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Why Starting a Business Can Be a Great Retirement Strategy

Retirement in the traditional sense doesn’t work for a lot of people. Few people are well prepared, emotionally or financially, ...
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Retirement For One

Single people have always had to work harder to be able to put away money for retirement, primarily because they ...
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Top 10 Cities for Encore Entrepreneurs

Top 10 best cities for senior entrepreneurs 2015 Portland, Ore Houston Atlanta Dallas Denver Minneapolis Phoenix Seattle Washington, D.C. West ...
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Plan to Succeed as an Entrepreneur!

Are you thinking about starting your own business? You’re not alone. Entrepreneurship (including business ownership and self-employment) is on the ...
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Make Entrepreneurship Your Retirement Plan

Nine million Americans ages 44 to 70 are already engaged in second or ‘encore’ careers and another 31 million are ...
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Partner with the SBA and AARP to Become an Encore Entrepreneur!

Are you considering becoming an encore entrepreneur? Some powerful partners have your back. The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and ...
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Why Your Sixties May Be the Best Time to Start A Business!

(Originally published on SixtyandMe.com) Retirement has changed. A lot. Today it is more about transitions, rather than endings; more of ...
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The New Retirement: How To Get There

The new retirement is less of a milestone and more of an ongoing journey. And for a growing number of ...
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Enter the Solopreneur!

I have been a solopreneur throughout my career (and a solo for much of my life). Solopreneurs (solo entrepreneurs) are ...
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Planning Your Encore Business

A survey by the MetLife Foundation and Encore.org reported that an estimated nine million Americans in the 44 to 70 ...
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Now on Amazon: Retiring Solo by Lori Martinek

My new book is now available on Amazon -- Retiring Solo: Plan to Be Happy, Healthy and Independent in the ...
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Be Part of an Entrepreneurship Trend!

Older Americans start more businesses than any other age group and it has been that way for more than a ...
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