[Recommended] Stop Trying to Delight Your Customers

The idea that companies must “delight” their customers has become so entrenched that managers rarely examine it.

But ask yourself this: How often does someone patronize a company specifically because of its over-the-top service? You can probably think of a few examples, such as the traveler who makes a point of returning to a hotel that has a particularly attentive staff. But you probably can’t come up with many.

Now ask yourself: How often do consumers cut companies loose because of terrible service? All the time. They exact revenge on airlines that lose their bags, cable providers whose technicians keep them waiting, cellular companies whose reps put them on permanent hold, and dry cleaners who don’t understand what “rush order” means.

Continue….

https://hbr.org/2010/07/stop-trying-to-delight-your-customers

Friends and Relatives May Not be the Right Target Audience (on Facebook) for Your Solutions

Like every other person on Facebook, I periodically get invitations to LIKE Facebook pages from friends and other contacts in my network.

If truth however be told, I generally feel those who send such invitations will most times not be sure of getting as much quality connection with people fitting their target audience profile as they need.

The reason for this is that they may not be engaged in activities that appeal to people on their friends list. Your friends, relatives and associates may not have interest in your product or service – and will often have connected with you based on their personal relationship with you.

They may LIKE your page and help you spread the word about solutions you offer via the page, but you will not be wise to expect mayjor activities and sales leads to come from them.

I have no difficulty LIKING any page I’m invited to, but I generally try to challenge people to aim for QUALITY engagement, as opposed to focused on just VOLUME.

The question to ask is how do you get the RIGHT people who fit YOUR “ideal customers” profile to LIKE your page?

This is because the LIKE is NOT an end in itself, It is meant to be a MEANS to the profitable end of winning buyers for your brand ultimately.

As a result, some people have only a few hundred buyers, but boast more SALES LEADS that convert into SALES/REVENUE that those who have thousands or more.

So, my suggestion to you is that you develop and implement a strategy to attract the right kind of people, fitting the profile of your ideal clients/customers, to discover and LIKE your page.

I say this because that’s how my pages have grown – to win buyers for me. I NEVER send out invitations for people to LIKE my pages (like this and this). Instead, my Web Marketing System leads them to find and LIKE the different pages, based on their own needs and interests.

I’ve found that working that way makes me so much more productive in terms of the results I get.

Some page owners also settle on placing paid ads to promote their pages

I believe this can be effective, but one must go about doing it the right way to be sure of getting rhe needed results.

Indeed in this part, I believe paid ads etc are often to be left as a VERY last resort in building followership on social media in my part of the world (Nigeria/Africa), for solutions that are of the nature I offer i.e. digital solutions.

What you want to do is use low to zero cost creative content based marketing to attract pre-qualified prospects.

Here’s a 2005 article I wrote based on this theme:

http://tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets/to-make-more-money-you-need-to-study-your-buyers/

PII 049: You Can Formulate Rations for ANY Animal, by Applying Feed Formulation Science Based on Nutrient Requirements

In this issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter, I feature photo based highlights from the One-On-One On Demand Practical Livestock Feed Formulation Training session I had on – Fri 13th January 2017 – with O. Mojeed, a Farm CEO who traveled down from his Benin City-Edo State base to meet me in Lagos.

Among other things, I explain that Feed Formulation is a science based on universal principles. That makes it possible for YOU to Formulate Rations for ANY Animal, by applying your understanding of the science based on a sound understanding of THAT animal’s nutritional needs!

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PII 049: You Can Formulate Rations for ANY Animal, by Applying Feed Formulation Science Based on Nutrient Requirements

In this issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter, I feature photo based highlights from the One-On-One On Demand Practical Livestock Feed Formulation Training session I had on – Fri 13th January 2017 – with O. Mojeed, a Farm CEO who traveled down from his Benin City-Edo State base to meet me in Lagos.

Among other things, I explain that Feed Formulation is a science based on universal principles. That  makes it possible for YOU to Formulate Rations for ANY Animal, by applying your understanding of the science based on a sound understanding of THAT animal’s nutritional needs!

