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
Last week I made a post about some of the challenges that film makers face today and what can be done about it. Here is a recap of that blog entry…
More on Show Me The Money: Helping Filmmakers Raise The Money To Make Their Movies
Filed under Raising Capital 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.
More on Growing Your Business: Tread Lightly In The Money Business
Filed under Business Financing, Business Growth, Growth Minute, Raising Capital by Joel Block
Filmmakers have two dramatic problems and neither of them are artistic. First, filmmakers have to get the money to make their film. Second, they have to make enough money so that they can pay the original money back. Both of these issues, if left unattended and unplanned for, will take you down the bunny hole faster than you can imagine.
More on Show Me The Money: How To Find The Money To Fund Your Film
Filed under Business Financing, Raising Capital by Joel Block
There are certain little words that people use that I find very revealing. Some of these little colloquialisms are the subject for another day. But one word in particular deserves its own entry in this blog.
More on Growing Your Business: A New Way Of Thinking About The WWW
Filed under Business Growth, Growth Minute by Joel Block
Sometimes the best well-intentioned plans don't work out as you expect, and in every case, it's necessary to debrief and regroup. And sometimes you even have to go back to the drawing board. This process is a critical one for businesses because when the best-laid plans don't work out the way that you expect, you have to learn from the experience that you had and create new plans and strategies based on the parts that worked and modifying the parts that didn't work. But be careful not to "throw the baby out with the bathwater."
More on Growing Your Business: Keep Going Back To The Drawing Board
Filed under Business Growth, Growth Minute by Joel Block
June 11, 2008
More Thoughts On $5 Gasoline
The only conversation that I am hearing lately is about gas prices and what fuel efficient car we should buy. Don't people remember that we are at war and that an historic election is imminent?
Filed under Business Growth by Joel Block
June 9, 2008
Growing Your Business: Boom Time for Entrepreneurs
These difficult economic times are opening up doors for entrepreneurs that have never been opened before. Corporate America is shedding its excess weight at a pace that we haven't seen in years, and this shedding process will open opportunities for entrepreneurs who are sharp and who take action now.
Filed under Business Growth, Growth Minute by Joel Block
