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Pastimes : Discuss Go2Net's acquisition of our beloved SI
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To: SI Brad who wrote (100)4/24/1998 6:09:00 PM
From: Nicholas Thompson   of 446
 
I feel you should keep the sites fairly separate at first. I think providing links to pertinent stocksite pages just above the quotes at the bottom of a stock board or just before the first message is the way to go initially. If you can track how and which links are used it will give you a good idea how members would like integration to proceed. You can get started on this immediately even before the legal stuff is worked out. In a few months you'll have lots of clues as to whether and how to proceed with further integration.

I've also thought about a fairly humorous earlier post suggesting 100 shares per lifetime member. I really didn't see any merit in at at first. However, while the number is ridiculous, I do feel that perhaps a token 1 share per member would be an excellent way to build loyalty and keep long term members from straying too often (Yahoo, fool...). You could even print up paper shares with a picture of the three of you and maybe our signup date... Obviously it would be a paperwork nightmare but I feel there would be real long term benefits to the company. Hundreds of basic consumer products companies have DRIP plans to engender brand loyalty and this would be a great way to initiate a sort of online equivalent (don't publicize it too widely - try to prevent the copy cats for as long as possible).

Anyway, I'm proud to be an early member of SI and I wish us all well!
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