Home Lots More Columns Get Column E-mailed 222 Best Senior Links Week's Best Jokes Pans and Praise
Today's Column Senior Travel Other Good Stuff Epic Senior Trivia Bee's Knees Nostalgia Make A Donation

ADVERTISE ON AMERICA’S
MOST TRUSTED SENIOR SITE
  • As of January 2009, at least half of all seniors 65+ had access to the Internet. Among older Americans aged 51-59, 72 percent use the Net, as do 54 percent of today's 60- to 69-year-olds.*
  • A recent Nielsen survey found that 29 million people age 55 and older bought something online in the last six months, compared with about 27.4 million a year ago. By contrast, the number of adults who bought something online in the last year actually dropped, to 107.4 million from 112 million.
  • Seniors are the most affluent of any age segment, controlling three-fourths of all US wealth. They wield $1.7 trillion in annual buying power. About 81 percent of people 65 and older own their own homes. (www.onmagazine.com)

    *According to a 2007 survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

With the St. Petersburg Times and 83 other newspapers now syndicating Suddenly Senior, the column is read by about 3,100,000 readers monthly.

SINCE 1999, AMERICA'S MOST TRUSTED
SENIOR CITIZEN WEBSITE

Stats from a recent month. No wonder Suddenly Senior is top ranked for many senior related searches on Google.

Suddenly Senior is even more powerful as an advertising vehicle because its words, ideas and integrity are trusted by thousands of senior readers. Such confidence and conviction rubs off onto Suddenly Senior's advertisers and their products and services.

Today, the 55+ market is the largest,
best-educated and wealthiest
generation in US history.

FIRST, did you know...

SENIORS ENJOY LUXURY TRAVEL

  • Travel ranks among the top leisure activities for men and women over 50. They spend over $30 billion a year on vacation travel.
  • Mature vacationers travel more frequently than any other age group, stay longer, and go farthest .
  • They account for more than 72 percent of all RV trips, 70 percent of cruise passengers.
  • Seniors spend 74 percent more on a typical vacation than 18- to 49-year-olds.
  • Seniors account for 80% of all luxury travel

SENIORS INDULGE THEIR GRANDCHILDREN

  • Seniors account for fully one in four of all toy sales. And there’s a new grandchild born every 20 seconds.

SENIORS BUY NEW, LUXURY CARS

  • They buy 48% of luxury cars, 41% of all new cars and trucks.

SENIORS BUY 3/4 OF ALL PRESCRIPTION DRUGS

  • Seniors account for 74% of prescription drug sales and 51% of over-the counter drug sales.

SENIORS LOVE TO GAMBLE

  • Seniors like to gamble and are willing to travel to play.

SENIORS LOVE THE INTERNET

  • Seniors spend more time online than even teenagers. Seniors spent $7 billion online during 2008.
  • All this, yet seniors currently receive less than 10 percent of all U.S. advertising messages.

SENIORS HAVE MORE MONEY THAN GOD

  • Seventy-five percent of all US wealth is in the hands of customers aged 50 +. Seniors control $900 billion in discretionary income and account for fully half of all U.S. discretionary spending. Some 5 million seniors (14 percent) are employed.
  • Seniors have an income per capita that is 26% higher than the national average.
  • Senior market is larger than African-American and Hispanic market segments combined.
  • Eighty percent of Americans 65 and older own their own homes, according to a recent report in the Wall Street Journal by the Fidelity Research Institute.

— Source: www.onmagazine.com

REVERSE MORTGAGES — More than 13 million US households are good candidates for reverse mortgages, with a potential to receive an average of $72,128, according to a recent study by the National Council on the Aging.

Suddenly Senior's Audience
is Huge, Attentive, and Loyal.

Its message powerful. Suddenly Senior is the only senior column and Website that tells the real truth about geezerdom — ear hairs and all — with humor, compassion, and hope.

SUDDENLY SENIOR PROVIDES A LARGE,
INVOLVED AUDIENCE WITH THE
PERFECT ENVIRONMENT FOR BUYING

AS LOW AS $65 A MONTH PER BANNER!

