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Forbes enjoys a reputation for providing valuable business insights and motivational content, appealing to readers interested in financial success and entrepreneurship. Many customers appreciate the quality of writing and the inspiration derived from its articles. However, significant concerns arise regarding the perceived decline in content quality, issues with biased reporting, and aggressive marketing tactics, including intrusive pop-ups and misleading subscription offers. Additionally, some customers express distrust in the accuracy of ratings and reviews presented by Forbes. Overall, while the brand has loyal followers, it faces criticism that could impact its credibility and customer satisfaction.
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Love the information about the market as well as other things going on. No Political push just simple facts.
About a year ago i decided to get into the business sphere. I was simply curious about that whole deal and, having some free time on my schedule i started reading Forbes. Very interesting, loving it.
Forbes is known to be the most readable and rated magazine as well as their website is. I always have been wondered of the quality they write. Only interesting facts about business.
Recommended for adding to your bookmarks.
Still a decent business magazine but past its prime.
Extremely informative and well organized site. They recently started to focus on video and have many interesting film aspects to the site.
Gotta love Forbes for it's professionalism. No politics, no bs, only business.
While the content of this site may be good, super opinionated but good, it os by far the worst site I have ever used on my phone. Just wanted to look at the pictures for a 1 through 10 ranking and it took over 10 minutes. Every time I got through 3 an add would pop up and put me back 2 pages. Load if crap in a smart phone era.
Forbes is great to know about great people and they keep posting important information all the time.
Forbes used to be an important source of business and finance insights... but its become increasingly trivial, unreliable, and irrelevant." David McClintick
Author Stewart Pinkerton spent 20 years as a writer and editor at 'Forbes.' His book purports to tell how Malcomb Forbes and his sons (mostly Steve) lost most of its financial assets through immense personal expenses and Steve's ($75 million) quixotic and bumbling presidential campaigns, combined with poor business decisions/leadership. Unfortunately, Pinkerton accomplishes his goal only to a limited extent - probably largely due to the Forbes empire having been a non-public entity until recently.
Stewart Pinkerton has created a profoundly important book with THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF FORBES, not only because he has a plethora of inside information about one of the wealthiest families in America and is able to share the secrets of this money mad family with the reader, but also because he demonstrates the skills of a brilliant new writer. He has been the managing editor of Forbes Magazine (the topic of this biopic!) as well as deputy managing editor of the Wall Street Journal. If there is anyone more qualified to write about the ills of capitalism and the foibles of the wealthy, they have not stepped forward to deliver such an engrossing, well written book about he subjects as Pinkerton.
As we all nurse the hangover from an era of financial excess, it's important to remember what a big part the business media played in the whole affair - and during the boom years on Wall Street no publication was more important than Forbes magazine. But Forbes fell apart for many of the same reasons as other institutions: because greed and hubris proved to be more powerful forces than the principled pursuit of excellence. Stewart Pinkerton, who was the magazine's managing editor for many years, gives us the inside story of the decline and fall of Forbes--and at the same time offers a salutary tale of what can happen when the infatuation with digital media erodes the kind of quality journalism that Forbes once upheld.
When it comes to speed and convenience, there is no better way to read Forbes magazine. With almost no advertisements and minimal pictures, you just get the articles in a very concise and easy to read format. With wireless delivery, you get the magazine delivered to your Kindle, no matter where you are, as soon as it comes out.
Having spent four highly formative years at Forbes in the early to mid-1980s, I immediately bought this book on my Kindle and then couldn't put it down. I read The Fall of the House of Forbes from start to finish in a single day. Stewart Pinkerton, an insider who lost his job in one of numerous downsizings, does a terrific job bringing to life many of the vivid characters...
Love it. Always different from others and always special
Forbes is an American business magazine. Published biweekly, it features original articles on finance, industry, investing, and marketing topics. Useful for everyone.
Do not be tricked by Forbes' "free issue" offer. It is a deceptive scam. When clicking the offer, two options are presented: 1) Subscribe now and receive a special rate, or 2) Just send me a free issue.
I never got the free issue and am now receiving bills for something I never ordered. I am supposedly past due on the payment, but never agreed to it.
Total scam. Beware.
Forbes magazine is great. Their website is quite the opposite.
The pages load slow, they seem to have a lot of scripts in the background that are weighing it down (just signs of a poor IT department). Also, when you read a top 30 list, you must click and arrow and reload the page each time so to read a top 30 count down, you have to read 30 pages! It's ridiculous. I'm looking for a site that scrapes Forbes's ranking articles and combines it into 1 page.
Their magazine is so good, which makes it so tough to rate it 1/5.
I visit this site on a frequent basis. Its a site for everybody not just the elite, however I find it has mainly an american bias so not much to offer for us brits.
I love forbes.com it's on my top 10 for information um i don't go there for politics or anything to do with governments i don't go to CNN for that either unless it involves the market and tech and other sub titles like gadgets or travel and online culture.
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