We began by reviewing the various feed ingredients being measured out on table top scales as they were dispensed to buyers at the front end of the feed mill.

I showed him the different ingredients, like Palm Kernel Cake, in ground form, stored in bags.

I conversed with a lady manager at the sales point, who confirmed that they still sold Ground Nut Cake, noting that with regard to my query about mould infestation (which can cause Aflatoxin poisining of animals) they had a strict rule of ensuring First-In First-Out rotation of the ingredients, in addition to storing them in well ventilated rooms.

Moving to other sections, we came across vendors selling imported fish meal of different brands, as well as other resources like fish nets etc. Conversing with the owners/managers proved useful as we got prices and brand names, including protein content specifications for each.

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Later on, we looked at the crusher (where bone meal, Oyster shell and other hard form ingredients are milled into fine form required for use in feed formulation.

Then in another section we watched a hammer mill in operation, operating at what one of the personnel told us is a 1 to 1.5 ton capacity.

Next to it was a mixer, a feed pellet making machine as well as a dryer.

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Photos of the above mentioned machines appear, with annotations in my FREE 30 page Pictorial Introduction to Feed Ingredients, which every buyer of my Feed Formulation Handbook (or the Home Study Feed Formulation Tutorial Video Series) gets.

Below are excerpts from the introductory video clip for the home study series in which I offer insights into what to expect from the handbook, and the video.

Welcome. I’m Tayo Solagbade – and this is the introduction to the home study version of my feed Formulation Training.

It’s based on the Practical Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook I wrote in 2002 and which I’ve updated once in 2004 since then.

What you see on the screen is the cover page. For each paid client I put your name, email address and phone number on this cover.

That is designed to let you know that you are entitled to the promised benefits from making payment for my product(s) e.g. a FREE copy of the Annotated Pictorial Introduction to Feed Ingredients which you would have received as a PDF in your email along with the handbook.

If in addition to the handbook, you also purchased my Excel-VB Ration Formulator software, you would also have become a life member of my Cost-Saving farm Business Ideas club.

Below is the table of contents for the handbook. In this home study video series I will be providing step-by-step explanations in a similar manner to what I would do, if you were physically with me in a classroom or workshop setting.

So the purpose is ultimately to enable you experience what it would feel like to actually be like to meet with me in person, in case you are unable to come down for the one-on-one training session.

If however you are able to make it to the LIVE face to face practical session, this video series would serve as a supplement to what you would have experienced during the one-on-one session held at the premises of the feed milling company I would have taken you to.

In essence this video series gives you an opportunity to learn and/or revisit what you need to know as many times as you want, in the comfort and privacy of your home, office or any other personal space you may choose to use.

An important clarification

Now, I want to point out straight away here that in as much as this handbook was originally written based on Feed Formulation for Poultry, the truth of the matter is that Feed Formulation itself is a science, and there are certain principles that are universal in the practice of Feed Formulation.

It is therefore the understanding of how to apply those principles that will vary in terms of meeting the nutritional needs of different groups and classes of livestock being reared under intensive commercial settings.

And that’s where the difference occurs in feed formulation for different livestock types.

So in as much as we may use examples related to Poultry Farming, if you take the pains to learn about the digestive systems of different kinds of farm animals and their corresponding nutritional requirements (I have special video clips that teach them), you will have no problems using the principles of feed formulation to derive rations for different animal groups/types (and for the different classes within groups/types).

You just need to understand how to deliver nutrients to the different animals, what kinds of nutrients they need, in what amounts and of course what form they need them.

Once you understand the science involved, it becomes easy to apply that understanding in formulating rations for different kinds of animals.

For instance, we have farm animals that are ruminants (like dairy and beef cattle, goats, sheep etc) which are therefore able to get more value from material they ingest as feed compared to the ones that are monogastric.

The former have a digestive system that enables them to break down cellulose (so they are able to consume high fibre diets), which is not possible for monograstric animals like rabbits and poultry. Such differences between animals influence the manner in which you formulate rations for them.

