Monday 23 January 2012

Adjustment in direction - update

I have to admit to being rather pleasantly surprised by the response to yesterday’s post…
It’s been up for less than a day and yet already, over 20 people have contacted me and asked to be put on one of the lists.
It is my intention to place everyone who contacts me on one of the lists – the only question is, which one !
As I’ve said in most of my replies, what I’m primarily trying to do here, is protect the advised prices.
I don’t want people who are simple going to take a price and then look to lay it back immediately on BF for a profit (they will just ruin the prices for everyone – and aren’t entering into the spirit of the thing) – and I don’t want people who are in a position to adjust early bird markets (bookies reps etc.).
Provided you don’t fall into either of these categories, you will be welcomed with open arms (and that includes you Marvin !).

My intention is to place all unfamiliar faces on the second list – until they become more familiar to me. When this happens, they will be promoted to the first list !
Of course, if I discover any misdemeanours, then relegation from the first list to the second list is always a possibility…!!

The other positive thing to come from yesterday’s post, is that I have finally got a bit of a feel for my audience (in part at least).
As I’m sure you can imagine, it is a bit odd for my to sit here every day and have no idea who I’m communicating with.
The stats on my blog tell me that I get 500+ hits on a good day – I have always assumed that I’d got an audience (unless they are all courtesy of one crazy individual), but it has been nice ‘speaking’  to so many of you over the past 24 hours. 
What has come across is the breadth of readership that I have got: some experienced, some novice; some interested only in the betting, others in the rationale: some big hitters, some small players.
It is nice to know that I’ve managed to create something appreciated by all different shapes and sizes !

As for anyone who hasn’t yet contacted me, the message has simply got to be, get in touch soon if you want a chance of getting the best prices on the selections.
I have little doubt that just the 20+ so far, would be capable of collapsing a price at 5:00 the evening before, so if you are planning to wait for a tweet or a blog post, before you take the price, forget it !

My current plan is to start communicating my tips via email from next Monday onwards. Hopefully by then, everyone who wants to be placed on one of the email lists, will have had chance to contact me. I’ll confirm this later in the week, however…
TVB.

2 comments:

  1. Hi love reading your thoughts, never followed with real cash tho, but would like still to be included with the emails , cheers

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  2. I'll be happy to oblige - but you'll need to email me at TVB.earlybird@gmail.com so that I've got your email address (assuming you haven't done that already).
    You'll still be able to read my thoughts whatever though, as I intend to keeping on blogging in exactly the same way (it's just the best prices that you are likely to miss, if I don't have an email contact address for you).
    TVB.

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