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If DeepVerge do go the route of using social media influencers they should look to Boohoo as a case study.
They are very proactive on trying new media for promotion, recently they've started advertising via in-game ads (a new ad category for big brands) for Boohooman, very forward thinking. It's helped Boohoo grow super fast.
You can pick up minor Instagram influencers (under 10k followers) just by giving them free access to a product/service in return for regular promotion. A company like Boohoo would give them X £s to spend on their products every month for Y number of Instagram posts.
A skin care product should be an easy sell to influencers at low cost to DeepVerge, it's right on target for Instagramers who like free stuff in return for posts. It's the sort of low cost promotion which has the potential to send a product viral. Well worth trying out with a dozen minor Instagram influencers to see if it has traction.
seadoc Had a quick look at the site and didn't notice anything wrong.
It's a standard WordPress site, loads of businesses use WordPress, it's the most used CMS in the world.
Whoever built it used the WPBakery Page Builder Plugin, which is a sort copy and paste content where you want it. That is how sites are built. Wouldn't have cost much to make, but that's the beauty of WordPress, it easy to use.
I didn't find anything untoward, a few silly mistakes like linking to the cached version of the site http://wordpress-336282-1034962.cloudwaysapps.com/customer-solutions/ but I've seen people who have worked on websites for decades who are worth a lot of money make that error.
It's a basic corporate site, seen loads like it and gives no indication how valuable the underlying business is. I've seen sites as basic where the business is worth millions and it's hard to believe huge businesses have such basic online offerings! I've always assumed they don't get a lot of business online.
One of my sons works for a business as a software engineer and the companies website is rubbish (also WordPress), I know form my son they get most of their clients due to the CEOs connections.
WolfofWarks, yep I'm in Bidstack and on Twitter with the same name as here. Started buying into Bidstack and SYME at roughly the same time (November) and have been using the hashtags #Bidstack and #SYME in the same Tweets a fair amount. :-)
Weathergeek despite making a living from SEO for 20yrs I've never read an SEO book, most people who talk about SEO are full of ****.
SEO is pretty easy in theory, hard in practice as most people want results NOW and truth is it's years of effort to do really well.
Here's the basics:
Create quality content ideally content other ppl will want to link to and share. Viral content is awesome. A site can do extremely well just on content.
Learn about onpage SEO, that's basic stuff like using phrases you want to rank for in title tags etc...
Build backlinks.
Build backlinks.
Build backlinks. Very important.
Use the free Google Lighthouse tool to find technical issues and fix them. I've got a quick access form to Google LightHouse at https://seo-gold.com/ also loads of good SEO info on my site, been adding to it for 20yrs.
Lighthouse will help make your site faster, that's good for SEO and users. If you sell something or a service if your site is slow potential sales are lost!
Of it all it's quality content powered by backlinks which matters, there's many terrible sites SEO wise, but their content is so good it generates lots of interest and backlinks and it's backlinks which power a lot of Google SEO.
Good luck.
Seadoc "the linked websites all work at the first level but the links therein fail. A webdesigner has posted that he has drilled down and finds this is £40 off the shelf filled (badly) with cut and paste. I have no idea if this is true but if all a £160m company can do for the website is to use someone working from a back bedroom then it is Caveat Emptor until the promised financing arrives."
Which website is this for?
I've worked as an SEO consultant for 20yrs, built hundreds of websites and since I've been investing in stocks seriously (May 2020) I'd say most of the corporate websites I've looked at for small cap companies could've been built by a teenager in their bedroom for a few hundred quid! Plenty don't even have a valid SSL cert!
I wouldn't read too much into it. You want to see bad, take a read of one of my SEO reviews https://seo-gold.com/camping-world-rv-sales-seo-review/ for Camping World. That's a multi-billion dollar company and the site has major errors, thousands of non-existent webpages indexed by Google!
I even communicated with the CEO (the guys worth close to a $billion) via Twitter DMs (he follows my business Twitter account) and sent him emails, but the mistakes weren't fixed!
