FMS FinPub Pro

Andrew started trading on the CBOE before starting his trader education company. He's one of the few traders who have had success both as an independent publisher and as the face of large franchises at The Agora companies. He's also MC for us at https://financialmarketingsummit.com/ FinPub Pro is produced by The Financial Marketing Summit, the #1 networking and marketing conference for financial newsletter publishers, trader educators, and digital financial media. John Newtson, host and f...

Join us for a must-listen conversation with Dr. Matt Paulson from MarketBeat, where we unravel the latest shifts in the financial publishing landscape. FinPub Pro is produced by The Financial Marketing Summit, the #1 networking and marketing conference for financial newsletter publishers, trader educators, and digital financial media. John Newtson, host and founder of The Financial Marketing Summit can be reached via LinkedIn at John Newtson

This episode took me too long to get done. In this conversation with Morgan Busby, CEO of Financial Media Corp. Morgan is one of my favorite people in FinPub. He’s a great entrepreneur and human. He’s also always willing to talk about the hard stuff in business. We dig into the challenges he’s had managing the business over the past few years. From the early 2020 fears of maybe needing the business plan version of an apocalypse bunker – to the biggest boom the industry has ever seen. ...

Mathieu Silverstein runs Wealth Factory. It is not your traditional FinPub – but has done something unique in the industry. He straddles a fascinating line between B2C & B2B. Wealth Factory publishes finance education for founders and business owners. His marketing model is 100% the B2C marketing approach we are used to in FinPub. But his target audience is B2B. They have money. They spend money. And it’s essentially a business expense for them. That’s a powerful position to be able to ma...

How do you double a trading newsletter business? In this hotseat session Bret Holmes, who has helped build newsletter publishers up to $225 million in annual revenue, digs deep into the business of a trading newsletter founder who has built up his subscription business to a point it ranges between $55,ooo to $85,000 per month. This is an example of the premium conversations we're having in FMS PRO - the discord community for the financial publishing, trader education, and media industry. ...

Many of the most legendary direct response marketing promotions had a concept built into them that elevated the promotion itself. A concept that only indirectly had anything to do with the benefits of the product. These were more than simple sales letters or VSLs they were full blown PROMOS. We start this episode looking at some of those promotions and follow the conversation into more nuanced territory around what makes an editor more promotable, new promotional formats, the nature of rela...

Here in Financial Publishing we've all watched the rise of The Morning Brew, The Hustle, Milk Road with interest. The media attention and venture attention on them and the newsletter boom fueled by the Substack & Beehive boom made newsletters finally seem "cool." Here in FinPub we've been running newsletter subscription businesses for over 60 years. So what do these two industries have in common? Matt McGarry joined me to explain the model & thinking of these rising "Newsle...

I've been wanting to talk to John Carter on here for awhile for a few reasons. First, because John founded Simpler Trading and built it into one of the top trader education companies in the industry. Second, because John's approach to building the business has always steered away from the hype side of promotion. Third, because he exited a large portion of the business when he sold 2/3rds of it to a private equity company. Basically, he's carved his own path through FinPub and built a uniq...

Conor Lynch had massive success with more traditional trader education newsletter model. He was publisher on one of the fastest-growing publishing companies in that last decade. He and the team he was working with grew from $0 to $50 million in annual sales in just a few short years. Then they faced disaster – the FTC brought a case against them for their promotional claims. Since settling that case Conor has moved on and is launching a new business. But he’s decided to launch using a c...

Brian York, Chief Marketing Officer for The Agora companies, the financial newsletter publishing giant joins us to discuss the current state of Finpub. This conversation started when Brian commented on my video presentation, The State of FinPub 2024 In that comment Brian said, "There are 3 words here that are the most important, “Identify tight niches”. The bull market and Covid forced FinPub into the mainstream… most businesses chased the volume with mainstream ideas.&n...

I’m joined by Damon Wright, Head of Advertising & E-Commerce at law firm Gordon Rees to discuss the rising dangers of Class Action lawsuits. We dig into what they, why they are on the rise, and the most effective ways you can protect your business from individuals who target e-commerce and publishing businesses. Click here to download The Gordon Rees updated E-Commerce Retailer Legal Guide that covers this and many other legal issues. FinPub Pro is produced by The Financial ...

Patrick Bove is copy chief at Legacy Reserach. He's been writing copy in financial since 2008. And has a growing team of nearly 30 copywriters writing for him. In this conversation, Patrick explains what ideas are selling now. The market has changed. That means the ideas you use to sell subscriptions has to change, too. Patrick talks about the current hot spots in the market. More fundamentally, he talks about how your promotional copy has to adjust to the market conditions. ...

Porter Stansberry founded Stansberry Research with a laptop and $36k of financing from Bill Bonner. (You can meet Porter in person at the June 14-15th www.FinancialMarketingSummit.com) He and his partner, Steve Sjuggerud, and the team they built, turned that 36k into a $3 billion valuation at their IPO. That initial money was to fund what would become one of the most successful promotions in the history of financial publishing. In this conversation, I wanted to dig into the pivotal decisi...

Mark Ford has been in involved in dozens of multimillion-dollar businesses. He helped Bill Bonner build the Agora Companies, which has dominated the financial publishing industry for over a decade, and broke over a $1 billion in top-line revenue. I met him the first time back in 2016 or 17 when my former business partner was managing the affiliate program for his Palm Beach Letter. Today we talk about the state of the digital publishing business focused on retail and self-directed investors....