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		<title>Baby Boomers Rejoice, Your Retirement is Here:  Meet Empower Network</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Empower Network finally gives the average marketer and the Baby Boomers equality with the resources of the ultra-gurus and the opportunity to earn enormous amounts of money from a legitimate home business that not only stands on its own, but empowers you to grow any other only business along with it.  Nobody in online marketing is paying 100% commissions and creating the chance to make substantial residual wealth.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="igit_tsb_button" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><a title='Original Link: http://twitter.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmaryannenagy.com%2F2012%2F03%2Fbaby-boomers-rejoice-your-retirement-is-here-meet-empower-network%2F&amp;text=Baby+Boomers+Rejoice%2C+Your+Retirement+is+Here%3A++Meet+Empower+Network&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via='  href="http://maryannenagy.com/?NRwJuS5f" style="" class="twitter-share-button">Tweet</a></div><div name="googleone_share_1" style="position:relative;z-index:5;left; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px"><g:plusone size="small" count="" href="http://maryannenagy.com/2012/03/baby-boomers-rejoice-your-retirement-is-here-meet-empower-network/"></g:plusone></div><p>In fact, I came back from a few years of semi-retirement precisely because <strong><a title="Empower Network" title='Original Link: http://www.empowernetwork.com/maryannen'  href="http://maryannenagy.com/?rBNc_Qdw">Empower Network</a></strong> knocked on my door, and I immediately realized only a complete idiot would walk away from this opportunity.  Never before have I seen a company pay out 100% commissions (over $4 Million in its first four months of existence), turn on the Internet money switch for people who never before made a dime online despite months or years of agonizingly following guru after guru, and painstakingly learning skills and technology that did not even exist in the imagination of my generation when we first began our careers or imagined our futures.  No one is excluded from participating in Empower Network because even the most cynical tightwad who refuses to see the brilliance set forth in front of his eyes will part with $25 to get started and once they begin to see &#8211; and earn &#8211; there is no turning back.</p>
<p>You and I are at the right place at the right time.  Let me let the founders speak for themselves.  <strong>CLICK on the picture to the left</strong> to watch the video that will rock your world.<span style="text-align: center;"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a title='Original Link: http://www.empowernetwork.com/commissionloophole.php?id=maryannen'  href="http://maryannenagy.com/?gx5s_Ywp"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-824" title="DaveWood_Homeless_Van_Man" src="http://maryannenagy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/DaveWood_Homeless_Van_Man-167x300.jpg" alt="" width="167" height="300" /></a></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>There is nothing else you are doing right now that is more important to your future than <strong>CLICKING THE PICTURE ABOVE</strong> TO WATCH THIS VIDEO.</p>
<p>No opportunity on the Internet has the potential to finally surge you past all the obstacles and finally, once and for all, earn substantial wealth online or off.   There is no value, no offer, no opportunity that can immediately change your financial circumstances the way the Empower Network will.</p>
<p>You owe it to yourself, my Boomer Buddies, to completely change the course of this next stage of your life &#8211; to once and for all put you in the position to never worry about money again.  Never.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>If you do not decide to join us and get 100% commissions now, if you cannot (yet) see the value of the entire package &#8211; you will.  There is much more information to come.  Learn more at <strong><a title="Empower Network" title='Original Link: http://www.empowernetwork.com/maryannen'  href="http://maryannenagy.com/?rBNc_Qdw">BoomersDOTcom.com</a></strong> &#8211; do not wait.</p>
<p><strong>Get ALL IN &#8211; NOW</strong>.  A refreshing and effective online marketing system available instantly, pays instantly, where you earn 100% commissions on what you do.</p>
<p><a title="Empower Network" title='Original Link: http://www.empowernetwork.com/maryannen'  href="http://maryannenagy.com/?rBNc_Qdw">Empower Network</a> embodies what I envisioned <strong><a title="Empower Network" title='Original Link: http://www.empowernetwork.com/maryannen'  href="http://maryannenagy.com/?rBNc_Qdw">BoomersDOTcom.com</a></strong> means when I long ago reserved the domain.  It is the true path to real financial independence for every industrious entrepreneur, but especially for myself and my fellow Baby Boomers who will finally end their financial difficulties.</p>
<p>JUST DECIDE.  If you can only make the $25 decision, THEN MAKE THAT DECISION.  You will not regret it.  If you have all but given up, do not despair &#8211; the opportunity you&#8217;ve only dreamed of is right in front of you, with the best team support available in <strong><a title="Empower Network" title='Original Link: http://www.empowernetwork.com/maryannen'  href="http://maryannenagy.com/?rBNc_Qdw">Empower Network.</a></strong></p>
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		<title>&#8220;THEY&#8221; Finally Did it!! ROI Unlimited + The Dream Team = Newbie Millionaires!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 13:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet&#160; For those of you who have followed me through the years, you know I believe that the travel and nutrition industries are the best opportunities for growing true wealth as a home based business owner.  Also, that for the majority of my generation, the Baby Boomers,  a financially comfortable retirement prior to the age of 80-something is about as likely as winning the lottery, making the development of alternative streams of income, especially from a home-based business, an absolute necessity for anyone wishing to survive, and even thrive,  in today&#8217;s economic climate. As the result of those observations and research, coupled with a stunning (to me) diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis at the age of 52, I found myself with the surprise of a new career as an educator and proponent of Internet marketing as the ideal ticket to freedom both for my fellow Baby Boomers and for those whose work life might be restricted by a disability.  Years of studying network marketing and its integration with the advancement of the Internet &#8211; almost as a hobby, a break from practicing law &#8211; suddenly became a mission and a financial lifesaver. We Boomers, you know &#8211; the generation that wouldn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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<p><a title='Original Link: http://www.ROIUnlimited.com/maryanne'  href="http://maryannenagy.com/?a4SlAswF"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://www.roiunlimited.com/images/banner1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></p>
<h2><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;"> F</span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;">or those of you who have followed me through the years, you know I believe that the travel and nutrition industries are the best opportunities for growing true wealth as a home based business owner.  Also, that for the majority of my generation, the Baby Boomers,  a financially comfortable retirement prior to the age of 80-something is about as likely as winning the lottery, making the development of alternative streams of income, especially from a home-based business, an absolute necessity for anyone wishing to survive, and even thrive,  in today&#8217;s economic climate. </span></h2>
