Good luck with the new brand. I think there is a market for a MMM follow-on. It is always good to for someone to bring a new take on the same topic. I hated MMM last post on margin loans- I think MMM's success in his wild adventure has put him in a category that I don't think is quite relatable to me anymore. This community is great and I appreciate you reaching out to people here first. There is no guarantee it will work out, and it sounds like you can always hang out here if it doesn't. Best of luck!
Thanks NaN! Yeah I'm hoping I can inspire poor white people, especially those that grew up in Appalachia see that there's hope. Speaking from experience, there's a deflating culture around the poor here in the Midwest where they have no idea what else is out there. If I could just convince my family to stop buying pop, cigarettes, and lottery tickets their life would increase tenfold!
Spoiler alert: you can't convince them. Stick around and read some of the threads on that topic.
I don't think this is fair.
MMM convinced a lot of middle and upper middle class folks that they didn't need to inflate their lifestyle. It's not impossible to inspire people to healthier habits, it's just incredibly difficult (says the health professional who was well known for convincing people to take on healthier habits).
I'm sure OP can still gain a lot from participating here, especially if they stop just directly trying to solicit us for focus-group type information. Because yes, that is useless from us as we are not his demographic. Plus it's super fucking annoying and presumptuous from someone who none of us know.
However, he can learn A LOT from participating here, such as how to present ideas without pissing off the people he's trying to engage. Having his ideas challenged and refined.
My participation on forums is a huge part of why I became so successful at persuading my patients, because forums don't hold back. They rip you to shreds if you're a bit over confident, if your facts are even slightly wrong, or even if you're just unclear about them.
If OP wants to learn how to contribute to this very crowded space of wisdom, then where better to refine his skills than on this forum, which is JAM PACKED with people who are unbelievably wise in this area? And much, MUCH smarter than him in many areas.
I don't mean that as an insult, we have such a range of expertise here, everyone is guaranteed to interact with others who blow them away in terms of knowledge in some important area.
I personally don't read personal finance blogs, I've honestly only read about a 8 blog entries in total, including those of MMM, because I don't find them nearly as useful as the conversations here.