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Excellent news. This is the beginning of a new chapter for SEEK.
Note one typo: The Company generated record profits of $212,749 during the quarter compared to net income of $9,544 for the same period of 2014 should be --2013--
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You will likely appear much more experienced to others on this board if you keep your replies to less than five words.
Response from SG regarding share ownership
Hi Tom,
I canceled 2 billion shares back in 2010.
Best Regards,
Scott Gxxxxxxxx
Fxxxxxx & CXX
TheDxxxxxxxx.com, Inc.
Txxxx,Fxxxxxx
__________________________
Hi Scott,
Somewhere over the past years, the majority of us “longs” have been under the impression that you were the largest shareholder of common shares est. to be 1,000,000,000 but from the report it appears that your ownership only involves preferred shares.
Please let me know if you are able to comment on the matter.
Best,
Tom
Pinks and the OTC are not a place to be wishy-washy. These exchanges can generate 10x the gains of NASDAQ and NYSE in a fraction of the time, but great success requires a meticulous investor to perform their due diligence and make calculated decisions. Then remain steadfast by those decisions until their goals are reached. If short-term benefits outweigh your long-term goals, you take them and then reevaluate your goals.
Since Captain SG adjusted our course, the waves have diminished and the wind is at our backs. We couldn't ask for much more with all of the positive changes that have taken place in such a short time span. Full speed ahead!
long SEEK.
(btw the smartest investors I know tried to convince me to sell my PCLN shares back when it was trading 80... still holding)
Its only because its been 6 months since we filed on OTC Markets. They don't recognize our SEC filing on Edgar until it becomes effective or we file our first quarter 10Q which we are doing later this month. At that point we don't go back to pink current we go right up to the OTCQB.
Best Regards,
Scott Gxxxxxxxx
Fxxxxxx & CXX
TheDxxxxxxxx.com, Inc.
Tampa,Fxxxxxx
Maybe in Beverly Hills. There is a major meltdown that is on the edge involving college loan debt. It's three times bigger than the mortgage crisis. Also, automakers are perplexed at how to target the youth market because only a small portion are even getting their license. Why, because they have no money. In a national poll of 16 to 25 yrs of age, the average poll participant would rather have their computer over a car.
Baby boomers are clearing the workforce at record pace, entering the retirement era, and make up the majority when searching for doctors. Each and every one of them know what a directory is and I believe they will love the functionality even more than "chuckloves69". The rest of the domestic/foreign demographic will always be marketed to and relinquished with a touch of ol' school trendsetting throughout each and every decade. Old habits never die.
Here's one for ya, "Go SEEK!" I've already suggested it to SG that all of TheDirectory commercials should incorporate that catch phrase. (urges you to go search, doubles as the ticker, and triples as a rally for the stock)
Why does our country need so many cities? ha!
long SEEK
As others have reiterated, slow and steady growth is SGs goal here. The stronger the foundation and the steadier the climb, the more investors are likely to stick around for the long haul to substantial profitability and an ultimate buyout.
Regardless of the stability and solid foundation SEEK has established, I'm still a firm believer that we are going to run hard into the copper range. This will be due to a collision of up-listing, all news and projections validating, and a scramble to cover short/naked shorted positions by those that have been manipulating the hell out of SEEK. Yes, there are some that missed the boat and want to get in cheap, but there is a greater force involved here. Offshore, organized crime with a sole intent to drive penny stocks into bankruptcy. Although, those pink sheet companies that have real content inside their book covers become these criminals worst nightmares.
long SEEK
Technically it's $19 billion WhatsApp Inc. was founded in 2009 by Americans Brian Acton and Jan Koum (also the CEO), both former engineers of Yahoo, and is based in Mountain View, California. Whatsapp was only a 4+ yr. investment to hit this level of buyout potential. Even last year Zuck was offering $16 billion.
Article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2014/02/20/5-key-reasons-whatsapp-is-worth-19bn-to-facebook/
Great post. By the way, TheDirectory.com mobile is up and running, but it's likely still being tweaked and integrated.
6 billion "authorized" shares aren't utilized for valuation. Last known Q/S is around 2.8 billion shares which should be factored for valuation until updated otherwise.
Affirmative
From: sg@xxxxxxxxxxxx.com [mailto:sg@xxxxxxxxxxxx.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 7:03 PM
To: Thomas
Subject: RE: TheDirectory.com
Thanks Tom
Best Regards,
Scott Gxxxxxxxx
Fxxxxxx & CXX
TheXxxxxxxxx.com, Inc.
