Have you ever felt like you were playing ping-pong with the people that you were negotiating with. You serve, they return, you return, they return, you return, etc.be
That's kind of like what i feel i am doing with TalkMarkets right now. The trouble is i think TalkMarkets is willing to drag the point out when i have set them up for a "slam".
Although i am not as good now as i was back in my days at Hanover College, i think i know the game quite well. I was the best ping-pong player on campus my senior year. Playing first position on our fraternity intramural team, winning every match against the best from all the other fraternities (women ping-pong was not yet an intramural sport) and independents. Now there may be some of my followers who are or were better ping-pong players than me, but they at least should know that i was really pretty good, myself. Hanover College had 1000 students, half of which were women (we used to call them girls).
It makes me wonder how good of ping-pong player TalkMarkets is.
I have found your recent blog posts quite odd. What is your goal here? On the one hand, TalkMarkets has graciously offered you a platform, a home where you can converse with others and share your ideas. At the same time, even more graciously, they are offer you equity in the company. And yet you complain. Publicly and often that you want more.
What do you hope to gain from that? Are you trying to hurt the company's reputation? Damage the value of the equity you've earned? And with all that TalkMarkets has done for you, what exactly do you do for them to justify the "more" that you want? Did you invest any of your own money? Did you introduce them to other investors? Have you brought them a large quantity of new readers? Or brokered any business development deals?
It seems to me, and I am saying this as respectfully as possible, is that all you've done is write a few articles, a tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands of articles on this site, and have been rewarded for those based on how impactful/popular they were. And most of what you write seems out of place here as this is a finance site. But all your recent musings are either about politics, or how you want more out of the company. But if you are so unhappy, why don't you just go elsewhere?
No comment on your comments.
So you can criticize others, but no one can criticize you? How Trump-like of you! ;-)
Seriously though, I have to agree with Susan. I enjoy reading your posts, just like I enjoy reading the thousands of other authors on this site. But it sounds like you are saying you deserve more than all the other authors. Even though many are big names, and have more to offer. What exactly do you think justifies your having more than all the other authors? Are there things you do behind the scenes we aren't aware of? If so, maybe I'd agree with you. But no one forces you to be here. You'll be missed if you go, but like Trump, not if you bitch and moan on the way out.
Here's what i have to say to your comment (criticism or whatever), so do not think i cut voices off and am not willing to carry on a conversation.
My words "do" carry some value to them (whether it is a penny for my thoughts or a million dollars for my thoughts). Regardless, my words do carry at least some value and all i am trying to do is see how much the value of my words are to TalkMarkets.
And my advice to you is to do the same. TalkMarkets controls your audience. Your audience is not just some random collection of interneters out there. It a controlled audience, one that TalkMarkets selects.
Not everyone is privy to your TalkMarket words. And there is a larger audience out there, that may put even more value to your words than TalkMarkets.
At least that is my approach. And yes, i may have to leave TalkMarkets.
I appreciate the response. I like TalkMarkets and am what you would call a "regular." But it's certainly not the only website I frequent. Similar, you are free to frequent as many sites as you'd like.
If you have truly been an advisor to them, giving them tips on how to build a successful media site, perhaps I would agree. Though looking at your background, it doesn't appear that you would have expertise to provide them.
If you are referring to your words in the form of articles and comments, I see you have 26 articles, mostly about politics, even though this is a financial site. And 25 comments, mostly complaining about your financial situation and compensation. Those are a miniscule number of the total "words" on the site.
I'm sorry about your own personal financial woes. But I really say this from the kindness of my heart, and out of consideration for you... I think you are only embarrassing yourself with these tantrums.
I almost want to just say "F--- You". I love my life and i would not change anything about so don't give me this "poor crying shit". And you do not need to comment further because i am not.
Jim, I did not mean to offend and don't know why you are angry at me. Every day you post how you deserve "more." But you have yet to say why. All I was asking is why you think you deserve more? It can't be just because you can play ping pong or have a Wharton Degree from 50 years ago. None of that would actually help a site like this succeed. I was genuinely curious what value you add, over the other 1,000+ authors on the site.
You were a good ping pong player in college. Good for you. Running a large media site is far different than playing a game of ping pong! Being a good ping pong player won't do anything for this website. My opinion of your work has seriously gone downhill the last few days.