A Special Message For Seniors
Dear seniors and aspiring seniors ( that’s me :), This is a special category that I have identified as a niche market for you.
What I like about seniors:
In general it has been my experience that seniors say what they mean and mean what they say. Seniors don’t have time for nonsense and want to get into a solution with out too much fooling around.
Seniors keep the appointments they make and show up on time. If something comes up, a senior will generally notify me before hand with a good reason and reschedule. Seniors are down to earth. They have seen a lifetime of high faloot’in schemes and can appreciate a good solid plan when they see one.
Seniors have realistic goals and expectations and take personal responsibility. These are what I call “Old School” values and these are my own values. That is of course a generalization and there are always exceptions, but by and large that has been my experience.
Seniors face special challenges
Financially most seniors are not prepared for retirement. I just did a search for these stats and there are many. Without spending too much time drilling into that topic in a very specific way, it’s safe to say that around half of seniors are not financially prepared for retirement, and I’m sure that percentage is much higher if you include those who need supplemental income.
The fact that you are here is an indicator that you fall into this category, but don’t feel ashamed, you’re definitely in the majority.
We could talk about the standard issues like misc health issues and energy level etc, but I want to cut right to the chase. I have identified a major challenge that I like to call “techno-whelm” OR Technological Overwhelm.
There is clearly a technological chasm between the age groups. Here’s a good example. I’m 51 years old and back in the day I used to be a courier. I developed excellent map reading skills. Today my 19yo nephew can’t get anywhere without GPS, but otherwise he’s a smart kid!.
Here’s an example of the flip side of that coin. My eight year old nephew asked: “Can I borrow your cell phone to play games?” He comes back an hour later to return my phone and says “I know what you watch on youtube” Yikes!,
A couple years ago I watched a beheading on youtube and I’d be mortified If I thought he had seen that!
You know what I’m talking about, The younger the generations are generally more adept with technology and the older the generation typically has acquired less technological adaptation. So if I tell a 24yo to go to this link create an account, change your password, add your bitcoin wallet address to your profile, get a Coinpayments account,
set up your two factor authentication and make a deposit from your Blockchain wallet, it’s done in 10 minutes, But if I were to rattle the same instructions off to the average senior, the response would likely be something like “Well let me think about this, I’ll get back to you later” In other words the senior is paralyzed by technowhelm, and understandably so.
So here’s what I have come up with as a solution
If you are a senior and you need hand holding there is no need for shame and this can easily be done. There are tools that I can use to help you such as Skype where you can share your screen with me or TeamViewer where you can even allow me to move your mouse like a tech support rep if you are comfortable with that.
This way you are not left alone to get stuck in the techno mud and spin your wheels. People far more computer savvy than I have helped me this way and it’s very comforting. In fact just did this with a 73yo sponsee named Kenny and the byproduct is that we have become good friends in the process. Bonus!
In the beginning I can do this coaching myself, but as I grow I anticipate that I will need to hire someone to do it. Who knows, maybe that’s a job for you if you are the exception to the rule and you are a senior with fairly good computer skills. BTW, I’m no computer expert myself. I had to trudge through plenty of frustrating snags to achieve the mediocre computer skills I have today.
As you probably have found out, most internet marketers are just interested in getting you “signed up” only to let you twist in the wind after that. This is the thing that sets me apart as a sponsor.
However, because this kind of coaching takes time, I can only offer it to those who are committed to creating an income for themselves. Just to give you an idea, most affiliate programs pay 5-10% commission to level one sponsors.
So let’s say that you were to sign up for a program for $1,000, I would earn between $50 to $100 in commission initially depending on the program. Coaching usually takes a few hours broken up into a few days.
The reason I am willing to coach someone for this small amount of initial commission is because it establishes a good bond and I know it is very likely that we can work together on other programs in the future as they present themselves and that there will be more ongoing commissions and new introductions to be earned over time.
So now that you can begin to see what’s involved, I think you will see that’s it’s reasonable for me to want to work with someone who is serious so that it’s worthwhile for both of us.
Here is what I propose: I am willing to coach entrepreneurs who are signing up with $1,000 or more in seed money OR entrepreneurs who can bring me referrals who can invest at least $1,000 in seed money.
Here is an example: Let’s say that you only have $200 to invest, but you have a friend who can come in for $800. Between the two of you are bringing in $1,000 in seed money, so in this case I’d be willing to coach both of you.
I realize it’s only $500 each on average, but I’m getting some added value because you are giving me a new contact which opens up more possibilities. As you can see I’m pretty flexible and if you have ideas about how to get a deal done, I’m always willing to hear them.
Whether your ready to get started or you have more questions just leave your contact info here and we can set a time to talk over the phone so that I can answer your questions and we can get to know one another.
I look forward to meeting you.
