This is my 11,000 blog, work that has culminated since I had the crazy idea to ignore my million dollar advisory business for talking shit about hedge fund managers and the stock market online, about the internets, almost 8 years ago. The number 1 rule when blogging is to love doing it. Should you find it to be a chore, or it pisses you off because the ad rates are slavery-like, fall back son and become a reader again.
When I started finance blogging in 2007, the game was simple. You blogged and lured people in from the yahoo message boards, then talked shit in your comments section, having a grande old time. Since then, Twitter and Stocktwits were born, effectively stealing away the comments section. Readers found themselves in the indelible position of having to read 140 character or less, casting aside blogs because they were the new newspapers. Like all living species, the blogger had to adapt, so he took to Twitter and StockTwits, built up a small following, and then remanded them back to the blog through links and lures and demands.
Today, Twitter represents almost 30% of our inbound traffic, a site that has been fortunate enough to be operated by a space alien magician (SAM), blessed with over 65 million page views to date. The website layout must be mobile friendly, else you lose viewers. As you can see by our new look and approach, it is geared towards the ADD addled, picture loving, booze hound who enjoys to make fun of Bill Ackman in his spare time.
Web traffic has surged over 50% one month since the redesign. All of the bloggers at iBankCoin have stepped up their game and I logged one my biggest work months ever, with 208 blogs posted. Writing comes very natural to me; but sometimes I get bored from the monotony of finance. My new approach is geared more towards news and information, with some opinion mixed in. Instead of wasting my finger energy on insane missives that would easily get me tossed into a Chinese Burrito prison, I’ve concluded it’s far more interesting for me to give you, the pleb reader, housing tenement living motherfucker, my take on the egregious events that takes place, each and every day.
“The Fly” is omnipresent and shoots cannon balls into your living room sofa.
Thank you for coming to iBC and enduring my mood swings. If you truly appreciate the content that I provide here, tell your idiot friends to follow our corporate Twitter Account and to like our Faced Book page.
Why do I demand these things from you? While it might seem silly to you, and entirely juvenile, idiotic and lame, it is my purpose in life to spread our brand of propaganda as far and wide as humanly possible. All persons of reading age should know about men like Frederick Wilson and William Albert Ackman (sex crazed fiend), so that if they ever came across them in dark alley ways, or in Bill’s case, dungeons; they could avoid them and walk the other way.
“The Fly” is a the truth (here, here–slams cane into ground, tosses a bag of garbage onto his neighbors lawn).
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The Fly is God
FIG
Dr. Fly – congrats on 11,000. I have enjoyed The Coin and your writing tremendously.
Here’s to The Blogfather!
Good job Fly. And yes, you and this whole place are much nicer than they used to be
FIG
No other financial blogger on the interwebs can hold a candle to your prose, Fly. That much is certain. (no sarcasm)
he’s the michael savage of trading. banned and banished
HERE, HERE
Shit. Did I miss 10666.
Congrats flyseph. Site looks great!
It’s good to change things up on ibankcoin every so often as blogs can get stale. I stay away from stock twits and Twitter as the comments have little value. Your crew is by far the best and theirs and your commitment to the reader also exceeds any other media outlet. Thanks for all you and your writers do and congrats on 11k.
11000’ed blog, Your Flyness.
You’re the Walter Johnson of blogging.
Congratulations! This means I’ve read at least 208 blogs this month. I think I am somewhat addicted to this site. Where can I get help?
This is Sparta!
hear, hear!