Advertising to Baby Boomers: We’ve done...

I keep hearing that the internet is ruining our attention spans. I’m starting to believe it. I can easily get through a book, a TV show, a movie – but web pages bore me within nanoseconds and I’m constantly clicking. (Something tells me this isn’t good for advertising.) Or maybe it’s the content. I’ve seen ... Read more

I keep hearing that the internet is ruining our attention spans. I’m starting to believe it. I can easily get through a book, a TV show, a movie – but web pages bore me within nanoseconds and I’m constantly clicking. (Something tells me this isn’t good for advertising.)

Or maybe it’s the content. I’ve seen it all before. I say to myself, “We’ve done that already.”

Samuel Scott does a good job dissecting and presenting the enduring power of the tube:

Which advertising channels are best when all else is equal?
… In the three years we have been considering media effectiveness, TV outperforms Facebook and YouTube in all these areas …

Sounds right to me:

21 JULY 2017
The Interminable Death of Television
Nothing I can think of is as lively and chipper as television in its final throes.

From Entrepreneur:

It’s Never Too Late: Entrepreneurship Has No Age
… A study suggests that businesses are more likely to succeed as their founders’ age increase up until about age 40 …

I wrote a book years ago. Huge chunks of it had to do with entrepreneurs:

ADVERTISING TO BABY BOOMERS
Targets Clients and Entrepreneurs

advbbcoverParamount Market Publishing, Ithaca, N.Y.
… Chuck Nyren’s egalitarian approach to advertising and the creation of campaigns is all-inclusive. A large section of the book is dedicated to helping Baby Boomer entrepreneurs get their marketing and advertising up and running.

And there are a bunch of other recent articles not worth reading so I won’t link to them, subjects covered ad nauseam through the years, like Baby Boomers in No Rush to Retire (we’ve known this for over a decade), Creativity Is Not Just For The Young (I feel like I was young when I blogged it in 2007), The Misconception Of Baby Boomers And The Age Of Technology (My Favorite Cyber-Myth).

Or maybe I’m so technically-challenged that it’s impossible for me to find anything newsworthy on the internet – and I should just retire.

Rare Beauty’s “anonymous insider” spills the...

Rare Beauty’s “anonymous insider” spills the...

I’ve recently been using Substack to find new music to listen to. That’s probably not quite what its founders had in mind, but it has a ton of newsletters written by people who just really love music. It’s less professional music criticism and more “hey, this album was great, give it a listen.”

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No News News & Fake News

No News News & Fake News

I’m not linking to any more dumb articles. Or fake news. Fake news to me can be broken up into two categories: News that’s half-fake and half-not fake. There might be some good advice in an article, but if it also has a lot of bad advice – then no link. News that’s fobbed off

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