The Question and Answer Board

[Bob Zumbrunnen]

Gimme a break. I wasn't up at 3:30 AM. Until I saw your post, I wasn't even sure they made a 3:30 AM.

My British counterpart has only posted once that I know of. He posts under his real name: Clem Chambers.

Google him sometime and you'll get an idea of what this mixture holds for us. I'm not a hard-core stock market guy. I dabble. I'm a hard-core message-board guy. He'll let us hard-core message-board guys do what we know how to do real well -- write/run good message boards and run them profitably. He'll give us more firepower to grow them (a good thing iHub now has the computing horsepower for some more growth) and lots of great finance-specific tools for our users.

I don't know what anyone thinks of the QuoteMedia products we currently use, but we won't be using them much longer. Their replacements will be much better. And won't cost us anything (we have been profitable despite a rather large monthly tab for the QuoteMedia stuff). And we've already discussed some completely new stuff we'll be able to easily incorporate that should prove really popular and useful.

Of course, what I'm looking forward to most is our new programmer starting. And my no longer being involved in ad sales. They've got a whole department of people who do that for a living and apparently do it well. I've been our ad sales department (and main programmer and president and bean-counter), so it's been more of a sideline for me. I feel pretty confident they can do better than the 1-5% inventory sellthrough I've been accomplishing.