<h2><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;">As the result of those observations and research, coupled with a stunning (to me) diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis at the age of 52, I found myself with the surprise of a new career as an educator and proponent of Internet marketing as the ideal ticket to freedom both for my fellow Baby Boomers and for those whose work life might be restricted by a disability.  Years of studying network marketing and its integration with the advancement of the Internet &#8211; almost as a hobby, a break from practicing law &#8211; suddenly became a mission and a financial lifesaver.</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;">We Boomers, you know &#8211; the generation that wouldn&#8217;t trust anyone over thirty &#8211; were going to get old despite  ourselves and the state of our health as we aged was something that we could no longer take for granted or run 5 miles a day to ward off every infirmity.   And unlike any other time in U.S. history, there were to be over 770 million of us reaching that previously magic &#8220;retirement age&#8221; (65) over the next eighteen years.</span></p>
<p>For me, it was a match made in heaven.  Who wanted to &#8220;retire&#8221; anyway, my love and study of the network marketing industry was going mainstream, and I could advocate the solution equally to fellow Baby Boomers and others with disabilities of some sort.</p>
<p>Over the years, however, companies sometimes came and went, the face of Internet marketing changed, some ideas were great, but management turned out to be mediocre &#8211; don&#8217;t get me wrong, many companies still have my business and appreciate, but it has not been until the past couple of months that I stumbled upon what I realized almost immediately was THE home-based travel opportunity that had worked out all the kinks that had put some of its predecessors out of business and offered a way for virtually anyone on the planet (it&#8217;s international, but based in the U.S.) to make a lot of money and have fun while doing it.</p>
<p>One obstacle <a title='Original Link: http://www.roiunlimited.com/maryanne'  href="http://maryannenagy.com/?a4SlAswF"><strong>ROI Unlimited</strong> </a>had obliterated was the cost of entering the business.  A one-time payment of $250, that could easily be leveraged into $500, $1000, $5000 and even $20,000 repeated commissions, was a business that almost anyone could afford.  Prior to <strong><a title="ROI Unlimited" title='Original Link: http://www.roiunlimited.com/maryanne'  href="http://maryannenagy.com/?a4SlAswF" target="_blank">ROI Unlimited</a> </strong>a travel opportunity offering anything close to that level of repeated payout didn&#8217;t exist, and those that came close easily cost over Three Thousand Dollars to join.  Then came the add ons &#8211; charges for company replicated websites, charges for training, charges for supplies &#8211; costs that are simply nonexistent for the <strong><a title="ROI Unlimited" title='Original Link: http://www.roiunlimited.com/maryanne'  href="http://maryannenagy.com/?a4SlAswF" target="_blank">ROI Unlimited</a> </strong>newcomer.</p>
<p>Then came the advantage I&#8217;d acquired by being around the business for so many years &#8211; contacts with the good guys.  Not the self-absorbed quick hustle gurus, but the &#8220;normal&#8221; multi-millionaires I&#8217;d become friends with over the years, who saw this opportunity for what it was worth (G O L D ), and put together the Dream Team so that even the newest of the new could come in an earn money &#8211; legitimately.  With 24/7 availability of the trainers on the Dream Team, a US based company, represented by one of the top network marketing attorneys in the country, <strong>paying out close to $4,000,000 in commissions to over 10,000 of its members in LESS THAN 3 months since it LAUNCHED in mid-January of this year.  The Alexa ranking of the new company&#8217;s website skyrocketed to 3,639 (as of today) which makes it outrank 99% of all websites in the world&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;in less than four months!  In the country of <a title='Original Link: http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/KZ'  href="http://maryannenagy.com/?lPSTQzV7"> Kazakhstan</a> today, its Alexa ranking is 53.  In Russia, it&#8217;s 153.  In Canada, its 2,563.</strong></p>
<p>And it&#8217;s getting HOUSEHOLD NAME status.  The percentage of visits to <a title='Original Link: http://www.roiunlimited.com/maryanne'  href="http://maryannenagy.com/?a4SlAswF" target="_blank"><strong>roiunlimited.com</strong> </a>that came from a search engine went<strong> UP 133% YESTERDAY</strong>.</p>
<p>On January 1, 2011, nobody ever heard of it; now it ROI Unlimited gets more traffic to the website than 99% of all the other millions and millions of websites in the world.  AND, the visitors are usually people who have had some college AND</p>
<p><strong>the 45 to 65 year old plus age group has the highest number of people going to the site. </strong></p>
<p><strong>IS THIS CAUSING SOME LIGHT BULBS TO GO ON, BABY BOOMERS??????????????????</strong></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>And with no autoships to worry about&#8230;<br />
And no monthly fees&#8230;<br />
<strong>And a low low low &#8220;get in&#8221; of only $250 bucks&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>Nobody gets hurt in ROI Unlimited&#8230;And you can use the progress and evolution of all the concepts and ideas that we&#8217;ve learned from inferior systems, programs and plans in the past decade&#8230;</p>
<p>And instead of living in the fears of &#8220;what did NOT work&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Instead of using doubt and fear to keep them in isolated mindsets where people are super skeptical of each other and each other&#8217;s motives&#8230;</p>
<p>We COLLABORATE<br />
We work TOGETHER<br />
We TRAIN<br />
We learn real MARKETING<br />
We grow our SKILL SETS</p>
<p>And we CRUSH doubt and fear&#8230;</p>
<p>And we do it with a fun and simple little program that is accessible to the masses&#8230;Global and Mobile&#8230;Over 10,000 members in only 4 months&#8230;Over $3,500,000 paid to our member families, top traffic rank on Alexa.com at 3,639 and growing!</p>
<p>No autoships&#8230;<br />
No &#8220;Thousand Dollar&#8221; back end coaching guru offers&#8230;<br />
No monthly fees&#8230;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s on MY TEAM, the DREAM TEAM &#8211; I can&#8217;t promise what other teams will do.  But this is one happy club of entrepreneurs!  And it&#8217;s $250 &#8211; can you afford NOT to try?  Call me and let&#8217;s get you going fast.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>On our team our team leader, since January 10th alone&#8230;has generated over $75,750  in 90 days&#8230;</p>
<p>So what, though&#8230;he&#8217;d been doing this stuff full time for over 10 years,</p>
<p>well &#8211; here&#8217;s some more examples&#8230;&#8230;maybe closer to home:<br />
But we have complete NEWBIES<br />
doing this PART TIME who have<br />
generated over $12,000</p>
<p>We have single mom NEWBIES<br />
with no experience who have clocked<br />
in their first $500 plus in NET/NET<br />
results from home&#8230;</p>
<p>We also have an 80 year old lady<br />
who has earned over $10,000&#8230;.</p>
<p>And a 76 year old OFFLINE Seasoned<br />
Veteran &#8220;newbie&#8221; to this stuff who has<br />
clocked in close to $70,000 from home&#8230;</p>
<p>He walks around town showing his<br />
video to his buddies in coffee shops&#8230;</p>
<p>Build it online<br />
Build it offline<br />
From Facebook to post cards&#8230;<br />
From videos to booklets&#8230;</p>
<p>Or simply Pay It Forward and use the Customer Acquisition Program to help out a sincere, but truly down and out marketer who just doesn&#8217;t have the $250 at the moment, and pay his or her ticket in.  That person will then Pay It Forward as soon as they cycle.  And if almost $4 million has been paid out in less than 4 months&#8230;&#8230;..people are cycling fast &#8211; they created a system that works.<br />
And we teach them to do the same&#8230;</p>
<p>or&#8230;</p>
