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If Lenny is serious about making this a household name then doing a R/S would be the end of it all.
it will hopefully be the last resort...revenues first.
First, no I meant Skyall had a 100 million dollar revenue in 2008..this was while the financial crisis was in full swing.
I konw how you like to argue but are you seriously going to say that a company that has a 100 million annual basis in selling is samll potatoes...if so, you are truly an idiot and should find another hobby.
I posted their financials becasue Garyst stated that Skymall faded out in the 1980's when in fact they did not even become a comapny until 1990....you still owe me an apology on that comment.
Second, last week while I was flying to Jacksonville only roughly 1/4 of the flight...which was full had any sort of device. From what I saw..but did not make a case study out of it was most people were reading real books, magazines and staring into space..not electronic gizmos.
You seem to want to pull this company down no matter what facts are there to back up potential LKEN has...
Why are you even here? let alone invested?
nor do I...revenues soon followed buy stock buyback. not saying it will happen overnite.
The revenues speak for themselves...so much for your theory.
This article regarding Skymall is from 2008. Though only a few years old..others have mentioned the Skymall is fluff PR and that SM is washed up and faded out in the 80's and 1990's even though it didn't start as a company until 1990. Let's sell some ink!!
Cruising along at 30,000 feet, you peer out the window. Nothing to see here. Just limitless pale blue sky and the glare of the all-too-close sun hitting your eyes. The in-flight movie is silently playing out in front of you. You’d hoped to catch Iron Man in the theater, but the idea of paying $7 to see it in its edited-for-airlines glory isn’t as appealing.
There’s nothing free to do on airplanes anymore.
Even the peanuts and the soda come at a price. The ticket is more expensive, the flights are less frequent. Somehow, flying has become even less fun. For the more experienced travelers, whose miles are being voided as they spend the majority of their days sitting idly on a tarmac, this probably doesn’t seem possible. It is.
But wait — there is good news. There is still one ounce of fun that hasn’t been drained from your flight. It’s still free, and even a slowing economy can’t ground it. You know it’s there. It’s been right in front of you the entire time. Just reach into the seat pocket and pull it out. Right behind the racially and gender-ambiguous cartoon safety instructions and right in front of the People magazine the previous passenger left behind.
It’s the SkyMall catalog, and it’s all yours for the rest of the flight.
196 pages filled with the latest in gadgets and gizmos. The products you assumed did not exist, but now can’t resist. Your tickets to a quasi-futuristic world await. A world where digital cameras come on key chains. Where movies are projected inside your sunglasses. Where watches wind themselves — in cherry oak cases with silent motors.
And everything has a sensor. There’s no need to ever use your hands again. This is the life you’ve imagined for yourself, and SkyMall will help you get there. While you’re crammed into your ergonomically incorrect seat, wishing you were anywhere else, SkyMall opens the door to an easier, luxurious, and better life.
In case you haven’t been on a domestic U.S. flight in the past two decades, SkyMall is a catalog that sells “innovative merchandise” manufactured by a consortium of producers. SkyMall prints 20 million catalogs per year that are annually seen by more than 620 million travelers. The products in the catalogs range from inventively practical to laughably unnecessary.
Back on the ground, the economy is still in a slump. As you furiously rip through your catalog, most Americans are going through a period of conservation and saving. Gas is expensive, food is expensive, and more and more people are unemployed. That’s no secret. We see the headlines every day.
So why are people still buying frivolous items? Many retail chains around the country are closing stores and cutting back staff, and some are even filing for bankruptcy. Yet somehow, SkyMall has gone through one of its most profitable years. Estimates put SkyMall’s 2007 revenue at over $100 million.
Maybe things aren’t as bad as they seem. Over the past month, gas prices have begun to come back to Earth. Demand is down, and consumer confidence is actually nudging its way up. Sure, gas is still expensive, but maybe consumers are just accepting that. Maybe they can afford $4 gas. If they can’t, how can they afford to buy snow cone makers from SkyMall?
Airlines are in trouble. Fuel prices have destroyed profits, and tickets are more expensive than ever. On the ground, shipping rates have risen because of the high fuel costs. Yet SkyMall, a company whose target market consists almost entirely of airline passengers, and whose products are available only through delivery, is flourishing. Maybe consumers have more money to spend than we think.
Sure, a lot of people are cutting back on little expenses here and there. Starbucks has been forced to close a number of its stores because people are learning to live without $4 lattes. But can they live without the Dough-Nu-Matic home doughnut maker ($129.99)? Or what about the Double Chocolate Fountain ($119.99)? You never know when a spontaneous wedding reception might erupt.
So what should we believe? Should we look at the consumer confidence index and infer that the economy is at an all-time low? Maybe we should look at SkyMall’s sales, which tell us that consumers still have plenty of disposable income to blow on unnecessary impulse items. After all, what do consumers know, anyway?
Most consumers are not economists, and the majority have absolutely no clue what is going to happen. So why do we care what they think? Instead of assessing how consumers feel about the economy, we should be looking at how they contribute to it. They’re still spending their money, no matter what the headlines say.
Historically speaking, consumers polled for confidence indexes are mostly misguided. In 1992, confidence numbers were about as low as they are now. But that was after we had pulled ourselves out of a recession and poised to enter a sustained period of growth. Consumers might not have seemed too confident when asked their opinions, but their feelings and emotions had little effect on the actual economy.