$700/MO FOR THE TOP 10-TRAFFICKED PAGES —
OR $450/MO FOR FIVE OF THE TOP-TRAFFICKED PAGES —
SUDDENLY SENIOR ADVERTISING WORKS!

HERE'S HOW...

1. We display your 200 x 120 (approx.) ad — no dynamic or animated banners allowed — prominently and FULL TIME — no rotation — on ten (10) of Suddenly Senior's most-viewed pages for only $US 700/mo. There is a 10-banner, 3-month minimum.

Jay Conrad Levinson, author of Guerrilla Marketing, insightfully argues that marketing is a conservative investment. The payoff only comes with a consistent investment plan. Rookies get gun-shy too soon.

Anything less than three months is inefficient.

2. If you’d prefer, you may advertise your banner on five of the top-10 trafficked pages for $450/mo, three-month minimum.

3. If you choose to advertise for a period of six months or more, the monthly rate for all 10 pages is only $650/mo. For five of the top 10 pages, six months is only $425/mo.

Your banner is placed at the top of some pages, in the middle or end of others, assuring an even playing ground for all. Because of extremely high traffic, banners on the home page and Canadian Drugstore page are adjusted monthly.

4. We limit the number of banner advertisers at any one time. This avoids clutter and gives you the full force of Suddenly Senior's readership.

5. We cannot offer any guarantee of click-throughs or the number of customers that will act on your ad. Management of these endeavors is beyond our means.

Do know, however, that 94 percent of all Suddenly Senior
advertisers continue to renew their contracts time after time.

6. We must be paid before your ad or banner can run. This may be done by wire transfer, check, or credit card through PayPal. Cashier's Checks accepted, payable to Suddenly Senior Enterprises Inc. Mailing Address: 15321 South Dixie Hwy, Suite 306, Miami FL 33157. Write us forinformation on wire transfers.

7. We will do everything possible to help you make a success of your campaign at www.suddenlysenior.com.

If reaching and selling to seniors is part of your marketing plan,
there is no better way than to advertise on Suddenly Senior.
Write Bob Curtiss today to place your order or with any questions.

To our knowledge, advertising on the
Suddenly Senior Website offers affordable
low rates for the highest frequency and reach
per dollar of any major senior site.

BE SOLE SPONSOR OF
SUDDENLY SENIOR’S
MOST POPULAR PAGE

THE "WEEK'S BEST JOKES"

You'll be the sole sponsor of this most popular Suddenly Senior feature as it appears on the Suddenly Senior site and of the e-mailing to about 41,000 readers who have asked (twice!) to get on Suddenly Senior's e-mail weekly joke list. There is heavy pass-along readership as well.

SPONSOR BEST JOKES - Only $700/mo [NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE - Call for future opportunities]

BE SOLE SPONSOR OF
SUDDENLY SENIOR’S
MOST PRESTIGIOUS PAGE

THE "WEEK'S BEST COLUMN"

You'll be the sole sponsor of this most popular Suddenly Senior feature as it appears on the Suddenly Senior site and of the e-mailing to about 43,000 eager prospects who have asked (twice!) to get on Suddenly Senior's e-mail weekly column list.

SPONSOR WEEKLY COLUMN - Only $700/mo [NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE - Call for future opportunities]

NEW! NEW! NEW!

NOW YOU CAN SPONSOR
AN ENTIRE PAGE AT SUDDENLY SENIOR
WITH NO ADVERTISING COMPETITION.

From $200/mo.

Sponsor the highest-trafficked Suddenly Senior pages. Of more than 4,150 pages at the Suddenly Senior site, these are the highest-trafficked pages available. Your company will be the SOLE SPONSOR of the page. No other advertisers will be competing with you.

Get flexibility in banner size. Or have all copy. This has tested extremely well.

Priced from $200/mo depending on traffic. Three-month minimum. Write Bob Curtiss for details. Following are a few examples...