<p>You can live in fear and doubt tasting only the memories of &#8220;that program that failed you years ago&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Not me&#8230;I choose not to live in that world&#8230;I&#8217;m having too much fun with the winners.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>And this is four and five star travel.  The hotel part of it is owned by Hotels.com which is owned by Expedia.com, but ROI gets lower rates.  The condos you see are the same ones people pay to purchase as timeshares all around the world for anywhere from $10,000 to $40,000 for ONE WEEK a year&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..ROI folks get to go, sometimes on HOT WEEKS for as little as $100 for the week -</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>yep &#8211; $100 for the entire UNIT for the week, not per person.  You can talk to the owners&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;We breaking all records here.</p>
<p>Review everything and call me with<br />
any questions&#8230; let&#8217;s get you rolling!</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Travel is still an $8Trillion a Year Industry&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;this one is a no brainer.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">Check it all out &#8230;&#8230;..then get a hold of me:</span></strong></p>
<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><strong><br />
</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><strong><a title="ROI UNLIMITED" title='Original Link: http://www.roiunlimited.com/maryanne'  href="http://maryannenagy.com/?a4SlAswF" target="_blank">ROI UNLIMITED</a> </strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Mary Anne Nagy &#8211; 203-439-1369</strong></p>
<p><strong>or email me:  info@maryannenagy.com </strong></p>
<p><strong>THIS ONE IS A BLAST!</strong></p>
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		<title>Spring Is Here And So Is Your Freedom!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetOK, so it’s still 42 degrees at 6 a.m. on April 6th, but at least the 7 feet of snow is gone! It’s been a long time, and a pretty rough Winter. I nursed and lost a dear friend at far too young an age, moved 3 times for crazy house defect reasons, totaled my car on black ice in a ballet on Elm Street that made me famous on the 10 pm news and took out half the street (but thank God not a single human being – except me, but I just got a free ride to the ER on a backboard with some good looking paramedics). Not an advertisement, I get no commissions, but that Subaru Outback saved my life and was immediately replaced with a new Subaru – I didn’t even bother looking at any other cars. So I checked out for a while – to recover, regroup and relax (oh yeah, I forgot – move a few times). But I saw that was the real beauty of working for myself from home. Who was I going to call in to and ask for a day off because I’d just had a big car accident and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="igit_tsb_button" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><a title='Original Link: http://twitter.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmaryannenagy.com%2F2011%2F04%2Fspring-is-here-and-so-is-your-freedom%2F&amp;text=Spring+Is+Here+And+So+Is+Your+Freedom%21&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via='  href="http://maryannenagy.com/?LAIX5tIZ" style="" class="twitter-share-button">Tweet</a></div><div name="googleone_share_1" style="position:relative;z-index:5;left; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px"><g:plusone size="small" count="" href="http://maryannenagy.com/2011/04/spring-is-here-and-so-is-your-freedom/"></g:plusone></div><p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-765" title="springtime" src="http://maryannenagy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/springtime-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" />OK, so it’s still 42 degrees at 6 a.m. on April 6th, but at least the 7 feet of snow is gone!<br />
It’s been a long time, and a pretty rough Winter.  I nursed and lost a dear friend at far too young an age, moved 3 times for crazy house defect reasons, totaled my car on black ice in a ballet on Elm Street that made me famous on the 10 pm news and took out half the street (but thank God not a single human being – except me, but I just got a free ride to the ER on a backboard with some good looking paramedics).<br />
Not an advertisement, I get no commissions, but that Subaru Outback saved my life and was immediately replaced with a new Subaru – I didn’t even bother looking at any other cars.<br />
So I checked out for a while – to recover, regroup and relax (oh yeah, I forgot – move a few times).  But I saw that was the real beauty of working for myself from home.<br />
Who was I going to call in to and ask for a day off because I’d just had a big car accident and didn’t feel to great?  Me?  Well, I didn’t have to call but I sure said yes, with no consequences, lost sick days or pay cuts!<br />
With all that happened, and Christmas coming – I decided a Winter respite was in order – and I got to make the decision without consulting anyone.<br />
Do you get it, yet?  Skip the news on how great the economy is………..if it’s so great, why are people working 3 jobs, cutting back and feeling pretty miserable?  If I’d had a JOB JOB to deal with during the last five months, I would have been pretty tense.  But I wasn’t.  Sure, the worst part was losing a close friend, but not having to put on the  “face,” in an office I didn’t want to be in, allowed me to grieve and come to terms with his loss a lot faster.  Yeah still hurts, it will for a long time, but I have the time and the means to deal with it.<br />
And while I busy moving or fiercely doing………..err, nothing, out of the blue comes one of my most trusted Internet buddies excited to show me a new program that’s finally making total newbies make it – and fast!<br />
So, I arise from my Winter slumber (had to get up sometime before the Memorial Day, right), and start looking at this.  What?  They finally perfected it?  It’s worth millions and you can call the owners on the phone?  AND IT’S A $250 one time, entry fee, worldwide enterprise, no side buys, not a cash gifting scam, full FREE training, you can call the owners and a 76 year old newbie is earning megabucks in his first month without knowing how to use a computer?<br />
HELLO?  What kind of drugs did they give me in that hospital?  If I didn’t respect my Internet buddy so well, it would have been one of those prerecorded marketing calls I get all day and hang up on.<br />
But, I listened.  You’re going spend $250 on something that will never get you anything in return.  Do you have 20 minutes?  Would you like to lie on a beach someday soon?<br />
No whiners, complainers or deadbeats please – but if you’re not one of those guys, take a look:  <a title='Original Link: http://BoomersIncorporated.com'  href="http://maryannenagy.com/?_7tH1S74">http://BoomersIncorporated.com</a> or call me (203) 465-6249.<br />
Oh, it’s almost 7 a.m. and went down to a balmy 35 degrees – think I’ll take the dog for a walk now then come back and figure out what beach I’m escaping to!</p>
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		<title>Being a &#8220;Super Recruiter&#8221; Could Kill Your Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2010 14:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetWhat? Is she crazy? Maybe, but not on this subject. I think the answer to my question in the title is a resounding YES. You can recruit to the borderline of SPAM and beyondn and completely ruin what you&#8217;ve spent time building up - YOUR NAME and your reputation. And if all people ever hear from you is &#8220;join this&#8221;  &#8221;don&#8217;t miss out on [goo-roo of the week's] launch&#8221; Your name and your reputation will quickly go into your reader&#8217;s memory bank with a big mental stickie attached that says &#8220;DO NOT FOLLOW.&#8221; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsdjkYuahAY Just look at Twitter.  Somedays I really prefer not to.  I have over 12,000 followers and most just SPAM me to exhaustion. And I wouldn&#8217;t recommend those voice telephone blasting programs either &#8211; you know the ones that call a few thousand numbers with the same pre-recorded message.  Now that my phone number is &#8220;out there.&#8221; I get about 3 or 4 a day &#8212; and just hang up! BUT, we all know we need folks to join us in our businesses if we are ever to make any money. SO where is the happy middle? You can&#8217;t spend all day playing on Facebook, never mentioning your business &#8211; especially if you&#8217;re wasting [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="igit_tsb_button" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><a title='Original Link: http://twitter.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmaryannenagy.com%2F2010%2F10%2Fbeing-a-super-recruiter-could-kill-your-business%2F&amp;text=Being+a+%22Super+Recruiter%22+Could+Kill+Your+Business&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via='  href="http://maryannenagy.com/?YB6mvtye" style="" class="twitter-share-button">Tweet</a></div><div name="googleone_share_1" style="position:relative;z-index:5;left; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px"><g:plusone size="small" count="" href="http://maryannenagy.com/2010/10/being-a-super-recruiter-could-kill-your-business/"></g:plusone></div><h1>What? Is she crazy?</h1>
