Quick and timely financial media updates for beleaguered financial PR people. Brian Sozzi, the executive editor of Yahoo! Finance, is the guest interview at Talking Biz News. Brian: Yahoo! Finance has always been about pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in investing......
Friday was Paul La Monica’s last day as CNN Business digital correspondent and markets reporter. He was in that position for more than 20 years. If you’re in the small cadre of financial public relations professionals then you know Paul......
Today, the jury returns for the fourth day of the deliberations in the Elizabeth Holmes trial. The trial is a case study in bad financial media relations that can lead to dire consequences. Holmes will face up to 20 years......
You’ve been hacked That sobering realization led to more than a month of intense maneuvering and daily entreaties to regain my identity. The protracted battle involved the state Attorney General, three Federal agencies, and a Superior court. You can fight......
How do you communicate in a 24/7 crisis cycle? My expectations for webinars are low. They’re often tedious, self-serving, and visually dead. Five minutes in and I bail if I’m not engaged. Then I checked in to the Agility PR......
Murder The Media. Scrawled on a door at the U.S. Capitol by crazed insurrectionists on January 6, 2021, a day that will live in infamy. Insane, but it captures the festering, misplaced anger of a disturbingly large group of the......
Howard Rubenstein, the Czar of PR as the tabloids and high brow media alike called him, died on Tuesday, December 29, 2020. That Howard was powerful, well-connected, and elevated the PR business in New York, is well documented. Underneath that,......
There are more than 45,000 public relations firms in the United States alone, according to IBISWorld. Why would you hire a public relations firm, and how do you find the one that’s right for you? PR budgets run from a......
Finsquared Clients in the News: Financial advisors, and the public, look for answers during the global economic meltdown and coronavirus health crisis. Examples: Portfolio Directions for Uncertain Times Industry experts highlight trends in investing and financial planning, and what they......
This opinion piece I wrote for PR week in March, 2020, certainly proved to be prescient. Excerpt: Brick and mortar PR agencies large and small face a day of reckoning says Mark Rose of Finsquared. The public relations business is......
Bonds were supposed to be safe. If equities were crashing, bonds would stabilize losses, and maybe behave as a counter-balance. Not so in this extremely volatile market. What is going on? Let’s check in with John Lekas, Finsquared client and......
As of this writing, more than 1,100 are dead and tens of thousands are infected with the deadly, novel Coronavirus. Although mainly concentrated in China, the infection is rattling global markets and negatively impacting industries like aerospace and shipping. Because......
You don’t have to be boring to succeed in finance On the other hand, you don’t have to dress in satin, slick your hair down and lip sync like Abba (If you did, you might get 377M views, as Abba......
Donald Trumped by Kim Trump must be the greatest PR huckster of all time. He regaled (or repelled) New Yorkers with crass self-promotion and shameless bloviating for decades. He couldn’t buy his way into New York society but he sure......
I didn’t coin that phrase but I totally subscribe to it. The primary audience of PR is Google. Your authority as an individual or company, how you’re found, what people think of you before they speak to you, and possibly......
With investing becoming more automated, where do advisors add value? Behavioral coaching, says Tim Buckley, Vanguard’s CEO. At Inside ETFs, Buckley reported: 58% of an advisors job is susceptible to automation, and fees are likely to continue to decline. In most......
Scanning my huge list of marketing, SEO, and social media blogs I came across this item which made me cheer. In many ways Andy Borowitz breaks the mold of humorists. His alerts come like a splash of cold water and......
Sean Hanlon, CEO and CIO of Hanlon Investment Management, weighed in on the “Benefits and Challenges in Centralized Investment Decisions” in a recent story in Plan Adviser. “Given the pending Department of Labor (DOL) fiduciary rule and increasing litigation risk,......
Caution ahead, says Steve Blumenthal, CEO of CMG Capital Management Group on “Countdown to the Closing Bell” on Fox Business. Steve was interviewed by Ashley Webster, filling in for Liz Claman. Steve said that as a momentum investor, CMG is......
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Hanlon Investment Management is profiled in Financial Advisor IQ. Says CEO Sean Hanlon: “It’s pretty well-known what the technology needs of firms are, and we touch them all. We are all an FA needs. We are their entire technology stack,......
The brick and mortar PR agency, built on a model that hasn’t changed since the 1930s, is ripe for disruption. In this digital / mobile age there’s no reason to pay for bureaucracy and overhead at the expense of creativity......
Are you positioned to benefit from the new LinkedIn as it ramps up integration with Microsoft? Microsoft paid $26.2 billion for LinkedIn earlier this year. The symmetry between the two companies was not immediately apparent. How would Microsoft derive value......
Steve Blumenthal, CMG Capital Management Group CEO, was a guest on FOX Business’ “Countdown to the Closing Bell with Liz Claman.” Steve discusses the possibility of a significant correction in equity markets due to low GDP growth, negative corporate earnings, excessive......
CMG Capital Management Group CEO Steve Blumenthal was on theStreet to talk about preparing your portfolio for a recession now. Blumenthal was interviewed for the video segment (below); the story was also published on theStreet: Consider These 4 Stocks For......
John Carter is founder of Simpler Trading and author of the best-selling book Mastering the Trade. His third Forbes column, and his first as an official “contributor” to Forbes, discuss the negative interest rate environment we may be seeing in......
Steve Blumenthal, CEO of CMG Capital Management Group, talks with Gregg Greenberg about some of the ETFs in the CMG Total Portfolio. See the segment here: Four Hot ETFs With Strong Relative Momentum Gold has been shining so far in......
John Carter, founder of SimplerTrading and author of the best-selling Mastering the Trade published his 2nd Forbes article last week. Says John: “Powerful forces are at work in the marketplace that are hidden from view. The “funding dollar carry trade”......
This excerpt from an infographic from Kissmetrics provides great insight into the mindset required for successful content marketing. How will it make my audience feel? Will it stand out? Does it tell a story? It needs to have that little......
Congratulations to John Carter, founder of SimplerOptions and SimplerTrading, and author of Mastering the Trade (now in 2nd edition) on his first Forbes column. John writes in a conversational way about important market signals investors should pay attention to. Read How......
In his “Mad Money” segment last night Jim Cramer once again profiled the charts and market outlook of Fibonacci Queen Carolyn Boroden. Cramer last looked at Boroden on January 26 when she correctly predicted that the S&P could have a......
Inside ETFs wrapped up in Hollywood, Florida last Wednesday. Inside ETFs is the ultimate ETF conference, with 120 speakers, 1,700+ attendees. Inside ETFs offered critical macro insights and actionable portfolio strategies from the leading ETF institutions and ETF advisors. A high......