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The Problem with Talkmarkets

Date: Friday, November 29, 2024 9:18 AM EST

Talkmarkets has a twofold problem:

  1. It bans its best writers from writing articles, making them instead write to the bottom-dwellers that feed off of blog "posts";
  2. The bottom-dwellers that feed off the blog posts keep everything to themselves.

A couple of examples should suffice.

  1. The published work called Globanomics that was introduced to Talkmarkets forever and ever;
  2. Yesterday's blog called The Road to Enlightenment. 

On most information websites the people promote good writing.  On most information websites they are looking for breakthrough ideas and concepts.  But not the case in Talkmarkets.  Breakthrough ideas and concepts are "burned at the stake".

34 views for The Road to Enlightenment from my Talkmarkets support group.  I put that post out there for the upcoming spiritual holidays that are coming up.

And personally, as good as The Road to Enlightenment is, i would be looking for more like 1,000,000 million views by Monday morning, after this long holiday weekend.  Then by the end of the spiritual holiday season, i would expect more like 1,000,000,000 views.

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And on Monday i will check to make sure that i am right about Talkmarkets when my post numbers come in and show less than fifty views after the long holiday weekend.

Go figure.

Thanks for sharing the Good News, Talkmarkets!

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Angry Old Lady • 3 weeks ago • Member's comment
Wow, talk about sourgrapes. Instead of being appreciative of a site that gives you a platform to share your oddball ideas and connect with others for free, you insult them because your jealous that beter authors get published while you don't? You do realize this is a stock investment site, don't you? Maybe if you ever shared stock ideas, you would get published too.
Jim Boswell • 3 weeks ago • Author's comment

Dear Ugly Old Lady--i posted a "stock idea" for you about two-hours ago.  It's the best and cheapest "stock advice" you will ever get.  And there is not a financial book on the market that would argue against "my advice to you".

Now, i would appreciate it if you would quit reading any further posts that i make because i don't think you have ever understood any of my so-called "oddball ideas".  And we are wasting both your time and my time, if you know what i mean.

Leslie Miriam • 3 weeks ago • Member's comment
Your problem is you don't know how to market yourself appropriately. You do know SEO, don't use keywords, etc. No one knows what globanomics is, so no one will search on that content to find this. You are posting on a site about stock ideas, but are off topic. You include no summaries on your posts, so readers won't know what htey are about, and which makes it harder for you to bring in organic search from search engines like Google. Even in this one post, you are lamenting that more people aren't reading your article, "The Road To Enlightenment." But you didn't even include a hyperlink to that article in your post. That would have not only helped with your SEO but made it easy for people to click on the link and go straight to the article. Do you really expect people to put in the effort to spend many clicks searching for the post themselves?
Jim Boswell • 3 weeks ago • Author's comment

I  would like to say one thing. If i thought you had read the complete "The Road to Enlightenment" post in its entirety, i would take your comments more seriously. But i find your comments somewhat bold and irrelevant for someone that didn't even read the material that was discussed.

Now here is the hyperlink, even though i do not think you will read it. because it will take you about an hour to get through the entire post.

https://talkmarkets.com/contributor/jim-boswell/blog/the-road-to-enlightenment?post=470885

Adam Barron • 3 weeks ago • Member's comment

You posted this link incorrectly.  It does not work.

Leslie Miriam • 3 weeks ago • Member's comment

If you couldn't be bothered to post the link, I wasn't going to be bothered to try to find it on my own.  But I do appreciate your posting the link now. Though as it happens, I had already read the article and found it interesting.

Robert Capasso • 3 weeks ago • Member's comment

All good points.  And I'd add that his expectations are unrealistic.  He expects 1,000,000,000 views on his article? Please!

Seeking Alpha Reader • 3 weeks ago • Member's comment
This site has great authors, I used to pay a lot of money to read at Seeking Alpha, before I realized I could read that same content here, by the same authors for free! Maybe show some appreciation instead of complaining all the time.
Kurt Benson • 3 weeks ago • Member's comment
You sound like the guys who after getting rejected by publishing house, complain that people like Stephen King are trash, and they deserve to be published more. Whining never got anyone anywhere.
Danny Straus • 3 weeks ago • Member's comment
TalkMarkets has great writers, all my favorite authors are here. Why bash them just because you don't write financial articles that don't really fit here. That seems rather juvenile.