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Table of Contents
1.Affiliation with
Bizstarters
2. Coming soon: 2young2retire Telecall
3. Wanted:
Manpower's Top Ten
4. Recent Books of Note
According to Entrepreneur
magazine, more people 50 and older start new businesses than any
other age group. Are you among those who have a business idea you're
ready to bring to life? If so, we invite you to join our new
affiliate, Jeff Williams of Bizstarters, for his 8-week business
start-up coaching group, beginning May 22. Jeff is a nationally-know
expert on starting a business after age 50, and a business start-up
coach to more than 4,000 new entrepreneurs over the past nineteen
years.
Here's what Jeff is
offering: eight 60-minute telegroup coaching sessions that guide you
in completing 25 key organizational decisions, resulting in a solid,
step-by-step business launch plan that includes:
Business
location/identity (May 22)
Legal Forms &
Registration/Government regulations (May 29)
Office set and support
(June 5)
The Marketing plan (June
12)
Sales promotion plan &
Web-based marketing/Customer service & sales support (June 19)
Banking/Accounting/Financial
Projections/Pricing (June 26
Insurance/Tax Planning
(July 3)
In addition to the eight sessions
and unlimited Q&A email access to Jeff, you get a 165-page
planning binder for your weekly sessions and a Startup CD packed
with links to articles by small business experts, plus Jeff's
business Blueprint planning tool, all for a registration fee of
$599.
For you early adopters
(by May 20), Jeff is sweetening the deal with two books: a 40-page
Target Marketing Guide, and 35-page Smart Money Management Guide.
Sound good? Enroll using this link:
http://www.bizstarters.com/pages/2young.html Full Disclosure: if you
sign up for Jeff's program, you'll also be supporting the work of 2young2retire.
That's what affiliation means.
Wondering whether you have
what it takes to become an entrepreneur, you could do worst that
revisit Reinventing Retirement's archive:
http://casts.webvalence.com/sites/ReinventingRetirement/Broadcast.D20070314.html
If you're interested in
marketing to baby boomers (who according to research, hate being
called baby boomers!), you'll find many 'thought leaders' in this
category at Mary Furlong's Silicon Valley Boomer Business Summit,
http://www.boomerventuresummit.com/
COMING SOON: 2young2retire Free One-Hour Telecall: A new service that will enable
you to get started on answering “What's
Next?” for you. The Telecall is led by 2young2retire certified
facilitators and available to you either at your home or office. How
cool is that? Get on our early bird announcement list now:
kkirmmse@comcast.net Wanted: Manpower's
Top Ten
Labor
shortage? Manpower's Top Ten (see Confronting the Talent Crunch,
http://www.us.manpower.com/uscom/files?name=Manpower%20Annual%20Talent%20Shortage%20Survey%20NEWS%20RELEASE.pdf)
has some surprises. Another survey by Monster Worldwide and
Development Dimensions International found 51 percent of 1,250 hiring
managers globally reported finding fewer qualified candidates than
two years ago. In addition to flexible schedules – the biggest
carrot -- some employers are even adding incentives like in-house
yoga classes and take home meals to attract the right applicants. Do you see an opportunity in any of these?
1.
Sales representative
2. Teacher
3. Mechanic
4.
Technician
5. Management executive
6. Truck driver (Recruiting
mature couples: http://www.gettrucking.com/)
7.
Driver/Delivery
8. Accountant
9. Laborer
10. Machine
operator
Common knowledge in marketing and sales is that your
best customers are the ones you already have. Seems to us the same
could well apply to the workforce. Strategies like phased or
flexible retirement keep getting ink, see Flexible Retirement Way
of the Future,
(
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/columnists/story.html?id=751e81e1-9ac5-4d7d-bed1-3d02b4dec091,
) but are
employers paying attention? If you have an insight, or inside
track, on this important subject, please let us know. BOOK
SITE
If
anyone is qualified to write The Wall Street Journal's Complete
Retirement Guidebook, How to Plan It, Live It and Enjoy It, it is
Glenn Ruffenach and Kelly Greene, who have been covering the subject
of aging and retirement for the WSJ's “Encore” bimonthly
supplement for some time. You won't be surprised to discover that
more than half the book is devoted to Money Mechanics (pp 103 –
265), and while a lot of this is predictable, for example, budgeting,
withdrawal strategies, there are plenty of hidden gems in the
sidebars. Questions to ask a financial planner is a winner, in fact,
Chapter 6, Before Your Open That Nest Egg, is packed with resources
and smarts, and essential reading. Then there is the three-page
table called Doing Your Health Homework, which covers the screening
tests necessary at various ages. Who knew you could discontinue the
sacrosanct PAP smear after age 69! Success Stories: A Balance of
Engagement and Freedom offers a microcosm of what's possible in later
life with some imagination, a sense of humor and cash. Comprehensive,
resource-rich, definitely worth the candle.
Is
there a masterpiece inside you?
The
authors of The Michelangelo
Method, (McGraw-Hill 2006) Kenneth Schuman and
Ronald Paxton, both career and life coaches, believe as we do that
most of us have undiscovered goldmines of creative possibilities.
Weaving
the legendary Michelangelo story with fourteen coaching client case
studies, the book demonstrates how ordinary mortals, like us, can
emulate history’s greatest artist to reinvent our lives based on
our values, passions and strengths. Each chapter has guidelines and
exercises that move the reader to look
inside for the courage and commitment it takes to create an
extraordinary life.
We
leave you with http://www.dailycelebrations.com/121600.htm
Stay well, make it new, make it better.
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