Thinking out loud… how about creating a new section called “Channels” where a designer could publish blogs? It would be a way for you to show off your analytical skill and share research. The current message boards are not good for that as any interesting article quickly disappears.
This idea came to me as I was browsing [url=http://www.bespokeinvest.com/]http://www.bespokeinvest.com/[/url] for ideas for new tools. In just a few minutes I bookmarked the following articles for potential ideas
What do you think? Let me know about the bookmarks and the Channel idea. The Channels look and feel would be similar, allow comments, and very clean and simple to use: text, images, links.
Thanks
PS. I wonder if they are using P123 for some of those articles. uhm…
I am not sure if it’s a good idea. I am just speaking for myself but I want to keep control of how my site looks like. Not that I don’t like P123 but it doesn’t display my colors, brand, and puts my products/services next to competition like in a store. I think it’s not too much of a barrier for anyone to launch a Wordpress or a blog elsewhere that does the same thing where it’s your own very space. Giving this tool won’t give someone the marketing knowledge or power to massively increase traffic in my opinion. If you already know how, you can do it on your own no problem. I think it’s already good as it is.
However I think you should consider selling ranking systems? A lot of people want to know how good their stocks are based on ranking systems. A subscriber would have access to the grade by typing his stocks in a list. Wouldn’t that be a more viable option? Because let’s be frank market timing / hedging has profoundly impacted R2Gs lately. I’m not saying it’s necessarily in a bad way but it could be. Selling a ranking system might solve this issue and bring more revenues. Yes you can get some timing in the ranking system too but it’s not as intensive, it’s more factor based. And what current simulation lacks is the ability of people to see how what they already own in their portfolios ranks in a given system. This is gold information being withheld and not monetized when it could.
Marco - you would get more “bang for the buck” by streamlining R2G signup as has been mentioned before. I can bring people to P123 but they only visit once. The site is overwhelming and cost is high. It is not for the average person. What is needed is a direct sign-up for an R2G model with a free trial. Perhaps R2G needs to be a separate website.
Marco, I like the idea. I does seem to me that any research that is interesting to the subs will be as interesting or even more interesting to those developing ports. This would be true for those developing private ports and/or R2G ports. Of course, some subs are also developing ports and they will be particularly interested.
I’ll look for it wherever it is: whether it be channels or somewhere else.
We are thinking about a redesign of P123, like a new home page that asks you one question: you want to find models or create your own? If click “I want models” it sends you to a new simple interface to search, decide and autotrade a set of models. Otherwise it sends you to the current P123. In other words no need for a separate site. “Portfolio1-2-3” works in either case.
We would also use the channels for in-house research, documentation, education, etc. The blog format for documentation is much better than what we have now. For example editing our docs is a pain.
No anyone can see the articles, only registered members can comment. Channels is just a better name than Categories. Some Channels off the top of my head:
P123 Channels
In house Research
How-to’s
News
Videos
Designer Channels
Steve123
Denny
etc.
There will be ways to sort, search, “like”, subscribe to a channel and get email alerts, and so on.
