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Our E-mail Reply To Listing Requests From Overseas Mining Projects ...
Thank you for your inquiry to www.MiningInvestment.com with information about your property.
The purpose of all of our mining publications is to provide a place that potential mining investors can take a detailed look at a potential opportunity by using the Internet as a search device.
Unfortunately, for our presence to work —to satisfy our readers’ needs— we would need so much more information, packaged in a format similar to the projects featured in our current online publication (Nepheline Syenite, and the Alaska Silver).
Since positioning the e-magazine in the search engines (where you found us!) we have received an average of two international (or more; some are so spam-like it is hard to tell if they are legitimate or not) e-mail letters per day, with a short message similar to what you sent asking for help.
Before going into reasons why, I need to let you know, so neither of us are wasting our time, that:
1) Nowhere on our Mininginvestment.com e-magazine does it say we will list/profile your mining properties for free— though in ways that is true. As you must know, free usually costs, one way or the other, and you usually get exactly what you pay for.
2) In return, I would like you to know that we are not a front for any of the organizations —usually associated with spam mailers that hide behind false addresses, and promise much for a “small processing fee,” which may be the first step down the road to disaster. We do not ask for any “finder’s” position. What we do is list honest descriptions of available opportunities in a full disclosure style for our e-magazine readers. If they happen to feel what you are offering is valid, then it is up to you to deal with what arrangements they suggest. We make no promises other than we offer our readers —worldwide— a free look at projects we feel have a reasonable chance of succeeding.
3) What fees we do charge are based upon the time expended to actually visit a property to take a “video tour first look,” for our readers. No, we are not interested in a stock for payment of our services, as that would require a blind faith investment —similar to what you are asking other potential investors to make— without access to acceptable information to make a sound decision. Just as you may have doubts about what we offer, others have them of you. This is why we have such a web presence via our magazine (not just an e-mail address) with a win-win-win purpose of helping investor/readers world wide make sound decisions based on real information (this is, after all, the Information Age.)
To answer our readers question — “are they real?” — we need to take a look and report back using Information Age tools as video, web exposure, print and Acrobat files, CD disks full of facts verified by well explained photos, and most important of all, a password protected intranet (not internet) site where investors are kept aware of what is really happening. We also know through repeatingly being asked the same question over and over, “Does this contact speak for management, or is it just some agent?” that in this age of computerization, it is vital there be a very personal and direct connection of the principals.
Both ways! In the past — and perhaps this is what you should seek if what we offer sounds too open, too complicated, too expensive, or too much work— mining companies in need of development capital have traditionally traded “the company” away through finder’s fees, or stock manipulations where “Mr. Big,, The Banker” somehow ended up in control. I personally escaped from such a manipulation in the 1980’s, through a fluke in law by restaking claims I had signed over on the strength of a forged Letter of Credit on a respected English Bank. As we are Alaskans, who have marketed our own properties—five time zones away from Wall Street— we have learned the hard way of similar problems raising capital for “overseas” companies.
Our main complaint with the finder / loan arranger system is both sides ino a “negotiation” start arm waving with promises as “I know all the Sheiks of Saudi Arabia, personally,” countered with “I have five million dollars of ore that can be bootstrapped processed for $24,999!” or something equally ridiculous, which has had an overall effect of damaging the industry’s’ reputation, making it harder for legitimate operators/investors to operate. [A note here, if you will allow me a moment to address such middle-men who might have accessed this e-mail reply to look for a way to kidnap our readers or property listings, for your own schemes of obtaining a position by false promises, know we can’t do much to stop you on the Spam level, but blatantly linking one of our listed projects so that it appears to be something you offer will result in us diverting your readers to the grossest porn sites available.]
See, this is a complicated situation. As much as we would like to help you for free, our business is being built on the “free” service being offered to our readers. The price they pay is an investment of their time reading what you may have to offer. It is “free” to them at the present date and time. It is a “buyers” market out there, with the competition to have investors take a look at anything, a real struggle.
We know our readers very well —what questions they need to have answered— having been associated with mines, and the financing of same, for the past 50 years. And, having had international experience in Mexico, Canada, Panama, and the Philippines, we know there are special problems that such companies need to overcome besides trying to communicate in what might be a foreign tongue.
Mining investments are a tough sell without a further worry about confiscation of projects, or anti-American sentiment leading to a loss for US risk taking investors. I am not pointing to your country in particular. I can point to many. So can our readers, as a Siberian gold project where the locals allowed “capitalistic foreign investment” (in this case Canadian) to complete the drill and mill program, before taking it over with just a, Thank You.”
