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iTunes Selects AGORACOM Small-Cap TV As A New and Notable. Clients Win!

Posted by AGORACOM at 2:08 PM on Friday, September 28th, 2007

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Hey, folks. It gives me great pleasure to announce that iTunes has selected AGORACOM Small-Cap TV as a New & Notable under the Business > Investing category. We were one of only 16 podcasts to make the spot.

Major Kudos have to go out to our Podcast Producer/Consultant/Miracle Worker Leesa Barnes at Caprica who walked in to our offices a year ago and turned a few Greeks into podcasting legends. In addition to our video show, Leesa also created our current podcasting empire at SmallCapPodcast.

At the end of the day, however, the biggest winner of all have been our clients. Why? AGORACOM now dominates 9-10 out of the top 10 positions on Google when searching pretty much anything related to small-cap podcasts.

Thanks to everyone for making this a smash success. Onward and Upward.

Regards,
George

AGORACOM Small-Cap TV – 5 Great Press Releases Before The Open (Sept 27th)

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:25 AM on Thursday, September 27th, 2007

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 Thursday, September 27th and we were able to uncover 5 great releases today dealing primarily with technology including GPS and Organic Resource Management. 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 Small-Cap TV – 5 Great Press Releases Before The Open (Sept 26th)

Posted by AGORACOM at 8:52 AM on Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

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 Wednesday, September 26th and we were able to uncover 5 great releases today dealing with a great Fiscal Year End, a couple of metal hits by juniors and a share buyback by a company that believes it is undervalued. 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 Small-Cap TV – 4 Great Press Releases Before The Open (Sept 25th)

Posted by AGORACOM at 8:50 AM on Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

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 Tuesday, September 25th and we were able to uncover 4 great releases today dealing with sports deals, resources, Homeland Security contracts and insider buying on the open market. Another great day for the small-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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Bob Dylan Hates Stock Bashers – A Must See Video

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:47 AM on Monday, September 24th, 2007

Good morning to you all. If you hate stock forum bashers as much as we do, you’re going to love the following basher video in which Bob Dylan says bye-bye to bashers. I guarantee you will love it.

How did we do it? We stumbled upon a customizable version of the famous Bob Dylan music video of Subterranean Homesick Blues. We added some magic and created “Basher Blues”. You can watch it here – be sure to pass it around as the response has been great so far.

Regards,
George

AGORACOM Small-Cap TV – 4 Great Press Releases Before The Open (September 24th)

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:06 AM on Monday, September 24th, 2007

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 Monday, September 24th and we were able to uncover 4 great releases today dealing with energy, resources and military/government contract awards. Another great day for the small-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 60 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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Press Release – AGORACOM Launches Canada’s First Stock Market Social Network

Posted by AGORACOM at 8:05 AM on Friday, September 21st, 2007

TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – Sept. 21, 2007) – AGORACOM (http://www.agoracom.com), Canada’s only provider of monitored online communities to public companies is proud to announce the successful integration and launch of Canada’s first stock market social network. Currently, over 65 public companies use AGORACOM to host their official online community for the purposes of amalgamating and communicating with investors in a monitored environment free of spam, profanity, stock bashing and pumping.

WEB 2.0 SOCIAL NETWORKING TOOLS FOR INVESTORS

The AGORACOM Social Network provides investors with unprecedented networking, collaborating and ranking tools for the purpose of helping members make the best investment decisions possible. Some examples of these social networking tools include the following:

RANKING TOOLS

1. MEMBER RANKING

AGORACOM has built a robust member rating and ranking system that allows members to anonymously rate each other on a scale of 1-5 and displays a real-time average ranking of each member. The member rating system is dynamic and allows ratings to be changed at anytime based on the performance of members at any given moment.

The AGORACOM member rating and ranking system provides investors with an ability to immediately measure the reputation of any given member at any given time, thus providing investors with an ability to appropriately value the quality of information posted by any member.

2. POST RANKING

AGORACOM provides members with the ability to rate the value of each post to our monitored discussion forums and displays a real-time ranking of the value of each post.

NETWORKING TOOLS

1. MEMBER PROFILES

AGORACOM provides members with an ability to create extensive profiles that include information related to their city, country, biography, profession and favourite sports, movies, websites, blogs and books for the purposes of significantly increasing interaction between investors with similar interests and backgrounds.

Most importantly, members can provide a list of their favourite stocks which, combined with the AGORACOM rating and ranking system, provides investors with a simple but effective way of tracking the investments of the community’s’ highest ranking members.

2. VIDEO MESSAGING

In response to the online shift towards video, AGORACOM provides members with an ability to broadcast a video message to members of the community directly from their respective profiles.

3. PODCASTING and WEBCASTING

AGORACOM provides participating public companies with the ability to webcast their interviews and audio messages that are immediately converted into podcasts on SmallCapPodcast.com and placed on the world’s largest podcast sites including iTunes and Yahoo Podcast.

AGORACOM President, George Tsiolis stated, “We are the pioneers of Canada’s first and only monitored discussion forums for TSX Venture and TSX listed companies. With more than 65 companies now using us to provide their official online investor communities, we reached a critical mass that warranted the pioneering of Canada’s first stock market social network.”

George went on to say “This is a very proud day for AGORACOM and every public company, shareholder and market official that embraced our Web 2.0 vision and helped make it a reality. Members of the Canadian investing community should look for even greater functionality to be announced in the very immediate future. Stock discussion forums are never going to be the same.”

