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.
Please contact advertise@i3investor.com for an Ads Media Kit and detail pricing information.
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
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.
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I am first to object such suggestion to have a pay I3investor.com for assessing all infor that we, as a group of users, are currently enjoying!
2019-03-03 09:20
* 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.
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used to be readily available until the last revamp.
2019-03-03 15:53
@Philip
Go to financial page like https://klse.i3investor.com/servlets/stk/fin/5099.jsp
Click the QoQ or YoY on table to view the QoQ or YoY Financial Result page.
That page will have link to the report you want - https://klse.i3investor.com/servlets/staticfile/350737.jsp
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(S = Qr) Philip I assume if enough people like this article someone in i3ivestor department will finally fix that quarterly report attachment thing.
Time to post a picture of an egg.
03/03/2019 08:57
2019-03-03 16:36
qqq3
simply choose one stock>click disclosures>quarterly results>under the table below you will see qoq & yoy with red/green colour then press into it and bang
2019-03-04 15:21
Dear "(S = Qr) Philip",
Thank you for your feedback on the I3investor portal. Your suggestions are very much appreciated. We developed many of our most popular features as a result of recommendations from the community such as yours. We will certainly review your suggestions and decide the future development plan for I3investor.
In the past years, we have been actively working with local partners in developing Apps and integrations for users. Furthermore, we just had a very successful Investment Bloggers' Day event that was jointly organized with a local partner.
Moving forward, there are a number of exciting features we plan to develop. We are also keen to explore partnership opportunity with local brokers or relevant parties for trading account integrations, so that we can offer a seamless trading platform for our users.
Best regards,
System Admin
I3investor
2019-03-04 23:59
Much appreciated! I hope that more and more investors will be attracted to this site in the future a well!
2019-03-05 06:56
i learn a lot from Philip comments and teachings, open up other perspective about investing... and looking at the companies... great sharing and I think these are very valuable... thanks
2019-03-05 08:39
Dear Philip,
Just for your information:
Hi Mr Lee
It is my pleasure to meet you, Jonathan & your son, & of course, my old friend Mr Ooi Teck Bee, & thanks for buying lunch.
Regards
wgk
Sent from my iPhone
2019-03-05 08:48
Dear administrator,
Thank you for a well organized Investment Bloggers day 2019. And once again thank you for invitation offer to me as one of the speakers. I really enjoy the speech by Jonathan Choi.
As a small suggestion perhaps I3 can include in a section for AGM official minutes. Nowadays some companies published the official AGM minutes in their website but some needed to email and make request for a copy from company secretary. Below is my bitter experience when fighting Xingquan case:
Dear Mr. Soon,
Payment received. As requested, attached is the last AGM minutes of Xingquan, for your attention.
Regards,
Fei San
22th Aug 2017
I make a mistake of talking to much with company secretary as of the procedure in giving notice of Requisition for an EGM which they must has discussed with CEO and result in CFO, independent directors and Company secretary resign en block to frustrates out Requisition for EGM.
Thank you
2019-03-05 09:14
(S = Qr) Philip
I assume if enough people like this article someone in i3ivestor department will finally fix that quarterly report attachment thing.
Time to post a picture of an egg.
2019-03-03 08:57