The second article in a series that I've written

[Joey Batz]

(11-15-2014, 09:39 AM)Dividend Watcher Wrote: Joey, I agree, it's a long one. My coffee pot melted because I brewed so much in such a short period of time.

I have a few nitpicks but am not going to voice them. Save the article and then go back after a few years. I've found when I do that, I discover ways to not only improve my writing but also some misconceptions I may have had or can trace how my opinions have changed.

Regardless, I assume you know your audience and are writing for them and that's all that matters.

Thanks for sharing.

Both my writing and my investment knowledge are something that I'm always striving to improve. As for the latter, I acknowledged that my method of analysis can be flawed and incomplete at times. It's not perfect and I won't sit there and pretend otherwise. But I know that so many people out there that don't even know what dividend growth investing even is (a friend of mine that was asking about it was skeptical of living off one's dividends, asking why a company would even pay dividends and saying that it "sounded too easy"). For those people, I feel like this would be a great place to start.

I've been constantly adapting the way I've analyzed companies for some time now, and while I have made a bad purchase decision here and there (I bought BWP right before they cut their dividend and the stock price bottomed out), I've been doing great overall and my strategy mirrors that of the general dividend growth community. I aim for well known companies that have strong dividend histories because I know of my capacity to make mistakes and I encourage those who take my analysis advice to do the same. But all in all, while not perfect, my method has worked for me, so I'm hoping to share it with others in the hopes it works for them. And yeah, that's my audience. Those who know nothing about this stuff. I shared it here for everyone to enjoy, but ultimately those who are masters of dividend investing aren't going to learn anything new from my articles.

I'm not going to ask you to go into detail, Dividend Watcher, as you hinted you didn't really want to, but I just want to ask if your nitpicks were with my writing style (which is very humor-based and reads like a Cracked.com article, I know), or with my actual method of stock analysis? As I've said, I'm striving hard to improve both.