BetterTrades

BetterTrades founder Freddie Rick sets the bar high when it comes to expectations. He built BetterTrades from the ground up, starting with the strategies taught by the company and continuing through the charts and examples that are used in the workbook. He set lofty standards when it came time to hire instructors and coaches, and settled only for the most communicative and experienced stock market veterans he could find. Over the years the competitors have faded away, but BetterTrades has remained. Today BetterTrades is the No. 1 stock market education company in North America. Thousands of students have gone through the BetterTrades program in search of achieving their own goal for financial freedom.

Despite the success of BetterTrades, Freddie Rick has a goal to build a better company. He understands that BetterTrades can't be content with simply being the No. 1 source of stock market education. He realizes the importance of continuing to go forward, pressing and prodding, pushing the company to make even more advances.

"You're either going forward or you're going backwards," Freddie Rick says. "If you're staying in the same place, you're losing ground."

BetterTrades puts much effort in being accessible to its students. The company prides itself on unmatched customer service and technical support. BetterTrades students who have any sort or questions or any type of trouble can contact the customer support and technical support staff via a toll-free telephone number on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 8 a.m. to midnight, and on Friday and Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. The customer service experience is important to BetterTrades, and the company prides itself in having a professional staff ready to answer the telephones and emails quickly and efficiently.

Dealing with the technical service crew can be an eye-opening experience. If the online techs can't answer your questions, they have the ability to log in to your computer and find the problem. This allows them to fix the trouble and have you up and running in no time. (They may even see another bug while they're in there and fix it, too!) The technicians are highly trained and eager to help. It's unlikely that any other group of technicians at any other site will be as fast and efficient as those from BetterTrades.

In an effort to empower its students with even more timely and beneficial material, BetterTrades is rebuilding its website. The new site will allow students to easily connect with the instructors and register for extended education classes taught by the BetterTrades coaches. Each member of the BetterTrades staff (Ryan Litchfield, Darlene Powell, Bob Eldridge, Markay Latimer and John White) will occasionally offer a two-hour or four-hour class in order to help students expand their base of knowledge. These classes go into great depth about the subject matter and are designed to inform students in ways to make them smarter and better equipped to deal in the stock market.

The new BetterTrades website will also be home to a long list of free online classes that can be watched at any time. These will be available on demand and are designed to get students interested and informed about a new strategy or coach in which they are unfamiliar.

Another step toward creating a better company is the Traders Super Summit that BetterTrades hosts each year. This annual three-day events offer a place for likeminded individuals to gather and expand their trading knowledge and ability. The Traders Super Summit features a nationally known speaker (two-time Super Bowl winning coach Jimmy Johnson was the keynote speaker at the 2008 meeting in Dallas) and gathers all the BetterTrades coaches in one place. It's an unprecedented opportunity to hear each member of the BetterTrades staff teach their strategies. Students who attend are given great access to these experienced stock market veterans. The Traders Super Show continues to grow each year and adds quality to the BetterTrades experience.

Another attempt to make BetterTrades a better company is the determination to take the information to a variety of demographic areas. BetterTrades offers the introductory Financial Freedom Expo at more than 100 cities throughout North America. These two-hour no-obligation presentations reveal to potential students how the education offered by BetterTrades can be a life-changing experience. These Financial Freedom Expos are advertised through an infomercial on local television and visit most areas are least once every quarter. It's a great way to get more information about the BetterTrades system.