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Introducing Granny Blogger

If you've ever felt that you were too old to learn Internet marketing, take heart from this story, written by an 85-year-old marketer (also known as my dear mother). When I was a young girl attending public school in the 1930's, my city of Toronto, Canada had a population of less than one hundred thousand people. Now there are over 2.5 million people living here and of course it is still growing. That population is not large compared to some cities in the far East such as Osaka, Japan, where my present day mentor and teacher Kevin Riley lives. Osaka has a population of over twelve million people. During the years known as "The Great Depression", Toronto was a fairly safe city to grow up in and children played outside most warm evenings after school until the street lights came on. I always enjoyed school but the safe and pleasant after school activities back then were fun too. My formal schooling had a temporary closure when I turned sixteen and had to wor