The Blogging Boomers Carnival #90 lands at The Baby Boomer Entrepreneur When it comes to marketing, you can’t function in a vacuum. You need to connect with real people who might need your products or services. To be a really effective marketer you shouldn’t just randomly send out messages and hope they stick; you need […]
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Every internet marketer will tell you “the money’s in the list.” This means traffic to your website or blog isn’t any good (from a financial point of view) until they join your email list, often a newsletter. In the early days of internet marketing it was easy to get subscribers. You just put a sign-up
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This week’s edition of The Blogging Boomers Carnival #89 is being hosted by The Boomer Chronicles. This blog is about how “a 50-something baby boomer examines midlife crisis, ennui in America, and other compelling ideas”. This week’s edition of the Carnival has a number of posts about the economic crisis, plus politics, financial planning, infidelity,
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While the Presidential election in the United States is attracting considerable interest around the world, the Canadian federal election campaign is heating up here in Canada. Yesterday I received an email from a local business owner. She was urging locals to vote for the Green Party candidate who is running second and is the only
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The Baby Boomer Entrepreneur is appearing in two blog carnivals this week. You can find me at Blogging Boomers Carnival #88 hosted this week by Virginia Cornue at Vaboomer.com. Blogging Boomers is a collection of bloggers writing about a variety of topics related to life as a Baby Boomer. You can also find me at
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Seth Godin wrote “If you want people to embrace your version of the future, talk about it like it’s right around the corner, not on another planet.” “For example: “We’re going to launch a new product next year” sounds a lot more distant than handing someone a prototype and saying, “this launches on January 3rd
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On the one hand, it’s hard to believe I’ve been blogging for a year now. It doesn’t seem possible that I’ve written that many blog posts; who knew I could be that prolific? On the other hand, in some ways it seems like I’ve been blogging longer. The focus of my business has changed so
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Those who haven’t tried the micro-blogging tool Twitter – and even some who have – wonder how it can be useful. If you’re Tweeting 140 characters into the ether, how does that help you build relationships? It took me a while to figure it out, but now that I know the secret, I’ve found Twitter
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The last day of September: where did the summer go? The third quarter of 2008 was particularly challenging for me. I like to accomplish things; concrete things I can check off on a list and hold up as being complete. Sometimes I think I should have been a brick layer so I could actually see
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This week’s edition of the Blogging Boomers Carnival is hosted by the Midlife Crisis Queen. Written by Laura Lee Carter, the Midlife Crisis Queen covers a wide range of topics that we Boomers might stumble upon during this middle part of our journey through life. Laura Lee writes: A midlife crisis is a wake up
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