May 30, 2008
Practice The Way That Doctors Practice
Doctors spend years in medical school studying, practicing, and readying themselves to take on the enormous responsibilities of their profession. The consuming public has a very high expectation of the professional standards that are imposed on the medical profession, and all of their faith and hope frequently is placed into the hand of the doctors who are taking care of family, friends and loved ones. This is one reason why doctors have to prepare themselves in the most careful way for the procedures that they perform.
Filed under Creating Buyers by Joel Block
May 28, 2008
Preparing To Raise Capital For Your Business
There isn't any question that people ask me more than how they can raise capital for their business or early stage venture.
Filed under Business Financing, Private Equity, Raising Capital by Joel Block
May 27, 2008
Growing Your Business: Which Part Is The Hard Part?
I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but marketers and sellers usually tell stories that leave out most of the important pieces that you need to be successful. What a shock.
Filed under Business Growth, Creating Buyers, Growth Minute by Joel Block
May 23, 2008
How Do I Raise Money? Here Are A Few Basics…
The question that I'm asked more than any other is "How do I raise money for my deal?"
Filed under Business Growth, Raising Capital by Joel Block
May 21, 2008
Tremendous Opportunity
It's not often that I look to my list for something that is quite private, but I have an extraordinary amount of notes, memoirs and insights that I have documented over many years. And I would like to convert these notes and memoirs into a book that would be designed to help entrepreneurs and corporations be very successful in their endeavors.
Filed under Guru Marketing by Joel Block
May 19, 2008
Growing Your Business: Walk The Walk
It's always shocking to me when I run across people who don't "walk the walk" and "talk the talk" that they promote to others. I regularly come across people who say one thing but do another, or even worse, do nothing. I likewise try to apply this rule to myself — sometime more successfully than others.
Filed under Business Growth, Growth Minute, Guru Marketing by Joel Block
May 16, 2008
Growing Your Business: Don't Do It All By Yourself
I met a guy last night who is in the radio business. The guy works on audio files, multimedia files, video, etc. When I overheard him talking with some other people about mixing some music and other material, I felt compelled to ask him a question. I had been having a problem with operating a piece of software related to his line of work.
Filed under Business Growth, Growth Minute, Guru Marketing by Joel Block
I have a good friend who is one of the best direct marketers in the United States. He started a catalog marketing firm several years ago — selling baby products to young families. He took his company public, exited the company and he now consults to a variety of other direct marketing firms and continues to be a very successful business person.
More on Growing Your Business: Make a Mistake Every Once in a While
Filed under Business Growth, Creating Buyers, Growth Minute by Joel Block
May 9, 2008
Growing Your Business: Take Responsibility
Of all the business principles that we could discuss, taking responsibility for your actions and for the outcomes that are generated by those actions has got to be at the top of the list. I've seen one company after the next find themselves in a situation that they don't like and where they are unable to make changes because they don't take responsibility for what got them there in the first place.
Filed under Business Financing, Business Growth, Growth Minute, Raising Capital by Joel Block
As we prepare for our seminar program that covers the concepts of successful syndication, many people are sending in questions that they have about the topic. We are organizing them into categories and I am answering them so that everyone who is interested in learning how to make money the same way that Wall Street makes money, can begin to understand how the business works.
More on Real Estate Syndication: Our Most Popular Questions & Answers
Filed under Business Financing, Raising Capital, Real Estate by Joel Block