So, what will work, raising $300,000 to $3 million USD for overseas mining investments? The same standard of information packaging as needed to sell an American project —Plus!
American mining investors want to see informed, interpretive, packaged portfolios with a third party “business plan” summary of unaltered geologist reports, engineering studies, authentic assays, detailed maps, and lately, video tours, even before visiting a project to see for themselves. We call it, “doing your homework.”
This is what we offer. The profiles we showcase are not advertising! The investors we are attracting would not pay to go on the web to click on advertising banners that promise “more information,” when they already have piles of such trash already on their desk. We do, however, feature properties that we have visited in the capacity of “taking the first look,” for such an investor. Our presentation (if you do not have the bandwidth to view the published shockwave/QuickTime video files, ask us for a free CD disk version) is based more on doing the financial homework in a style Americans are used to as — business plans, on-screen video talking heads in front of actual operations, interviews with local governmental agencies. You cannot trick these readers, they are too smart for that. Our stock in trade is — “Here, see for yourself.!”
What does it cost to be in our publication? Nothing. As I said, our pages are not for sale, otherwise the information might not be considered worth taking a look at. What we do charge for is producing the information package. Think of us as documentary producers for an investigative TV Show, as “Sixty Minutes!” You and your professionals are the subject, appearing in print and an interactive video all about what you want the invested funds to accomplish, and what and how would be the investors return.
What does it cost to have our “publication relations,” team—most likely myself, and my video producer wife— visit your project to translate everything into something an American investor can understand? First off, all round trip travel expenses, up-front, which can be booked through you, and need not be what you think an “American” couple might require in five-star accommodations.
The reason for bringing my wife, other than her considerable professional skills, is the fact that she would be there, visiting, asking the unasked questions many American investors would ask: “Oh, but would it be safe for me to go take a look at how my investment is doing…. Where would I stay if I did so?….. what would the locals think of me?”
Don’t consider that last statement biased on ethnicity or national prejudice either, as in, “Well you can’t trust those people, etc.” Search around American and you will find —in fact one of your potential investors could very well be— a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ American, born not to far from where you live. But they too will have developed certain attitudes about American style “Free Enterprise” —good or bad — that you will need to address.
The reason for the return ticket being paid for —the travel expenses really your only upfront payment at risk— is that we owe it to our readers not to present something that is not the fact at all. We feel that an open assessment of the plus and minus factors is the only way to sell, and we would leave without unpacking our digital video cameras (a $20,000 investment needed to do professional web video) if a project truly were a sham.
We totally believe in the www of a URL address stands for win-win-win. Our reputation as an online source of information demands we keep strict standards as to how a property is presented, otherwise we will not have repeat readers, nor future projects to show. Our investor/readers need a genuine opportunity that will allow them a reasonable rental/profit for the use of their money. And most import, we need property owners to win in developing their mine into something that wouldn’t have happened without attracting investors.
Besides travel expenses, we would also need a one-time-only fee for our report packaging services, similar to the time rate we can collect here in the US for similar services, which can be $1200 USD per day. Realizing that might be rather above the local rate for similar services, and that if we charged for travel time too, would be way out of the question, what the total fee would be is negotiable. The idea of you sending tape and photos to be edited would not have the same validation as our doing the question asking. On the plus side, on your side of the navigation, know that we would love to feature a really solid overseas investment opportunity that really has a chance of wining, to help build the strength of our magazine.
Since, what the dollars expended really are to pay for professional production services, instead of “finder’s” fees, or magazine advertising space, what information we gathered/packaged could also be used as a report on a CD, DVD, in print form, or the video presentation on disk, or the traditional VHS video cassette. You will find it very handy, and a great saving over international express package charges, to be able to say, “You can read our full portfolio of reports —online,” to those that find their way to your office without going through the Internet. We also can set you up and host a password protected Intranet (not Internet) site to be used for ongoing communications within your company for investor relations.
So, there is an answer to your e-mail query. A demonstration that in the Information Age, the only thing that sells, is information. The recent Wall Street scandals proved (which will make all investment opportunities even more suspect) that the cold hard truth is the only way to succeed in the Information Age disclosure of what is/what isn’t.
If your project is as represented and can stand the examination of a virtual tour broadcast across the world — and you can afford the investment of $5,000 to $10,000 USD, for the tools needed to raise the capital you need— then lets talk.
