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AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (Mar 25/08)

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:45 AM on Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Good morning to you all. Please find enclosed a summary of the breaking small-cap and micro-cap financial news we highlighted on our TV show this morning. It’s March 25th and we’ve found 6 great press releases and stock halts from both sides of the border to report on at the open.  Another great day for small-cap and micro-cap financial news.

If you are new to the show, it is a daily, fast-paced, edgy report that we put out at or before the open everyday that strictly reports on the best small cap and micro cap news of the day in 3-5 minutes. You can watch AGORACOM TV right from our home page .

If you miss an episode or want to search for your company in our archive, you can visit our industry leading Small-Cap Podcast site at any time:

If you want to subscribe to our Small-Cap RSS Feed and download our podcast everyday via iTunes, or your favourite podcatcher, just use the following:

As always, don’t forget to visit the AGORACOM Marketplace where we list compelling summaries for over 85 great small-cap and micro-cap companies that you can sort by exchange and industry to suit your personal investing tastes.

TODAY’S SMALL-CAP AND MICRO-CAP BREAKING FINANCIAL NEWS BEFORE THE OPEN

Our daily show focuses on content over form so that you can get profitable information into your hands as fast as possible. The same holds true for these entries in our small-cap, micro-cap news blog, where I simply cut and paste my TV notes for your benefit, without any editing, so don’t give me a hard time! 🙂

Now, onto our show notes for the day.

** Denotes an AGORACOM Client. AGORACOM TV Only Reports News From AGORACOM Clients That Meets The Same Newsworthy Threshold Of All Other Press Releases.

  • Kana Software – OTC BB:KANA $1.35
  • Helio Resource – TSX-V:HRC $0.90
  • Conmed Health Management – OTC BB:CHHM $1.30
  • Remote Dynamics – OTC BB:RDYM $0.008
  • Vendtek – TSX-V:VSI $0.95
  • First Nickel – TSX:FNI $0.48

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AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (Mar 24/08)

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:41 AM on Monday, March 24th, 2008

Good morning to you all. Please find enclosed a summary of the breaking small-cap and micro-cap financial news we highlighted on our TV show this morning. It’s March 24th and we’ve found 2 great press releases and stock halts from both sides of the border to report on at the open.  Another great day for small-cap and micro-cap financial news.

If you are new to the show, it is a daily, fast-paced, edgy report that we put out at or before the open everyday that strictly reports on the best small cap and micro cap news of the day in 3-5 minutes. You can watch AGORACOM TV right from our home page .

If you miss an episode or want to search for your company in our archive, you can visit our industry leading Small-Cap Podcast site at any time:

If you want to subscribe to our Small-Cap RSS Feed and download our podcast everyday via iTunes, or your favourite podcatcher, just use the following:

As always, don’t forget to visit the AGORACOM Marketplace where we list compelling summaries for over 85 great small-cap and micro-cap companies that you can sort by exchange and industry to suit your personal investing tastes.

TODAY’S SMALL-CAP AND MICRO-CAP BREAKING FINANCIAL NEWS BEFORE THE OPEN

Our daily show focuses on content over form so that you can get profitable information into your hands as fast as possible. The same holds true for these entries in our small-cap, micro-cap news blog, where I simply cut and paste my TV notes for your benefit, without any editing, so don’t give me a hard time! 🙂

Now, onto our show notes for the day.

** Denotes an AGORACOM Client. AGORACOM TV Only Reports News From AGORACOM Clients That Meets The Same Newsworthy Threshold Of All Other Press Releases.

  • Bellhaven Copper and Gold – TSX-V:BHV $0.60
  • China Display Technologies – OTC BB:CDYT $3.00

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Small-Cap Alternative Energy Co’s Heading To Germany

Posted by AGORACOM at 12:11 PM on Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Show of hands … how many of you knew that Germany is the world leader in renewable energy technology, manufacturing, sales and employment? Not me, that’s for sure but it’s not surprising when you think about the German reputation for innovation.

Germany has hundreds of renewable energy companies. They make photovoltaic (PV) cells, wind turbines, solar thermal panels, biofuels and technology for biomass plants and geothermal energy. The impact on the economy has been huge:

  • 240,000 jobs in the renewable energy industry, 140,000 of them since 2001.
  • Renewable energy technologies make up 4 to 5% of Germany’s GDP.
  • Germany expects the figure to rise to 16% by 2025.
  • Renewables generated 14% of the country’s electricity last year, significantly ahead of the 12.5% target set for 2010.

Germany has accomplished much of this by offering great incentives to foreign companies to set up shop in Germany.

