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 Are you getting our free Daily Update […]
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“Turn $10,000 into $25,000 with Company X”
Ah, “Company X” — that’s an old teaser chestnut. I think I prefer when folks like the Stansberry copywriters come up with wholly invented terms for investments, but I must admit that the old “Company X” term still has some mystery and appeal. This ad turns out to be for a firm
5 Comments Read MoreHalf-Priced Stocks Snookered by Hellman & Friedman?
Just a quick note for those who didn’t notice: Two-time Gumshoe coveree Getty Images agreed to get bought out today. Yippee for the smart newsletter advisers who recommended this one, eh? Not so fast — this is the new era of private equity, apparently, when even a 30% premium doesn’t necessarily mean they’re overpaying … […]
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This one comes in from Jason Hommel of the Silver Stock Report, and several readers have asked me to take a look. He has a free email newsletter that you can subscribe to if you’re interested. In addition to that free newsletter that he offers, he will let you take a peek at his personal […]
20 Comments Read More“Millionaire’s Crash Insurance: The Ultimate Safety Net”
We can’t help it, can we? When the market goes up, we look for 800% returns on microcap rockets, when the market goes down, we panic and wonder how we can be like those Wall Street fat cats who seem to do well no matter where the market moves. (The answer to that second one, […]
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Sometimes persistence is more valuable than success — at least, one could be forgiven for thinking that after watching the newsletter publishers at their game for a while. The latest ad I’ve been getting a lot of email about lately is for Ann Sosnowski’s Diligent Investor newsletter, and it’s almost identical to an ad that […]
4 Comments Read MoreRevisiting 801(k) Plans
The Tom Dyson 801(k) teaser letter for Stansberry and Associates’ 12% Letter must be one of the more successful email campaigns out there — at least, if the interest of my readers is any indication. I’ve probably had more questions about this than any other email teaser I’ve ever written about. I first wrote about […]
23 Comments Read MoreSkousen: “Brazilian Food Stock Fattens Your Portfolio”
This one came in from a few readers via email today, which is always delightful — but today it was even more of a delight, because here we have a company whose shares I own, and whose future I’m also fairly excited about. The ad is for Mark Skousen’s Hedge Fund Trader service, one of […]
10 Comments Read MoreRob Fannon: “Two Best Medical Stocks of 2008”
I’m catching up from a long weekend away, so I’m sharing an unedited submission from one of my readers — if you were away over the weekend and missed the new posts, here are the links for you: Ian Cooper’s secret release of Monday night that could double or triple after March results. … and […]
7 Comments Read MoreIan Cooper: “Could Easily Double or Triple After March Results”
Ian Cooper, who I probably unfairly noted was one of the few newsletter touts to not have a single positive performer on the Stock Gumshoe Tracking Spreadsheet (there were only two of his that I had sniffed out, both quite old, and he is primarily a quick trader so I’m sure those were sold eons […]
16 Comments Read MoreA Valentine’s Gift: Whale Watching
This is not in response to a specific teaser, but I have seen a raft of teaser emails lately about “watching the insiders” and “whale watching,” including some that mention specific billionaires and tease specific stocks that they’re buying that you, too, should buy. Why now?
11 Comments Read MoreStock Gumshoe Update — Winners and Losers
I have finally gotten around to editing the spreadsheet to add some consistency, and to update with all the teaser stocks I’ve written about through the end of January. The bad news? If you have invested in each one of those stocks
21 Comments Read MoreMotley Fool: “Investor X and the One of a Kind Value Investment”
The Motley Fool has a new teaser ad out, this one for the Inside Value newsletter. If you’ll sign up for your subscription, they’ll tell you about this unique investment that they think can double your money. In the words of their able copywriter, “That’s because the company detailed just ahead gushes cash… is run […]
9 Comments Read MoreMcCoach: Bank Failure? Buy This Miner
This is a teaser that has been around before, but the whole lead and urgent emotional appeal have changed quite a bit — so I thought it worthy of some comment. This is for Greg McCoach’s Insider Alert … and they want you to be very afraid (“afraid” is particularly good for precious metals investors). […]
19 Comments Read MoreToby Smith: “Product X Kills Bugs Dead”
This one is a teaser that we’ve actually looked at before, but I’m getting a lot of email on it so perhaps it got lost in the shuffle — it was solved as part of a multi-part teaser a while back, and it remains one of Tobin Smith’s favorites — and the subject of his […]
13 Comments Read More“93-Cent Tech Phenom: #1 Stock for 2008”
Now this is what I love about teasers: We have a newsletter editor, in this case Stephen Oakes from Volume Spike Alert, confidently assuring us that he has already chosen the best stock for the coming year … and it’s a tiny little penny stock. Delicious! And just to tease you a little bit, too, […]
20 Comments Read MoreNavellier’s “The Google of 2008”
So … another stock that’s going to be the “next Google!” Man, how can we go wrong with that? Let me count the ways … just in the last six months or so, Navellier’s next Google was IncrediMail, and Tobin Smith’s was Synchronoss … not so good for either one just yet. And many other […]
11 Comments Read MoreMark Skousen: “This Stock is PROFITING From the Subprime Mess”
Ah, it’s so nice to have a lovely little sleuthing job to distract me … this is much more enjoyable than watching my own portfolio tick lower, or watching the market indexes crawl frantically into into the basement like scared children in a horror movie. Enough distractions like this, and I can actually follow through […]
26 Comments Read More“Nevada’s Filthy Rich Royalties”
Kind of seems like the folks at Stansberry are testing to see whether the term “Filthy Rich” works well in their email campaigns, this is the second one I’ve seen of late (the other was for “My British Uncle Albert’s Filthy Rich Retirement Secret…”). But that’s neither here nor there. We apparently have an opportunity […]
32 Comments Read More“Geothermal Energy: A situation you can’t ignore!”
Tim Fields and Eric Dickson over at Trinity Research have been selling subscriptions on the back of geothermal investing for a little while, and they’ve got a new brief “teaser” out about their pick for this sector. Geothermal energy is nothing new to the Gumshoe Faithful, of course, and those of us who’ve been paying […]
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