Barry Murray
The purpose of all of our mining publications is to provide a place that potential mining investors can take a detailed look at a potential opportunity by using the Internet as a search device.
Unfortunately, for our presence to work —to satisfy our readers’ needs— we would need so much more information, packaged in a format similar to the projects featured in our current online publication (Nepheline Syenite, and the Alaska Silver).
Since positioning the e-magazine in the search engines (where you found us!) we have received an average of two international (or more; some are so spam-like it is hard to tell if they are legitimate or not) e-mail letters per day, with a short message similar to what you sent asking for help.
Before going into reasons why, I need to let you know, so neither of us are wasting our time, that:
1) Nowhere on our Mininginvestment.com e-magazine does it say we will list/profile your mining properties for free— though in ways that is true. As you must know, free usually costs, one way or the other, and you usually get exactly what you pay for.
2) In return, I would like you to know that we are not a front for any of the organizations —usually associated with spam mailers that hide behind false addresses, and promise much for a “small processing fee,” which may be the first step down the road to disaster. We do not ask for any “finder’s” position. What we do is list honest descriptions of available opportunities in a full disclosure style for our e-magazine readers. If they happen to feel what you are offering is valid, then it is up to you to deal with what arrangements they suggest. We make no promises other than we offer our readers —worldwide— a free look at projects we feel have a reasonable chance of succeeding.
3) What fees we do charge are based upon the time expended to actually visit a property to take a “video tour first look,” for our readers. No, we are not interested in a stock for payment of our services, as that would require a blind faith investment —similar to what you are asking other potential investors to make— without access to acceptable information to make a sound decision. Just as you may have doubts about what we offer, others have them of you. This is why we have such a web presence via our magazine (not just an e-mail address) with a win-win-win purpose of helping investor/readers world wide make sound decisions based on real information (this is, after all, the Information Age.)
To answer our readers question — “are they real?” — we need to take a look and report back using Information Age tools as video, web exposure, print and Acrobat files, CD disks full of facts verified by well explained photos, and most important of all, a password protected intranet (not internet) site where investors are kept aware of what is really happening. We also know through repeatingly being asked the same question over and over, “Does this contact speak for management, or is it just some agent?” that in this age of computerization, it is vital there be a very personal and direct connection of the principals.
Both ways! In the past — and perhaps this is what you should seek if what we offer sounds too open, too complicated, too expensive, or too much work— mining companies in need of development capital have traditionally traded “the company” away through finder’s fees, or stock manipulations where “Mr. Big,, The Banker” somehow ended up in control. I personally escaped from such a manipulation in the 1980’s, through a fluke in law by restaking claims I had signed over on the strength of a forged Letter of Credit on a respected English Bank. As we are Alaskans, who have marketed our own properties—five time zones away from Wall Street— we have learned the hard way of similar problems raising capital for “overseas” companies.
Our main complaint with the finder / loan arranger system is both sides ino a “negotiation” start arm waving with promises as “I know all the Sheiks of Saudi Arabia, personally,” countered with “I have five million dollars of ore that can be bootstrapped processed for $24,999!” or something equally ridiculous, which has had an overall effect of damaging the industry’s’ reputation, making it harder for legitimate operators/investors to operate. [A note here, if you will allow me a moment to address such middle-men who might have accessed this e-mail reply to look for a way to kidnap our readers or property listings, for your own schemes of obtaining a position by false promises, know we can’t do much to stop you on the Spam level, but blatantly linking one of our listed projects so that it appears to be something you offer will result in us diverting your readers to the grossest porn sites available.]
See, this is a complicated situation. As much as we would like to help you for free, our business is being built on the “free” service being offered to our readers. The price they pay is an investment of their time reading what you may have to offer. It is “free” to them at the present date and time. It is a “buyers” market out there, with the competition to have investors take a look at anything, a real struggle.
We know our readers very well —what questions they need to have answered— having been associated with mines, and the financing of same, for the past 50 years. And, having had international experience in Mexico, Canada, Panama, and the Philippines, we know there are special problems that such companies need to overcome besides trying to communicate in what might be a foreign tongue.
Mining investments are a tough sell without a further worry about confiscation of projects, or anti-American sentiment leading to a loss for US risk taking investors. I am not pointing to your country in particular. I can point to many. So can our readers, as a Siberian gold project where the locals allowed “capitalistic foreign investment” (in this case Canadian) to complete the drill and mill program, before taking it over with just a, Thank You.”