SMALL-CAPS HEADING TO GERMANY

All of this information came from this story at GlobeInvestor.com, which talks about the German experience of Arise Technologies (APV: TSXV), a Canadian small-cap that was floundering in oil-rich Canada but quickly accelerated its business plan when the Germans “tracked him down and made him an offer he couldn’t refuse – free money, and lots of it – as long as Arise promised to build a PV factory on German soil.”

Today, Arise’s first factory is about a month away from completion. A two story, 100,000 square foot building will employ 150 people and produce enough PV cells each year to power the equivalent of 60,000 houses. The value of the annual output, based on today’s prices, will be $375-million, or more than three times the company’s current value on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

“I couldn’t build this in Canada,” said CEO Ian MacLellan. “Germany is a very high-quality environment for us. I have nothing to worry about.”

This is a great article. Highly recommended reading for investors…and mandatory reading for CEO’s of small-cap alternative energy companies in both Canada and the United States.

Regards,
George

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Small-Cap Marketing Lesson: Your Website No Longer Counts

Posted by AGORACOM at 6:34 PM on Friday, March 21st, 2008

Technorati Web 2.0 YouTube Google Earth Delicious Word Press Blogger

Small-Cap Marketing Lesson Du Jour: If you don’t recognize or know how to leverage the companies above, it’s time to listen up.

In Web 1.0, the name of the game was driving as many people to your site as possible. The web was not connected. There was no syndication. Either a lot of people came to your website, or you were unheard of.

Today, in Web 2.0, the web is dominated by syndication. You don’t drive people to your website to find out about you. Rather, you let them read about you on sites they already frequent. Your job is to drop your information into a few strategic places, tag it with keywords that properly describe your business and let the web do the rest.

The process isn’t simple but invest the proper amount of time and/or money and the payoff is huge. Just look at AGORACOM. We were virtually unknown 3 years ago and we’re now serving 10,000,000 pages per month to ~ 140,000 investors….and that is just traffic on our site. This does not include the number of people that view our videos, blog posts and other content on sites around the world.

CONCLUSION

If you are a small-cap CEO, you have to start thinking about the world as your oyster. This is the greatest investor relations era of all time. Stop looking at the tape today and start planning to become one of the best small-cap brands of tomorrow.

If you are truly building a great company for the future, then 2-3 years is should be music to your ears. It has been music to ours and I want you to experience the same success.

Regards,
George

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Thursday’s Big Small-Cap Movers – AGORACOM Clients On The Move

Posted by AGORACOM at 5:38 PM on Friday, March 21st, 2008

Despite gyrations in the overall equity markets, I’ve always said that small-cap and micro-cap stocks move withing a vacuum. On that note here are some big movers on Thursday.

 


AskMeNow (AKMN: OTC)
0.27+0.05 (22.73%), Vol. 1,108,400
Click here to access the AskMeNow IR Hub

 

 

First Gold Exploration (EFG: TSX-V)
0.295 +0.045 (18.00%), Vol. 52,600
Click here to access the First Gold Exploration IR Hub

 

 


Liberty Star Uranium (LBSU: OTC)
0.274 +0.038 (16.10%), Vol. 45,700
Click here to access the Liberty Star Uranium IR Hub

 

 

 


Patriot Scientific (PTSC: OTC)
0.48 +0.06 (14.29%), Vol. 1,478,000
Click here to access the Patriot Scientific IR Hub

 

DISCLSOURE: Each of the above noted companies are AGORACOM clients.

Regards,
George


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Small-Cap CEO Lesson: Slow Economy = More Online Ad Spending

Posted by AGORACOM at 2:36 PM on Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Here is the small-cap CEO lesson Du Jour. Despite the fact the economy is struggling along, online advertising is going to increase by 23% in 2008.

Why? The quote below sums it up best:

eMarketer senior analyst David Hallerman: “The greater ability to measure ads online will likely encourage marketers with reduced budgets.”

Not surprisingly, Search Engines will account for the largest portion of online ad spending this year, making up 40 percent of web-based ad expenditures. Read my post on January 15th as to why Google (a primary weapon in AGORACOM IR programs) is the greatest investor relations tool ever.

Bottom line: If you want to attract new investors without breaking the bank, online marketing is the only way to go. You can get with the program now and become a pioneer, or fall behind smart CEO’s that will be a part of this trend over the next 5 years:

Your call but don’t say I didn’t tell you so.

Regards,
George

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AGORACOM Small-Cap TV – 3 Great Press Releases At The Open (March 20th)

Posted by AGORACOM at 8:08 AM on Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Good morning to you all. Please find enclosed a summary of the great small-cap and micro-cap press releases we highlighted on our TV show this morning. It’s March 20th and we’ve found 3 great press release from both sides of the border to report on at the open. Another great day for the small-cap and micro-cap world.

