Small Business Boomers

October 7th, 2008

Boomer Creativity Contest - LAST DAY!

Children are fantastically creative because they don’t know they aren’t.  Adults are not creative because they know they are not.
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If you want to create, what’s stopping you?  I have some inspiration for you, in a book by an author named Brenda Ueland.  You can win this book by responding with a […]

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October 4th, 2008

Boomer Contest Update - How to Create

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The Boomer Creativity Contest has generated many great ideas - I’m motivated just reading them and I wish all of you could win!
There is still time to enter - the contest runs through Tuesday (October 7th).  Just go to my Contest Post and tell me what you would like to create.
Some […]

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October 3rd, 2008

Speaking of Hair Color - Does “Going Gray” Affect Your Boomer Business?

Mary Emma Allen, over at Home Biz Notes, asks the question:  Does “Going Gray” affect your home business? 
A week or so I wrote about Boomers who color their hair. Mary Emma is taking it a step further.  Does hair color affect how people look at you?  Do customers, employees look at you differently if […]

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September 25th, 2008

Moment of truth for baby boomers - do you die your hair?

An email exchange with other b5media business channel bloggers got me wondering - how many baby boomers die their hair?  I guess there are two schools of thought on this one:
1.  I’m proud of my age and of being who I am without benefit of artificial enhancements.  I would never die my hair.
2.  I figure […]

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August 27th, 2008

The Age Curve - How to profit from “Generational Demographics”

Yesterday I talked about The Age Curve by Baby Boomer Kenneth Gronbach.  The book’s subtitle is “How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Storm.”  The “storm” he’s talking about, I think, is the influx of baby boomers as an aging generation and its effect on many areas of economics.
Yesterday, I said Gronbach’s central premise is […]

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August 26th, 2008

“50 things to do at 50″ Contest - Great Responses!

I have a winner in the replay of the “50 things to do at 50″ contest (more about the winner after he/she is notified). The responses were FANTASTIC and I want to share them with you, in no particular order:

Think about what you enjoy and then act on it! Start a hobby or business […]

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August 26th, 2008

Baby Boomers at the Top of the Age Curve

I’ve been reading an excellent book titled The Age Curve: Why Size Matters, by Kenneth W. Gronbach (AMACOM, 2008). The book is valuable to anyone wanting to understand the importance of what Gronbach calls “generational demographics” and how to use it for marketing and selling to baby boomers and other generations.
Gronbach’s basic premise is […]

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