<p>Maybe, but not on this subject.</p>
<div id="_mcePaste">I think the answer to my question in the title <span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">is a resounding </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">YES.</span></div>
<div id="_mcePaste">You can recruit to the borderline of SPAM and <span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">beyondn and completely ruin what you&#8217;ve spent </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">time building up -</span></div>
<div id="_mcePaste">YOUR NAME and your reputation.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">And if all people ever hear from you is <span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">&#8220;join this&#8221;  &#8221;don&#8217;t miss out on [goo-roo of </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">the week's] launch&#8221;</span></div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Your name and your reputation will quickly <span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">go into your reader&#8217;s memory bank with a big </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">mental stickie attached that says &#8220;DO NOT FOLLOW.&#8221;</span></div>
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<div>Just look at Twitter.  Somedays I really prefer not to.  <span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">I have over 12,000 followers and most just SPAM </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">me to exhaustion.</span></div>
<div id="_mcePaste">And I wouldn&#8217;t recommend those voice telephone <span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">blasting programs either &#8211; you know the ones that </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">call a few thousand numbers with the same pre-recorded </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">message.  Now that my phone number is &#8220;out there.&#8221; </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">I get about 3 or 4 a day &#8212; and just hang up!</span></div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">BUT, we all know we need folks to join us in our <span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">businesses if we are ever to make any money. </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">SO where is the happy middle? </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">You can&#8217;t spend all day playing on Facebook,</span></div>
<div id="_mcePaste">never mentioning your business &#8211; especially <span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">if you&#8217;re wasting time on FARMVILLE! </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">The happy middle is GIVING more than </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">you receive, </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">putting out content that can help others,</span></div>
<div id="_mcePaste">fully participating in your mastermind group <span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">(you have to have  a mastermind group, and </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">you know I&#8217;m crazy about <a title='Original Link: http://BoomersIncorporated.com'  href="http://maryannenagy.com/?_7tH1S74" target="_blank">Simple Freedom</a>. </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Train, give away free e-books, help others </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">who ask for it&#8230;.that&#8217;s the basis of it all. </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">BUT, you can&#8217;t hide behind your giving </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">and never let people know what you are working </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">on.</span></div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">Your efforts should be designed to get people to <span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">your blog where you GIVE even more, </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">but on your blog, you should let people see </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">what opportunities you represent and the </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">value of working with you.  How they too can </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">earn a substantial income from the opportunities </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">you represent.</span></div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">Yes, you can lead people to your business without <span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">spamming them </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">and that teaches them how to duplicate your efforts. </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Your company should help by providing quality </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">overview calls and training, so you don&#8217;t have to </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">reinvent the wheel.</span></div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">BE everywhere, GIVE everywhere, but don&#8217;t forget <span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">you aren&#8217;t just surfing the net, you are running a business! </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Then be there for the team of people who join you, </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">helping them out however you can. </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">How many of you ever joined a program promising </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">great teams and sponsorship, only to see them </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">disappear in a cloud of smoke once they got your </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">money?</span></div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Or worse, agree to train you but only if you pay them <span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">a couple hundred dollars a month to join their private </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">coaching club?  That one makes me STEAM!</span></div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">Your name is on the line, and once you&#8217;ve lost your <span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">good name it&#8217;s almost impossible to get it back. </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">SO GIVE, but don&#8217;t be afraid to market. </span></div>
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		<title>Baby Boomers &#8211; Want A Home Business?  I&#8217;m GIVING You One</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetAs I try to help my fellow Baby Boomers, the home-bound disabled and others find a way to create their own economies, the idea came to me that I could help some who (for whatever reason) are finding it difficult to get started.  In the spirit of giving is better than receiving, I decided to design my own &#8220;stimulus package&#8221; to help two entrepreneurs by literally giving them a business.  Here is how it will work. I will give (at no charge) a full membership on my team with the hugely successful Pyxism Travel to the next two highly-motivated people who join me in Simple Freedom (check out http://BoomersIncorporated.com for more information) and purchase (for $12.95) the invaluable book, Disciplines of Doership, by Joe Schroeder (which comes with CDs, MP4s, newsletters and a two-week trial membership in Million Mind March (which you can cancel before the end of the two weeks and keep all the books and CDs, etc).  The book and CDs may be purchased by calling 24 hr. recorded message at 1-800-772-9781 Ext: 10. To those first two, I will help get you going even faster, in the $14 Trillion travel industry by flat out GIVING YOU membership on [...]]]></description>
