Retired, find you and your friends
moving in different directions, losing touch? Have you considered
social media as a means to stay in touch? The Internet is not just
e-mails and pictures. You can use online social media to bring your
community back together, even if everyone lives in another State or
even in another Country. And it's free.
Not only that, social media makes
everything from shopping, researching, talking to friends, making new
friends, convenient and fun. While main street merchants may be more
interested in Generation X online merchants are becoming ever
increasingly interested in us.
Why? Because senior networking is
where the online socializing and home business action is. Seniors
are finding out that social networking is safe, convenient and
satisfying. If you think social networking is only for teenagers and
young adults, you'd better think again. Ditto for the starting home business networking businesses.
Why has senior social networking
doubled in the last year? One answer is simple, adults over the age
of 50 are the fastest growing segment of the population. The over 50
generations, because of their sheer volume significantly influence
every market they touch. Online entrepreneurs have taken notice and
are making the online social networking experience acceptable to the
senior population.
Seniors are taking full advantage of
the attention and opportunities. Why are online entrepreneurs so
interested in the over 50 population? Aside from the fact that they
control the wealth of the nation, studies have found that the 52 - 62
year olds spend the most money online. Online and person-to-person
marketing is now firmly established in the over 50 age groups with
over 73% of those online, shopping online.
One big reason marketers love seniors
is that they exhibit social media loyalty. That is the “stickiness”
of the sites they use is significant. While most online users click
from site to site studies show that, of the seniors that use
networking sites, almost half (44%) use them EVERY day. That's BIG!
The loyalty exhibited by seniors to their senior social networking
sites is going to result in them getting more and more attention from
online entrepreneurs.
Almost half (47%) of adults 50 to 64
use social networking sites. That is up from only 25% in April of
2009. And an astounding 89% of seniors, those over 65, send or read
e-mails. Over half of those over 50 read online news. Seniors are
discovering that social networks like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube
have a place in their lives.
In my opinion, this means we are going
to see a huge increase in senior social networking to provide
additional financial security for themselves and their children.
What do I mean? Seniors use the Internet to reconnect with people
from their past, seek information and support with medical issues,
chat with the grandkids or make new friends with similar interests.
Social networking is all about building and re-building
relationships. As the seniors become more firmly entrenched online
they will discover the advantages of participating in a social online
networking business and will be looking for Home Business Ideas.
Because of this, I believe the
prospects for the online senior community are very exciting. Also, I
believe that the best online opportunity for seniors is network
marketing. A network marketing company creates a
product, performs all the administrative record keeping,
manufacturing, warehousing, shipping and customer service functions
while, the senior independent distributor, only pays a small fee to
join. The senior independent representative spends their time and
energy building a wholesale business, much like a wholesale buying
club, with an organization of business builders with whom they want
to work. The senior works with a network of friends, family and
close associates while they build financial freedom for the entire
network together. It doesn't get much simpler or rewarding.
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Social media website changed the customer mind.now customer used internet and start shopping and interaction with her family,colleague or other. so social media is vital part of daily life.
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