So the way you formulate rations for dairy cattle, sheep and goats will differ from the way you formulate rations for rabbits, pigs, poultry etc. But the underlying science remains the same.

I have special screenshot explainer video clips I will be providing to each buyer of my home study Feed Formulation video series, about how to formulate rations for the different animal types, in a way that addresses their unique nutritional needs.

If truth be told, so long as you know what you’re doing, based on a sound understanding of the science of feed formulation and compounding, you will have no difficulty successfully formulating and compounding rations for different kinds of animals

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My PDF Feed Formulation Handbook offers a very useful foundation on which to do the above.

Correction: January 19, 2017
Due to an error during editing, an earlier version of this article briefly had the same title as a previous issue of this PII newsletter.

Excel-VB Driven Ration Formulator

Click to view larger screenshot

1. Click here to learn more about this app – watch demo videos etc

2. Click here to watch a 4 part video in which I demonstrate how to use this app to formulate rations using real life data sent to me by an Algerian PhD student.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

EXCEL-VB DRIVEN POULTRY LAYER FARM MANAGER SOFTWARE

Click here to download a detailed PDF user guide and watch 15 screen shot user guide tutorials of the Monthly Poultry Farm Manager that I now offer Farm CEOs.

Click here to watch a screenshot demonstration of the Excel-VB Driven Poultry Farm Manager I built for a client farm business in Ekiti state, South West Nigeria.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

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THE FARM CEO (Issue 70): Agricultural Extension Society of Nigeria AESON conference coming up in April 2017 [ Deadline for submission of Abstracts now January 31st, 2017]

Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist

*Best Practice Farm Business Support Specialist & Founder of the MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club and Competition

Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic)

http://www.tayosolagbade.com

Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement

Specialist and Multipreneur (i.e. a highly versatile/multi-skilled entrepreneur), with a bias for delivering Best Practice solutions to Farm Businesses and others.

Since 2002, he has earned multiple streams of income providing individuals and organizations with personal development training and coaching, custom MS Excel-VB solutions, web marketing systems/web hosting, freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).

Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm Manager™ software.

He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods and others.

In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.

On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly traveling across the West African region.

His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).

In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years (October 1994 to December 2001) as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer to Training & Technical Development Manager, and later acted in senior roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.

In addition to constantly challenging the status quo and influencing positive work changes, he built a reputation for using self-taught spreadsheet programming skills (starting with Lotus 1-2-3, and later moving to Excel Visual Basic) – in his spare time – to develop Automated Spreadsheet Applications to computerize manual report generation processes in the departments he worked. Over four(4) of his applications were adopted for brewery level reporting.

Tayo holds a B.Sc degree in Agricultural Extension Services from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, having graduated top of his class – with Second Class Upper Division honors – in 1992. He is an Associate Member of the UK Institute & Guild of Brewing, a 1997 National Finalist of the Nigerian Institute of Management’s(NIM) Young Managers’ competition, a Certified Psychometric Test Administrator for Psytech UK, innovator of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development™ (SCfS-D™), and Founder of the Self-Development Academy (SDAc).

When he’s not amazing clients with his superhuman skills (wink), Tayo works as the creative force behind his Daily Self-Development Nuggets blog – on which he also publishes The Farm CEO Weekly Newspaper (sent via email to paid subscribers) and his Weekly Performance Improvement IDEAS newsletter.

You can connect with him on Twitter @tksola.com and Facebook.

Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your personal and work related productivity.

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On 4th May 2014, Tayo’s 9 year old domain (Spontaneousdevelopment dot com), which hosted his website, was taken over by Aplus.net.

Within a few days however, Tayo used his advanced self-taught web development skills to build a SUPERIOR “reincarnation” of it the website http://www.tayosolagbade.com.

But updates are still ongoing to URLs bearing the old domain name in most of the over 1,000 web pages, and blog posts he’s published.

If you experience any difficulties finding a page or document, email Tayo at tksola dot com.

