Retirement savings - How to make up for your late start
16th August 2007
Many of us North American reaching retirement age have been caught in the rat race of succeeding in our professional activities, raising our children, paying for the best education for our children, maintaining a house, a cottage at the lake, two cars and keeping up to the Jones. We have invested in a pension plan but we have not accumulated an additional interesting amount of available cash for our pension years.
Now, we face reality. We are now fifty or worst sixty-four and about to retire from our regular revenue generating occupation or “job”. We have all read that retirement is much more expensive than anticipated, for example just for health, a couple should have saved 225,000$ or more. To maintain the current lifestyle on 35% to 50% of the previous professional revenues is just impossible.
There are a few different solutions to this situation. One thing for sure, not all of them will bring with them the benefits that we have come to expect from full retirement. For exemple, we want the freedom to choose when, where and how much to work. This is a key criterion of our activities in our years in “retirement”. To continue working on the same job after sixty-five is often not possible or desirable. To purchase an existing business will tie up our limited resources. To develop a new business can be very risky. A new job is not likely to satisfy you neither.
With the advent of the Internet, a whole bunch of new opportunities has become possible.
The Internet, by its nature has opened up a need for new software allowing interested people to operate businesses on the Internet. For example, you now have software to prepare new Websites and blogs, software to prepare content, html code, written words, templates, images and graphics, audios and videos, and other digital format products.
It is now possible for you to setup and operate an Internet business, without having to store or purchase physical items to keep in inventory. Software, e-books, services ect… can be marketed on the internet, delivered via the internet, paid for via the internet and this business can be operated out of your home. You can setup a business of complementary products allowing you the optimum operating cost to bringing in income from multiple sources.
This is how you can make up for the procrastination you went through always putting off additional savings until later. Now, you have arrived at this point without this required sum of $$$ in your saving account. These new facilities with Internet Marketing can correct the situation for you.
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I have recently established a business-oriented blog to track and comment on new Internet developments and how to take advantage of them. Put www.cashsuccessnews.com in your favorites section in your browser. I’ll attempt to always keep you informed as to the latest and greatest breakthroughs concerning Retirement, lifestyle, Multiple Sources of Revenues and Internet marketing.
Occupation: Internet Marketer
He retired from corporate life in 2002 after a 10 years Air Force military stint and a 35 years Information Technology careers. He now focuses on his home based "online business" generating Multiple Streams of Income. This contributes heavily to maintaining his Lifestyle. He is always willing to help others in duplicating his activities.