Marketing Ideas Resources

Website
Resource:
Age Wave
Website
Resource:
Boomer Project
Notes:
The Boomer Project is a leading authority for information and insight about today's Boomer Consumer and the fast-growing 50+ market
Website
Resource:
Boomer Consumer: The Blog
Website
Resource:
MetLife: Mature Market Institute
Book
Author/Presenter:
Brinckerhoff, Peter C. and Hyman, Vincent L
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Resource:
Generations: The Challenge of a Lifetime for Your Nonprofit
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Publisher:
St. Paul, MN: Fieldstone Alliance, 2007
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Notes:
Discusses the implications of boomers leaving the workforce or changing their role in the workforce and what nonprofits need to consider to prepare.

WorldCat:
www.worldcat.org/oclc/77334232
Book
Author/Presenter:
Dychtwald, Maddy
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Resource:
Cycles: How We Will Live, Work, and Buy
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Publisher:
New York, NY: Free Press, 2003
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Notes:
Argues that previous generations have had a 'midlife crisis' but boomers have put a positive spin on the process and 'reinvented' themselves. Discusses how boomers are defying conventional wisdom about growing old but many of the conclusions drawn seem already behind the times

WorldCat:
www.worldcat.org/oclc/50851740
Book
Author/Presenter:
Harris, Leslie M. and Edelman, Michelle
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Resource:
After Sixty: Marketing to Baby Boomers Reaching Their Big Transition Years
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Publisher:
Ithaca, NY: Paramount Market Publishing, Inc., 2006
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Notes:
Provides insights on how the boomers may respond to marketing, the workplace, financial and economic issues, use of leisure time, health, food service, and grandparenting

WorldCat:
www.worldcat.org/oclc/76275797

Understanding Boomers: A Psycho-Demographic Overview - 2007 (1:02)

Presenter: Matt Thornhill
Matt Thornhill
Book
Author/Presenter:
Roszak, Theodore
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Resource:
America the Wise: The Longevity Revolution and the True Wealth of Nations
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Publisher:
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998
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Notes:
Argues that far from being an unaffordable burden, longevity -- with its ability to prolong productive, fulfilling lives -- is the true wealth of nations, and a paramount historical achievement rather than a recipe for fiscal disaster. Offers a comprehensive examination of our changing demographic patterns and explores the idea of a new society based not on the survival of the fittest but on wisdom, compassion, and the survival of the gentlest

WorldCat:
www.worldcat.org/oclc/39033405
Book
Author/Presenter:
Smith, J. Walker and Clurman, Ann
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Resource:
Generation Ageless: How Baby Boomers are Changing the Way We Live Today ... and They're Just Getting Started
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Publisher:
New York, NY: Collins, 2007
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Notes:
Examines the generation of baby boomers and describes what the authors see as the boomer values and ambitions that will define this generation as they grow older

WorldCat:
www.worldcat.org/oclc/141483390