Click “Tayo, What Happened to SpontaneousDevelopmentDotCom ?” to read a detailed narrative about how the above event occurred :-))

Here’s an article Tayo wrote, to inspire others to defy adversity, and bounce back to even greater reckoning at what they do EVERY time:

Succeed by Emerging from Adversity Like a Phoenix

(TayoSolagbade.com launches extra Hosting plan with FREE Web Marketing!)

And he wrote the one below, to explain why losing a domain name, no matter how old, NO LONGER determines your online success or otherwise:

A Proven Strategy to Find Profitable Buyers Regardless of Your Domain Name
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THE FARM CEO (Issue 70): Agricultural Extension Society of Nigeria AESON conference coming up in April 2017 [ Deadline for submission of Abstracts now January 31st, 2017]

In this maiden issue of my Farm CEO newspaper for 2017, I feature a flyer-based description of highlights from the Agricultural Extension Society of Nigeria (AESON)’s 22nd Annual Conference 2017, scheduled to hold at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria between 23rd – 26th April, 2017.

Theme: Mainstreaming Entrepreneurship in Agricultural Extension Practice in Nigeria

Highlights:

NB: Deadline for submission of Abstracts now January 31st, 2017

Best Poster Paper Award

Best Paper Presenter Award

Networking & Collaboration Link Initiation

Funding Opportunities Enlightenment

Date: 23rd – 26th April, 2017

Time: 10:00a.m Prompt

Venue: Ebitim Banigo Hall, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Sub-Themes

In contemporary situations, Agricultural Extension is more strategic in the development of the wellbeing of farmers. This is because of the paradigm shift of Agriculture Extension practice will enhance farmers’ resilient capacity for a result-oriented agribusiness

The 2017 AESON conference will address how to mainstream entrepreneurship in Agricultural Extension through the frameworks of ICT, policy, agribusiness and value chain, tertiary institutions, national intervention programmes, health development. The conference is expected to attract stakeholders within various development networks to brainstorm and produce workable outcome for agricultural extension development.

This is going to be discussed under the following sub-themes:

 

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[Excel Heaven Tutorial 07] Macro Protect or Unprotect Worksheets in a Workbook

[This is the first tutorial emailed in 2017 to members of my Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Tutorial]

Sometimes you have a multi-worksheet workbook in which you’d like to apply blanket password protection to every sheet, without having to do so manually.

The two macros in this workbook enable the user apply and remove password protection to each sheet manually.

The user is prompted to enter the password when each macro runs.

What I’ve done is to place 2 form control command buttons on the “Staff” worksheet – with each labelled with descriptive text indicating its function (see screenshot below).

In the screenshot video tutorial accompanying this message and the MS Excel multi-worksheet working I explain the various lines of code in the first macro. A second video will follow.

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Tayo Solagbade’s One-on-One Practical Livestock Feed Formulation Training [Hint: Maiden Edition for 2017 Holds for a Startup Farm CEO from Benin City, Tomorrow 13th January in Lagos]

[Event] Ola Mojeed, a Benin City – Edo state, Nigeria based startup Farm CEO will (from 10a.m tomorrow) – meet me at a Feed Milling company’s premises in the Oko-Oba area of Lagos (near the Lagos State Ministry of Agriculture), to attend my one-on-one 4 hour practical Livestock Feed Formulation training he paid in advance for back in December 2016 (see flyer and true story from a past event below) .

At the end of the training session I will – as I have done with past trainees (see example in true story previewed below) – give him a DVD containing my 4 hour Home Study video series on Feed Formulation.

On that DVD will also be copies of my Excel-VB Ration Formulator, my PDF Feed Formulation Handbook and a FREE copy of my 30 page Annotated Pictorial Introduction to Feed Ingredients.

On Sunday 1st Nov. 2015, I met for the first time with a Farm CEO – Mr. Tunde O.- who bought my Ration Formulator Software and Handbook bundle (for N20,500.0) about 4 months ago.