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<p>I will give (at no charge) a full membership on my team with the hugely successful Pyxism Travel to the next two highly-motivated people who join me in Simple Freedom (check out http://BoomersIncorporated.com for more information) and purchase (for $12.95) the invaluable book, <em>Disciplines of Doership</em>, by Joe Schroeder (which comes with CDs, MP4s, newsletters and a two-week trial membership in Million Mind March (which you can cancel before the end of the two weeks and keep all the books and CDs, etc).  The book and CDs may be purchased by calling 24 hr. recorded message at 1-800-772-9781 Ext: 10.</p>
<p>To those first two, I will help get you going even faster, in the $14 Trillion travel industry by flat out GIVING YOU membership on my team at Pyxism.  Full benefits, the opportunity to earn repeated up front money plus residuals AND you get a free vacation.  Check out everything about what you could get FOR FREE by clicking on the picture below:</p>
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<p>So, to recap.  Here is what you need to do to qualify to be one of the two people who receives a free Pyxism Travel business from my &#8220;stimulus package.&#8221;</p>
<p>1.  Call 24 hr. recorded message at 1-800-772-9781 Ext: 10</p>
<p>2.  Order the book, CDs, MP4s and much more for ONLY $12.95. (You will have a free two week membership in the Million Mind March and you can CANCEL that at any time during those two weeks with no further obligation (although I don&#8217;t think you should OR that you will want to!)</p>
<p>3.  Go to <a title='Original Link: http://BoomersIncorporated.com'  href="http://maryannenagy.com/?_7tH1S74" target="_blank">http://BoomersIncorporated.com</a> and learn all about Simple Freedom, a learning, coaching, marketing club for online and offline marketers.  You will learn and network with the best people PLUS earn money while you are doing it!  After you&#8217;ve looked it all over, call 760-271-2810 to talk to the Owner, have your questions answered and join my team in Simple Freedom for a ONE-TIME payment of $365 for a lifetime membership and the opportunity to start earning $100, $200, $400 commissions TODAY.  You can also call me at 203-439-1055 to learn and join.</p>
<p>4.  Call me before or after you&#8217;ve joined (you may want to check if the two free Pyxism memberships are still available), so we can get working on your business plan and get you started creating your own economy from home.</p>
<p>THAT&#8217;S IT!  It is my way of giving back.  The two free Pyxism memberships will not last long and this offer is open until October 5, 2010 (if the two spots are available that long!).</p>
<p>NO EXCUSES &#8211; you could be in profit from day one with multiple streams of income, incredible training even for the newest of newbies, a ton of support, and membership in two networking communities where you can reap the benefits of our friendship and business partnerships.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s it.  Call me 203-439-1055 with any questions.  I hope this can help two people who are truly passionate about getting into the home based business industry, changing their life circumstances and creating their own economies.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve talked to so many Baby Boomers who desperately want a chance to get started and some cannot afford it.  This is my small way of helping at least two people and giving back to an industry that has given me so much.</p>
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		<title>Baby Boomers Forecasts on Retirement Are Lies!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetBaby Boomers are being lied to by the same financial companies that lost a good portion of their retirement in the collapsing economy.  I&#8217;m boiling mad at this, because the effect it could have as our generation ages could be devastating if one believes what their studies show.  These studies (conducted by the financial companies themselves), attempting to make the outlook brighter than we&#8217;ve seen it are, I believe, an effort both to absolve themselves (for losing people&#8217;s money and then being handsomely rewarded by government bailouts) and to encourage the investor to keep their money with the companies instead of smelling the coffee and finding another way. As I said in a previous post, the largest growing segment in the homeless population is the Baby Boomer generation.  Not that there are not others, including families with children who are suffering the same fate, but unless the Baby Boomer generation stops watching American Idol and really looks honestly at the future &#8211; we are in trouble.  Big trouble. When you read between the lines and calculate the numbers put forth by these studies, you find that  Boomers (hundreds of millions of Boomers) are going to have to work well past [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="igit_tsb_button" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><a title='Original Link: http://twitter.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmaryannenagy.com%2F2010%2F09%2Fbaby-boomers-forecasts-on-retirement-are-lies%2F&amp;text=Baby+Boomers+Forecasts+on+Retirement+Are+Lies%21&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via='  href="http://maryannenagy.com/?TXFAy69k" style="" class="twitter-share-button">Tweet</a></div><div name="googleone_share_1" style="position:relative;z-index:5;left; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px"><g:plusone size="small" count="" href="http://maryannenagy.com/2010/09/baby-boomers-forecasts-on-retirement-are-lies/"></g:plusone></div><p>Baby Boomers are being lied to by the same financial companies that lost a good portion of their retirement in the collapsing economy.  I&#8217;m boiling mad at this, because the effect it could have as our generation ages could be devastating if one believes what their studies show.  These studies (conducted by the financial companies themselves), attempting to make the outlook brighter than we&#8217;ve seen it are, I believe, an effort both to absolve themselves (for losing people&#8217;s money and then being handsomely rewarded by government bailouts) and to encourage the investor to keep their money with the companies instead of smelling the coffee and finding another way.</p>
<p>As I said in a previous post, the largest growing segment in the homeless population is the Baby Boomer generation.  Not that there are not others, including families with children who are suffering the same fate, but unless the Baby Boomer generation stops watching American Idol and really looks honestly at the future &#8211; we are in trouble.  Big trouble.</p>
<p>When you read between the lines and calculate the numbers put forth by these studies, you find that  Boomers (hundreds of millions of Boomers) are going to have to work well past the age or retirement, just to survive.  They are going to need to produce income well into their older years.  Can you imagine getting up and on the road every day at 72 (if you could find a job)?  Is that what you really want.  My video below explains the situation:</p>
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<p>You deserve a better retirement/older years than what you may get.  Sure, there are plenty of Baby Boomers who are &#8220;all set&#8221; financially, regardless of what may happen.  But I&#8217;m concerned that the big financial companies are putting out numbers that make Baby Boomer retirement look rosey.  But there is HOPE is we recognize it &#8211; and it lies within.  Baby Boomers are known for their ingenuity, and it&#8217;s time we read through the pretty picture and get down to reality.</p>