So, what will work, raising $300,000 to $3 million USD for overseas mining investments? The same standard of information packaging as needed to sell an American project —Plus!
American mining investors want to see informed, interpretive, packaged portfolios with a third party “business plan” summary of unaltered geologist reports, engineering studies, authentic assays, detailed maps, and lately, video tours, even before visiting a project to see for themselves. We call it, “doing your homework.”
This is what we offer. The profiles we showcase are not advertising! The investors we are attracting would not pay to go on the web to click on advertising banners that promise “more information,” when they already have piles of such trash already on their desk. We do, however, feature properties that we have visited in the capacity of “taking the first look,” for such an investor. Our presentation (if you do not have the bandwidth to view the published shockwave/QuickTime video files, ask us for a free CD disk version) is based more on doing the financial homework in a style Americans are used to as — business plans, on-screen video talking heads in front of actual operations, interviews with local governmental agencies. You cannot trick these readers, they are too smart for that. Our stock in trade is — “Here, see for yourself.!”
What does it cost to be in our publication? Nothing. As I said, our pages are not for sale, otherwise the information might not be considered worth taking a look at. What we do charge for is producing the information package. Think of us as documentary producers for an investigative TV Show, as “Sixty Minutes!” You and your professionals are the subject, appearing in print and an interactive video all about what you want the invested funds to accomplish, and what and how would be the investors return.
What does it cost to have our “publication relations,” team—most likely myself, and my video producer wife— visit your project to translate everything into something an American investor can understand? First off, all round trip travel expenses, up-front, which can be booked through you, and need not be what you think an “American” couple might require in five-star accommodations.
The reason for bringing my wife, other than her considerable professional skills, is the fact that she would be there, visiting, asking the unasked questions many American investors would ask: “Oh, but would it be safe for me to go take a look at how my investment is doing…. Where would I stay if I did so?….. what would the locals think of me?”
Don’t consider that last statement biased on ethnicity or national prejudice either, as in, “Well you can’t trust those people, etc.” Search around American and you will find —in fact one of your potential investors could very well be— a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ American, born not to far from where you live. But they too will have developed certain attitudes about American style “Free Enterprise” —good or bad — that you will need to address.
The reason for the return ticket being paid for —the travel expenses really your only upfront payment at risk— is that we owe it to our readers not to present something that is not the fact at all. We feel that an open assessment of the plus and minus factors is the only way to sell, and we would leave without unpacking our digital video cameras (a $20,000 investment needed to do professional web video) if a project truly were a sham.
We totally believe in the www of a URL address stands for win-win-win. Our reputation as an online source of information demands we keep strict standards as to how a property is presented, otherwise we will not have repeat readers, nor future projects to show. Our investor/readers need a genuine opportunity that will allow them a reasonable rental/profit for the use of their money. And most import, we need property owners to win in developing their mine into something that wouldn’t have happened without attracting investors.
Besides travel expenses, we would also need a one-time-only fee for our report packaging services, similar to the time rate we can collect here in the US for similar services, which can be $1200 USD per day. Realizing that might be rather above the local rate for similar services, and that if we charged for travel time too, would be way out of the question, what the total fee would be is negotiable. The idea of you sending tape and photos to be edited would not have the same validation as our doing the question asking. On the plus side, on your side of the navigation, know that we would love to feature a really solid overseas investment opportunity that really has a chance of wining, to help build the strength of our magazine.
Since, what the dollars expended really are to pay for professional production services, instead of “finder’s” fees, or magazine advertising space, what information we gathered/packaged could also be used as a report on a CD, DVD, in print form, or the video presentation on disk, or the traditional VHS video cassette. You will find it very handy, and a great saving over international express package charges, to be able to say, “You can read our full portfolio of reports —online,” to those that find their way to your office without going through the Internet. We also can set you up and host a password protected Intranet (not Internet) site to be used for ongoing communications within your company for investor relations.
So, there is an answer to your e-mail query. A demonstration that in the Information Age, the only thing that sells, is information. The recent Wall Street scandals proved (which will make all investment opportunities even more suspect) that the cold hard truth is the only way to succeed in the Information Age disclosure of what is/what isn’t.
If your project is as represented and can stand the examination of a virtual tour broadcast across the world — and you can afford the investment of $5,000 to $10,000 USD, for the tools needed to raise the capital you need— then lets talk.
Barry Murray
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