You can watch AGORACOM TV right from our home page , or our archive where you can see or search all of our previous shows.

If you are new to the show, it is a daily, fast-paced, edgy report that we put out at or before the open everyday that strictly reports on the best small cap and micro cap press releases of the day in 3-5 minutes. You can watch the show by going to AGORACOM every morning.

Our daily show focuses on content over form so that you can get profitable information into your hands as fast as possible. The same holds true for these blog entries where I simply cut and paste my TV notes for your benefit, without any editing.

If you have any material information pertaining to any of today’s companies, be sure to share your knowledge by posting your comments for everyone to see.

As always, don’t forget to visit the AGORACOM Marketplace where we list compelling summaries for over 65 great small-cap companies that you can sort by exchange and industry to suit your personal investing tastes.

Now, onto our show notes for the day.

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AGORACOM Hits New Daily Traffic Record – 547,000 Pages On March 18th

Posted by AGORACOM at 2:32 PM on Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Congratulations are in order for our members, HUB Leaders, pubco clients and the AGORACOM team for hitting yet another milestone this week. On February 29, we announced AGORACOM broke through 500,000 page views on February 25. The exact number was 507,000.

I am pleased to announce that we have now smashed that record by 40,000 page views. We hit 547,000 on March 18.

This follows our quarterly traffic report issued at the beginning of February in which we hit 27,000,000 page views in the first 3 months of launching our wiki-powered forums. You can look for another quarterly report at the end of March.

Great job everyone. I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times. Quality wins over quantity any day. AGORACOM has provided a great platform, while members provide utopian quality via great content and self-monitoring. Together, we’ve created the community investors have always deserved.

Discussion Forums are never going to be the same. Spread the word and see you at 1,000,000.

Regards,
George

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SEC Inquiry Into Bear Stearns Stock Manipulation Vindicates Small-Cap Stocks

Posted by AGORACOM at 10:56 AM on Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

 

Paul Kedrosky reported on this story from Bloomberg earlier today. The relevant part for small and micro-cap investors is the following:

The SEC’s probe is unusual because most of the regulator’s stock-manipulation cases focus on penny stocks.

This just goes to show you that penny stocks are not the bad guys behind stock manipulation cases, they are the victims. The bad guys are the ones that take advantage of the masses through manipulation for the sole purpose of their benefit.

A small victory for small and micro-cap stocks today.

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AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (Mar 19/08)

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:38 AM on Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Good morning to you all. Please find enclosed a summary of the breaking small-cap and micro-cap financial news we highlighted on our TV show this morning. It’s March 19th and we’ve found 7 great press releases and stock halts from both sides of the border to report on at the open.  Another great day for small-cap and micro-cap financial news.

If you are new to the show, it is a daily, fast-paced, edgy report that we put out at or before the open everyday that strictly reports on the best small cap and micro cap news of the day in 3-5 minutes. You can watch AGORACOM TV right from our home page .

If you miss an episode or want to search for your company in our archive, you can visit our industry leading Small-Cap Podcast site at any time:

If you want to subscribe to our Small-Cap RSS Feed and download our podcast everyday via iTunes, or your favourite podcatcher, just use the following:

As always, don’t forget to visit the AGORACOM Marketplace where we list compelling summaries for over 85 great small-cap and micro-cap companies that you can sort by exchange and industry to suit your personal investing tastes.

TODAY’S SMALL-CAP AND MICRO-CAP BREAKING FINANCIAL NEWS BEFORE THE OPEN

Our daily show focuses on content over form so that you can get profitable information into your hands as fast as possible. The same holds true for these entries in our small-cap, micro-cap news blog, where I simply cut and paste my TV notes for your benefit, without any editing, so don’t give me a hard time! 🙂

Now, onto our show notes for the day.

** Denotes an AGORACOM Client. AGORACOM TV Only Reports News From AGORACOM Clients That Meets The Same Newsworthy Threshold Of All Other Press Releases.

  • Noront Resources – TSX-V:NOT $5.73
  • Firestone Ventures – TSX-V:FV, FSE:F5V $0.41
  • H2O Innovation – TSX-V:HEO $0.95
  • Salazar Resources – TSX-V:SRL, FSE:CCG $1.44
  • Luna Gold Corp – TSX-V:LGC $1.35
  • Osisko Exploration – TSX:OSK, FSE:EWX $0.30
  • Redhawk Resources – TSX-V:RDK, FSE:QF7 $0.53

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