Jimmy Mengel,
Director of Customer Experience
Aug. 8, 2025
Welcome to Pub de Digest…the finest investment restaurant in town. I’ll be your Maître d'.
As the Maître d' at Digest Publishing I’ve had the privilege of speaking to hundreds of readers like yourself. Every day I make myself available to take personal reservations with you in order to help you make the most of your subscriptions.
I’d like to think that I’ve even developed friendships with many of you.
While I’m gracious to help walk you through the ins-and-outs of investing with our recommendations – finding brokers, explaining different stock exchanges, keeping calm during volatile markets – the most rewarding part of the job is hearing from readers that have had their financial lives transformed with our research.
I speak with many of you that are new to the party – maybe one day in, perhaps a few months. I talk to others that have been building a Digest Publishing portfolio for a couple of years. But sometimes I get that special call from a reader who has been following Nick Hodge’s and Gerardo Del Real’s advice for up to a decade.
(Thankfully, I count myself among them).
Calls like that are always the most impactful – and reinforce the importance of the job we do.
Take Mark N. for instance…
Mark is a commercial airline pilot who flies all over the world. Every time I speak with him he’s off to an exotic location. The last I spoke with him he was travelling to Italy – and not just for a layover.
He’s done so well for himself over the years that he has offered a side business breeding Lagotto Romagnolos. These impressive Italian dogs are trained in the art of truffle hunting. They possess a highly developed sense of smell and very strong claws, allowing them to detect valuable truffles buried deep underground and dig them up.
A heck of a side gig if you ask me – and it takes some serious capital.
Mark also happens to be a member of our Private Placement Intel group. It is our most lucrative and most selective publication. It’s capped at just 250 members.
Private Placement Intel caters to high-net-worth and professional investors by offering access to a pipeline of private deal flow and executive connections. Deals that both Nick and Gerardo participate in themselves. To belabor the restaurant metaphor “they eat their own cooking”.
You can buy shares of private companies for pennies on the dollar before the rest of the investment world has even heard of them. I’ve seen the results and it is honestly the best way to create generational fortunes.
Enter another Private Placement Intel member, Doug S…
Doug has been investing alongside us for the better part of a decade. Last year he hesitantly decided to take his investing to the next level, and he hasn’t looked back. Far from it. Here’s what Doug wrote to us just the other day:
Hi Nick, Gerardo and Jimmy,
I am one of those retired Oil & Gas execs here in Calgary and have worked hard to save, invest and squirrel away a few bucks over the years. Now in retirement and in the back end of our 50’s, I spent a few years developing my plan to “maintain” wealth through retirement. Maintain to me, means earn as much as my wife and I spend each year given we both no longer have traditional “jobs”. So we continue to invest and purchase some vacation rental property for our cash flow.
We are 4 years in, travel 5 to 6 times a year, and for the last 2 Calgary Stampedes have held big family reunion events bringing in my family last year and my wife’s family this past Stampede. Dare I say it, but we have found our happy. The “Maintaining” had been working well.
I came across Gerardo’s Junior Resource Monthly in 2023. I started reading and then got the exposure to Nick’s stuff and got hooked on the weekly Bizzaro World. I liked your message and the non-pushy but intelligent delivery. Followed a few recommendations and made some early wins.
Based on that, I took the plunge in Jan 2024 and joined Private Placement Intel service, and with the Cdn dollar at $1.4 at the time this was a $7,500 purchase. My wife thought I was nuts….
We both laugh now. Since Jan 2024 I have participated in 12 placements and have Kincora coming when they do their roll back and issuance. Returns for 6 are above 100%, 3 of which are above 200%, one is above 350% only 1 is slightly negative (minus 15%) and that one is new and has not yet released any news. My average is just above 112% and my net return is just about $530k.
Anyway, my point is that this has been an excellent service and I honestly see only bigger and bigger upside. So much so, that our “Maintain” fiscal strategy has changed to “Grow” our wealth. And I truly believe that our approach now has less risk than our previous “Maintain” strategy.
Selfishly, my only negative on bringing others in is that it will eventually make your subscribers too large to take on future small scale private placements. How’s that for a first world problem, I don’t want you guys to get too successful!!! (Kidding, kind of, maybe….).
What keeps me, is your actual superior results…
Thank you for what you do.
– Doug S.
If that’s not a rousing endorsement, I don’t know what is.
A couple of caveats before you get too excited. To participate in a private placement and get a seat at the table, you’ll need to meet a few requirements.
You'll need to be an accredited investor to participate in these deals. There are various ways you can meet the requirements to become an accredited investor. The two most common are
- Net worth, not including your house, of $1 million.
- Average annual income of $200,000 if you’re an individual or $300,000 if you file jointly.
- Many other exemptions. Make sure you ask your broker or you check with the SEC or other governing body's website to make sure you're accredited.
I could go on and on, but I’d rather speak with you myself to answer any questions you may have. As your Maître d', I am here to explain what’s on the menu and what you can expect from our service.
You can call me at 512-890-3830 (local) or 844-334-4700 (toll-free) or email me at customerservice@digestpublishing.com with any inquiries you may have.
If you meet the requirements you can sign up yourself right here.
Time is of the essence however: Nick and Gerardo just released a new deal to subscribers yesterday that will be filling up fast. It’s a tiny uranium company that they are both quite familiar with. The last time they worked with this team, readers ended up gaining ~850% just on the original position.
Those are life-changing gains in just one bite.
I’m very much looking forward to getting you a seat at the table.
Godspeed,
Jimmy Mengel
Director of Customer Experience, Daily Profit Cycle