Category Archives: Retirement

Boomers and Harleys

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Boomups

  I got my motorcycle license voucher this weekend. Yea….(big surprise) went to the Harley place to get started. My Gen Y staff got a kick out of learning that I spent the weekend learning how to ride a motorcycle … Continue reading →

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Content and Context

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Boomups

I have on my dining room table a large bowl of cherries. The bowl is large and made of clear crystal. The cherries are from Trisha’s orchard, down the road from my house.  The cherries are the content. The bowl … Continue reading →

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Boom_Ups IS Entrepreneuring

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Boomups

Boom_Ups will be the next major wave of business entrepreneuring. A bold statement indeed …. let me explain my rationale for this statement. An unprecedented confluence of events has occurred; they are: Boomers are hitting retirement age – 10,000 a … Continue reading →

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Moving Your Business Toward Boom_Up Version 1.0

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Boomups

Think of it this way, your existing Boomer business works like a tried and true computer operating system. We’ll call it Boomer Version 4.5. We want to upgrade it or replace it with Boom_Up 1.0. How do we get there? I … Continue reading →

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Work and Lifestyle…Moving Closer and Closer

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Boomups

This April morning a delightful fog surrounds my house on East Orchard Mesa in western Colorado. My wife and I moved here twelve years ago. It was a lifestyle choice. Now we are actively working to change the way we work … Continue reading →

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400,000 Years of Boomer Business Experience Lost Each Day

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Boomups

10,000 a day for the next 20 years! That’s the number of Boomers that are retiring. There a quite a few issues associated with this huge societal shift, including the fact that most Boomers are not in financial shape to … Continue reading →

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