<p>Baby Boomers are the largest number of individuals starting their own home-based businesses, far surpassing any other group.  That doesn&#8217;t surprise me.  The aware Boomer has taken off the clouded lenses, looked squarely at his situation and determined that the way out of our individual and collective potential misfortune is entrepreneurship.</p>
<p>Entrepreneurs are growing by the day.  Boomers are flocking to the Internet to start businesses &#8211; but for the newcomer, be wary of the scams.  As I said in my video, consider looking at <a title='Original Link: http://BoomersIncorporated.com'  href="http://maryannenagy.com/?_7tH1S74">http://BoomersIncorporated.com</a> where you can not only learn just about everything you need to know about business and marketing, but you can also develop long-term friendships and partnerships plus earn income while you are doing it, regardless of what type of business you are building.</p>
<p>Never give up, never quit &#8211; but ignore the warning sgns</p>
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		<title>September 11, 2001 &#8211; Never, Ever, Ever Forget</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetThis day must never be forgotten.  The stories must be told and retold.   We must not leave our children thinking this was just a small part of history in a distant time. We were visciously attacked, badly injured but we showed the absolute true colors of what it means, really means to be an American.  Most of us flew the flag from one end of the continent to the other.  Stores could not keep them in enough supply to fill the needs.  Neighbors talked to and loved neighbors they&#8217;d never greeted before. And heroes, ordinary men and women, on a split second&#8217;s notice did extraordinary things to save their fellow man &#8211; often losing their own life in the process.  We KNEW what it mean to be an American.  The heroes on Flight 93, knowing they were going to their own deaths, stopped an assault on Washington, D.C. that could have destroyed the White House or Capitol Hill.  &#8221;Let&#8217;s roll&#8221; should remain forever in our minds. Tell the stories, teach your children, pray for those we lost, pray for those who survived, and love the country that gives you the greatest chance of personal freedom and self-determination than any [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="igit_tsb_button" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><a title='Original Link: http://twitter.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmaryannenagy.com%2F2010%2F09%2Fseptember-11-2001-never-ever-ever-forget%2F&amp;text=September+11%2C+2001+-+Never%2C+Ever%2C+Ever+Forget&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via='  href="http://maryannenagy.com/?rSPkFgfS" style="" class="twitter-share-button">Tweet</a></div><div name="googleone_share_1" style="position:relative;z-index:5;left; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px"><g:plusone size="small" count="" href="http://maryannenagy.com/2010/09/september-11-2001-never-ever-ever-forget/"></g:plusone></div><p>This day must never be forgotten.  The stories must be told and retold.   We must not leave our children thinking this was just a small part of history in a distant time.</p>
<p>We were visciously attacked, badly injured but we showed the absolute true colors of what it means, really means to be an American.  Most of us flew the flag from one end of the continent to the other.  Stores could not keep them in enough supply to fill the needs.  Neighbors talked to and loved neighbors they&#8217;d never greeted before.</p>
<p>And heroes, ordinary men and women, on a split second&#8217;s notice did extraordinary things to save their fellow man &#8211; often losing their own life in the process.  We KNEW what it mean to be an American.  The heroes on Flight 93, knowing they were going to their own deaths, stopped an assault on Washington, D.C. that could have destroyed the White House or Capitol Hill.  &#8221;Let&#8217;s roll&#8221; should remain forever in our minds.</p>
<p>Tell the stories, teach your children, pray for those we lost, pray for those who survived, and love the country that gives you the greatest chance of personal freedom and self-determination than any other civilization in history.  Put aside our differences, let&#8217;s hold hands today &#8211; saddened by the loss but emboldened by the bravery.</p>
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		<title>Baby Boomers Facing Homelessness And Trend Is Growing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetI was sad to read a multitude of articles about the growth of homelessness among Baby Boomers. a problem with no end in sight. In cities like Miami, Dallas, and others, the greatest increase in homelessness has become members of the Boomer generation, people who had careers, homes, families, insurance &#8211; all of the things we take for granted, who found themselves &#8220;downsized&#8221; and after spending years looking for a job, could no longer afford even the smallest amount of rent, let alone to continue to own their own homes.  Literally, out on the streets. The old economy doesn&#8217;t exist, the government is not going to save them, their families can&#8217;t or won&#8217;t help them, and many members of the unstoppable generation have simply given up.  This is disastrous for society, and heartbreaking to observe &#8211; watching the death of the human spirit, the total loss of hope, and the growing despair among a generation that created and gave so much to the development of society, technology, thought, and excitement to their world over the years. The world the Boomer generation expected to exist as they trundled into their older years no longer exists.   Perhaps it&#8217;s the human normal [...]]]></description>
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<p>In cities like Miami, Dallas, and others, the greatest increase in homelessness has become members of the Boomer generation, people who had careers, homes, families, insurance &#8211; all of the things we take for granted, who found themselves &#8220;downsized&#8221; and after spending years looking for a job, could no longer afford even the smallest amount of rent, let alone to continue to own their own homes.  Literally, out on the streets.</p>
<p>The old economy doesn&#8217;t exist, the government is not going to save them, their families can&#8217;t or won&#8217;t help them, and many members of the unstoppable generation have simply given up.  This is disastrous for society, and heartbreaking to observe &#8211; watching the death of the human spirit, the total loss of hope, and the growing despair among a generation that created and gave so much to the development of society, technology, thought, and excitement to their world over the years.</p>
<p>The world the Boomer generation expected to exist as they trundled into their older years no longer exists.   Perhaps it&#8217;s the human normal reaction of denial in the face of trauma that has led people to this level of despair and giving up.  For some, perhaps circumstances really left some no other choice &#8211; they are not to blame.</p>
<p>But if we&#8217;ve learned anything from history, life is about change.  If you asked someone in the first century A.D. how long they thought the Roman Empire would last before it collapsed &#8211; they would have laughed at you.  The Roman Empire collapse?  That was beyond comprehension.  It lasted 1,000 years; no one would have believed it could end &#8211; it controlled the world.</p>
<p>But POOF &#8211; it was gone.  Just as the Baby Boomers expectations of how their older years would pan out.  The old economy is dead and Baby Boomers are beginning to learn it.  Denial, that life preserving force that is meant to protect the psyche just long enough until it can deal with the tragedy, is hopefully chipping away.  The way out is not simply re-doing what no longer works, something drastically different needs to happen to change the outcome of the Baby Boomers older years.  Maybe it is not what they expected, but it does not necessarily have to mean homelessness or poverty &#8211; it can be light years better than we ever dreamed.  Isn&#8217;t that so often the case?  God chuckles as we make plans, because He knows He has so much more planned for us.  IF we are willing to dump the denial and move on.  Cut all the ties and learn to cast aside almost everything we once believed was true.  If we are willing to become a first century Roman, who knows that the empire will not last forever.</p>
