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Good observation, I also think that there is a security reason behind it.
With the front end separated from the backend, it puts a barrier between customer data and the publicly accessible web.
I would have to assume that they keep separate databases for frontend and backend operations so that if the front end of the website was hacked it would not expose any customer data.
At least thats my understanding of what many companies do to prevent theft of customer information - makes it more difficult for hackers to gain access.
I cant access that link, looks like they fixed it
Really? That doesn't make much sense, but who knows. There must be millions of websites that don't show a check mark for those programs, as Guard Dogs website is PCI compliant and 99% of other websites aren't...
In most computer terms a Question Mark would not mean unknown security issues (how is it a security issue if it is unknown? lol) - it would mean Unknown as to the status of the sites security (could be secure, could be insecure, thats why a question mark means "we don't know"). I am guessing only major websites are accurately rated on that kind of software and a majority of web sites are unknown.
LOL
New to trading, no?
I totally agree with that as well...
I don't believe any communication has been cut, they are still available by phone it seems...
I think its just easier for most people to spew garbage online and through e-mails than it is for them to have the courage to pick up the phone and talk to someone.
If I was running the company, I probably woulda done the same.
It's just too easy for someone to submit a form or an e-mail containing worthless questions vs calling in with well thought out questions, suggestions, or commentary.
lol, wish I had known, was down $1.5k for about 2 weeks - wouldnt wanna tell people to buy into my losing trade!
Then woke up to +7.5, ill be sure to send you over my next "pick" lol
Yep...plus a release would also totally go against the basis of the letter..I would think...
lol
You only learned one method of marketing?
exactly, and technical analysis should not be dependent on news...I cannot believe anyone would attempt to make that argument or blame the company not releasing news as an excuse for their lack of technical analysis knowledge. When the charts you made were going to be "right" ONLY if there was news released, that is just adding a bunch of technical indicators to a chart based on a wild guess.
I also would find it misleading to newer investors/traders who read technical analysis that isn't based on anything but a hunch.
anyway, off for the day.
glta
do you e-mail them every day?
Probably investors asking the same questions over and over and over again day after day? I can see how it would become useless waste of resources especially when investors can easily speak to a live person...don't see why anyone would complain, unless they took away their phone number lol
If I was the T/A for any pink sheet companies I woulda killed myself long ago...lol - that's probably why no T/A's for pinks have websites or e-mail addresses or contact forms because SOME people would spam them day after day with the same questions.
Excellent response and great questions I hope some here will think about those as well, I always enjoy your posts.
I do not understand what 'silence' this is? I believe there have been updates on the IR website at least a couple times last week right?
I know it isn't a massive PR (PR's, by the way, can become expensive), but it is by no means "silence" in my book...
I'll get right on that...
A push involves building a successful company, I do not think he wants to issue a press release without any useful information.
When that happens, everybody here bitches and moans about it...In the business world, at least in my experiences, things take time (aka patience), and investors who are not willing to wait for material developments and insist on pumped up PRs released too early (aka, those pinksheet companies who release "letters of intent"), are not investors and are in fact traders, whom I respect as well as investors.
Just do not believe a long term investor would have the same viewpoint that you carry. IMO, and not attacking you personally, my view of long term may differ from yours.
As a long term shareholder, I would think it would be understood that long term is not short term, and long term requires patience...but that's just IMO.
He is obviously delivering what has been promised, just not in the time frame you would like to have him deliver it. As a long term shareholder, that would not be a complaint.
The public won't notice from a PR, the investment community will.
I believe he is attempting to build a company, and not necessarily a day trading vehicle (although I know where you are coming from in that new investors would bring in awareness and increase share price, I did trade equities in the past and loved when the share price rose when not short, lol, but I only trade FX now). I just believe that the top priority right now is to build a successful company and not cater to traders, just IMO.
There is no argument that can prove to me that a PR would bring anybody BUT traders/investors, and I believe the money is better spent on building a company from a long term growth investor perspective.
It seems some of the investors do not understand the actual logistics of a large marketing plan...maybe you could explain some (even though you already have many times lol)?
I wouldn't assume advertising on TV/Radio immediately...it is a start up company seems that it is conscious of the amount of funds it has budgeted for marketing every month. Advertising for one month in a massive blast of TV advertisements will be forgotten by the "norm" (aka average people who are not investors)...at least IMO I think I would rather see a slowly building marketing plan unfold.
At least GD isn't dumping shares to pay for massive advertisements...for those who have not dealt in advertising, it is EXTREMELY expensive to get noticed by EVERYBODY. Super Bowl anyone? Millions of dollars, and that doesn't even get attention of 1/4th of the country.
As a shareholder I would be concerned about the budget of the company and its fiscal responsibilities instead of having a banner placed on a completely pointless location like iHub...
Impatience is the killer of all logic
just IMO
Well, I hope you also get a paycheck as well too...lol
Wouldn't want to spend the food money...
just searched for guard dog id
Has anyone searched for guard dog on youtube?
http://www.youtube.com/user/GuardDogID
working for me
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yep, pinks arent much effected by the big boards, only big board I have been buying has been ETFC since like 70 cents, gonna wait til Ameritrade buys em out :)
Still holding 6,000 F at $1.27-1.70 definitely gonna drop that soon, just getting greedy now lol.
But the worse the economy gets, the more desperate identity thieves get!
Definitely is.
I like it mostly because of the fonts...LOL
Arm:
Looks like that home page thing was fixed, it doesn't seem to redirect for me anymore from the IP address...
LOL what are the odds, guess we think alike!
What browser are you using, it looks like it is redirecting, I do not get any error, but when you click it that IP takes you to https://secure.guarddogid.com....
It could possibly be due to a linked javascript or image file running on and "http" URL instead of an https URL. When that happens, the browser attempts to notify you that only SOME of the information on the page is encrypted and some isn't (that linked non-SSL file). Typically its a small fix. If it is a certificate error, it may be system admins working on the actual server configuration itself.
This post applies not just for iHub, but for many other sites..if you guys have all been seeing advertisements for LifeLock.
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=43718676
LOL noted, don't worry, most normal humans just want it to "work" instead of knowing the deep dark details within lol
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