Xxxxx,Florida
(727) 4XX-XXXX
(813) 4XX-XXXX-Fax
Exactly my point. TheDirectory.com appears to have finally found the "yellow" brick road of the 21st century. SG has been following through 97.9% since the new build, buy, or partner strategy. I was so pleased with the transparency of his last conference call that I personally sent him a thank you e-mail.
Seems to me that many of the "naysayers" out there are working over time to drop the share price for reasons that revolve around their own personal gain.
IMO, we will see a whole new scale of investors in SEEK once SG "shows us the money" Needle in a haystack investment we have here.
long SEEK!
More importantly, why did the CEO of TheDirectory.com confirm that he has major firms on Wall Street interested in SEEK, but first "SEEK" must become current on all reporting and up list from the pink sheets before those Wall Street firms can act on their interests in TheDirectory.com?
I really want to know why major firms on Wall Street are interested in TheDirectory.com IMO, it seems as though these firms began seeing potential as I did 2+ yrs ago. Only I don't have the compliant restrictions they do before receiving the green light to invest big money.
India never happened, since that became the turning point of SGs new strategy of build, buy, or partner. Although, I am curious about the status of the New Jersey call center. That was one of my questions that I e-mailed to SG. One would think that with a national marketing campaign ready to roll out, SEEK will need this call center up and running.
BLULLISH, I'm fully aware of the current monthly uses being over 7 million. My reference point was 5 million in Oct 2013, to gauge how quickly we are averaging over 7 million right now. Gotagogetit understood my message very clearly.
(IMO) TheDirectory.com could not be anymore primed and on a solid path to a potentially attractive buyout. It won't take much to dramatically increase the monthly use averages per metro and travel site to then rocket the total monthly website uses over 100 million.
You may not have fully understood my angle with that prior message, but you clearly understand the value of SEEK. Many newbies and flippers that are involved here won't comprehend until everything falls inline, but I believe this will happen quickly and all at once.
I (too) believe that SEEK was naked shorted into oblivion, but time will tell just how greatly in March.
Previous message ref:
Focusing just on Hello Metro/City Guide/Travel Guide:
Keep in mind that the 1,580 locally targeted City Guide network was receiving 5 million monthly unique users in October 2013 and honestly, (IMO) the websites were terribly outdated at the time.
That's only an average of 3,164 unique monthly users per metro location.
So now we dust off all of the city guide locations, modernize each website/bring in our partners to spruce up each metro site and convert the remaining to "travel" sites.
Now let's interlink TheDirectory.com, add in the nationwide marketing campaign, and the New Jersey call center that SG strategically positioned to be near other technology & marketing experts...
Would it be unrealistic to say that SEEK potentially boosts the metro/travel sites to a monthly average of 5,000 or 7,000? If so, that equates to 79,000,000 or 110,600,000 monthly hits.
How will that affect the advertising revenue and rates? (It's a huge positive!)
Focusing just on Hello Metro/City Guide/Travel Guide:
Keep in mind that the 1,580 locally targeted City Guide network was receiving 5 million monthly unique users in October 2013 and honestly, (IMO) the websites were terribly outdated at the time.
That's only an average of 3,164 unique monthly users per metro location.
So now we dust off all of the city guide locations, modernize each website/bring in our partners to spruce up each metro site and convert the remaining to "travel" sites.
Now let's interlink TheDirectory.com, add in the nationwide marketing campaign, and the New Jersey call center that SG strategically positioned to be near other technology & marketing experts...
Would it be unrealistic to say that SEEK potentially boosts the metro/travel sites to a monthly average of 5,000 or 7,000? If so, that equates to 79,000,000 or 110,600,000 monthly hits.
How will that affect the advertising revenue and rates?
Updated: The only known group to receive shares of recent is TCA Global for the credit facility. According to a conference call last October 2013, as part of the $6 million line of credit deal for SEEK. SG mentioned that the issued shares were restricted for six months and were to be provided to TCA Global in Jan 2014, with an assumed expiration in July 2014. If true, this would also explain the reasoning for the increased authorized share structure.
TheDirectory.com "jobs" section is now updated and powered by careerbuilder. Also, updates to the whitepages and TheDirectory.net Once we have all of the Hello metro and designated travel websites refreshed and modernized, this will be ready to compile traffic by 4 to 7x thru Cal 2014. IMO
Curious to know if perhaps SEEK might be acquiring a company that currently trades on the OTCQB.