That happened at a Feed Mill in Oko Oba area of Agege, owned by Engr. Olopade (an elderly but very knowledgeable man) – who I’d also NEVER met before that day!

[NB: The photos of the 3 of us – shown below were taken, at my request (after the session ended) by Tunde’s “madam” who accompanied him in his car to the venue]

Click to view larger image - The photos of the 3 of us - shown below were taken, at my request (after the session ended) by Tunde's

However, the story behind our being able to meet up (3 total strangers!) on a Sunday at a feed mill owned by one of us is a real testimony to the power of intelligent Web Marketing… click here to read the full story.

Related Articles

1. Your Practical Feed Formulation (& Compounding) Home Study Video Series is Now Available!

2. On-Demand Feed Formulation for Farm CEOs Workshop [Hint: FREE Entry for Owners of Tayo Solagbade’s Feed Formulation Handbook & Software]!

3. BELOW: One page flyer that announces my On-Demand Feed Formulation for Farm CEOs Workshop (http://tayosolagbade.com/ffworkshop)

One page flyer for On-Demand Feed Formulation for Farm CEOs Workshop

If you’d like to attend…

Fee = N50k

For payment details (and/or to discuss possible group discount concessions for your group members), email tayo at tksola dot com

Call +234-803-302-1263 or +229-66-122-136 or send a message via www.tayosolagbade.com

If you already own my Feed Formulation Handbook and Software, you get to attend FREE.

Just contact me to book your place!

[Recommended] Marissa Mayer to Leave Yahoo Board; Yahoo to Change Name to Altaba

[Moves will come after $4.8 billion sale to Verizon]

Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer will step down from the board of directors after the core internet business is sold to Verizon, while what remains of the company will be renamed Altaba.

Yahoo Inc. said Monday it will whittle down its board after completing its deal with Verizon Communications Inc., and several longtime directors, including Chief Executive Marissa Mayer and co-founder David Filo, will step down as directors.

After the sale of its core internet business, the company will change its name to Altaba Inc. from RemainCo, Yahoo said in a regulatory filing. Altaba’s remaining assets include Yahoo’s stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Yahoo Japan. The name is a combination of the words “alternate” and “Alibaba,” a person familiar with the matter said.

Continue reading…

http://www.wsj.com/articles/after-sale-marissa-mayer-to-leave-yahoo-board-yahoo-to-change-name-to-altaba-1484002787

PII 048: To Make Success a Habit, You Need to Habitually Study Successful People

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.” – Anthony Robbins

One of the most important things you need to do, if you want to achieve success in any area of endeavour, is to study people who have succeeded in that field.

And when I say study, I mean you should make it a habit, a way of life, the activity in which you take a close look, analytically at what those who have succeeded in the field you wish to venture into have done to get where they are.

If you form a habit of doing that, over time you are going to be able to identify some common characteristics, attributes, or features that those individuals had. What they did and how they did it, to enable them succeed.

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PII 048: To Make Success a Habit, You Need to Habitually Study Successful People

[This write-up is based on a text transcript version of my first Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) Audio Podcast for 2017. Click here to request download link to the audio file]

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.” – Anthony Robbins

In Cotonou's Missebo market

One of the most important things you need to do, if you want to achieve success in any area of endeavour, is to study people who have succeeded in that field.

And when I say study, I mean you should make it a habit, a way of life – the activity in which you take a close look, analytically at what those who have succeeded in the field you wish to venture into have done to get where they are.

If you form a habit of doing that, over time you are going to be able to identify some common characteristics, attributes, or features that those individuals had.

What they did and how they did it, to enable them succeed.

Having said all of that, not all of us are equally gifted in this area.

We don’t all have the strength, or gift, of being able to extract useful learning from what we observe.

And as a result sometimes you will need to go a step further and also read about and talk with other people – those people you see succeeding or who have succeeded. In doing that, you would try to find out what the grey areas or missing aspects of what you’re supposed to learn are.

