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Coach’s Corner seeks to cultivate your writing talents and abilities, maintain your motivation and generate excitement and enthusiasm towards blogging for SLO! Remember, great returns alone aren’t enough to win the Strategy Lab Open competition. You also have to be able to explain why you’re picking the stocks you are picking, why you make buy, hold and sell decisions, and how current events and stock market conditions affect what you are doing in your portfolio. Coach’s Corner is designed to help SLO participants who are struggling for inspiration, unsure about what makes a good blog post, and to give you advice on strategies to help you be successful in the competition.
The Strategy Lab Open Team believes the best coaches display a clear commitment to ensuring the best interest of our participants and deliver high performance outcomes. GO blog team! We are cheering for you!
Naturally, we encourage your active participation in our site. Frequent visits will keep you up to date on the latest features, updates and contest standings.
Strategy Lab Open "Competition Central"
We want www.strategylabopen.com to be your source for all things related to the competition. To help those of you who find yourselves struggling for inspiration for a post—and it happens to the best of us—we've started posing a question of the week. Answer it on your blog, and you could find your post featured on our homepage!
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The Importance of Voting
Exercise your right to vote and make a difference today! The opportunity to cast your vote should not be missed! The most obvious reason to vote is that YOU can assist in determining who is selected as our contest winner. You never know, your active participation on behalf of your own posts or others might land YOU one step closer to winning the Strategy Lab Open contest.
You may also have noticed the rating stars that appear on each of your blog posts. Voting on your posts gives readers the ability to tell you how useful they've found the information you're providing them about the stocks you are buying and selling. Your overall rating will be considered as a factor when the final Strategy Lab Open winner is picked.
Therefore, it is equally important to vote on other's posts as it is to get people to rate your posts. You can give an entry a rating anywhere from "Terrible" to "So So" to "Best." It's easy to do - simply position your mouse over the stars on the post to see what the rating for that star is. Then click on the star you have chosen. Strategy Lab Open participants should be able to use your Marketocracy username and password to log in. Alternatively, anyone can register to vote simply by clicking on a star and choosing register instead of logging in.
How to get a highly rated post
When you sit down to write about your decision to buy, sell or keep holding on to a particular stock, think about all of the factors that went into your decision. What do you want to know about a stock before you buy it? How did you evaluate the stock's potential for success? Do you like the company? Use its products? Has it been in the news lately for either good reasons or bad?
Rather than listing seven different stocks with a little bit of information on each one, consider focusing an entire post on each company you want to discuss. This may prove to be more effective in driving people to your post as they like to know what your buy (or sell price) was, what your target price is/was, and the thoughts behind your decisions. Also, keep in mind that not everyone knows what the companies you are buying do. A quick company profile and/or history is much more helpful to readers than "Bought SBUX $25 because I drank a lot of coffee. I think it will shoot to the moon and help me win!"
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Question of the Week
The question of the week is more than a simple question and answer session. Our questions are formulated to encourage interactive communication; we want to hear what you have to say! Themes and trends we feel are of interest to our users will posed as questions.
This is your place to get pro-active - whether you are familiar with the question through your investment experiences or not we'd still like your insight and perspectives. Take a shot! No answer is the wrong answer, only those left unanswered. You may answer the question however you please, especially if the question is general. If it is stock specific writing about a stock that you own, or hope to own, tell us what you like about it. If it is not a stock that you own, tell us why you wouldn't buy it. You can even take the readers through your evaluation process and explain how you make the decision to buy or not buy a particular stock. Again, your active participation in our Question of the Week section could assist you in becoming one of our SLO featured bloggers, or you may be highlighted in a MSN article.
Question of the Week can certainly serve as inspiration for content you can expand upon for your personal blog, or just to help you to brainstorm new ideas.
Learn More Resource
Welcome to the wonderful world of SLO blogging! Whether you are a novice or pro we promise our useful tips will highlight blogging basics sure to enhance your performance as a blogger. As a "learn more resource," we offer great tips for SLO participants who are eager to blog but lack the confidence or inspiration, unsure of what a good blog post consists of, and those who seek to define their personal blog's purpose and develop their own voice and style.
Given our ongoing competition- we strongly encourage SLO bloggers to write user-focused content that is interesting, attention-grabbing, thought-provoking and even debate worthy. By doing so, you increase your chances of receiving a highly rated post, fellow blogger comments, and are more likely to develop an audience by frequently attracting fellow bloggers to your blog due to your "must-read", highly-valued content. Bloggers may return to your page regularly because they are generally interested in what you have to say or intrigued by your candid offering of experiences, perspectives and opinions.