TheDirectory.com is making progress with their website advertising. Now when I search for a dentist and click on the "telephone" icon it takes me to a page that has two types of advertisements, one scrolling for XP DUES high end, metal detectors and a stationary link for Liberty Mutual Insurance.
Looks as though SEEK is building very nice momentum; once again, if we break $0.005 we run to $0.0057.
IMO, I would urge everyone to keep in mind that SEEK hasn't come close to tapping it's goal potential yet. SG's ultimate "move" is to capitalize on internet, video advertising for local businesses. Many believe this trend to elevate to a whole new level by 2015. Meanwhile, TheDirectory.com advertising customers also receive new online (design) tools, increased capabilities to track traffic/statistics, and the ability to receive online appointments through TheDirectory.com Many spectators and investors have far underestimated the potential of what we could be looking at here for a 1 to 2 yr. plan.
What time are the fireworks? I'm sitting on my lawn chair with a laptop.
Very good point referencing global. If we keep in mind that the "Hello Metro" acquisition reached beyond the U.S., as the "Hello Metro" network is fully redesigned and integrated with TheDirectory.com it could potentially catapult the entire world growth by unity.
As you've said.
Opinion yes, belly-aching no
"Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should try to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy only when others are fearful." Warren Buffet
Sit tight and talk to us in April.
That was funny. In all of my investing years, that's one stock analysis that I haven't heard before.
Will do!
The more your boss brings the price per share down, the more shares we buy. Keep up the good work little slugger.
Authorized Shares 3,501,000,000 as of Nov 11, 2013 so the additional would be 2.5 billion. Otherwise, I concur.
I sent a four paragraph letter to SG after hearing of the increase and expressed to him my concerns. Yes, it may be better to increase the "Authorized Shares" in comparison to a reverse split, but only temporarily, if there isn't sufficient tactic behind the increase. If we simply dish out IOUs without gaining any long term value, then when a reverse split is finally performed shareholders could experience much greater dilution. At that point shareholders may no longer be the #1 priority of SEEK, but possible Yahoo, Microsoft, or Google. Any of those top institutions would be very adamant of the final share structure before making an offer. Our focus should be to make certain that Scott keeps shareholder value as a priority. Reversing his 1 billion shares could keep him well within big profits, but could ultimately hurt the loyal retail community. (IMO)
Looking forward to the conference call.
PS. I've also reminded SG that he provided no mention of a necessity for increasing the "Authorized Shares" to meet the requirement of the $5 million credit facility during the Dec 19th conference call. Unless, the reference was linked to a prior conference call (Oct) where SG had mentioned the restricted share issuance and 6 month hold requirement before exercising as part of the credit deal to the institution...
Agreed. My opinion is that the $10,000,000 should only be used as a raw projection of what fantasy potential this stock currently holds. There are many hurdles left to jump, but we have cleared some nice ones, so far.
At this point, the latest forecast by SG was $10,000,000+ gross revenue for 2014. He factored this on the several announced partnerships, Hello Metro acquisition, and the TheDirectory.com call center that is currently being established in NJ.
This does not include speculative growth for a national marketing campaign or any other pending acquisitions or partnerships.
There is no way of gauging a price per share from revenue for 2014, other than the adopted 8x to 20x gross anticipated earnings for an emerging technology stock. (I.M.O.)
Agreed 100%
Wow miles and allbeck are working some serious overtime to pay for the Christmas holiday. Ask your boss for a raise already.
Not sure if everyone has had a chance to read this.
I found the article last Friday about Snapchat and it's $3 billion (with a b) valuation.
I've forwarded a copy to Scott and he agreed via his reply. Article and link are also below. I suppose my post is two fold, 1) strategy that can be deployed by thedirectory.com 2) If Snapchat is worth $3 billion to Facebook, what are we worth after completing partnerships, numerous revisions, and expansions.... pay attention, indeed.
Hi Tom,
Very interesting article. Thanks.
Best Regards,
XXXXX
Good Morning XXXXX,
Please check out this article in its entirety. It has a strategy advised at the bottom by Jan Rezab / Linkedin (highlighted in yellow) that could be very beneficial as a strategy for us and TheDirectory.com
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/snapchat-money-even-though-deletes-130300042.html
How Snapchat Will Make Money Even Though It Deletes The Most Important Asset It Has — Data
By Jim Edwards 22 hours ago
Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel
This is the central mystery at the heart of Snapchat: How can it make money when it deletes the most important asset any tech startup has — the data created by its users?
