Your Age Is Your Business - How to sell your wisdom online and have fun doing it
By Melinda Coss
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Being broke or isolated when you are over 50 is no fun - choose not to be.
This book is quite simply an 'un-training manual' Applied correctly, the concepts here have the potential to make you extremely rich, devastatingly attractive, seriously u
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Your Age Is Your Business - How to sell your wisdom online and have fun doing it - Melinda Coss
Copyright
© Melinda Coss 2021
This edition published: April 2021 by FCM Publishing
ISBN: Paperback Edition 978-1-8380918-8-0
ISBN: E-book 978-1-8380918-9-7
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This book is part autobiographical, reflecting the author’s present recollections of experiences over time.
Copyright of all illustrations and imagery used within remains solely with their originator. No breach of copyright is implied or intended, and all material is believed to be used with permission. Should you feel that your copyright has been impinged, please contact the publisher to ensure appropriate acknowledgment may be made.
Cover Design by Danji Designs rights reserved.
Cover Photo by Joanna Urwin
To Railea, Lily, Leo, Kai,
Izzy, Max & Jed for reminding me
there is a new world out there.
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Taryn Johnston for rescuing this book from the toothless jaws of self-publishing. Sheila Murphy for meeting an impossible editing schedule. Joanna Urwin for sitting me on a pile of money. Gary Nightingale for his cartoons and Maya Saric who finally came up with a title that hopefully won’t offend anyone. A special thank you also, to Ray Cooper, who encouraged me to write this book.
Preface
Last week I saw on the news that of all the people impacted by the unemployment situation surrounding Covid-19, the over-50s have been the hardest hit.
‘Why?’ I asked myself. Not ‘Why are they unemployable’ but ‘Why would anyone with fifty years or more of life experience feel that they had to hang around, cap in hand, waiting for someone else to give them a job?’
As a 71-year-old I’m also curious about that joyful state they call ‘retirement’. Surely the object of this whole exercise called living is to find a path that enables us to earn money spending all our time doing what we enjoy most – and who would ever want to retire from that situation?
The fact is that we have this wonderful (but sometimes scary) tool called the Internet and with that comes the opportunity to reach over 4.6 billion people, many of whom desperately need the benefit of our life experiences, our talents and our professional knowledge. And I promise you they are more than prepared to pay for it.
I’ve written this book because I would like to meet you and to show you exactly how you can sell your wisdom online and as you will find out, you can do that with minimal computer knowledge and even less money in the bank. If a complete technophobe like me can do this then anyone can.
Being broke or isolated when you are over 50 is no fun – choose not to be.
— Melinda Coss
Disclaimer
This book is quite simply an ‘un-training manual’ applied correctly, the concepts here have the potential to make you extremely rich, devastatingly attractive, seriously uncompromising and extraordinarily happy. If as a result of these changes your partner leaves you, your children become concerned about how you are spending their inheritance and your friends feel uncomfortable with the new you, I hereby disclaim, on behalf of myself and my publishers, all responsibility. In writing this book I am assuming that you are a responsible adult with many years of experience under your belt and that you are more than capable of making your own decisions. Its sole purpose is to strip you of the limiting assumptions the world has taught you to make and to show you that life at any age can be a glorious, glittery journey of new inspiration and practical possibilities.
Exclusions
Now I don’t want to be picky here but when you have reached your diddly-something birthday, time really does become a nagging source of concern so I would hate it if I wasted any of yours. For this reason, I would suggest that if you cherish retirement for any of the following reasons (none of which I would presume to judge) it would probably be a good idea if you gave this book a miss:
» You just love your garden, reading novels, cooking, cleaning, watching television and knitting egg cosies. You are perfectly happy doing nothing else.
» You have a great pension and savings and the last thing you are interested in at your age is making more money.
» Being with your grandchildren is all you want from life and nothing gives you greater pleasure than dedicating all your time and energy to them …give them a hug from me.
» You are perfectly content with your current circle of friends and enjoy your weekly get-togethers and the opportunity to hear and share with them news about all your various medical conditions.
» You are a technophobe and have no wish to have anything to do with computers, social media or any of the other new evils that have engulfed the younger