Sadly, terrible websites are completely normal and the businesses don't really care.
It's one of the reasons why I've mothballed my SEO business for a year to see if I can make a living investing. Tired of dealing with people who don't want high quality!
I agree JAdam.
Would be better if people like riddler wouldn't post about other contributors Twitter accounts just because they don't understand how Twitter works and get bent out of shape if they aren't screaming DeepMatter BOOM, BOOM, BOOM FLY to the MOON!
Check out this thread, I made 2 posts regarding DeepMatter research.
riddler replies:
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Full of ****
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Because for some dumb reason he doesn't like my Twitter account. Why would any adult do that, talk about childish!
Followed by more BS about my Twitter account from Ohmetoe backed up again by riddler with:
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Agree
And having 36k fale /bought followers is plain odd
Hence why i blocked
Guy talks ****e
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I'm trying to have an adult discussion about DeepMatter, specifically about timing. What I get instead are children complaining I have too many Twitter followers to be trusted. Attack my credibility/honesty etc... and I will respond.
These children should get back to what's important, trying to make money via investing instead of attacking other PIs.
For the record, the positives about DeepMatter you posted about is why I'm here, but that doesn't mean I'm going to jump in 5 mins after discovering a company exists just because a few children don't understand timing is important in investing and assume if you don't jump in you are deramping!
When I first posted here I thought the SP might trend flat for a while (so no rush to buy, enough time for more research, think it through...), now I think I could be wrong, could be the start of an uptrend.
Masiu2017 I agree, people like riddler shouldn't be trying to damage other contributors reputations, then there's no need to go off topic.
Hmm, if riddler is so good at research why does he believe my followers on my personal account https://twitter.com/DavidLaw are bought/fake without any evidence?
He's apparently filtered me, ask him how he knows my followers are bought/fake, what's his background in determining how a Twitter account was built?
That would concern me if I followed his advice, ignore the facts and quickly to jumps to conclusions if things don't make sense to him potentially damaging someone's reputation! If riddler is an intelligent person he'll accept he's wrong and apologise for trying to damage my reputation.
I have 20yrs experience working in the SEO/marketing, I've built and worked on thousands of websites, built dozens of Twitter accounts for promotional purposes and fun. Also have over 8,000 connections on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-law-9444b637/, but never use LinkedIn.
I'm an expert at building social media accounts.
Gaining followers on social media is easy especially when you've owned a Twitter account for over 12yrs. Anyone who understands Twitter knows there's 2 basic ways to build an account without spending money:
1. Offer something people want, could be you are a celebrity or your Tweets are hilarious or Tweet stuff people don't want to miss.
2. Follow back most accounts which follow you AND regularly follow accounts so they follow back. This is basic social media promotion 101, anyone can do this, just takes time.
There are those who are both 1 and 2, they can break through into 100K+ followers. Now I'm taking investing seriously that's what I'm aiming for so in a couple of years when I'm more experienced people will follow me and my stock tips (no where near that point today): see there, I'm telling you my long-term agenda, I have no reason to hide it, I'm trying to build credibility by being honest on Twitter etc... and that takes a LOT of time.
You can easily figure out which type of account I have now, I've got nearly 40K followers and follow 36K accounts. I've even wrote articles on how to do it on my business site https://seo-gold.com/how-to-safely-gain-10000-twitter-followers-for-free/ I'm mostly 2 with a little bit of 1, the followers were built mostly by following SEO/marketing accounts which have no interest in stocks, so need to build a new set of relevant followers, 10s of thousands of them. I want much more 1 to breakout long-term.
I'm currently haemorrhaging SEO/marketing followers because I no longer post SEO type Tweets, been replacing them with new followers related to investing.
Now riddlers 5yr old account https://twitter.com/riddler_smitb 2,700 followers vs 400 following suggests he's mostly 1, but hasn't had a breakthrough yet: suggest good info, but not good enough to breakout. 2,700 is a very good start though.