Other tech companies — Facebook and Twitter — have become hugely valuable because they allowed advertisers to target the content created by their users. That's why you see ads on Facebook relevant to things you've liked, and promoted tweets on Twitter relevant to the tweets you've written.
But Snapchat, obviously, deletes all the content its users create, as soon as they create it.
Snapchat's terms of service indicate the app keeps only a tiny fraction of the user-data available to Facebook or Twitter. In terms of selling advertising, this appears to leave Snapchat rather vulnerable. It can only persuade advertisers to target its users based on the same data offered by the most basic of mobile apps: usernames, passwords, email addresses, phone numbers, and age.
Snapchat, as a revenue driver, is currently less sophisticated than Bejeweled, in other words.
One potential solution to Snapchat's revenue situation is so simple it's brilliant — and it ought to silence critics who say Snapchat isn't worth the $3 billion valuation it has been given.
First the context.
The Snapchat backlash
There has been a fierce backlash in the tech world against people who scoffed at Snapchat for rejecting Facebook's $3 billion offer to acquire the company.
The logic of the backlash is this: You're an idiot to think that Snapchat — which makes no money, and is run by a couple of 20-somethings with no prior business experience, neither of whom yet control the central patent of their own technology because it's tangled in litigation with the "other" founder of Snapchat — isn't worth $3 billion.
Of course it's worth $3 billion, these people argue, because startups which have lots of users always find a way to make money, eventually. And, also, they can run advertising on Snapchat!
That's what Facebook and Twitter did: Problem solved!
This logic is frustrating. It's simply not good enough to say, "We don't know how Snapchat will make money, but because other companies have made money in the past we should assume Snapchat will too. Snapchat is therefore worth $3 billion."
Snapchat bulls ignore the fact that three out of four tech startups fail. And there is a long history of companies with very large user bases, strong network effects, and equally impressive valuations turning out to be worth only a tiny fraction of that, or even nothing at all: TheGlobe.com. GeoCities. MySpace. LiveJournal. Second Life. Friendster. Tribester. Napster.
The odds are against Snapchat
The fact is the odds are against Snapchat — which is why it is completely reasonable to question the wisdom of investors who have put $73 million into the company (by July 2013) turning down an all-cash offer that is 41 times that stake.
Not being able to offer advertisers any user-generated content to target — even though as a social media app, user-generated content is its reason for being — is a serious issue. If Snapchat is "worth" $3 billion the assumption is that it must generate profits after revenues that will someday equal more than $3 billion. There are very few standalone mobile businesses that generate that kind of cash. They are Google, Facebook, Twitter and maybe Pandora, eventually. The largest pure-play mobile ad business on the planet, Velti, just went bankrupt trying to do the same thing.
I recently asked one of Snapchat's investors to address this conundrum — how do you sell data that you've deleted — and the person declined comment on the basis that, with potential acquisition offers and a new funding round in the background, the issue was too sensitive to talk about.
Hmm.
How do you sell data you've deleted?
Jan Rezab / LinkedIn
Jan Rezab of Socialbakers
So I turned to Jan Rezab, CEO of Social Bakers, one of the larger social media marketing agencies that does business with Facebook and Twitter. His company has 2,000 ad clients globally, pouring millions of dollars into Facebook and Twitter. Those advertisers include Samsung, Nestle and Diageo.
Rezab pointed out something so obvious, it's brilliant. All Snapchat needs to do is sync its application programming interface with Facebook or Twitter and advertisers can use that data to target users inside Snapchat. (An "API" is the thing that allows one app to talk to, or build on top of, another.)
For instance, if an advertiser wanted to reach Snapchat users who are also fans of Manchester United who live in Oregon, it would identify those people on Facebook who were also users of Snapchat. (Facebook has 1 billion users, and therefore a huge portion of Snapchat users also have Facebook accounts.) The advertiser could then send ads into Snapchat targeted only at Snapchatters who said on Facebook they were United fans in Oregon.
Thus Snapchat doesn't actually need its own data in order to slice and dice its audience the way advertisers really want.
Once you know that, Snapchat's fast-growing user base suddenly looks very valuable indeed.
Hi Tom,
Very interesting article. Thanks.
Best Regards,
XXX
Good Morning XXX,
Please check out this article in its entirety. It has a strategy advised at the bottom by Jan Rezab / Linkedin (highlighted in yellow) that could be very beneficial as a strategy for us and TheDirectory.com
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/snapchat-money-even-though-deletes-130300042.html
How Snapchat Will Make Money Even Though It Deletes The Most Important Asset It Has — Data
By Jim Edwards 22 hours ago
Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel
This is the central mystery at the heart of Snapchat: How can it make money when it deletes the most important asset any tech startup has — the data created by its users?
