Small Biz Tip: Baby Boomers: Marketing with Website Banner Ads

Posted by Kim Fenolio on Friday, December 11, 2009

Tips from December 11, 2009

The Small Business tips today discuss marketing to Baby Boomers with website banner ads.


  1. Place banner ads on sites Baby Boomers frequent most for their life stage: retirement, health care, insurance.
  2. Baby Boomers also will click banner ads on sites that they visit for leisure or fun: real estate, travel, sweepstakes.
  3. Creative Baby Boomer banner ads should use bold colors, not pastel. Message should be positive, not threatening.
  4. The message on Baby Boomer banner ads work best emotion-based, not fact-based. Market to "life stage" not actual age.


Daily Overview: When creating a banner ad campaign for Baby Boomers, market to their life stage & aim to evoke positive emotion.


I post these small business tips to my Twitter account each day, Monday through Friday. This is a reposting of those tips.

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Kim Fenolio

Kim Fenolio is America's Best Companies' Interface and New Media Manager. She's been in new and social media since before the terms were coined. She's an expert in the field and at teaching people how to harness its power for good. Contact Kim via your super powers or through email. Contact Kim

Tags: small business, baby boomers, marketing, life stage, banner ads

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