That's how you do research, you look at ALL the facts not sit scratching your head wondering how someone got 40K followers when you only have 2,700 so assume they ar
Ohmetoe Clearly your ability to do research is lacking and if you are an intelligent person you'll admit you are wrong after reading this.
Been investing seriously since May, that's less than 8 months.
My plan was to look for a handful of long-term safe holds like FTSE 100 banks and trade the rest on volatile stocks like Boohoo. I tried that and did OK, BUT did not like it at all, the trading part is way too volatile/risky/stressful for me!
In October changed strategy to long-term hold with the odd short-term trade.
Since November I've bought into 5 stocks, plan was to hold them for years. 4 I'm happy with (Bidstack, DeepVerge, Supply@Me and Gfinity), 1 might have been a mistake (Symphony Environmental), waiting for a trading update in a few months to decide.
If I was buying for short-term gains I'd have sold Bidstack after the SP doubled, also would have sold Supply@me it's been up almost 100% intraday since I bought. I have no plans to sell beyond derisking if the SP looks well overbought.
Also still holding 3 FTSE 100 stocks bought May (NatWest), June (HSBC), September (BP): if you check the SP you will see I got in at the wrong time, but have recovered into profit since.
Also holding a US biotech stock (BioNTech) since August (also bought too early, but held and the SP almost doubled then pulled back over 30%, I held through a BIG dips) and plan to hold that one for years.
I'm trying to get my timing better as I bought the 4 stocks above too soon.
Did recently sell another US biotech stock OVID which I planned to hold long, but they had a disastrous phase 3 trial and I lost over 50% of my investment overnight, couldn't see a path to recovery so sold. That's my worst loss to date.
My plan is to buy as low as possible and hold long and will wait months for a drop or a safer entry like with FAR (on my watchlist).
When I'm in I still talk about the cons of a stock not just the pros unlike the majority of holders of a stock. I see one here who ONLY discusses the pros of buying DeepMatter, they can share useful info, but can't be trusted because their bias taints their research!
If you like a positive echochamber you won't like me as a long-term holder, no company is perfect, but if it's a good investment discussing the cons doesn't change that.
Assuming you are an intelligent person who can admit when they are wrong, I look forward to accepting your apology Ohmetoe.
Appreciate the advice Wololol, currently playing it very safe to avoid big mistakes and have missed a few, but also avoided as many costly mistakes.
Although I traded almost 30 years ago (helped get me through Uni with a young family) very little of that is relevant today: I had to dig through the FT in the Uni library and draw my own graphs and order hard copies of companies results and only got the SP close price each morning! So I'm considering myself a complete novice (7 months experience) who has a lot to learn.
8 out of 9 stocks I currently hold are in profit and only lost money on 3 sells (2 significant), that's out of 11 sells. As I get more experience and have a larger profit margin 'banked' I'll take more risks.
It's a marathon not a sprint, I'll get there.
Thanks again, I take onboard good advice.
Early research and from what I've seen it doesn't looks like a good investment, but the SP has declined about 90% in 2 years, so IF it's ready to recover looks like a great time to buy in....
I see they sold less in 2020, any idea why?
The recent agronomic tests looked encouraging, but didn't see any cost comparisons between KP Fértil® and Bayóvar and the cost is presumably a major factor for a farm. Is there a comparison chart or something available taking into account it looks like a farm would have to use 2-3 times more Fértil® vs Bayóvar?
From https://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/8900H_1-2020-12-8.pdf looks like between 160-320kg ha Fértil® is equal to 80kg ha Bayóvar (looking at figure 1 and 2 for the above data).
The total recoverable sugar data (figure 3) doesn't look very clear, not sure how to interpret it.
I'm not familiar with these products at all, I would assume transporting 2-3 times as much product and a farmer having to spread 2-3 times more material onto their land isn't a particularly great selling point for similar results.
Am I wrong to not see this as a good investment?