THE FOLLOWING MAY BE AVAILABLE FOR SPONSORSHIP AT
$300/MO FOR A THREE-MONTH MINIMUM STARTING IMMEDIATELY

THE FOLLOWING MAY BE AVAILABLE FOR SPONSORSHIP AT
$250/MO FOR A THREE-MONTH MINIMUM STARTING IMMEDIATELY

http://www.suddenlysenior.com/pans.html

http://www.suddenlysenior.com/seniorjokebook3.html

http://www.suddenlysenior.com/presidentialpride.html

THE FOLLOWING MAY BE AVAILABLE FOR SPONSORSHIP AT
$200/MO FOR A THREE-MONTH MINIMUM STARTING IMMEDIATELY

http://www.suddenlysenior.com/patientassistanceprograms.html

http://www.suddenlysenior.com/seniorcam.html

http://www.suddenlysenior.com/whatwomenwant.html

http://www.suddenlysenior.com/battlespage.html

http://www.suddenlysenior.com/lookingformroldbar.html

CHECK CONTENTS. ANY PAGE THAT WORKS WITH YOU PRODUCT OF SERVICE THAT HAS NO ADS IS AVAILABLE. CALL BOB CURTISS AT 561.826.7416

PRICES AND STATEMENTS ON THIS PAGE
SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE.

HOW OTHERS SEE SUDDENLY SENIOR

Suddenly Senior now has over 4,450 pages of humor, nostalgia, senior advocacy and useful information for seniors 50+.

Updates daily.

Search “Senior Travel,” "Canadian Drug Stores," "Canadian Drug Prices," "Senior Jokes," even "Senior Sex"and you'll find suddenlysenior.com on the first page listings on Google

In fact, Suddenly Senior's 4,450 pages get found on
Google's very first page of searches more often than not...

Read what publishers, editors and reviewers say about Suddenly Senior

Stats of interest...

  • During the month of May 2007, when there were few outside influences such as articles about Suddenly Senior in national publications
  • Average net number of new subscribers DAILY to Suddenly Senior column daily — 29
  • Average net number of new subscribers DAILY to "Weeks Best Jokes" — 21
  • Average number of personal e-mails to Frank Kaiser from Suddenly Senior readers daily: 20
  • Number of countries logging in to Suddenly Senior: 131

Average time spent per page:

  • Latest Jokes — 4:12
  • Suddenly Senior Home Page — 1:45
  • Canadian Drugstore page — 4:46
  • 222 Best Senior Links — 4:51
  • Senior Jokes — 4:41
  • Current Suddenly Senior column — 3:44

Do you realize how much we Suddenly Seniors depend on all of the "hard work" you do? It is so reassuring to have someone acknowledge "us" so quickly and help us with the things that are "SO" important to us. Daisy Starks

I've never been so pleased with any other site than I have been with the "Suddenly Senior's" update weekly or daily. The jokes, news, and other happenings are without price. I hope I never have to do without it. Betty Rembosky

Forever thankful I found your site. Doris Yingling

I had cataract surgery this past week. I related to everything you said especially the part about your mother-in-law forty years ago. My experience was identical to yours. Thanks for putting some humor on this aspect of our lives. Marjorie Gagner

As a former member of the United States Air Force and from a military family - THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART for this column. Betty Perkins-Carpenter, Ph.D. (the Ph.D. at age 74 after 4 brutal years!)

That is so FUNNY! I love your site and find it very informative as well as entertaining. Keep up the good work. Dody White

Can't believe how much time I have spent on this site! I either have no life or there is just sooo much good reading I just can't leave my desk! I think it's a little of both, but anyway just stumbled onto this site and really enjoy it! Thanks a lot, older than dirt, Jackie Pennie

We all owe YOU and your wife a thank you for the hard work you do and the issues you cover to keep us thinking and going. We may not always agree on things but you always make us consider a subject from perhaps a different side than our own. How boring it would be if everyone agreed all the time! Nora Ortega

I enjoy reading your newsletter. It's packed with all kinds of goodies and is quite informative. Keep up the good work. Jerry Aragon/humordoctormd

Thanks for a great site and wonderful information. Merry Schiff. C.H.R.S.
Certified Healthcare Reimbursement Specialist

Frank, let me congratulate you on development of the most valuable website for America's seniors. Sandra Cloonan, Director of Publications, ElderCare Publishing Co., Inc

Again, thank you for your interest in my e-mail to you, but most of all, thank you for your humor. Trust me when I say that since my beloved passed, you have helped me find a ray of sunshine when the rest of the world appears so dark. Sunny Wilson

Your site is invaluable and I appreciate how you share so much excellent information. Elizabeth Wolfman

I JUST FOUND THE WEB SITE AND IT IS GREAT! I have passed the link to about 40 people so far. Larry Thompson

GO TO THE TOP OF THE PAGE

 How readers feel...

