BBB is friends with TS? A legitimate intermediary? TS calls BBB?
Wouldn't we all think then that shareholder feedback goes directly to TS? Doubts would be nipped in the bud and help sell stock too.
To prime the pump and excite new share holders, TS could post info regularly by tweeting or directly post on SFIO's web site? Other CEO's do it.
If TS cared, he could do it too. There is no expense to writing a PR piece on your own and posting it to your own web site.
Here are two more virtually cost free promotion releases they could do with tremendous impact.
I would suggest that shareholder and potential shareholder concerns would be temporarily alleviated if 100's of merchants' pictures from all over the world standing next to their product displays were posted on an SFIO testimonial page with them saying they are selling the product and happy about it.
Hundreds of consumer testimonial videos should also be posted on the web site telling about their enjoyment and success with the product; how they quit smoking cigarettes and can smoke anywhere.
REAL testimonials for its REAL Smokefree product. How about that? Overkill rules when marketing!
Hey, in today's day and age, both of those suggestions can be "shot" with a cell phone, e-mailed to the company, and forwarded to their web host for uploading.
All the company has to do is ask the distributors, merchants and customers. Some will do it and some won't. Don't offer to pay anything, just ask.
The process is simple. One video becomes two, then ten, then a hundred in no time. The buzz would be viral.
If SFIO posted the videos I suggest on the SFIO web site, and "opened" a shopping cart, the stock would run even before they posted earnings.
Sole proprietors who manage their own web site do stuff like this every day.
Therefore my conclusions about SFIO leave me filled with doubt about company; because they do none of these things.
This is written by a shareholder with stock not worth the paper it is written on, and who isn't selling because the only chance I have of making any money is if the company proves itself.
I stick around this board because I hope if someone really does communicate with their friend TS, he can act on good ideas.
To all of the SFIO bashers, I feel your pain. All I see is less than $10,000 of SFIO stock trading hands every day.
To all of the SFIO boosters, gosh I hope you are right.