Looks like I might have missed this boat waiting to buy in: assuming the SP holds etc... 2p looks very good now. :-)
Still on watch, but I don't buy after a spike (RSI above 70) just incase it goes back down: I'm not experienced enough to know where it might go next. Did miss a 10 bagger recently (ARB) by not buying when the RSI was high, was too cautious in hindsight.
Glad people are making money, that's exactly what we all want and plenty of cash to go round us lowly PIs, preferably taken from the IIs rather than each other. GLA
Bottmzup "Yes, what the country and the world needs is face masks that actually `kill` the virus, breathing in, or out!"
The above sort of already exists, checkout SYM https://www.lse.co.uk/SharePrice.asp?shareprice=SYM&share=Symphony-Env It's my worst preforming investment, currently invested in 9 stocks and only this one is in the red and the only one I'm concerned about! In comparison Bidstack is my best performer, it's 1 bagged.
SYM have a plastic additive which makes a product antimicrobial (including antiviral) for the lifetime of the product. 99%+ of a bovine coronavirus destroyed in under an hour.
Achieving a more active solution would be problematic, so instantly killing virus particles as they pass through a filter or something wouldn't be easy to achieve and even then standard masks don't completely stop the flow of virus particles, there's gaps around the sides of the masks.
The above is probably the best you can hope for.
On the South African variant 501Y.V2 this info is helpful https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-the-south-african-variant/ It's a good summary of what actual experts are saying rather than what a journalist looking for a good headline might cherry-pick for their latest clickbait!
NEVER read a newspaper for accurate science info!
This is to be expected with a virus like Covid-19, those types of mutations result in lower immunity from previous infections and vaccinations.
We have no actual data on this, but taking the Pfizer 95% efficacy for the old variants after 2 doses as baseline, a variant like 501Y.V2 will still show good efficacy, but probably lower than 95%. Maybe 85% or 75% (I'm guessing).
That would mean rather than 5% of those vaccinated who come in contact with Covid showing symptoms, 15-25% show symptoms. That's still acceptable, just means the vaccines/past infections aren't as effective as with the older variants.
This is normal and to be expected overtime and why we might need booster jabs every X years.
With the flu the mutations are relatively rapid, it's to be seen how fast/much Covid mutates long-term, but considering millions have been infected and we are only just seeing the first signs of mutations which reduce the impact of past protection suggests the mutation rate isn't as high as the flu.
The above is why I want the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, I want 95% efficacy as my starting point, not 62% as reported with AstraZeneca.
volmer If a vaccine shows 80% efficacy it means around 80% of those who come into contact with Covid-19 should show no symptoms. So you could still be infected and asymptomatic and shedding virus to infect others. We don't know about asymptomatic infections and infectiousness etc... it wasn't tested.
You should assume even when vaccinated you could still get a reduced form of Covid-19 and pass it to others.
Remember a large % of the Covid-19 infected are asymptomatic, but still shedding virus (they unknowingly infect others). What we know from the phase 3 vaccine trials for the Pfizer vaccine is 95% of those who received 2 shots showed no symptoms, 5% showed symptoms, but not serious.
You should see a vaccine as watering down the impact of an infection so when you come into contact with Covid your immune system will beat it quickly.
If the unvaccinated are 80% infected with 60% showing symptoms, 50% shedding significant virus, 10% at risk of serious illness. These % aren't real, just to explain in easy terms.
The vaccinated might be 30% infected with 5% showing symptoms, 2% shedding virus, less than 1% at risk of serious illness.
So no vaccine stops a virus from entering our body and trying to infect cells, what a vaccine does is give your body a better chance of stopping the virus infecting cells, if it does infect cells reducing how many cells are infected (limiting the impact of the infection) and how much virus is shed (coughed over others).
Davde Viruses tend not to mutate so quickly we have zero immunity, the reason Covid-19 is a problem is it's come from a different species so we had little to no 'natural' immunity in 2019 when it started. Assume we all had less than 25% immunity to Covid-19, so most would get infected.
