BabyBoomersBlueprint

It is no surprise whether you are retiring and looking for another career, or whether you’re stuck with this economy, more and more people are looking to start home based businesses.  This article by Cheryl Kimball and Entrepreneur Press list 55 business startup ideas. These are separated into 3 categories:

• Startups under $1500
• Startups under $3000
• Startups Over $3000 (but might not exceed $5000)

It’s worth looking at because they don’t just list the idea, but provide a short comment on how to get started.  It was interesting though, that I didn’t see much having to do with online marketing, most were service related.  Lots of great food for thought though!  Visit: www.businessonmain.msn.com

Until next time, J.
“Take control of your destiny or someone else will”

There’s an old saying that goes something like this, “be good to your kids as they get older, because they’ll be choosing your rest home”.  Of course rest home is a pretty old term, now there are terms (plus options) such as assisted living, adult communities, eldercare, and in unfortunate circumstances convalescent homes.  But have you thought about who will be the one to make such a decision for you?  What if you aren’t capable of making the decision yourself?

I know this is a bit off topic of business building for baby boomers, but I would love to hear your responses.  What information do you think is important to you to make such decisions?

Until next time, J.

This is for everyone who could use a laugh today! A friend sent me this today…. here’s what he had to say:

“The town of Naniamo is where my family lives and the Naniamo river is were where we fished and swam, as kids, which is not too far from the bungee jump. My mom’s family, the Manca’s, Bosetti’s, Dadies,and the Zapotichinie’s, owned the property on one side of the river from it’s inception to the bay, through land grants, when my Grandparents came from Italy at the turn of the 20th century. We sold the last parcel of land in the late 70’s and one of the new owners built the second tallest (at that time) bungee jump in the world over the river.

A tradition was born when several people, men and women, mostly my cousins including one of my brothers Dennis, who were all turning 40, decided to bungee jump in the nude. Now if you arrive on the day of your birthday and jump nude, it’s free. And no, my birthday is in October-it’s to damn cold, and no I haven’t tried the jump.”

If you have never heard Jeanne Robertson, she tells stories about herself and her husband whom she refers to as “Left Brain” – never mentions his name, he’s always Left Brain. That’s enough of an introduction.

I could not stop laughing!  Now how many of you have ever bungee jumped and/or are you interested in trying?

I have been on a number of calls, webinars, teleseminars…. you name it, over the last month where the discussions loop back around to whether affiliate marketing is going to survive the “new way” Google is allowing adwords to be used within their system. There are many who think it’s going to be incredibly tough going, including Perry Marshall and Amit Mehta.

However, I just read a terrific rebuttal by Ben Moskel.  A couple of things he points out are:

• Most affiliates that are being banned have been promoting biz-opps that have “Google” in the name of the product
• The lawyers of Google have told the company to crack down or they will lose the foothold of protecting their brand
• Google still sells adspace to affiliate marketers who are selling Read the rest of this entry »

This weeks ABC is N for Ning ~ Getting your own social networking platform is no longer a mad dash to the developers’ forum. Instead you can just log on to www.NING.com and create it within a few minutes. Ning.com is catching on fast with community builders and you can get a host of apps like blogs, share videos, forums and live chat and all this comes in DIY mode. NING.com is also a Web 2.0 phenomenon and is offering a free community tool creation option as of now.

Come back next week for more ABC’s of Online Marketing!