I totally disagree, newwurldmn.
My online activities appear mad because there is so much about me and so much of it is me posting original content and my commentary.
I think in time this will be an awesome thread to re-read.
As I said, what may turn some people off is the fact that I'm on a bunch of different sites, but I feel all the links I've shared are acceptable and as far as any of my regulators I know what I can and cannot say and ever since atticus discovered that I've been completely truthful the entire time I guess I'll need to wait until tonight and see if I kept my top 10 mtd on covestor.
I'm dreading reporting these numbers but I think if we have problems in the earlier months then show a positive gain that will attract investors.
I have over 400 likes on Facebook but it doesn't look like anyone has tried to subscribe so if they were to say I'm advertising I don't have any clients but myself and my ap, so it's not like there's anything to really advertise and the length of time of all of these is essentially less than 6 months, so after 6 months with a month to go I only have to get to around 15-25% up to be in the top 10 on Covestor and that is a goal of mine.
I think coupling Sentinel 4's swing trades versus its usual day trades and my pairs models should be a really awesome combination, though whenever I talk about what I'm doing there's some element of embellishment.
Every time I talk about new subjects and my ideas I wanted to put them somewhere other than just on my blog because I don't really get any feedback from anywhere from anyone except here, but it's not ever a walk-in-the-park.
I don't know if I wanted to make political postures at first, but as far as being able to explain my ideas they are perfectly logical. If you take the time to read them they do make sense; they're just not in the place where you would expect them to be but that is how the internet works so I think if there's really something wrong with what I'm doing people wouldn't like my page.
LinkedIn leads explicitly asks people if they wish to be contacted and requests information from them for that purpose. Apparently nobody in the Lexington, Kentucky area is interested, and I had been going out to 4 metro states but I didn't receive a response from that, either. It's a good system if somebody's interested but practically no one is, and I think that's from a lack of performance history, not whether people know who I am or can find me on google+ or facebook or any other social media site.
If I had to describe my next steps is to finish my company's website, then complete the SEO optimization with google adwords and that might generate more traffic.
I guess while we're on the subject of professional experiences with lead generation systems sometimes I'll get e-mails from people who wanted to contact me on advisorworld, but none of them respond positively when I try to help them, and I think sending out mailers to trick people into calling and setting a face-to-face meeting is a scam so don't go that route. I tried a prospecting system prospect match and I've bought 3 high net worth lists that were supposedly exclusive but I think that they were just recycled and I even hired a call center to try cold calls and that would have worked if I didn't have to go through their manager to talk to the call person who made a nice script but ending up in jail for a month while that's going and getting no messages means that was a total waste.
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I think that would just about cover everything when I think Facebook and LinkedIn are my best advertising tools. I should have never done any of that, but, live and learn. I wasn't able to actually use Facebook until I resigned from SCFIA who didn't want to go through the hassel of amending their ADV and I wanted to be a part of Covestor and they wouldn't have it, so they stole my book and rather than me paying $2,000 for insurance, over $3,000 of leads, they were probably more than happy to let me go because I didn't have any way to keep my clients, and, besides, I saw right through them. They would let me talk up a good game, and then when I decided to tell my clients to liquidate they asked me to resign. For my clients the work crashed 15% within the next two months so apparently as I've said elsewhere telling somebody to sell isn't allowed if you're a financial rep, and that's especially something I despised holding my clients some with 40% drawdowns in some accounts but over 100% rallies from the lows disgusted me because my pairs model was sitting in cash as the S&P reached it's peak and fell over 55% and I knew there wasn't much choice but to ride out that market cycle, but I don't think the next time that that happens it will ever recover. The prospects I had who became clients were told I simply resigned, but I didn't feel like calling them because at that point I didn't have anything to offer them that was legal until I founded my RIA, saw some models I liked and became a CTA, and this stock exchange I'll need a good chunk at least a quarter mil but I have to earn it, and I'm thinking that I'll be able to with some months of trading then it's possible I'll get a better response than the crickets I hear chirping in the peanut gallery, now.
If you've just started this thread here, please go back to the beginning and try to understand that there's so many threads on elitetrader but this one definitely has something to say about Markets, Options, and various financial topics I've managed to sprinkle in.