The Advantage of Being an Older Worker: Exploring What Women Over 60 Bring to Businesses
It was a lively bunch. The 12 people in my class were from a smaller company that provides conference services. It had recently been purchased by a much larger global corporation in November 2016. Read More
What Should You Do with Business Clothing After Retirement?
After decades of hard work, you’re approaching retirement – or maybe you’re already there, congrats! It’s going to be great – you’re already daydreaming about all you’ll do. But what about all your business attire? Will your clothes retire too? Read More
3 Ways to Start a Successful Business in the Transition to “Retirement”
Have you ever thought about starting your own business? Do you feel like you have so much more to do and say with your life?
Read More“People Over 50 Are Too Old to Start a Business” – An Angry Debate with an Old Friend
I don’t usually let stupid comments get to me, but, the other day, one of my good friends said something that really ticked me off. No, they didn’t criticize my hair or tell me that I looked fat in my favorite dress. They told me that I was wasting my time trying to help older adults to change their financial future. Specifically, she said: Read More
How to Start a Consulting Business After 50: 6 Tips You Need to Know
Before I retired from my corporate career, I thought that starting a business meant finding a big idea, developing a product, hiring staff and setting out to “make the world a better place.” Like most people, I saw the stories of companies like Facebook and Google and believed that starting a company required a hard-to-find combination of business and technical skills. Read More
4 Reasons to Start a Business with Your Grandchild
Why on earth would you want to start a business with your 10-year-old grandchild? Isn’t it better just to “let kids be kids” and leave the serious stuff to your grandchild’s parents? Not necessarily! Read More
Colonel Sanders Started KFC at Age 65. What’s Stopping You from Starting a Business?
At the age of 65, Colonel Harland Sanders was facing a crisis. Like many older adults today, he was looking at an uncertain future. His restaurant had failed and he was left only with his savings and the prospect of a $105 monthly Social Security check. Read More
Are You Starting Your Own Business After 50? We Want to Hear from You!
The convention wisdom is that starting your own business as an older adult is next to impossible. If you ask the average person why it is hard to start a business after 50, they will give you a litany of reasons, most of which will be based on tired aging stereotypes. Here are a few examples: Read More
How to Start a Business After 50 (Part 5): The Power of Content
If you have gone through steps 1-4 in my “How to Build a Business After 50” series, you already have a good idea of your strengths and skills. You have probably settled on your profitable business idea. You may have even set up your website. Now what? How can you get the information you need to decide exactly what to build? Equally important, how can you market it to your prospective customers? One way to do both is with content marketing. Read More
Starting a Business After 50 (Part 4): Setting Up Your Website
Talking with the other members of our community, I am amazed by how many good ideas people have for businesses. Even more surprising is how few of these ideas ever become reality.
It’s not that older adults are lacking energy or drive. Read More