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Please read this before responding to the poll...
How would you feel about a better service with a small fee?
I am talking about $5 to $10 a month with some features still being free.
It has been more difficult for me to provide a good service to you since I have been banned from the internet at my work. As many of you know, I was given a 14-day unpaid vacation (suspension) for doing this. I used to be able to keep ½ an eye on the market during the morning and make decisions on allocation transfers as late a half hour before the noon ET deadline, then post it on the message board. Now I have to make my decisions the night before so I can get the email alerts out, update the message board with the new allocation and post the new allocation on the allocation website page.
Also at night, I do most of my market research, respond to the many emails I get, read and respond to themessage board posts, update the site with the currentshare prices, make other cosmetic site changes, all which doesn't leave me a lot of time to write up the daily market comments and send out the email alerts.
I also spend a couple hundred dollars each month for services, both investment and website support, to keep the siterunning and up to date. You can see where I am going with this...
I want to be able to help as many people as possible. Being that I have a good paying job, I was never concerned about making a bunch of money on the site. Investing is my hobby and passion. I really want to help people. If I were to give the site my all, meaning running the website fulltime, I would obviously haveto be compensated to replace my current income.Getting my services fulltime rather than a couple of hours a night would greatly enhance the site. There are many things I would like to do but due to my lack of time, I just can't. I'm talking about better market quotes,news feeds, all day support, etc. I have lots of ideas.
I am looking for suggestions and commentson how you think I can pull something like this off without losing a bunch of members. What if I were to keep some of the site free but charge a small feefor other services? I now have over 3000 email alert members and it gets pretty costly to send those emails out. I’ll bet many go unread but the recipient doesn’t realize they can just unsubscribe very easily. Perhaps Icould charge $5 or $10 a month for that service. I would then reveal more info in the email where currently I just put a link to the comments. Or maybe a small fee foran early release of the market comments with a free version coming out later in the day? Suggestions?
I knowpersonally my TSP account has gained over $20,000 since late summer. But it's not when the market is goingup that you will benefit, it's when it is going down and knowing when to lighten up that we really appreciate the insight. I would think $5 or $10 would be a relatively inconsequentialfee forthe information I could convey. That would be less than any one of the many services to which I currently subscribe to help me gather all of this information.
I'm looking for your help. What do you think? I am talking about $5 to $10 a month with some features still being free. Choose any or all that apply.
Thanks for being a part of TSP Talk!
Tom
Please read this before responding to the poll...
How would you feel about a better service with a small fee?
I am talking about $5 to $10 a month with some features still being free.
It has been more difficult for me to provide a good service to you since I have been banned from the internet at my work. As many of you know, I was given a 14-day unpaid vacation (suspension) for doing this. I used to be able to keep ½ an eye on the market during the morning and make decisions on allocation transfers as late a half hour before the noon ET deadline, then post it on the message board. Now I have to make my decisions the night before so I can get the email alerts out, update the message board with the new allocation and post the new allocation on the allocation website page.
Also at night, I do most of my market research, respond to the many emails I get, read and respond to themessage board posts, update the site with the currentshare prices, make other cosmetic site changes, all which doesn't leave me a lot of time to write up the daily market comments and send out the email alerts.
I also spend a couple hundred dollars each month for services, both investment and website support, to keep the siterunning and up to date. You can see where I am going with this...
I want to be able to help as many people as possible. Being that I have a good paying job, I was never concerned about making a bunch of money on the site. Investing is my hobby and passion. I really want to help people. If I were to give the site my all, meaning running the website fulltime, I would obviously haveto be compensated to replace my current income.Getting my services fulltime rather than a couple of hours a night would greatly enhance the site. There are many things I would like to do but due to my lack of time, I just can't. I'm talking about better market quotes,news feeds, all day support, etc. I have lots of ideas.
I am looking for suggestions and commentson how you think I can pull something like this off without losing a bunch of members. What if I were to keep some of the site free but charge a small feefor other services? I now have over 3000 email alert members and it gets pretty costly to send those emails out. I’ll bet many go unread but the recipient doesn’t realize they can just unsubscribe very easily. Perhaps Icould charge $5 or $10 a month for that service. I would then reveal more info in the email where currently I just put a link to the comments. Or maybe a small fee foran early release of the market comments with a free version coming out later in the day? Suggestions?
I knowpersonally my TSP account has gained over $20,000 since late summer. But it's not when the market is goingup that you will benefit, it's when it is going down and knowing when to lighten up that we really appreciate the insight. I would think $5 or $10 would be a relatively inconsequentialfee forthe information I could convey. That would be less than any one of the many services to which I currently subscribe to help me gather all of this information.
I'm looking for your help. What do you think? I am talking about $5 to $10 a month with some features still being free. Choose any or all that apply.
Thanks for being a part of TSP Talk!
Tom
