Hi, I'm Brian and my company is Dalton Global Markets (catchy, huh?) I'm just getting started in the IM world and there's a whole lot to learn. This seems like the ideal place to start my education, so after lurking (and studying) for more than a week, I'm ready to step out of the shadows and join the DP crew! I hope someday I can help others with IM but for now I will surely be providing more questions than answers. As background, I'm a (very) part time Forex trader who has been studying and analyzing trading systems for nearly three years. I'm very conservative with my investment funds so as yet I've done only a token amount of trading. It occurred to me some ago that I could add to my income stream plans if I shared some of my knowledge and experiences with others and used the resultant content for some affiliate marketing. Here's my plan: I will create a comprehensive directory of Forex products (with affiliate links to them, of course) and begin purchasing the ones that seem most promising. Each one I purchase will get a detailed examination and testing if appropriate, then I'll make my findings available on my directory site. That way, over time, the site will gain a collection of un-biased reviews of these products, which will help other would-be Forex traders to navigate through the mine-field of competing products that are available. My philosophy will be that each visitor should be free to choose which if any products they want to buy, and I will provide an increasing amount of guidance from an unbiased point of view. Some reviews will be good, many not so good, so others can learn how each of these products really stacks up. I thought it would be reasonable to charge a small fee (say, 10% of the price of the actual product) for the reviews and test data, so that I can recover the cost of the purchases I make. I think it would be worth it to someone to get an inside view and independent opinion of a product before they try it, for only 10% of the cost of trying it out themselves. I think it's important to develop a business model that makes winners out of all participants, and this structure would be good for me (of course) and for those who use my site and also for the merchants who are selling their products. It potentially could help to weed out some of the scam merchants, too, by exposing their crappy 'products' so that people won't be fooled by them. I am grateful for the existence of this wonderful resource and I'm looking forward to the journey ahead, and hopefully to some real IM income! Of course, constructive comments are always welcome! Brian-
Thanks for the encouragement! It's good to be here among so many knowledgeable IM experts! I'd be happy to entertain comments or suggestions about my plan... I've just started building the primary site, so there's still plenty of time for external input!
Just trying to provide some background and generate some comments from the successful among you about my strategy. No takers as yet, so I'll just keep chugging along... Brian-