have the perfect tool. Investment! If we can make money from the articles given, what would a small thing like RM240 a year annual subscription to selected articlles be?

HOW TO KEEP QUALITY OF ARTICLES UP

Of course, this is stickler. How do you keep any Tom, Dick and Harry from simply submitting fake pump and dump articles on penny stocks and make money as well as cheating the investing public? And also the accreditation to become a IB or analyst is very easy, and has no connection at all with their ability to give good stock picks or earnings.

I have a suggestion. For accreditated wealth managers, IB, fund managers , those written articles are their reputation and lifeblood. They normally charge for those subscriptions anyway. That is perfectly all right with me (although I dont think it has anything at all to do with their ability to pick stocks).

For bloggers and writers who want to supplement their income by writing articles, I believe it would be very beneficial to I3investor as well as the public if we could have either:

A) 2 years current verifiable portfolio selection with profitable growth and positive performance, using their investment statement of accounts, updated yearly, verified with brokerage (no forgery of documents). No need to share with public. A simple agreement and I3investor verification would do. You could put this as a Paid Investment Blogger.

B) a participant or official subscriber of your MQtrader platform, where all trading information and purchases etc can be tracked by I3investor to ensure quality of trading/investment acumen. Meaning they are what they say they are.

C) 5 years current verifiable portfolio selection with long term profitable growth and positive performance, updated yearly, verified with brokerage. You could put this as a PREMIUM Paid Investment Blogger,  which you can charge a separate and additional amount of money for the general public to read about.

D)10+ years current verifiable portfolio selection with long term profitable growth and positive performance, updated yearly, verifiable with brokerage. You could put this as LEGEND  Paid Investment Blogger. Some have been known to pay millions to have lunch with investors like these. I prefer sang nyuk mien.

Payments to paid bloggers can be done via views per page, which you already have the statistics for.

In any case, It is your decision (and your money to make). There is a pendulum, too strict, and no one would qualify and you would have a low amount of articles that readers would not be interested in paying subscription to read about. Too lax, and there would be too many analysts trying to make a quick buck but with low quality of writings, ending up with a failed buisness model.

I hope you learned something,

Philip

* Now that I have given you some ideas on how to grow for the next 10 years, can I gripe on your website controls? It is horrible. I can download annual reports directly from the i3investor website, but when it comes to downloading the link for the quarterly financial results report, you can't find it anywhere. THIS IS VERY IRRITATING FOR ME. FIX IT. ITS JUST A SIMPLE DOWNLOAD LINK TO THE LATEST QTR. ITS IRRITATING THAT I HAVE TO NAVIGATE TO THE BURSA WEBSITE (ALSO ANOTHER HORROR), TRACK DOWN THE STOCK, TRACK DOWN THE LATEST ANNOUNCEMENTS, AND FINALLY DOWNLOAD A SIMPLE QUARTERLY REPORT THAT IS ONLY 25 PAGES THICK.

GRRRRR.