Hello everybody. How was your Tuesday? For stocks it ended up being a mostly uneventful one, but that doesn't mean things aren't getting real interesting. Take a look at the daily chart of the S&P 500 below. The index has been trapped in a narrow trading range between 2160 and 2174 for five days now. It's not a coincidence. It's a sign investors aren't quite sure what to do here, so they're doing nothing. That's kind of like trapping a stray dog in a corner though... you really have no idea if it's going to fight or flee.
The good news is, at least we know where the lines in the sand are drawn.
In any case, the market isn't what we wanted to focus on today. One of Tuesday's highlights is an interesting Q&A with the CEO of one of our Featured Stocks.... Sack Lunch Productions' (SAKL) Richard Surber.
I'm going to give you the link to the entire interview below. Before we direct you away from the newsletter though, let's just whet your appetite with some of the questions asked of Surber:
Are there any new events in development that you can tell investors about?
With all the record-breaking revenue this year, how are the books? Will there be another financing in the near term? If so, why?
Sack Lunch is responsible for the wildly popular Slide the City(r), Lantern Fest(r), Color Me Rad(r), Dirty Dash(r) and Trike Riot(r) events. Can you give us an update on how Sack Lunch has managed to expand the market footprint of these events this year and what growth milestones are yet to come in the next 12 months?
Just so you know, Surber answers all those questions, and more. Some of what he's got to say many of you already know. There are a handful of data nuggets passed along, however, brand new to everyone.
Here's the Q&A.
That wasn't the only news for SAKL on Tuesday, however.
You may have already seen it, but if not, EmergingGrowth.com posted an updated look at Sack Lunch Productions today, complete with a fresh technical look. The commentary made some good points about the chart of SAKL as well. Namely, it's noteworthy that the stock made a double-bottom at $0.045 (both of those days were very tall bars too, which is very telling in itself). SAKL has indeed started to bounce back, pushing up and off that support level. It's started to consolidate between $0.08 and $0.10, but that's a good thing. The pause will give all the would-be buyers a chance to regroup and stage the next leg of the rekindled rally with some "umph."
Like we said when we first introduced Sack Lunch Productions to you back on May 31st, it's not very often you see stock of this caliber -- of a company that's already driving revenue -- available for a mere 2.1 times its trailing sales. Never even mind the fact that SAKL is projecting an 80% increase in revenue this year, setting up a 1000% increase in its net income.
Sack Lunch Productions wasn't the only Featured Stock to make news today though. Intelligent Content Enterprises (ICEIF) also made some waves today when it announced it had officially launched its interactive "click video" platform Clix.Video(TM).
We first unveiled ICEIF to you on May 2nd, mostly calling it web-content play. Not only does its website offer translated versions of a few hundred websites into a few dozen different languages, the www.digiwidgy.com site also displays advertisements that actually mean something to each reader, no matter where they are in the world, or what language they're reading the content in.
It's been one of the key shortcomings of web advertising thus far... foreign-language readers aren't clicking on foreign-language ads. Intelligent Content Enterprises solved that problem for content creators and advertisers by making sure whatever ad a reader sees is in the correct language, and means something to them.
That wasn't all Intelligent Content Enterprises had in the works, however.
You probably don't need me to tell you the internet is now as much of a video medium as it is a medium for the written word and images. YouTube, Facebook video ads, Netflix, and online-only premium video sites like CBS All Access all underscore this idea.
Problem: As bad as most website owners, operators, and advertisers are at making something fruitful out of a foreign audience, they're even worse at getting their money's worth out of online video. Clix.Video, from Intelligent Content Enterprises, makes online video advertising pay off.
We talked at length about it back on June 30th. What we didn't have then we have now, though, is a website that explains exactly what Clix.Video is and how it works. It's right here. As you'll see for yourself, the Clix.Video tool allows for seamless shopping straight from the video. Just click it, and the e-commerce options pop up. That, or music downloads, social media pages, etc. The link above offers an example of how it all works.
This is what video-based advertising should have been all along. ICEIF and Catch Star Studios have done it the right way.
Like we've explained a few times now, Intelligent Content Enterprises isn't the kind of idea that starts generating revenue at the drop of the hat; it's already driving revenue. It's a company that just keeps adding more and more incremental, recurring revenue. Then one day, investors look back and realize how big the profit machine has gotten. That's when the fireworks begin. The addition of Clix.Video to the revenue machine will just make it turn faster.
Now wouldn't be a bad time to wade into an ICEIF position either. It's pulled back from a June peak, but given the premise of the company's tools, it's unlikely the market is going to keep overlooking the opportunity for long.
That's all for today. Be sure to check back in tomorrow. With the market now walking a very thin tightrope, things could get real interesting, real fast.