About AGORACOM – No Profanity, No Spam, No Stock Bashing, No Stock Pumping

AGORACOM (http://www.Agoracom.com) is North America’s largest official online community for public companies. Unlike stock communities that provide investors with unmonitored stock discussion forums plagued by profanity, spam, stock bashing and pumping, AGORACOM was built to serve the interests of public companies and investors by creating monitored communities focusing on quality over quantity.

AGORACOM is the official provider of “Small-Cap Centres – Powered By AGORACOM” to Yahoo Finance Canada, AOL Finance Canada and every Blackberry device on the planet.

For more information, please contact

AGORACOM
George Tsiolis, LL.B
President
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.Agoracom.com

AGORACOM Small-Cap TV – 4 Great Press Releases Before The Open (September 11th)

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:30 AM on Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

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 September 10th and we were able to uncover 4 great releases during that were evenly split between multi-million dollar contracts and big resource results. 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 Small-Cap TV – 2 Great Press Releases Before The Open (Sept 10th)

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:15 AM on Monday, September 10th, 2007

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 September 10th and we were able to uncover just 2 great releases during the slow holiday news cycle. Nonetheless, the name of the game is quality over quantity. 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 Survey Reveals Web Research and Discussion Forum Habits of Small-Cap Investors

Posted by AGORACOM at 5:03 PM on Sunday, September 9th, 2007

Earlier this year, AGORACOM surveyed approximately 800 small-cap investors at 3 separate conferences for the purposes of discovering how much of a role the web plays in their small-cap / micro-cap research and investing. We purposely avoided an online survey to avoid skewing of the results.

We were pretty convinced the number was significant based on anecdotal evidence but given the fact some small-cap CEO’s still believed the internet had no significance, we had to settle it once and for all.

Well, the results are in and they are irrefutable. In fact, they’re even bigger than we thought. Ir you’re an old school CEO, it’s time to re-visit your web strategy. If you’re a shareholder of a small-cap or micro-cap company, you need to find out their web strategy and, if one doesn’t exist, encourage them to create one.

Percentage Of Research Into Next Investment That Is Derived From The Internet

  • 76.6%

Comment: This is a wake-up call for small-cap and micro-cap CEO’s that believe a website is sufficient exposure on the web. Small-cap investors depend heavily on the web to find their next investment. As such, companies must incorporate proactive web marketing strategies in order to reach them. Search engine programs are the easiest and most effective method. In addition tools such as podcasting and blogging must be considered. You should even speak to your newswire provider about any web optimization they can offer for each of your press releases, or at least your most important press releases. In short, you need a web 2.0 strategy

If you don’t make it easy for new potential investors to find you , then they won’t. It is that simple. Companies that incorporate these tools into their IR programs will win. It is that simple.

Percentage Of Investors That Participate In Discussion Forums

  • All Investors – 59.7%

Comment: Despite the often ridiculous nature of stock discussion forums on most portals (we won’t mention any names) the fact of the matter is that investors do not want to sit at home and feel as if they are the only person invested in your stock. As such, they are going to use discussion forums to seek out fellow investors and exchange information.

Unfortunately, this also means that unscrupulous investors can have a significant impact on your stock price on both the downside (bashing) and the upside (hyping). It also provides your competitors with an opportunity to bait and switch your shareholders by bashing you while presenting their case.

This dynamic is not going to change. Stock discussion forums have been around since the advent of the mass web and they are going to be here long after. They’ll get better (watch for our big move into this space) but you’ll have to contend with it one way or another.

Suggestion – take control of your message by creating your own community that amalgamates your current and prospective investors into a controlled environment. Use the community to communicate with investors, while providing investors with an ability to discuss the pro’s and con’s of your company.

For Those Who Do Not Participate In Discussion Forums, The Percentage That Would Participate If Quality Control Measures Were Implemented

  • All Investors – 72.5%

Comment: This number only serves to further support our contention above. Small-cap companies that create a community and give their shareholders safe haven will benefit tremendously.

Moreover, this was a real eye-opener for us as it indicates three very telling things:

  1. The current state of discussion forums is not working. The abundance of profanity, spam, bashing, hyping and name-calling is driving away a large percentage of small-cap participants.
  2. Small-cap investors have a strong desire to collaborate online with fellow investors. Much of this can probably be attributed to the fact that small-cap investors do not have the comfort of analyst coverage, independent research and financial media coverage. As such, they are forced to rely on “the wisdom of crowds” by amalgamating and exchanging information in stock discussion forums.
  3. A Web 2.0 model that can minimize noise and maximize the exchange of information in a constructive and professional environment will receive mass acceptance from small-cap investors.

Total Percentage Of Investors That Would Participate In Discussion Forums If Quality Control Measures Were Implemented

  • 88.5%

Comment: This number combines the percentage of small-cap investors currently using discussion forums with the percentage of small-cap investors that want to use them if quality control measures were implemented. It is a huge number. If small-cap and micro-cap CEO’s that previously thought the web was unimportant do not see the error of their ways, then there isn’t anything more we can say.

On the other hand, if you are a shareholder of one of these companies, you have a lot to say. Mobilize your fellow investors and insist as a group that your company invest in a web 2.0 strategy to attract new shareholders and better maintain current ones.

CONCLUSION

These survey results should come as no surprise to readers that are the slightest bit web savvy. Online communities have gone parabolic in the past 18 months as like minded individuals seek each other out to share, collaborate and grow. MySpace for teenagers, Facebook for college students and grads, Linkedin for professionals. Each one of these started from zero and now have tens of millions of members.

Would you expect small-cap investors to be any different?

Regards,
George