Some of you may know that I wrote for Motley Fool for a short time (about 60 articles in 2004). My experience with them was difficult at every turn. There were emails never answered (I am still waiting to a reply to my last email), articles that they forgot to publish and I was left with the impression that they were never that fond of me as a writer (I am not talking about personally disliking me).
At one point I got some feedback that I was not as good of a writer as their other contributors. While I would not doubt that for a second, if you do a search on their site for article I wrote you will see I got a lot more calls right than wrong. A lot more. I concede that this might have been more attributable to luck than skill they couldn't have known either way yet they made no effort to try just a little harder to communicate better.
However dumb or smart I may be, I haven't changed a whole lot in the last year and clearly there is reader demand for my type of process. I base this on the good fortune I have had with my writing since I moved on from Motley Fool.
The reason I am writing this is that I was mentioned in their Fool's Look Ahead for next week. Back on June 9 , 2004 I did a favorable write-up on Quanex (NX) when the stock was $30.34 (split adjusted) and the article today referenced that piece.
I just find it amusing and I can't imagine I will ever really know why it was so difficult to work with them.
If anyone from Motley Fool reads this site and cares to comment, please feel free. I won't edit the comments unless they are profane.
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3 comments:
I read the Fool every now and then. They have some good ideas, and I do like their spunky writing style.
I have no use for the Motley Fool.
John
I have grown out of reading motely fools over the years. These days I only read blogs, including blogs by people like you, Nelson Yu of the Yu Investments, Jeff Matthews, Andrew Tobias, etc.. (you probably heard of some of these folks before)... The good things about reading blogs is you know the quality of the writing, and the how credible the author is. Keep up the good work Roger..
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