The market is closed today for Good Friday....Quote:
Originally Posted by dmo2424
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The market is closed today for Good Friday....Quote:
Originally Posted by dmo2424
Sorry Julietoo welcome to our group and thanks for a great post. Happy holiday to you
Word of mouth is a great advertising tool, but it is a shame that we as subscribers and shareholders are left with the major burden of doing so. We have many young technitians come and go and many of them when they hear SXM in my vehicle think that it is just way to expensive. They don't know about the a la cart pricing or what the regular monthly service costs. They are willing to spend money upront on items like this just look at all the ipods, i phones, playstation 3, xbox 360's that these young people purchase. Another problem is many of these people don't have credit cards. But I have seen interest I've handed down three company vehicles over the last two years that all had aftermarket radios installed and all three new drivers have become subscribers. Most of these guys are in the 15-18 dollar per hour range and when you tell them it costs less than 3 beers at their favorite bar they tend to think its a good value. Like you said it all comes down to lack of information.
And on such low volume...Quote:
Originally Posted by dmo2424
I am the owner of a few businesses and marketing is the single most important factor for success. SXM needs to start a grass roots campaign. Best form of marketing. Get the field marketers ready to go door to door. My cable company does this. Also, set up a booth at every fair across the nation (there are milliions on county fairs especially in the summer months) were large groups of people gather. Car shoes, groceriy stores, electronic stores...any place people go SXM will be there....Branding your company is expensive due to the print and cable advertising aspect, however grass roots is cheap and seems to me a good idea...just my 2cents...Happy Easter everyone.
oh gee thanks... of course I knew that the market was closed. it was a joke!!!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by kingreecan
in other news (well old news) WHY WON"T THE SHORTS GO AWAY?
http://www.reuters.com/article/marke...0090409?rpc=44
Keiser: You are right, they can get a bunch of young college kids to hit the fairs and give away swag and demonstrate the products, they could take orders on the spot and it would be cool. Here in Stratton Vermont they just had the US Open Snowboarding Championships, Sirius couuld have had a booth here and gave demos to over 20000 snowboarders who were up here for the week and that doesn't include the skiiers who check out the action. Noone seems to be in touch with the young people at Sirius.
Sirius has been adding to their online offering. 5 new channels were announced (thiough I noticed them days ago). There new channels are Pop2K, 20-on-20, Cinemagic, The Groove and The Village. Looks like online consolidation is getting underway.
www.sirius.com/music
We talk about content, Ive been a rap guy my whole life (and classical) but sirius has such great programming sometimes I flip on other channels...check out some of the things they have on faction:
FACTION:
D.I.Y. Radio
this didn't have a date so it must be new or random??Quote:
Sundays 8 pm ET
A lot of people think they could do a better job than Faction’s DJs…and most of them are probably right. Come on, it ain’t brain surgery! So, every Sunday night, we’re inviting you to Do It Yourself. It’s DIY Radio: we’re choosing a different listener each week to hosting their very own show: you get to pick the music, say what you want, the whole nine! For your own shot at glory on DIY Radio, tell us why you think you’re worthy at RadioFaction.com. Then tune in as Faction gives the power to the people, Sundays at 8 pm ET.
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Hostile Takeover
Stars from the worlds of action sports, television and music take over the SIRIUS Studios as Faction presents Hostile Takeover. Each celebrity guest gets the keys to the satellite, full access to the SIRIUS music library and uncensored, unfiltered access to a nationwide audience.
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Originally Posted by dmo2424
The shorts wont go away because this stock is doomed and destine for .12 again............................................. .....................
Lol sorry for the last post I was just bored and confused as to why people would still try to short this stock!!!???
Did you see the list this week? Not a bad group to be associated with. What do companies on that list have in common? Im researching Level 3 now. Never new too much about it. Seems they are all tech stocks. Im going to find something in common much deeper than that. :) There has to be some deeper connection, or commonality here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hopeful
Good call Relmor, thanks!!! :)
"Level 3 has essentially completed construction of its global IP network. In North America, the company has a 16,000 mile intercity network, 27 metropolitan networks and offers Internet infrastructure services in 56 markets. In Europe, Level 3 has completed approximately 3,600 miles of its planned 4,750 mile pan-European network, nine metropolitan networks and offers services in nine markets. The company also offers services in two markets in Asia and has transatlantic, transpacific and Asian undersea cable capacity completed or under development."
Sounds expensive. Huge initial start up costs? Went into huge debt? Communication infrastructure company. Fiberoptics? Is that considered old technology? They say they created their network to respond to technological advances. Anyone know anything about this?
Then theres this.
"Increased integration costs from eight acquisitions have led to a persistent operating loss over the past five years.[4][5] Furthermore, with AT&T (and its subsidiaries) accounting for 15% of its revenue, LVLT is sensitive to changes in AT&T.[1]
LVLT competes with Verizon Communications (VZ), AT&T (T), Qwest Communications International (Q), Global Switch, and Limelight Networks (LLNW). "
Just received new loans. Moodys has them at B1 rating(better than SiriusXM).
New money this week.
And this.... Interesting names involved.
"U.S. phone company Qwest Communications International is exploring a sale of its long-haul communications network, which could be valued at $2 billion to $3 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on its website on Wednesday.
According to the Journal, possible bidders include AT&T [T 26.10 0.71 (+2.8%) ], Verizon Communications [VZ 32.10 0.42 (+1.33%) ] and Level 3 Communications [LVLT 1.03 0.05 (+5.1%) ].
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Very interesting.
"BROOMFIELD, Colo., April 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Level 3 Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: LVLT - News) today announced an agreement with Open Range Communications to deliver wireless broadband to rural communities. Open Range will leverage Level 3's extended on-net services to offer high-speed Internet and voice services to millions of previously un-served or underserved communities across North America."
Seems like satellites would compete with these ground networks.
level three has alot of potential, They are leading the way when it comes to large content delivery and its only a matter of time before they are raking in the fcf. Lot of good news has come out of lvlt lately including them setting up a wave length network for telefonica which will open them up for another 250 million customers. They have said they will be fcf positive for 2009 although the have wanred 1st quarter will probably be the only quarter that will be fcf negative due to high operating expenses in the first quarter which wont be there the rest of 2009. I give level three 2 thumbs up ! !
option trading, only buying is available at ameritrade for 5$ a contract at 1.00 call price. if this stock ever movies higher and below 1$ we will be able to sell the 1.0 option calls for 5$ a contract. my guess many of us sirians own over 100,000 shares or 1000 contracts. than means $5K per 1000 contracts not a bad risk. if the stock ever gets to 2.00 then we can sell the contracts maybe 10$ or higher contract. that becomes real money each month.
i sold out of the money calls all the way down until i was prevented to when the lowest option was at stock price of 2.50 now with 1.00 call buy available and if again the stock moves higher we may look forward to selling the out of the money calls.
any thoughts
i have a gut feeling the iphone app will be coming out tuesday.. iphone just released their 3.0 update today so we shall see
Guys - popping in very quickly. Could use some help.
See my last post here: Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Good to see the humor has lightened up.
I hope you're right about the iphone app coming this week - that would be a nice change from this past 3 weeks torturous volatility.
Rick
one of the new features on the 3.0 update for iphone is subscriber based applications. sounds alot like sirius to meQuote:
Originally Posted by DOG STAR
One of the other boards, one of the more credible posters, is claiming there
will be a huge announcement this weekend. It has to be the IPhone.
That will open up a whole new opportunity for Sirius. :)