Hi Everyone,
For those who do not know who I am, my name is Brad Humphrey, I work at William Resources Inc. and among many other jobs, I do Investor Relations. I stated my involvement with William Resources in my first post and I think that in most of my following posts, it was quite clear. I also filled out the entire profile. I don't believe this to be a bad move yet, however I do receive some rather nasty and unprofessional e-mails that I have learned to just disregard, even when they get personal. I guess this would be one fear an IR person would have, we do open ourselves up, and in this current gold market we become easy targets. But that said, I also receive invaluable feedback that totally overshadows the odd tasteless message. So to all those IR people reading this, come out and announce your presence. I mean, really our job is to be there for our shareholders and investors. If I call your office do you answer the phone with a different name? This is another method to make sure that everyone is well informed and to get feedback from the investing public on their concerns.
I believe that it is very important for everyone on SI to know where the information posted is coming from. I don't understand why a IR person would not want to make it public who they are, what they do and who they work for. This in my oppinion, is a major benefit to the company. This way if a SI member has a question and is misinformed by another person, everyone can look to the IR person to clear everything up. If it is not clear that you work for the company why should I believe you over anyone else? I would hope that eveyone who posts on the William thread feels that they can depend on my information. It is here that the IR person must NOT abuse this trust. There should be no hyping of a stock. That in my oppinion is not why I'm here. I'm here to watch. If some one is upset that the stock is down and believes it went that way for a particular reason, then that is their personal oppinion and I have no place trying to change that. However, if I see factual information being posted incorrectly, this is where it is my job to post the correct information. Another place that IR persons should post is to draw everyone's attention to new information, such as press releases, publications, or up coming events etc... Stock hyping is not worth it because in this day and age investor's have access to so much more information then in the old days and besides, in the end the true fundementals of the company always come out.
Thank you for you time and sorry about the length of this message.
Brad Humphrey
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