http://www.joelblock.com/blog Helping You Hit Your Financial Bullseye Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:35:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Every day I receive a positive message, in my inbox, from the Napoleon Hill Foundation. Visit http://www.naphill.org to join the list. To follow is one of the messages, sent, which I feel is one of the most important ideas in all of marketing. I’m passing this on to you in hope ... http://www.joelblock.com/blog/535/how-should-i-bait-my-hook/ These days, I'm asked more frequently to address real estate related topics than any of the other areas where I help people to raise capital and structure their businesses. The area where I specialize in real estate is known as real estate syndication. Syndication means putting many investors together into a pool and then ... http://www.joelblock.com/blog/531/are-you-ready-to-take-real-estate-to-the-next-level/ People ask me frequently if I know of a good grant writer. I used to think that it was possible to find an excellent grant writer by going on one of the many websites, such as http://www.elance.com or http://www.guru.com and finding someone who is highly experienced in complying with the ... http://www.joelblock.com/blog/529/where-can-i-get-a-good-grant-writer/ In November 2009, I said that the bottom is a historical concept (http://tinyurl.com/yk3zfmb) and that "the only time you ever know where the bottom of the market was is by reading the paper a week, a month, or a year after that bottom has occurred." Instead of focusing on the ... http://www.joelblock.com/blog/527/have-we-hit-the-bottom/ Beyoncé, in her very famous hit single, “Put a Ring on It”, advises a man that he should lock up a woman who he really loves by making her his wife. Well, OtterBox (http://www.otterbox.com/) wants you to “Put a Glove on It” so that you can provide the most extraordinary ... http://www.joelblock.com/blog/526/ces-preview-put-a-glove-on-it/ Next week, I'm going to the Consumer Electronics Show with my son. He and I are both avid electronics buffs, and we are anxious to see all of the new gadgets that are on their way out for the year 2010 and beyond. In the last 20 years, I've been ... http://www.joelblock.com/blog/524/do-you-want-to-join-us-at-the-consumer-electronics-show-in-las-vegas/ Do you dream of winning the business lottery? If so, I might have found the jackpot that you have been looking for. I hope that you can benefit tremendously from this windfall program which is a real sign of the times. Business has slowed with all of the contraction in the ... http://www.joelblock.com/blog/521/could-your-business-use-a-few-good-volunteers/ The world has gotten sufficiently complicated, where many of the rules that have been written in the past need to be broken or disregarded so that we can move forward and break through the log jam. This is true in the real estate syndication business, but it also applies to the ... http://www.joelblock.com/blog/519/real-estate-syndication-does-a-new-world-need-a-new-way/ This weekend our family saw the new movie "The Blind Side", starring Sandra Bullock. What an extraordinary and uplifting movie! Her performance was great, and there were a couple of other breakout roles that you will recognize when you see the movie. But, this column isn't about the movie. The ... http://www.joelblock.com/blog/518/couldnt-everybody-use-a-buddy/ The most pressing question that I receive nearly daily is something like: "Joel, how do you see the economy? What's on the horizon, in your opinion?" It's hard to say, and I certainly don't have a crystal ball that's any better than anybody else in the media -- although, the media ... http://www.joelblock.com/blog/517/is-this-the-new-normal/