<p>What does this have to do with the growth of homelessness among Baby Boomers?  For some &#8211; nothing, their plans will move forward as they anticipated long ago.  But for the huge number of Boomers whose lives have not turned out as they thought they would &#8211; either through economic collapse, divorce, chronic illness, downsizing, loss of interest in their careers and wanting to do something different &#8211; whatever &#8211; it can mean the difference between a secure, fulfilled and (yes) exciting.</p>
<p>Yes, it takes faith, courage, determination, and a total change of mindset to reinvent yourself at 55.  People start over every day, but maybe it seems like it would be easier at a younger age.  But maybe not.  With all the years of experience, learning and discipline behind you, a Baby Boomer often has a better chance at reinventing their lives than someone 30 years younger.</p>
<p>If your economic situation or your dreams leave you sleepless, what choice is there?  To remain in denial (head in sand) or to change &#8211; with a commitment and  passion.  You know the old adage:  go to school, get a job, work hard, climb the ladder and collect your pension did not and does not work or was killing you.  Change seems frightening &#8211; but it is really a boogeyman hiding under the bed.</p>
<p>Once your mindset changes, you can and will do everything in your power to change your life and your income.  You will not give up until the the final whistle blows.  You have access to the power to undo years of subconscious &#8220;I Can&#8217;t&#8221; chatter and turn it around into a &#8220;Can Do&#8221; attitude.  Once you change your mind, you can change your circumstances, your life and your income.</p>
<p>Beware of sharks, however.  They swim in whatever waters are available to them at the time, looking for desperate fish to devour.  Run to the Internet in search of an instant answer to your problems, and you may find yourself worse off than before.</p>
<p>The &#8220;gurus&#8221; are out there, ready to take your last time, promising the world and delivering hot air.  Yes, there is more money to be made on the Internet than ever before but the only way to do it is to align yourself with people you get to know and trust.  Throw away the allure of the glitz and automatic systems and realize that this, too, is work.  And realize that there are communities of people out there who are not only full of integrity and honesty, but who genuinely want to know you and help you.</p>
<p>It is the era of the relationship economy, it does not happen overnight but so long as you do not quit it does happen.  You do not need to be an expert at any of the details to start &#8211; but if you don&#8217;t start your head is still in the sand thinking the Roman Empire will last forever.</p>
<p>But there is HOPE beyond what your circumstances may now lead you to believe.  Baby Boomers need to help other Baby Boomers prevent despair, economic ruin and homelessness and together WE CAN and WILL do it!</p>
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		<title>Baby Boomers Stun Researchers By Stampeding To Social Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baby Boomers are stampeding to the Internet to use social media, far exceeding the experts' predictions.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="igit_tsb_button" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><a title='Original Link: http://twitter.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmaryannenagy.com%2F2010%2F09%2Fbaby-boomers-stun-researchers-by-stampeding-to-social-media%2F&amp;text=Baby+Boomers+Stun+Researchers+By+Stampeding+To+Social+Media&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via='  href="http://maryannenagy.com/?N7M5QyAf" style="" class="twitter-share-button">Tweet</a></div><div name="googleone_share_1" style="position:relative;z-index:5;left; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px"><g:plusone size="small" count="" href="http://maryannenagy.com/2010/09/baby-boomers-stun-researchers-by-stampeding-to-social-media/"></g:plusone></div><p>In a way, it made me chuckle.  &#8221;They&#8221; didn&#8217;t think we&#8217;d come, let alone almost overrun the place.</p>
<p>And as this video on a study released by the Pew Research Center on August 27, 2010 shows &#8211; we are EVERYWHERE in social media.  Imagine what this means to your business&#8230;..</p>
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<p>As of February 2012, 66% of online adults use social networking sites. <a title='Original Link:  http://www.pewinternet.org/Commentary/2012/March/Pew-Internet-Social-Networking-full-detail.aspx'  href="http://maryannenagy.com/?BcCQOM2b"> http://www.pewinternet.org/Commentary/2012/March/Pew-Internet-Social-Networking-full-detail.aspx</a></p>
<p>Just another example of the mistakes other generations make about the Baby Boomers.  We are unlike any other generation this planet has seen.  Aside from our sheer numbers (about 77 million), something about us has been different since Mr. Gerber got the brilliant (and very profitable for him) inspiration that it might be a good idea to figure out how to make feeding these millions of infants a little more convenient for their parents.</p>
<p>Small and home-based businesses cannot afford to overlook the power of the Internet and social media, and marketing experts have to drop their almost Biblical devotion to the adage that their primary target market is the 19 to 34 year olds.  Study after study shows the driving force in the economy has been and remains the generation born between 1946 and 1964.  The Baby Boomers have driven every economic trend since our births, and we continue to do so.  We have the greatest spending power, the greatest influence and we are the New Entrepreneurs (even if our hair is thinning out or turning gray).</p>
<p>The overwhelming majority of new small businesses started in the United States are created by folks aged 54 to 65.  And, in addition to brick and mortar &#8211; where are we?  On the Internet &#8211; and not just watching the news.</p>
<p>This is wonderful news for the Baby Boomer Entrepreneur &#8211; the people you want to meet, forge relationships with, and market to are online on social media where you can reach them and they can find you.  At the whopping cost of $0.  Whether you&#8217;re 19 or 85, if you are an entrepreneur you cannot afford to ignore this:  done properly, you can reach your market, millions of people.</p>
<p>I say &#8220;done properly&#8221; because the social media is flooded with desperate spammers begging people to buy and join &#8211; and they only end up irritating (mild choice of word) their listeners.</p>
<p>This new world of social media and online presence is all about building relationships &#8211; real relationships where you put the needs of the other first.  Offer quality content, help and a genuine chance to get to know you and then you might end up with a customer or business partner.  Offer yourself first, without expectation of return&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;no one gives a hoot what your comp plan is or what ingredients are in your products until they KNOW you.</p>
<p>This might be a digital age, but you cannot hide behind a computer &#8211; you are putting yourself out there.</p>
<p>As a Baby Boomer (and I&#8217;ve said this so many times), I simply love it.  Precisely because of those relationships and not solely because I am an online entrepreneur.  When we grow up (gasp, what a thought!) and no longer have the mobility to race around as we do now, we can continue to maintain those relationships daily.  The people we meet online today will be old friends 20 years from now, and who knows how far technology will have advanced.  Already, I can video call friends for free all over the world &#8211; meet their spouses, their dogs, get a tour of their house.  If the day finally does come when I can no longer &#8220;get up and go&#8221; &#8211; I can still &#8220;sit down and go&#8221; so long as I have a computer and an Internet connection.  It changes the entire picture of growing old &#8211; no dreary dreams of wasting away alone in a small apartment&#8230;&#8230;.I can &#8220;visit&#8221; my friends from Moscow to Australia and never leave the couch.</p>