Speeding through the air at 500 miles per hour, the average consumer may not feel very confident about the economy. They may perceive the current situation to be as shaky as the ride, but SkyMall sales show that they do have pretty high self-confidence. They’re confident they can afford impulse purchases on an already expensive flight. Confident that $89.99 isn’t too much for a pen that can hold 1,000 MP3 songs.
And SkyMall’s consumers also show a life-affirming confidence in airlines themselves. SkyMall’s sales may come from impulse purchases, but customers have to put up with some delayed gratification, waiting to receive their orders. They may think that the economy is in a free fall, but they have faith they’ll touch down safely and be able to enjoy their new purchases in the future.
Now, that’s confidence.
Regards,
Jamie Ellis
August 15, 2008
read his first two sentences and then say your sorry.
your living in your own digital world urdeep. so not true.
kindle and all the other gadgets ate fades in my opinion...i believe that most still enjoy hold the book in hand and flipping pages...not staring at some 4 inch screen on an ipad or whatever.
True, some printed itmes are used less.
Skymall wasn't even founded until 1990. The point you made about being popular in the 80's just shows you do not know what your talking about.
Keep trying...
if you didnt see a copy on your last flight was becasue someone probably took it with them to order a product...
I take them home with me to look though...so do others.
Southwest Airlines has them....just flew to Jacksonville last week and yup there it was..
Barney Fife....I fly six times a year on average for work...there is always a copy on every flight...not sure were you got the idea that the airlines don't use them...Can you use facts to back up your assumption that SkyMall is fading away.
Having your product offered in a exclusive highly visible advertisement is fluff??
Ya..ok.
we all have our days...my friend.
every time we get positive news we get negative pps..
how about some bad news to get this moving north..
ya...vaporize instead.
guess Mr. Liddell asked for his pay check.
all of Lenny's billions of shares he obtained when taking over LKEN could make a difference....
R/S would hurt his investment...
exactly...some on here haven't been around penny's long enough to understand this.
Market Cap is important but not always in pinky land...as you said anything can happen is a split second.
(as he beats his chest)...
They also did not have the large scale marketing campaign going on like we have seen over the last several months..after the last revenues were released. With all the exposure i feel the #'s will improve every quarter for sometime.
just tell us for the date for release of the new commercial and this a new ball game.
it will be great for us to witness one of the few companies to make it off the ground who has as good, if not better chance than any other product i have seen in recent months to sell in volume.
if we end up moving north eventually I will keep some of these shares on hand for long, long term growth...time will tell.
Another PR about the latest channel for sales in SkyMall..this is great news.
Thanks Lenny...keep it going.
pps will catch up..
that's one....
so based one Spongetek we should sell? This is a completley different product. Ink vs. Sponges.
#4 sounds a little far fetched..
Bye bye...see ya
OK...name those companies you speak of that failed with good products.
Also, did the companys that failed ever get the chance to make a television commercial that went national/worldwide? Probably not.
Have we seen it yet? no, but it is coming...soon.
Thanks but no thanks for your insight....again.
FreeInk4life...Refills4you..seems they are branching out with a multi-facet approach to dispensing the product..
The plan may consist of choking out the competition with market satuartion and offering a supreme product to the consumer.
Go Lenny!
Maybe they have been catching a lot of slack from retailers regarding the name becasue it really is not free....anyway you look at..shipping/handling your still paying.
It just would have been nice to know they were selling an alternative product.
Extremely Interesting..check this out.
Go to www.skymall.com
look under electronics then printers.
Yes Accubrite is there selling the product but look at the name.. Not sure what this is all about. Kind of important information would you think we might of heard about this via PR or some other means.
Skymall is a traveler magazine featured on most airlines worldwide. They sell lots of gadgets much like a Heartland's or other novelty store. Lots of exposure.
that magazine has some cool gadgets..I always take one with me.
Good to hear it's getting out there...so sad today..I guess I got my 4's...
I cannot give you anymore Lenny my friend.
Same sh*t different stock...it's a penny stock, they are the all pretty much the same. Not sure what your point is besides the obvious.
Go to any stock board and you hear the same thing...eveyone wishing for the stock to rise....all done.
the only pr I care to see is the date the infomercial goes national on tv.
This will make or break us...
nothing else matters at this point without it.
so when the 223 million + sell at ask...then the pps may have a chance to rise?? correct? thanks.
GL with 4's
Got a nightcrawler bouncin on the bottom...waiting for a nibble.
a national/worldwide advertisment campaign via television in the works and you say this is over???
encouraging that he would leave what seems a fairly well run company to work with a no-name....must be some serious potential in his outlook. He was the President after all..not sure where he could have gone wrong signing LKEN as a client of Stardust..
waiting on 4's myself...
Anyone wonder why Mark Liddell didnt just stay with Stardust to promote Greene Concepts?? Why would have to resign to pursue a deal with LKEN?? I find it interesting....
I remember when Ford was a penny stock for a short couple days when the markets hit the floor.
.25 a share....yeah 25 cents!
I could not believe it even though I was watching happen on my screen.
Besides a RS...what are the safest ways to reduce shares without harming the pps?
with a big news PR about the television campaign going nationwide and then global we may see a nice pop over a few cents....then back down to real levels of about .005
If you had a choice would you rather see the kits offered in a large chains store/stores or a nationwide television commercial on popular stations?
I say TV....then Walgreens in the "as seen on TV" isle.
Alright, so who is your friend...is he someone that talks a lot of BS and you would expect to hear this kind of talk from or is he credible?
I guess it would be unfair to discredit your statement before getting more of the facts...so again tell us about your friend..anything of value we may want to know about his status both professsion and somewhat personal...
I guess you never know..