As a precursor to our launch on the 23rd, we will be upgrading both hardware and software during the early part of the week.

I will be emailing everyone with more details on the launch as well as pricing and services that we will enable at that time.

This betatest phase has been invaluable and a huge thanks to everyone, to be honest we would not have been able to launch without you.

We will making sure that when we open up for business that we are careful about the introduction of products so we have decided to enable level 1 data first and level 2 data a few days later.

I hope you will, agree that by implementing a staged approach we can avoid any conflicts which might potentially affect the paid for services. I can assure you that level 2 is worth waiting for both in terms of product and pricing ( but then I am bias). I will next week announce an interesting and important tie up on level 2.



Regards

Mike

PS Off to bed, long day:-)

Andy Pandy,

Going home six hours ago would have been wonderful :)

J.

Jeff,

"MoneyAM - idiots bringing the FBB (or whatever it is called) into disrepute"

So it should be a busy thread then.

LOL!

Cheers

Ash (;-))

Mike and all at MoneyAM

Wishing you the very best on your launch and for great success in the future!

Tom.

Good luck. I don't think you will need it. Having a superior product makes a big difference.

You obviously have the opposition rattled. I have received yet another promo Email. That's several over the last couple of months now.

Dear ADVFN'er,

Thank you for using ADVFN. We hope you enjoy our free or premium service with its real time streamed prices, active BB and many advanced tools.

We'd like to make you a special offer to take full advantage of our premium services.

We have recently introduced a yearly special offer for our premium services. If you purchase a yearly subscription you get a free month! In effect you get 12 months service for the price of 11.

This has proved very popular and we have decided to run a special promotion to premium ADVFN users like you.

For one week from today, ending at Midnight on Monday 27th January, we are running the following special offer:

Good luck for tomorrow and best wishes for the future.

Mike, Ross, Mighty Micro, Kam, TulletJ, Andy et al at AM.

Sounds like you've got the L2 stuff covered anyway.

Best of luck with the launch.

Cheers

Ash

Afer hours today and tomorrow we will be switching in new features, marketing gifs, subscription options etc etc.

Just to let you know that we have mounted a largish PR campaign in the Press and TV/Radio plus adverts in National and local press. It will be interesting to see the reaction.

Mike

Will there be coverage in this week's Shares mag?

Mike

Best wishes for the launch.

Any news on the Port 80 issue?

Regards,

PlanB

PlanB; In fact they are working on that today. It was/is a reasonable size issue but things are progressing. fingers crossed for it being finished tomorrow.

Haystack; they wanted too much money;-)

Try the Aberdeen Press and Journal. They always have an eye for a good story.

When the Titanic sank their headline was 'Kenethment man drowns at sea'.

On the outbreak of WW I they had 'Giant neap found at Turrif'

Their best headline in WW II was 'Ike flies back to front'.

A MoneyAm headline competition might be nice.

Bullshare,

Best of luck with the launch and may you
prosper even more!

:-)

Jeff

To the MoneyAM Team,

The site gets better every day; thanks.

I wish you well for the Launch and in the Years to come.

Regards, Jon.

Mike,

Good luck for the launch.

Hope all those Shares readers don't jam the servers up though :-)


Regards,

M

Well folks after 16 years as MD of MSM/AJ Bell Media, I am going to hang up my commuting boots at the end of September.

It's been an incredible journey, first off co-founding ADVFN, then founding MoneyAM and incorporating that into Shares Magazine. Myself and fellow partners sold the business in December 2012 to AJ Bell. AJ Bell has recently announced a float of its business at the end of this year or early next year, so I am going to make the most of the opportunity and enjoy a quieter life.

Its been a great journey and I have made some amazing friends on these Bulletin Board. We have sadly lost some of the greatest characters such as Crocodile and MG.

I plan on taking a few days off then I am going to take on a few Non-Exec roles and have a few of my own start up ventures to play with next year!

I leave AJ Bell Media in a very strong position. We moved Shares from print to digital in 2016 and have since seen readership grow from 15,000 to over 70,000. MoneyAM and its white label spin offs such as the solutions we host for the Telegraph, Daily Mail, AJ Bell , Hargreaves Lansdown and many more businesses mean that MoneyAMs traffic is over 2,000,000 unique users a month.

For the past 12 months the dev team have been working on a back end move into Amazon (AWS) which is nearly complete. Users will then hopefully see better resilience and speed.

I will still be on the boards and as I will no longer work for a Group that’s ’regulated’ I will be able to ramp properly again!

Cheers

Mike (Bullie)

Yes it has been fun Mike, See you for lunch soon, M

All the best Mike and good luck in your "ventures".

You won't miss the commuting!

Good luck Mike and all the best for the future.

Good luck Mike, enjoy your retirement.