July 25, 2008
Growing Your Business: Money Is About Priorities
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Money is entirely about priorities. People can spend it any way that they choose. They can buy fancy cars that suck up a lot of gas, or they can buy more economical vehicles that are more energy efficient and socially responsible. People can be selfish or people can be lavish, but the one thing that we can all agree on is that people can spend their own money in any way that they want.
Filed under Business Growth, Creating Buyers, Growth Minute by Joel Block
July 21, 2008
Growing Your Business: Guru Marketing At Its Best
I'm a proponent of being very specific about finding a niche in your business. Every successful businessperson has to find a niche and they have to get great at it. Then, they have to exploit it in every way that they can. The businesses that are the least successful are the ones that are sloppy about finding their niche.
Filed under Business Growth, Growth Minute, Guru Marketing by Joel Block
July 18, 2008
Growing Your Business: Are You Ready?
This week, I received a phone call from a company on the East coast that wanted to sell me a service. I'm generally very easy going when it comes to receiving phone calls. Even if I don't recognize the phone number, I'll almost always answer it, and if it's a salesperson, I'll generally give them the time of day that they need to give their pitch or presentation to me.
Filed under Business Growth, Creating Buyers, Growth Minute by Joel Block
July 15, 2008
Teleseminar Tonight: Connecting You To The Money
Joel has been invited to speak at Larry Benet's upcoming Connection Mastery event in September. In anticipation of this exciting event, Joel will share some of what he will talk about during a telephone interview being held tonight at 5p PST. The topic of Joel's remarks will be "Connecting You to the Money You Need to Grow Your Business" and he will address a variety of business and money-oriented subjects during this hour long interview with Larry.
Filed under Business Financing, Business Growth, Raising Capital by Joel Block
July 14, 2008
Growing Your Business: What Is Technology, Really?
I am tremendously confused. I don't have any idea anymore what technology is. I went to college in the early 1980s; I got my first job in the middle 80's and really cut my teeth in my career in the late 80's. That's when I first started making my money.
Filed under Business Growth, Creating Buyers, Growth Minute by Joel Block
July 7, 2008
Growing Your Business: Market To The Soft Spot
Last week was a wonderful vacation week with my family. My wife and I took our three kids on vacation in Oahu, which is in Hawaii. We were staying in Waikiki and visiting all the typical places that tourists tend to visit.
Filed under Business Growth, Creating Buyers, Growth Minute, Guru Marketing by Joel Block
June 30, 2008
Growing Your Business: Why Lock Down LinkedIn?
I am shocked to find out that some large companies forbid their employees to use LinkedIn. These companies worry that if they expose the names of the people who work for them, that the best of their crop might be pillaged and yanked from their ranks. Well, I can only imagine the kind of environment that exists inside of a company that tries to create a roadblock in front of their people.
Filed under Business Growth, Growth Minute, Strategic Networking by Joel Block
June 27, 2008
Growing Your Business: Creating Great Content
People frequently ask me how I'm able to create so much content for this blog. My readers know that my content is unique and it takes a lot of energy to create it. Everywhere that I go, every time that I have a meeting, every person who I talk to, every idea that we kick around, becomes potential fodder for this blog. I take notes and I write down ideas on little scraps of paper. These ideas frequently come from situations that I am exposed to as I go through my days. It takes a lot of energy to create brand new material.
Filed under Business Growth, Growth Minute, Guru Marketing, Strategic Networking by Joel Block
June 23, 2008
Growing Your Business: It's Not Business As Usual
These are tough economic times. There are some people who are using the "R" word. There are other people who are using the "D" word. I don't know if we're in a recession or a depression, but what I do know is that many people are starting to have a hard time and that this economy is taking its toll on many people.
Filed under Business Growth, Growth Minute by Joel Block
I'm in the money business, and have spent many, many years developing relationships with financial professionals — people who work both in corporate finance as well as those who service individuals. What I know about the money business is that the closer you get to the dollar, the more money you make. And when lots of dollars are at stake, beware because the sharks come out.
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Filed under Business Financing, Business Growth, Growth Minute, Raising Capital by Joel Block
