Small Business Boomers

Yesterday, I gave you the first three of 10 Tips for Successful Business Startup.  These tips work for any kind of business, whether you are a Baby Boomer or Gen Y entrepreneur.  Today, the next 4 tips.
7.  Start with a clear picture of your business.  This one comes from my favorite business author Michael Gerber, author of The E-Myth Revisited.  Gerber says that success comes from setting up a clear picture of the business you want then going after it.  Here is what you need to do: Sit down and imagine your business as it will exist in 5 years …read more

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As I said before, in the future I believe everyone should start a business.  Not only for tax purposes, but for self-satisfaction, independence, and fun.  We Baby Boomers will all need to start businesses because we most likely won’t have Social Security and retirement funds to support us.
Starting a business is a pretty scary proposition; believe me, I know.  I have done it myself, several times.  I have taught small business classes for many years, and I have distilled the wisdom of myself and many others down to the “Murray Top Ten Tips”  for succesful startup.  This week, I would …read more

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Yesterday,  I talked about writing jobs for baby boomers.  If you have always wanted to “WRITE” (whatever that means to you) and you have an idea of what you want to write, the best place to go for advice is successful authors. You don’t get any more successful than Stephen King. A Baby Boomer (born in 1947), King has written more than 39 novels under his own name, seven more as Richard Bachman, and pseudonyms and countless short stories. I’m currently reading his book On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft  for inspiration. And …read more

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I have been writing for a long time, non-fiction, business articles and books.  I did some children’s stories, back when my children were young, but I’ve never been really motivated to write fiction…until now.  Maybe you have to be more mature, more “lived in” to write fiction.
One of the entrants in the “50 things you can do at 50″ Contest got me thinking more about writing.  She said, If you’ve ever had the writing bug (like me), enter a short fiction, short non-fiction, or poetry contest. There are many out there and most entrants are younger, so our perspective is …read more

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If you are considering leaving your job and becoming self-employed, Jeff Williams at BizStarters suggests you start working on several elements of your proposed business now, while you’re still working. See his suggestions here:

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