Marketing to Boomer Consumers

Youth worship continues to be a marketing mantra, and it rankles people over 55, who feel largely ignored by advertisers except when it comes to products that play into the notion of aging as a disease that must be cured. Fortunes have been made by astute manufacturers who have catered to boomer consumers throughout their lives with products from the Band-Aid to the minivan.  But on Madison Avenue, the young consumer is still king.

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Cary Hatch, CEO of MDB Communications, explains why advertisers should focus more on the boomer generation.  Hatch also discusses what kind of marketing messages really speak to the boomer consumer.