The Storm Report?

[Tiggy]

Hi Everyone,

Have you heard anything about this or do you subscribe to it?

http://www.stormreport.co.uk/stories.htm


The founder is Jim Storm who describes himself as a seasoned, very successful entrepeneur who with a team of other business people produces a monthly report offering its readers a mixture of new business ideas, support, advice , contacts, information and access to the website.

If you know about this and have any comments about its usefulness it would be great to hear them.

Many thanks

Tiggy :)

[Rob Holmes]

Hi Tiggy,

Well Jim Storm may well be a seasoned entrepreneur, but his forum has had just a few posts since oct 2004 and most of those are spam.

My gut feeling is whatever he wants to charge you £20 a month for you can probably find (most of it) on the web for free.

Personally I won't be sending Mr Storm any money.

Rob

[Jayne]

You'd think someone doing so well, would have a better web site. The writing was that small you could hardly read it. I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole :D

Jayne

[clickprofits]

support, advice , contacts, information

Never heard of The Storm Report, but you can get all of the above here for free. :)

Another free resource I would recommend is Matt's weekly business bricks newsletter (you can also access all the back issues online for free):
:arrow: http://www.businessbricks.co.uk/

Also free and worth a look (listen) is SmallBizPod - the UK small business podcast. "News, interviews, and practical advice for small and medium-sized businesses, start-ups and entrepreneurs podcast to the UK and beyond".
:arrow: http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/


Hope that helps,

Mark.

[Julie]

I agree with Mark. I really rate Matt's Business Bricks newsletter -- it's so different from so many of the (often fairly formulaic) business e-newsletters which are out there. The directory is useful too.

I have subscribed to loads of e-newsletters over the last two years, to check them out for our book and the links on our site. I have only kept going with half a dozen of them. One of my other favourites is EnterQuest -- I like the sideways look it takes at business and its honest appraisals of other resources. It's at:

http://www.enterprisequest.com

Julie

[Tiggy]

Thanks so much guys. Yes Jayne I must admit I thought exactly the same thing about the website text being too small.


Also, in the introductory brochure I received through the post the other day it has several people on there talking about how joining this has been invaluable in helping their own business. It gives their full names, their location and the type of business they own but it does not tell you that actual name of the business or give a website etc.

That strikes me as odd to miss out on an obvious opportunity to promote both their business and to validate even further the claims of the brochure.


I won't be sending any money either!!!

Tiggy :D

[Jayne]

I never trust anyone who tells me how brilliant they are. If they were brilliant you'd here it from someone else. :D

Buy yourself something nice with the money you save, I would :D

Jayne

[Inzvestor]

Sounds like a classic NM / MLM strategy

Hype it up until you just have to buy it...