For Business & Pleasure
Hi and welcome! Why are you here? Are you here to learn to blog?
You have landed on Baby Boomers Learn to Blog, a website dedicated to teaching the Boomer generation the ins and outs of blogging and of owning their own site.
Do you want to:
Whatever your reason, I encourage you to poke around this site and see if there is anything that is relevant and useful to you. [Read more…]
This is a question that probably gets asked around the globe a few times a day…or more: Are there any legitimate work from home jobs?
The short answer…yes!
The long answer…you are building a business so you can’t go for the “get-rich-quick”!
Let me now rephrase this and get you thinking about it in a different way:
Is there any legitimate online training that will provide me with the resources to learn to work from home? This would be a better question to ask. Let me provide my answer for you.
3 Writing Tips You Would be Foolish Not to Follow
Everyone thinks that they need to be a polished author to write online but this is truly not the case. Read these Baby Boomer writing tips and you will realize that with a little planning and organization you can publish interesting and quality content that people will read.
Writers want to write
Readers want to read!
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We often wonder how to increase the traffic on your website so that more people are reading our blogs and, if applicable, buying the information or products we are selling. After all, without traffic we may soon give up on our online endeavors.
It’s the same as with your local grocery store…no customers…no business! Or, no roads…no traffic!
This post is not about buying traffic and I would caution anyone considering this to check for reviews on any products you are thinking of buying. There is a virtual minefield of potential scams and get-rich-quick schemes that you have to watch out for. Please do your due diligence and proceed carefully.
For those of us that are not necessarily “geeks or gurus” but want to create our own blog we are often left wondering what is the best blog hosting site. Nowadays, blog hosting and web hosting are virtually the same thing if you decide to purchase your own domain name (website name). But what should your “host” do for you?
They want your business…you want their hosting.
Capture your audience!How important is adding pictures to your blog so that your visitors stay and read your article? I’m sure you’ve heard that a picture is worth a thousand words?
A picture must be relevant…to your visitor…to your story! [Read more…]
Baby Boomers are worried that they won’t have the retirement income needed when their grand day arrives. Born between 1946 to 1964, Baby Boomers have already begun to retire and those numbers will continue to grow over the next number of years.
For whatever reason, many Boomers are beginning to realize that they will not have the necessary money, whether in retirement plans or savings, to comfortably retire. Many studies indicate that a person will need approximately 70% of their pre-retirement income to maintain their current standard of living. Some even speculate that this number could actually be closer to 100% of their pre-retirement income, which, when you think of it, is really no retirement at all! [Read more…]
