One Minute Pitch
1. What's different about our newsletter? You
have worked hard for your money and you need the right information to
make sure you invest it well. And you cannot afford the time trawling
the whole stockmarket or justify the money in buying a number of
expensive analyst's reports? And the news archives you have access to
really don't help that much? This
is where Sharewatch is different. We're focused on analysing the quoted
small company sector in the UK. We have access to all the best quality
pay-access analyst information and unlike the national newspapers'
broad sweeps, we will meet with all the companies we recommend. And
we're not journalists - we're practitioners - so we're less interested
in breaking news and more interested in producing quality
recommendations for our subscribers. Convinced? 
Not convinced? Read on... 2. What do I pay for, exactly? Monthly newsletter
sent in hardcopy format and you have free access to the online version.
This contains at least two new main recommendations each month, smaller
articles for further research, updates to previous recommendations and
any changes made to our Growth Portfolio. Why not try a search to see
what there is? Online access to our archive of past issues.
We have put three years of research online (and are in the process of
putting earlier research online also) which we've indexed so you can
quickly find the best information on the web. What have we got in our
Archive? Take a look... Growth Portfolio. Reading recommendations is good but seeing a portfolio in action is even better. Remember,
past performance is not an indication of future performance and you may
lose some or all of the money that you invest in shares. The
performance of individual companies can vary widely and some can fail. Launched
in November 1994, shares in our Sharewatch Growth Portfolio I, a
virtual portfolio that only bought shares recommended in the
newsletter, based on an investment of £25,000, delivered stunning
growth of 1089% before receipt of dividends, before
being terminated in July 2001. This represented a capital gain of
£272,142. Over the same period, Sharewatch has delivered growth some
12.8x better than the FTSE-All Share. Growth
Portfolio ll was launched in March 2001 and is already performing
strongly. Our Growth Portfolio is an excellent way to learn the
dynamics of managing a portfolio. View the portfolio's performance >>
Sharecheck Introductory Guide -
We'll also give you a FREE copy of Sharecheck, the valuable series of
"how to" tips to help you get started and ensure success for even the
most experienced investor. Convinced? Not convinced? Read on... 3. How can I be sure the content is any good? Samples. If you want to see a sample of a past issue then you can download a PDF here or you can contact us
and we can arrange for a sample to be posted to you. Also, you can
search our archive for free and see excerpts from the final content.
This should give you a good idea of what is there. Our existing subscribers. Have a look at the quotes throughout this site for testimonials
Our heritage. We've
been doing this an incredibly long time, since 1993 in fact, and most
of our subscribers have been with us for many years (5.7 years on
average to be precise!) so we must be doing something right... Our resources.
Since 1993 we have been visiting every single company we write about and
have therefore developed an effective network of contacts at director
level. No other editor visits more than 100 companies each year. We
also hold a massive collection of resources in our research library and
this is growing each day... Our people.
The same team has been in place since 1993. Sharewatch is edited by Smit
Berry, who has established an effective network of contacts including
brokers, analysts and company management. Smit is also a director of
two quoted companies and therefore has a more informed outlook on the
sector when compared to other analysts or journalists. Our performance.
The only thing we newsletter publishers have to sell is the quality of
our advice. If we weren't delivering results, we would not have
subscribers who renew year after year. Convinced?
Not convinced? Read on... 4. Is there a better product or service available elsewhere? As
described in answer 1, we feel we provide better value and more useful
information than competing services but we'd love to hear from you if
you think otherwise (contact us). You can
get some good information for free by searching the web, of course,
that is if you have the time and know the good from the bad. However,
the reports we publish don't exist anywhere else and the pay-access
content we bring together in our archive certainly isn't available via
the web for free. Nor are the companies we are adding to our portfolio
brought together, of course. Convinced?  Not convinced? Read on... 5. What does it cost and is it worth the price? An
individual annual subscription costs £119. We do a specially discounted
first year subscription of £89.50 so you can give it a try at a lower
cost. Ultimately, you'll be the judge of whether you think that
represents good value. But as this gives you complete access to all our
subscription content, we think it is a good deal. You would burn a lot
of shoe leather if you visited as many companies as we do. And if you
subscribed separately to the various analysts' research we also sift
through each month, you'd pay several thousand pounds. Convinced? Not convinced? Read on... 6. Who subscribes to Sharewatch? - Individual Investors
- Institutional Investors
- Company Directors
- Stock Brokers
Many
investors tell us Sharewatch is the only investment publication they
read, as if to say, "If it's not in Sharewatch, it's not worth buying". Convinced? 
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