Turning Silver into Gold

As they age, America’s 78 million baby boomers will live more active, creative, inventive lives than any generation before them. This represents a truly enormous business opportunity. In this book, the world’s number one authority on marketing to “post-50” baby boomers offers a complete blueprint for profiting from that opportunity. Dr. Mary Furlong reveals breakthrough product and service opportunities, and gives you the tools, resources, techniques, and data you need to capitalize on them. She offers powerful insight into baby boomers’ new lifestage transitions in housing, health, fitness, finances, family, fashion, romance, travel, and work–and the new brand choices they’re about to make. Throughout, Furlong combines extensive, authoritative market research with inspirational stories about passionate, tenacious entrepreneurs and brand leaders who are blazing new trails in these fast-growing markets. You’ll learn how to segment boomer markets, and identify opportunities to innovate entirely new categories of products and services. You’ll discover which sales and marketing strategies really work, and even uncover opportunities in the surprising worldwide boomer market.Five trends shaping the next baby boomer revolutionGlobal markets, longevity, lifestage transitions, technology, and spiritualityFrom concept to product to financing, and beyondAll you need to execute on your baby boomer product/service opportunityThe new healthcare revolution, the new healthcare businessHow boomers are using the newest innovations to take control over their health futuresSex and romance: I’ll have what she’s havingThe new sexual revolution: making it feel like the first time–or betterChoosing families, making connectionsPowerful new opportunities in helping boomers reach out and connect About the AuthorDr. Mary S. Furlong is the leading authority on the baby boomer generation as it moves beyond 50. She founded Mary Furlong & Associates to help socially and consumer-conscious companies reach this growing market. She is also Executive Professor of Entrepreneurship and Women in Leadership at Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business. Before launching Mary Furlong & Associates, Dr. Furlong founded the nonprofit organization SeniorNet in 1986. She founded Third Age Media in 1996, ultimately reaching more than two million members. Throughout the course of her work for both organizations, she raised $120 million in venture capital funds. She has advised President Clinton,

שנה

2007

שפה

English

הוצאה

FT Press

מהדורות

3

עמודים

304

ISBN

9780131856981

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