Today there's a million ways the average joe can compete against the giants
first thing you do is compete with no one, make a new mousetraps, could start with a simple deal based on poster equity, ownership something like travelzoo deal but legitimate and legal
or we could attract the best writers and grow the site with marketing ideas, simple marketing, the site itself is already the definition of financial marketing, just look at the "who's who" of advertisers who pay big bucks to think we click their banner ads.
or on-liners could pay the entry fee to play poker on-line or come here and fill out an OC new account form to enter the free stock market trading contest, hence learn to use and feel comfortable with OC's trading software, while Matt tweaks out and designs the software for the trading public as they ask in real-time. People come from near and far to join the contest to trade the market with fake money to win the prize of real money. Opening a account with us after that is a no-brainer, especially if they made money.
or becoming the online place for financial news in a way no different than the way Matt Drudge has become the place for online news; compiling it and presenting it, The only difference between us and Drudge is we have hundreds and thousands of people to help and he didn't..
or we can start by offering something completely new with a real 15 year experienced, or more, non-soliciting stockbroker on the other end of the phone for $9.95. Don't see that at Ameritrade and E-Trade, they also seem to have much higher expenses by needing offices all over the place, big old computers and servers everywhere and all kinds of other bullshit, plus all those stupid TV commericals they run all morning. Seems not only has Moore's law finally worked in favor of the small guy but there also is plenty of brokers out of work, someone needs to start a H&R Broker, or how about a Supercuts for wall street, I always thought a $11 haircut was such a good idea that I left a 9 dollar tip. B-)
or how about we enlighten the rest of the world to the fact that the best financial writers are here simply because we control the media, just as ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox controls their media. Castle, becoming the giant is simply a state of mind.
or how about the fact that nearly half of the NASD companies seem based right here in the OC, just think if local companies started to think of us as a little trick boutique connected directly with the minds and window of IHUB and SI, B-) man these google privates are blowing out defence department-like paydays, that's plenty to go around
and that's just from the hip, Castle B-) which logo was yours?
