Still Super? Fool’s “American Super Brand” Endures

March 10th, 2008   by StockGumshoe

Newsletters are notorious for re-using the same ad copy for years and years and years, and the Motley Fool is no different — when they get a marketing pitch that really works, they keep trotting it out again, and again, and again. I’ve mentioned this before, particularly with their “Next Berkshire Hathaway” pick that gets sent to me every couple months, and has been for several years.

And now, it’s happening again — with a stock that has demonstrably Read the rest of this entry »

Motley Fool’s “The Best Stock Idea I’ve Ever Seen”

February 29th, 2008   by StockGumshoe

OK, so this one is quick and dirty. No, not that kind of dirty! Get your mind out of the gutter, it’s not even Noon yet.

It’s not from an email ad, but from something else — I have recently noticed that the folks who write the free Read the rest of this entry »

Motley Fool’s “Best Stock of 2008″

January 16th, 2008   by StockGumshoe

Ah, I’m back on the horse now after so many days of struggling with boring computer code … and now the Thinkolator can really get a warmup, because we have before us yet another epic tome of teaserdom in the form of a Motley Fool email.

This one’s trying to sell us “the unstoppable ‘multimedia powerhouse’ David Gardner believes can realistically double or triple your investment at least.” Sounds pretty good, no?
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