<p>And, if I want to, I can still be in business.</p>
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		<title>The Clock Is Ticking &#8211; Vacation Musings</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mary Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetI took time off &#8211; really off.  No Internet, no conferences, just time &#8220;down the shore&#8221; as we say in Philly (where I was raised).  Family, reflection, prayer, reading, swimming and pondering.  Up before dawn, floating in the pool under the stars, real talks with family and old friends.  I guess you&#8217;d say a retreat of sorts. In a few more days, I&#8217;ll return home &#8211; looking forward to returning to &#8220;work&#8221; (because it isn&#8217;t work).  I have an Internet connection for a few hours today, so I hopped aboard to see what was going on out there in the jungle. Ho-hum.  Same old, same old for many.  Sadly. And, the clock is ticking. Oh, I&#8217;m not a fatalist.  Just because I&#8217;m a Baby Boomer doesn&#8217;t mean I&#8217;m picking out my coffin &#8211; almost makes me laugh.  Not that I&#8217;m making a personal comparison, but the late Pope John Paul II didn&#8217;t begin his greatest life&#8217;s work until he was 58.  And, if I&#8217;m correct, I don&#8217;t think Colonel Sanders started Kentucky Fried Chicken until he was about 66. But if you get to be my age (55), and don&#8217;t see how time is passing, and haven&#8217;t learned from the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="igit_tsb_button" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><a title='Original Link: http://twitter.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmaryannenagy.com%2F2010%2F08%2Fthe-clock-is-ticking-vacation-musings%2F&amp;text=The+Clock+Is+Ticking+-+Vacation+Musings&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via='  href="http://maryannenagy.com/?vd7mvO2F" style="" class="twitter-share-button">Tweet</a></div><div name="googleone_share_1" style="position:relative;z-index:5;left; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px"><g:plusone size="small" count="" href="http://maryannenagy.com/2010/08/the-clock-is-ticking-vacation-musings/"></g:plusone></div><p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-546" title="seagulls" src="http://maryannenagy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/seagulls1-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" />I took time off &#8211; really off.  No Internet, no conferences, just time &#8220;down the shore&#8221; as we say in Philly (where I was raised).  Family, reflection, prayer, reading, swimming and pondering.  Up before dawn, floating in the pool under the stars, real talks with family and old friends.  I guess you&#8217;d say a retreat of sorts.</p>
<p>In a few more days, I&#8217;ll return home &#8211; looking forward to returning to &#8220;work&#8221; (because it isn&#8217;t work).  I have an Internet connection for a few hours today, so I hopped aboard to see what was going on out there in the jungle.</p>
<p>Ho-hum.  Same old, same old for many.  Sadly.</p>
<p>And, the clock is ticking.</p>
<p>Oh, I&#8217;m not a fatalist.  Just because I&#8217;m a Baby Boomer doesn&#8217;t mean I&#8217;m picking out my coffin &#8211; almost makes me laugh.  Not that I&#8217;m making a personal comparison, but the late Pope John Paul II didn&#8217;t begin his greatest life&#8217;s work until he was 58.  And, if I&#8217;m correct, I don&#8217;t think Colonel Sanders started Kentucky Fried Chicken until he was about 66.</p>
<p>But if you get to be my age (55), and don&#8217;t see how time is passing, and haven&#8217;t learned from the years of experiencing utter joy and extreme grief &#8211; I wonder what planet you&#8217;ve been on.</p>
<p>And we are all blessed with the same thing everyday &#8211; we all get 24 hours.  It&#8217;s the great equalizer and our choice of what to do with them.  We can pass up moments of family and friends like I&#8217;ve been experiencing this week (then rush to their funerals after not having seen them for five years), or</p>
<p>We can DO LIFE <strong><em>NOW!</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>We </em></strong>choose how to spend those 24 hours we all get and I realized, especially when I peeked into the jungle a little while ago,</p>
<p>just how happy and blessed I am,</p>
<p>excited,</p>
<p>making plans,</p>
<p>free to do it,</p>
<p>earning money,</p>
<p>not hypnotized into thinking I HAVE to live my life a certain way.  I don&#8217;t.  And, I do not.</p>
<p>Do you know, honestly KNOW, the freedom and relief of the feeling on Sunday nights when you forget that it is Sunday night and even if you remember, you don&#8217;t really care because Monday is just another wonderful day?  I DO.</p>
<p>To have found a career mission, a passion, a purpose &#8211; to lead others to that same exquisite freedom?</p>
<p>That&#8217;s what I have, that&#8217;s what I found and the best part of it is the thank yous I hear from people who have followed me and found that same freedom.  Such a letter makes me cry.  Oh, not because I&#8217;m any big-shot guru, but because I loved and I gave myself to someone else.  Don&#8217;t miss that experience.</p>
<p>So when I checked in on the jungle today,</p>
<p>I saw it hadn&#8217;t changed.  The &#8220;guru&#8221; money robbers are still out there pulling cash from the wallets of desperate people,</p>
<p>selling them this week&#8217;s snake oil,</p>
<p>and their &#8220;sheeple&#8221; are desperately trying to &#8220;market&#8221; it to me and others,</p>
<p>hoping against hope that they finally found it, until three weeks later they find another launch by another &#8220;guru&#8221; and once again open their wallets,</p>
<p>until they are broke, disheartened and quit.</p>
<p>Or, join another &#8220;rah rah&#8221; MLM, with no way of succeeding in it&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</p>
<p>BUT I BRING GREAT NEWS &#8211; and this is my mission to share (and especially with my Baby Booomer Budddies, so many so desperate),</p>
<p>IT DOESN&#8221;T WORK THAT WAY&gt; IT NEVER DID &gt; BUT</p>
<p>&#8220;IT&#8221; does work, and it&#8217;s so darned simple, there is a simple freedom out there that allows you to choose when you disappear to float in a pool on a starry night with loved ones, doing absolutely nothing while money appears in your checking account or mailbox &#8211; and you didn&#8217;t have to ask anyone other than yourself if you wanted to take that time away.</p>
<p>Oh, since the beginning of time there have been the dream stealers, the robbers, the &#8220;gurus&#8221;</p>
<p>How many 24 hours do you have left to pursue these glitzed up dreams?  How many 24 hours do you have left to miss spending the time with your family and friends and not worry about your mortgage?  How many 24 hours do you have left to joing program after program, or pray to &#8220;gurus&#8221; who will NEVER call you back once they have your money for their useless snake oil?</p>
<p>Oh, how I want to just wrap you up and show you what I&#8217;ve learned and HOW IT WORKS and will work for you.  To give you that simple freedom of floating in that pool.</p>
<p>I can, if you will give me your time &#8211; part of that 24 hours.  It is SO simple.  And although I feel 25 and full of excitement and plans especially dedicated to my Boomer friends &#8211; how many 24 hours are you going to waste?</p>
<p>You are the power, you are the movement, you are the ONLY one who can create this simple freedom for yourself&#8230;&#8230;.</p>
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<p><strong>OH, and by the way &#8211; I&#8217;ve got to run myself.  It&#8217;s time for me to get back to the family, back in the pool and earn some money while I&#8217;m waiting to spend some time with my son.</strong></p>
<p><strong>BUT &#8211; as I told you my work is not work&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.give me a call.  I&#8217;d be glad to talk to you about your path to a simple freedom.  My number is 203-439-1055.  Don&#8217;t worry about &#8220;bothering&#8221; me &#8211; it&#8217;s why I&#8217;m here.</strong></p>
<p><strong>I love this stuff.<br /></strong></p>
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