What tends to happen is over years as a virus moves around the world mutations build up and you get small outbreaks with the occasional devastating outcome like the Spanish flu. This can be mitigated with a regular vaccination program like for the flu.
What will probably happen is the incidents of Covid will rapidly decrease as more become immune from being infected and vaccinations, with small outbreaks (nothing like now) every so often.
Every so often is the unknown, could be 5 yrs, 10yrs, 50yrs.
A way to see this is after you've been vaccinated/infected with flu for example you have up to 100% protection from flu, as time passes and flu mutates the % decreases, 95%, 90%....50%, 40%.... the speed of decrease depends on multiple factors, but when it gets too low we see serious outbreaks. Before that people are still being infected, but the limited protection results in a limited disease (few die). We have a flu shot to mitigate the flu mutating rapidly.
Looks like Covid doesn't mutate as quickly as flu (currently) so hopefully we won't need new vaccines every year.
With a mass vaccination program it's unlikely we'll see mass Covid testing 18 months from now IMHO, it won't be needed like we don't need mass flu testing because most people have some immunity to flu.
What will probably happen is a steady stream of new Covid vaccines like we see with flu, whether it's yearly like the flu or less often is to be seen. I suspect far less often. We might be lucky and need a booster every 10yrs if we are over 50yrs old or vulnerable just incase.
Started researching yesterday and looks like the reoccurring revenue model is predictable (should keep increasing), but because they keep raising more cash to buy more IP the SP isn't benefiting from the revenue increases short-term.
Long-term the SP should benefit from the increased revenue, but that's long-term.
Is that a fair assessment?
What I find interesting is TCAT, but couldn't find anything about how much they are currently making via it? Still researching, so could have missed an RNS which gave guidance on what it's making now.
With predictable reoccurring revenue the SP should be relatively safe from big falls and overtime benefit from the increase in revenue from growth in users accessing streaming content etc... I like that safety, but not enough to invest now without something else.
What I want to invest for is TCAT growth, that's the part with huge potential without the need to raise cash to buy more IP. The fact they've split TCAT off into a separate LTD and have built a new team around it suggests they expect big things, but would be nice to see some numbers. Without revenue numbers etc... it's difficult to see where things might be in a year, 2 years etc...
BTW my background is SEO expert, worked in SEO for 20 yrs and their websites are poor, they aren't even running https. Try the secure versions:
https://omip.co.uk/
https://www.tcat.media/
That's not good in 2021, you can even get SSL certs for free now, so they lack a skilled webmaster. Can only assume they don't consider their websites important.
dasbig It's normal to take a while to get results for a medical device undergoing tests. You also have to remember a listed company cannot divulge market sensitive information not already in the public domain usually via RNS.
GB can't Tweet or post here something like
"the tests are going well, we've had 1,000 tests and the results match with PCR results exactly, another 1,000 tests to do then we'll publish full results, BOOM!"
Even if GB knows the results are awesome so far.
They have to wait for full results, analyse the data, THEN let the market know.
Getting released test data in a few months is fast, sometimes it takes years.
Also annoyed at the SP drop, but consider SYM don't do much business inside the EU currently, it isn't a case they are losing something by starting a court case, but trying to gain something.
Short-term it's going to have a negative drag on the SP, it looks bad and investors tend not to dig that deep research wise to understand the nuances of a company and many will avoid this sort of stink attached to a stock.
Another negative is we have a fair wait for 2020 revenue confirmation, so best case scenario IMHO is the SP trades flat for a while unless we get early revenue guidance.
On the plus side we know they sold £1M worth of new PPE in 2020 and that was before they'd tested their additive to see if it had antiviral properties.
Having an antiviral plastic additive has got to be a major revenue earner long-term. If SYM can't sell antiviral PPE during the worst pandemic of our age the CEO should give up and sell the business.
I'm holding because of the great products.