If people are using the Internet as a Giant Search Engine to get answers to problems, you want to be on the answer end. If your Blog posts are addressing their problem there’s a chance you’ll have their answer!
If you have their answer they may check back for your other posts and become a regular reader of your Blog. If you keep feeding them value, good ideas, suggestions they can use, eventually, they might contact you to talk personally.
This is how it can work. You forge an online relationship and built trust. Whatever email you send they’re likely to open because they recognize your name, and they trust you.
Today’s Internet marketing offers value, helps someone solve a problem, provides a service.
Talk about your life, your daily work. A situation you’ve found in developing your business at home. Talk about how you solved a problem, or avoided one with a client. How do you and your business partner, working at home, split up work tasks? Do you work in the same office? Do your chldren help you with your business?
Answer problems, give value to those working at home and they’ll return to you for more communication. Keep it personal; stories that relate to our struggles are what all of us want.
We’ve been in the business world and decided we’d rather be flexible and work at home. In today’s economic climate that seems like a good choice.
Being an entrepreneur over 50 comes with its own challenges. One of those can be learning the computer. Neither of us grew up in the computer age so we’ve had to learn to market and connect with people using the Internet.
I’ve learned, and you can, too. I found an Internet training course that showed me how to use social networking sites such as a Blog, Twitter, and Squidoo to connect with people. The webinars are recorded so I learned at my own pace, following tutorials posted online.
You may find you enjoy the challenge of stretching your brain, learning something new, and keeping up with new technology.
We can brainstorm with you if you’ve left the J.O.B. market are are thinking about working at home. Starting a business at home is challenging, no doubt about it. It’s challenging any time, but can be even more challenging when you’re over 50. But, it’s also fun to learn new technology. Prior business experience is an asset it today’s world. You can use that prior experience to push you ahead in today’s market.
If you care about your health you need to be aware of toxins in your food. As we grow older, these poisons build up and slow the body’s cleansing process. It’s critical to our health that we be aware of what goes on in American agriculture today. Denying the facts may give us impaired immune systems, sore joints, and extra weight around the middle, and definitely not a flat stomach!
SO WHAT’S THE ANSWER TO GREAT HEALTH WHEN WE’RE LIVING IN A SEA OF CHEMICALS?
John and I live in high desert country between Reno, NV, and Salt Lake, and we grow great sagebrush, but not many vegetables!
It’s high here, elevation wise. It freezes and snows, sometimes even in summer. It’s usually dry. The sun is strong and harsh, making lettuce, and spinach bolt in early spring, and peas quit producing, even though they just began. Gardening is tough.
We get most of our summer vegetables from a Community Supported Agriculture program, CSA, in Fallon, to the west of us on the way to Reno. The vegetables are grown without toxic chemicals (pesticides fungicides, pre-emergents) and fertilized with natural manure and local compost.
Produce the farmer brings us is high in vitamins and minerals and low in toxins. It’s picked the morning he comes. Chickens have free-run of the farm, doing what chickens naturally do.
For a contrast: Many fields and produce grown in the U.S. are blanketed in toxic chemicals, chemicals that build up and effectively “sterilize” soil. These conventionally grown vegetables are lower in vitamins and minerals since they’re grown in depleted soil.
This video shows the contrast between much of American’s agriculture and the small family farm, especially an organic farm. You’ll also see Will Allen of Growing Power, in Milwaukee’s urban agriculture project which grows vegetables and fruit in its greenhouses, raises goats, ducks, bees, turkeys, and tilapia and Great lakes Perch in the center of the city.
There you have it. You saw in this video rows of vegetables covered in spray, unsanitary conditions for our food animals, and toxins that stress our bodies. You also saw inspiring scenes of healthy agriculture, a new paradigm. What can each of us do?
First step is to become educated about America’s food.
Second step might be to support healthy agriculture, perhaps buy organic.
Third could be to give your body a break from toxin overload by becoming educated about the food supply.
Supporting your body’s cleansing function, keeping your immune system and liver healthy.
WHAT’S YOUR EXPERIENCE? SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS BELOW:
How do you find time to cook food from scratch? Does it matter to you?
Do you buy organic produce? Is it more expensive? The movie pointed out that not all costs, such as environmental degradation, higher sickness rates, are figured into conventional agriculture.
What time-saving ideas do you have for preparing food from scratch?
Do you shop at Farmers Markets?
How do you keep your immune system strong? Your liver?
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