Career Development
[Recommended Resources] Stop Chasing Sales and Start Providing Value or Lose to Price - By Jeffery Gitomer
May 11, 2016









Jeffery Gitomer is a guru in sales from USA who influenced my use of article marketing a lot when I was struggling in the early years of my business.. In this article I feature examples of how he uses his Youtube channel (and how Google LOVES to shown them) and his book (the Sales Bible) […]







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Career Development
PII 013: Sometimes When Your World Feels Like it's Falling Apart, It May Actually be Evolving to a New Level of Success [Hint: Why Burning One's Bridges Works Better In Pursuit of Success]
May 9, 2016









Recently, I read a write-up by a coach advising against taking risks in starting a business, without having a safety net in place first. He argued that it would be wiser to hold on to some safety net (like a job) until your new venture takes off fully and you’re certain it will stay up, […]







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Entrepreneurship
THE FARM CEO (Issue 46 – Exclusive Offer): Send in Your FREE Advert details for LIFETIME publishing on my Buyers-Meet-Sellers Platform for Farm Businesses & Others!
May 9, 2016









This offer is exclusive to members of my Cost-Saving Farm Business Ideas Club and clients in other fields.   A few days ago I announced that my buyers-meet-sellers platform was LIVE in a blog posted (featuring 3 initial adverts for real life clients) at http://tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets/advertise-your-products-and-services-on-tayo-solagbades-buyers-meet-sellers-platform-for-agro-based-businesses-and-others/   Within 24 hours of publishing that post, I got […]







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Career Development
To Succeed in Spreadsheet Programming You Need Sound Understanding [Hint: Do You Know Where New Excel-VB Macros Are Stored?]
May 8, 2016









[NB: This is a tutorial note created for members of my Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club - but left open without password protection for viewing by interested non-members] You've been using MS Excel and the Visual Basic Editor for some time now, since we started this series. I am quite aware that it is NOT easy for […]







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Career Development
Succeed More by Using the Web Creatively [Features True Story]
May 7, 2016









I posted a blog yesterday, featuring 3 adverts I have published on my buyers-meet-sellers platform using a plugin I found that does exactly what I want. Like I explained in that post, the FREE advertising opportunity is for my paid clients who I have a vision to support in as many zero to low cost […]







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Entrepreneurship
Advertise Your Products and Services on Tayo Solagbade's Buyers-Meet-Sellers Platform for Agro based businesses - and others!
May 6, 2016









I'm pleased to finally be able to announce that my buyers-meet-sellers platform is LIVE. Right now, I'm using the contact details and information from businesses belonging to both groups, that I have so far obtained via the market surveys I've been doing on behalf of clients in Benin Republic and Nigeria. The platform is still evolving, but […]







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Entrepreneurship
How to Make Drinks You Can Sell from Pineapple Peels (Real Life Phone Coversation Session Prospective Attendee Based in Nigeria's Abuja
May 5, 2016









Few days ago, a gentleman called me from Abuja to ask how he could come down to Cotonou to learn how to make my Pineapple peel drink. I was quite surprised by how determined he was. He told me he'd tried making the drink at a basic level, but that he'd prefer getting the full […]







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Entrepreneurship
How Studying a Great African Achiever is Leading Me to Self-Actualization
May 4, 2016









"Va vers les gens, vit avec eux. Apprend d’eux. Aime-les. Commence avec ce qu’ils connaissent. Planifie avec eux. Construit sur ce qu’ils ont. Enseigne en montrant. Apprend en pratiquant. Ne te conforme pas, mais transforme. Ne soulage pas mais libère. Et quand avec les meilleurs leaders, le travail est fait, la tâche accomplie, les gens […]







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Excel-VB Solutions
Marriage is Not for Everyone [You Don't Have to Get Married to Prove You're Normal]
May 3, 2016









Yes.   It is my considered opinion, based on my personal observations over the past 25 years of my adult life (16 of them as a husband and father) that marriage is not for everyone.   You don't have to get married to prove you're normal. And when you're a high performing achiever or "genius", […]







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Career Development
PII 012: Succeed by Solving Problems Using MS Excel Visual Basic [How I Started Spreadsheet Programming in Guinness Nigeria Using Lotus 1-2-3 Macros in 1995, Before Discovering Microsoft's Excel Visual Basic in 1999]
May 2, 2016









Today I enjoy patronage from buyers within and outside Africa, for my customizable Excel Visual Basic software. But the journey to this point began for me 2 decades ago when I worked as a young graduate trainee brewer in Guinness! Back then Lotus 1-2-3's was the industry spreadsheet application standard worldwide and it had a […]







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