A couple of gents I greatly admire continue producing cutting-edge, trenchant, authoritative work. While no surprise to me, the timing of their releases were only hours apart. What’s a conscientious blogger to do?
Each is worth its own post here – but we’re living in an era of austerity, so…
Dick Stroud, the Emperor of Boomer Apps, chose his 50+ marketing blog to embed an article penned for The Marketing Society:
Connecting With Older Consumers (PDF)
Apple’s success with its iPhone and iPad has been the consumer technology success story of the year. Dick Stroud explains why these products are particularly relevant to older consumers and the implications this has for marketers…
The combination of the app and the smart device creates a new platform for the consumption of media.
If marketers think that …. developments
are relevant only to the younger consumer,
they are making a serious mistake…
I’ve also written on this subject (and usually rip-off most of what I say from Professor Stroud):
Dr. Joseph Coughlin has tossed up his November 2nd presentation produced by Transportation@MIT and MIT World:
The Future is Gray, Small & Female
The talk (it's nearly an hour long, so grab a cup of coffee) provides an overview of three demographic driving forces: aging, household size, and the predominance of women in an older society…
Do yourself a favor. Give Dr. Coughlin’s presentation ten minutes and you’ll be hooked.
