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President Obama’s Town Hall Meeting with Seniors

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President Obama has met a lot of opposition to his new health-care law, but today, he tried to win over senior citizens as many watched his live broadcast about changes in Medicare. Senior citizens may be one of the most concerned groups about health care. After all, as many people age, their health starts to fail or at least become more fragile. And most senior citizens are on a limited budget. With medical care and prescriptions rising, the cause for alarm is understandable. Under the new health-care law, seniors on Medicare will begin receiving $250 drug rebate checks in the … Continue reading →

Exchanging Ideas for the Good of the Business

Many of us start our home businesses with a bucket full of great ideas for how we want to do things. If we are coming from another career or years of working in a traditional job, perhaps we have saved up all of our ideas for how to do things better or ways that we want to NOT make the same mistakes we have witnessed. Still, for the good of our home businesses, we need to branch out and get ideas from other people too. Networking, mentoring and just sharing ideas about how to do business can be extremely beneficial … Continue reading →

Talk to More Senior Citizens

My life does not naturally have a lot of senior citizens in it and I know that I am fairly typical. So many of us live far away from extended family and we live lives that can be incredibly homogenous in terms of age demographics–our best friends are our age or have children the same age as we do, we work with people who are generally the same age, and we tend to do activities and socialize with people who are in a similar place in life. We might be missing out on the wisdom and perspective that come with … Continue reading →

Interviewing Potential Mentors

I know that it can be awkward trying to find and get to know mentors and colleagues who we think COULD be mentors. When I sat down to write this, I thought about how a few years ago, someone I barely knew called me and asked to take me to coffee in order to ask me questions about my work. It was someone who was interested in making a career switch and doing the sort of work I was doing at the time and he wanted to find out more about what I did, how I felt about it and … Continue reading →

Who Would You Invite to a “Fantasy” Business Support Group?

Some of us are lucky to have business mentors in our lives who encourage and support us as we work to build our home businesses. Others of us might have colleagues, ex-co-workers, and others who we can turn to when we need ideas or information. But, there are also those individuals out there who are NOT a part of our little daily lives–but whose ideas and information we would love to have. I don’t know about you, but there are people both living and “passed on” who I would love to have as mentors. If I had my way and … Continue reading →

Senior Citizens as Business Mentors

Where do we turn for mentors and advisors? As a matter of fact, what makes a good mentor or advisor for a small home business owner? My first and foremost prerequisite is that I want someone who has actually “been there” and can offer personal experience and hands-on help. Retired senior citizens can be a great resource for the small business mentor. It seems that the older generation of adults and workers has more experience with running small businesses than people my own age. I don’t have statistics on this and it is purely my opinion based on anecdotal experience, … Continue reading →