August 26th, 2008 by StockGumshoe
“Using this three-step “paycheck portfolio” plan… tap into an endless stream of income, for as long as you’ll need it… starting with as many as 75 checks, sent automatically to your account.”
Not bad, eh?
That’s the tease from Chris Mayer and the Capital and Crisis newsletter from Agora (which is not to be confused with the Crisis Trader newsletter from Taipan, which likes to trade on political instability in the third world — Capital and Crisis is more of a “Jack of all trades” newsletter, as far as I can tell).
And it has all the hallmarks of a well-copywritten ad for an investment newsletter … it’s got the long list of real peoples’ names and the amount of money each of them made with their “endless paychecks” (forgetting, for the moment, that unless we know the size of their portfolio then the dollar amounts they receive are utterly meaningless).
And there’s a quote from someone who sounds important, with the detailed “clues” redacted …
“‘[This strategy] is the hidden key… [if more people
did this], you would see a nation of happy
investors whistling their way toward retirement.’
— Lowell Miller, 3-time author and CNN commentator”
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August 13th, 2008 by StockGumshoe
It’s baaaack! Jeff Clark’s Advanced Income investment newsletter is now being sold using yet another ad that has a clever invented name for his strategy — this time, we’re told that you can make a “market commission” on your stock and pull in money from your broker in just ten minutes.
“Beginning right now, you could begin pocketing hundreds of dollars in guaranteed commissions on any one of 3,500 publicly traded stocks.”
And apparently this new strategy is “4 times better than dividends!”
Longtime Gumshoe readers (and I love you, every one) will probably instantly recognize this for what it is — it’s the grandson of the California Overnight Dividend, which last graced these pages almost a year ago, and the nephew of the Transfer Dividend, which we started seeing back in January … heck, as long as we’re on that track, I suppose it’s also a distant cousin of the more suave and debonair Unclaimed Dividend that we wrote about back in June.
So what is a “market commission,” you ask? You’ve come to the right place!
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July 17th, 2008 by StockGumshoe
Today I’m looking at a teaser ad from Andrew Gordon of Investors Daily Edge — I’ve looked at a couple of Gordon’s teaser picks over the past year or so, one good (SunPower) and one very bad (Microvision). Apparently now his focus has moved a bit, he’s not talking about breakout high tech companies these days, but about stable dividend payers — so he at least knows how to change his spots when the leaf he’s sitting on withers and dies.
With the current panics in the market, I expect we’ll continue to see more of this kind of focus from the teasermeisters — stability, safety, and dividends. Of course, they’ll probably largely still stay away from the best dividend payers, the big banks, but I imagine I’ll be seeing many more income oriented ads in the months to come. Greed works better than fear as an advertising ploy most of the time, but sometimes investors are so afraid already that they can’t quite bring themselves to reach for the real, over-the-top greed impulse that is demanded for a stock that’s promised to provide 1,000% gains.
So we have here a company that has been raising its dividend consistently for 37 years, and that is likely to be issuing a big special dividend of some kind this fall, according to Gordon. That might start some little bells of recognition a-tingling in your cranium, but we do get a bit more. Read the rest of this entry »
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