Baby Boomer Entrepreneurs Are You Ready for a Jailbreak?
No, not that kind of leak … the other kind. If you haven’t found it yet, Jailbreak it is all the rage in mobile phone technology.
Imagine you have this great new cell phone, with all kinds of wonderful applications. Just a little problem; an important touch or possibly an app you need is missing. Unfortunately your phone doesn’t support it. Do you have to settle for what the manufacturer gave you or what your cell phone provider wants to offer? More and more the answer is
NOT. What you can do is
Leakage your phone.Although I am very proud of my title as an electrical engineer, I don’t know much about how to jailbreak your phone. However, I do know a bit about entrepreneurship and how it can be used as a tool for Jailbreak your life.
In a post called, The Pwnage Tool & Jailbreak an IPhone, blogger Robert Bockenkamp (from the blog called What Do You Know) introduced me to jailbreak. In fairness, I must start by saying that Robert does not advocate jailbreaking your phone. Make it clear that he is just explaining what it is about.
I, on the other hand, not only want to explain to you what the jailbreak is in your life, I want to encourage you and possibly even help you take the first step. But let’s start with Robert’s definitions:
Pwnage Tools is a program that facilitates the jailbreak of an iPhone or iPod Touch.
Technical definition of Jailbreak: The iPhone and iPod touch hack that allows users to access the entire Unix file system. In Unix terms, this refers to changing the root of the directory tree to /.
Understandable definition of Jailbreak:A hack that gains access to areas of the iPhone or iPod Touch that users are not supposed to mess with. Usually this is an immediate prelude to installing great programs, unlocking the phone for use with another cellular network, or both.
Through jailbreak, you can add additional applications to your iPhone or iPod Touch. It allows you to do this by adding an application called Cydia (firmware 2.x) or Installer (firmware 1.1.4 and earlier) to your iPhone or iPod Touch. Also modifies (changes) iPhone / iPod Touch app icons, wallpaper, dock, status bar, chat bubbles, weather backgrounds, keyboard
Jailbreaking your life
So, are you interested in words like the following:
- Ending the age of the pawn (pwnage)
- Control parts of your life that you shouldn’t mess with
- Install really cool programs in your life
Then it’s probably time to start thinking about how to Jailbreak your life. Entrepreneurship is the tool to liberate the lives of many people.
Among baby boomers, entrepreneurship is fast becoming an alternative to the traditional path of retirement. Americans ages 55-64 are starting businesses at a higher rate than any other age group.
But the mood, like changing the mood of your cell phone, is also necessary to jailbreak your life.
- You have to change your way of thinking, your way of thinking, from that of an employee to that of a business owner.
- You also have to learn new skills that might not have been used in your last job description. One of those key skills that you need to introduce is how to master marketing. You can have the best product or service in the universe, but you can’t sell it if people don’t know about it.
Plan your jail break
It can consume a lot of resources in the process of starting your business. Let me recommend that you use the many free and low-cost resources that are available on the Internet. Before taking your break, you need a solid plan. I recommend The One Page Business Plan by James Horan as an exceptional resource to help your mind jailbreak, to develop your vision to start thinking like a business owner.
You will want to know how to do your market research and how to develop customers in the most profitable way possible. That means you will be interested in social media marketing as a free tool to help with marketing. The estimate is that 95% of business failures are due to a lack of solid market research.
Start building your business while you’re still working. Get the boost before you take your break. That way, you can protect your retirement funds and may not need them to start your business. One possible way is to hone your marketing skills by promoting some simple version of your product or service as you work through the details.
Use Google to find information for baby boomer entrepreneurs and baby boomer business owners. There are many good advisors who give you information without the hype that sometimes appears in other business opportunity information. They also want you in their audience, in many cases because they themselves are baby boomers and understand their common history and those things that may be unique to entrepreneurial baby boomers.
So fellow Baby Boomer entrepreneurs, we don’t have to settle for what life wants to give us. We can use entrepreneurship as a tool to live life by design in the second stage of life. Jailbreak your life!