Frank, you give me hope, at least there are a few of your kind left. Carol A. Gilbert, Bay Area Agency on Aging Program Consultant

Thanks so much for your help. You have saved us thousands of dollars a year. Joni Godbout

Thank you Frank for your continuing courageous coverage of the Social Security "reform" swindle the Bush administration is trying to pawn off on Americans, both young and old. Claude M. Gruener, Austin Ink

I so admire your advocacy and dedication. Your newsletters are wonderful because they look at all aspects of aging; really convey your commitment to seeing seniors as whole people. The other reason you are so successful is because you represent yourselves as regular people, nor do you print outside "expert" clinical opinions. Jeanne Naft

Thanks for keeping us seniors up to date and informed on the latest issues. Al Legg

Thanks for your vigilance. I enjoy your newsletters immensely and have recommended it to others! Jean Anderson

You do great work. Don't ever let anyone dissuade you from doing so! Dave Schreffler

Thank you so much for taking the time to share both sides. I find it impossible to make an informed decision when only one side is available. I know some people like only one side, but then again they're lazy. Keep up the excellent work. Mike McVicker

Thank you Frank for your continuing courageous coverage of the Social Security "reform" swindle the Bush administration is trying to pawn off on Americans, both young and old. Claude M. Gruener

The work you do is very important, more significant than you imagine in terms of helping seniors make sense of the world. The reframed sensibilities for the average person that you shape is the key to getting things back on track. It is the lens through which they make their political choices. Reed Boughton

Your web site is awesome. Portia Shivers

I have just been a subscriber for a few days now but it seems to me you are doing a great service to a great many seniors. I have already received more information from your news letter than from any other single source. Keep up the good work of keeping us all informed so we can at least have a better chance of making the right decision at the right time for the right reasons. Bob Hudspeth

Now this wonderful article comes along ... an its all clear, easy to read and understand ... even my brain feels relaxed now. Your writing this article on the Drug Plan is like therapy to me. No kidding, you touched all bases as you rounded them because you hit a home run with this one baby!! Thank you ....you are a real friend. Dean Mattila

Your column has often spoken the "truth to power", and I know you have suffered as a result. I appreciate your courage. I know you knew exactly what the consequences would be. I think it was Patrick Henry who said "Let them call me radical, and well, for I would rather be called radical than make a whore of my soul". Frank, you are nobody's whore, and for that, the world and the fortunes of seniors everywhere are better for it. Mike Dougherty Field Operations Specialist Area Agency on Aging of Southwestern Illinois Assistance. Advocacy. Answers on Aging.

Thank you for your continuing efforts to make wrong things a little righter...and/or a tad brighter! WRITE ON! Joe Klock, Syndicated Columnist

The absolute best web site I have found that really does offer unbelievably good advise on the subject of Medicare etc. is Frank Kaiser's Suddenly Senior. And there is no hustling as is the case with any and all AARP sites. Thank you and yes, I do look at your sponsors information. Tom Wayne

Thanks for ALL YOU DO to keep the people informed and help us keep up with "who is doing what" in the world of Medications. GOD BLESS YOU! Mary Burns

Your newsletter helps to remind me that there is sanity still existing somewhere in the world. Thanks for being there. Bertha Barlow

A thousand thank yous for your newsletter and prescription coverage updates. You stand alone on this critical advocacy. God bless you! Dennis G. Eksten

You have enriched my e-mail life, and reminded me that older can indeed mean wiser, and more irascible, cantankerous, humorous, and loving. I continue to enjoy your writings. Sometimes, we need to read what doesn't reflect perfectly our own opinions. Lil Gluckstern

Thanks for being there for all of us old geezers and geezerettes. You are a wonderful source of information on a lot of different subjects for the aged. Grandpa Dee Desaire