Other tech companies — Facebook and Twitter — have become hugely valuable because they allowed advertisers to target the content created by their users. That's why you see ads on Facebook relevant to things you've liked, and promoted tweets on Twitter relevant to the tweets you've written.
But Snapchat, obviously, deletes all the content its users create, as soon as they create it.
Snapchat's terms of service indicate the app keeps only a tiny fraction of the user-data available to Facebook or Twitter. In terms of selling advertising, this appears to leave Snapchat rather vulnerable. It can only persuade advertisers to target its users based on the same data offered by the most basic of mobile apps: usernames, passwords, email addresses, phone numbers, and age.
Snapchat, as a revenue driver, is currently less sophisticated than Bejeweled, in other words.
One potential solution to Snapchat's revenue situation is so simple it's brilliant — and it ought to silence critics who say Snapchat isn't worth the $3 billion valuation it has been given.
First the context.
The Snapchat backlash
There has been a fierce backlash in the tech world against people who scoffed at Snapchat for rejecting Facebook's $3 billion offer to acquire the company.
The logic of the backlash is this: You're an idiot to think that Snapchat — which makes no money, and is run by a couple of 20-somethings with no prior business experience, neither of whom yet control the central patent of their own technology because it's tangled in litigation with the "other" founder of Snapchat — isn't worth $3 billion.
Of course it's worth $3 billion, these people argue, because startups which have lots of users always find a way to make money, eventually. And, also, they can run advertising on Snapchat!
That's what Facebook and Twitter did: Problem solved!
This logic is frustrating. It's simply not good enough to say, "We don't know how Snapchat will make money, but because other companies have made money in the past we should assume Snapchat will too. Snapchat is therefore worth $3 billion."
Snapchat bulls ignore the fact that three out of four tech startups fail. And there is a long history of companies with very large user bases, strong network effects, and equally impressive valuations turning out to be worth only a tiny fraction of that, or even nothing at all: TheGlobe.com. GeoCities. MySpace. LiveJournal. Second Life. Friendster. Tribester. Napster.
The odds are against Snapchat
The fact is the odds are against Snapchat — which is why it is completely reasonable to question the wisdom of investors who have put $73 million into the company (by July 2013) turning down an all-cash offer that is 41 times that stake.
Not being able to offer advertisers any user-generated content to target — even though as a social media app, user-generated content is its reason for being — is a serious issue. If Snapchat is "worth" $3 billion the assumption is that it must generate profits after revenues that will someday equal more than $3 billion. There are very few standalone mobile businesses that generate that kind of cash. They are Google, Facebook, Twitter and maybe Pandora, eventually. The largest pure-play mobile ad business on the planet, Velti, just went bankrupt trying to do the same thing.
I recently asked one of Snapchat's investors to address this conundrum — how do you sell data that you've deleted — and the person declined comment on the basis that, with potential acquisition offers and a new funding round in the background, the issue was too sensitive to talk about.
Hmm.
How do you sell data you've deleted?
Jan Rezab / LinkedIn
Jan Rezab of Socialbakers
So I turned to Jan Rezab, CEO of Social Bakers, one of the larger social media marketing agencies that does business with Facebook and Twitter. His company has 2,000 ad clients globally, pouring millions of dollars into Facebook and Twitter. Those advertisers include Samsung, Nestle and Diageo.
Rezab pointed out something so obvious, it's brilliant. All Snapchat needs to do is sync its application programming interface with Facebook or Twitter and advertisers can use that data to target users inside Snapchat. (An "API" is the thing that allows one app to talk to, or build on top of, another.)
For instance, if an advertiser wanted to reach Snapchat users who are also fans of Manchester United who live in Oregon, it would identify those people on Facebook who were also users of Snapchat. (Facebook has 1 billion users, and therefore a huge portion of Snapchat users also have Facebook accounts.) The advertiser could then send ads into Snapchat targeted only at Snapchatters who said on Facebook they were United fans in Oregon.
Thus Snapchat doesn't actually need its own data in order to slice and dice its audience the way advertisers really want.
Once you know that, Snapchat's fast-growing user base suddenly looks very valuable indeed.
Technically, I took a hit at $0.0014 and then backed up my truck at sub 0.001