Entrepreneurship
No. 109: Earn Extra Non-Farm Income at Zero Cost
September 30, 2013









By learning and creatively employing public speaking (and creative writing), farm business owners can effortlessly generate substantial ADDITIONAL income streams, outside sales of normal farm products. Smart thinking farmers can do this IF they get more organized. Adopting a BOPMS can help. It will free you up from routine farm demands, so you can nurture […]







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Entrepreneurship
Use Authority Status to Sell Anything
September 28, 2013









A few months ago, I got an email request from a lecturer friend (a Nigerian born Professor) based in South Africa. He wanted help in marketing his published works for sale online. If you do any form of formal writing (including publishing research papers as a lecturer in the academia), it's always a good idea […]







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My DN Travel News
When Cultural Beliefs Make Truth Telling a Taboo, Society Stagnates (True Story)
September 27, 2013









Doing reliable social research in societies where people tell “unnecessary lies” in responding to questionnaires, can be a frustrating endeavour. University of Ibadan’s Professor Janice Olawoye (a white American married to a Nigerian), in a paper she published over 30 years ago, explained the real life experience of a popular researcher who visited a Nigerian […]







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Career Development
One Zero Start-up Cost Lucrative Business YOU Can Do
September 26, 2013









You should read this article if: (a). You have formal training and/or experience in Accounting/Finance and wish to acquire a new skill to double your income. (b). You (or someone you know) lack a job and need to earn income. \ (c). You (or someone you know) is retired or preparing to retire or resign […]







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My DN Travel News
Make It Impossible for Anyone to Badmouth You Successfully
September 25, 2013









What I am going to say in this article may rub some people the wrong way. But it needs to be said. It’s funny.  Sometimes people periodically resent others for no justifiable reason. They may even subtly engage in acts aimed at bringing those they resent down, by discrediting them. No one – regardless of […]







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Entrepreneurship
Grow Your Sales Log, and You'll Always Be In Business!
September 24, 2013









“Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two - and only these two - basic functions: Marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results, all the rest are 'costs'." - Peter Drucker NB: This article is based on excerpts from an issue of my Self-Development Digest newsletter published in November […]







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Entrepreneurship
No. 108: How to Sell More Successfully
September 23, 2013









Not all prospects go on to become buyers. Having great qualifications, a nice office, and proficiency in your chosen vocation may not always be enough to make people buy. A few factors, some having little to do with those criteria, can influence “buyers” purchase decisions. A prospect may decide s/he does not “believe” you. Or […]







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Career Development
Are Businesses Faking Online Results?
September 21, 2013









Yes they are. Apart from my experience-based opinion, this article features real life evidence in form of a Channel 4 TV Dispatches investigative video report exposing how businesses manipulate social media statistics. It’s a sad reality. But I doubt that any conscious adult would really be surprised to learn this is happening. It’s however the […]







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My DN Travel News
"Professors" Cannot Afford to Resist New Ideas
September 20, 2013









What you are about to read is based on a true story – actually a personal experience that I had. A Shocking Demonstration of Non-Critical Thinking by Two Professors! Sometime ago, I had the opportunity to spend roughly 5 minutes with two professors (specialising in Agriculture) in a tertiary institution. I actually got an appointment […]







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Career Development
Use Your Personal Interests and Hobbies to Succeed at Work
September 19, 2013









Everyone talks about Self-Development (SD) - now and then. But that seems to be about all that most people do i.e. talk about it.They never seem to actually do much of the self-development they talk about. At least not in a self-sustaining way that will yield them lasting benefits. I want to challenge you to […]







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