Comments on: Five Reasons to Think of Your Blog Like a Stock to Maximize Your Potential

By: farouk

farouk — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:03:52 +0000

this is the most done over selling i have seen in my whole life , i am sure markets will recover soon

By: Carnival of Making Money Online

Carnival of Making Money Online — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:07:51 +0000

I think the simple point here is that you should think of your blog as an investment. Work today will have return for years to come IF you do it well. Carnival of Making Money Onlines last blog post..Taking your Blog to a Community

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 04:50:18 +0000

@ Richard: No profit on Google for me, just profiting off of the news that shifted the markets. I would have honestly shorted it if anything else, reason number 4829 that I am not a technical analysis guy
@ Agent: This article is targeting ‘make money online’ bloggers… I agree that some people are not in it for money, but I mention that later on. There is always going to be a reason to blog, I would say about 0.3% of bloggers are just randomly doing it

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By: Agent 001

Agent 001 — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:24:13 +0000

Wow that is great.I never thought like this before.You sure need to get applauses for it.But one thing your first point is not true for all.Some bloggers just write for their visitors.It is after sometime that they realize they can get money too.Well I believe so. I started my current blog for giving info to visitors but the money making was always in my mind.I love to give my visitors proper infos and not lure them. Agent 001's last blog post..Blog update 14th April

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:20:36 +0000

lol, it's about time you compared your blog to the stock market...I actually had a feeling that you were going to do an article similar to this... Anyways, happy trading! Were you able to profit from GOOG's surge? Richard's last blog post..HMS Holding Corp. (HMSY)

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:50:19 +0000

@ John: Who says I wasn’t attempting to “piss people off” . You’ve got to admit at the very least that it is a very good comparison. I never said “your blog is a stock”.. I am just recommending to think of it as one in order to maximize your returns. Agreed?

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By: John Forman

John Forman — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:26:18 +0000

Jim – I appreciate the comparisson you’re making. Like stockholders, visitors to a website essentially are voting for that site if they continue to return (buy the stock) and against it if they don’t.

Here’s where the analogy runs into trouble, though. Website visitors may drive the value of the site, but they cannot use their traffic to take direct control of it as shareholders can with a company. No website visitor can come along and aquire enough of the traffic to take over the company and oust the current management.

Also, shareholders do not, through their stock ownership, influence the profitability of the company in question. Website visitors most definitely do through their actions (or lack thereof). As such they are customers and the site is the product. Both should be treated as such.

The Cramer Effect in terms of websites – which basically means some influential individual says something about a site – is exactly the same as if some high profile person mentions a product.

You get what I’m driving at?

PS: A bit of advice from one blogger to another. Say “as an analyst…” rather than “if you are really an analyst…”. The latter implies that you are challenging the commenter’s truthfulness. That tends to piss people off.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:03:14 +0000

@ John: Thanks for the clarification. However, I think you are incorrect. In continuing the analogy, websites, just like stocks, are “traded on an open market.” Furthermore, if you are really an analyst then I am sure you understand the impact that shareholders have on a stock. Take the Jim Cramer Effect for example! Websites are stocks, not companies, because of the way they are trafficked (“traded”) on news and other things

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