Long story short, what I’m trying to tell say here is that you will need to understand what it takes to succeed in any particular field or vocation you want to venture into, before you can actually have some sense of direction in terms of succeeding, or trying to work towards achieving success in that field

A haphazard approach will not benefit you – because adopting one, in which you go about using a trial and error method not guided by intelligent feedback, means you’re going to go through needless and avoidable repetition of processes…and end up reinventing the wheel in terms of trying to succeed.

So you’re going to be making avoidable mistakes. You’re going to be going through needless prolonged delays.

In the 21st century, that’s not a smart way to go.

Indeed, there was never a time when it was a smart way to go (i.e. doing trial and error)…except in cases when you do not have persons who have gone that route before!

In other words, you’re trying to do something that no one else has done before.

But even when you’re trying to do that (i.e something not done before), there are still principles of success or guiding philosophies you can follow, that will enable you make an intelligent go at it.

And so in essence what I’m trying to say here is that you need to become a student of success.

You need to form the habit of analyzing both failures and successes that you experience, as well as those that you see others undergo,

Now if you form that habit, what will happen is that over time you will become smarter about how to go about the business of succeeding.

It doesn’t matter what field you may be in interested in.

The important thing will be for you to learn how to prepare yourself and how to handle yourself in the face of what is very likely to be a lot of adversity, uncertainty, and sometimes discouragement.

So if you get it right, you will find out that there is no goal you set for yourself, that you will be unable to achieve.

You will constantly be able to achieve your purpose and also be able to overcome any obstacles you encounter in the process.

Now those who are uninitiated – those who have not learned to operate the way you do – may end up coming around and saying you seem to have some kind of magic wand you wave to make things happen the way you want.

What they won’t know is that you’ve taken your time to learn the essential things you need to do to achieve that state of being, in which you are able to conceive a line of action for yourself and intelligently pursue it until you achieve it, and make it look so easy in the process.

In the next clip I’m going to explain why, when you have achieved the above  (i.e. when you’ve become somebody that is able to set his/her sights on a particular goal and pursue it until s/he achieves it) you will need to take a step further to learn how to pass that ability to other people around you.

Not just for people that are close to you, but also those who have to work or interact with you.

Most importantly, I will explain how doing so can actually make you EVEN MORE capable of succeeding authentically, in whatever area of endeavour you may be engaged in.

Excel-VB Driven Ration Formulator

Click to view larger screenshot

1. Click here to learn more about this app – watch demo videos etc

2. Click here to watch a 4 part video in which I demonstrate how to use this app to formulate rations using real life data sent to me by an Algerian PhD student.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

EXCEL-VB DRIVEN POULTRY LAYER FARM MANAGER SOFTWARE

Click here to download a detailed PDF user guide and watch 15 screen shot user guide tutorials of the Monthly Poultry Farm Manager that I now offer Farm CEOs.

Click here to watch a screenshot demonstration of the Excel-VB Driven Poultry Farm Manager I built for a client farm business in Ekiti state, South West Nigeria.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

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New posts from last week*

Monday:

[Wednesday]:

[Thursday]:

[Friday]:

If You Don’t Understand Feed Formulation, You Cannot Formulate Feed Correctly [Hint: Answers to a Farm CEO’s Whatsapp Queries About Feed Formulation]

[Saturday]:

Useful Example of How True Stories Can be Used for Business Marketing [Case Study: Lemonade Sets New World Record for payment of insurance claims – LinkedIn Pulse Article by Daniel Schreiber – CEO & Co-Founder at Lemonade Inc.]

[Sunday]:

Make MORE Money: Convert Your Custom Spreadsheets to Mobile Phone Apps [Hint: My New Spreadsheet to Mobile Phone App Conversion Service – See “Agricultural Field Inspection App” in test mode]

Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist

*Best Practice Farm Business Support Specialist & Founder of the MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club and Competition

Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic)

http://www.tayosolagbade.com

Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement

Specialist and Multipreneur (i.e. a highly versatile/multi-skilled entrepreneur), with a bias for delivering Best Practice solutions to Farm Businesses and others.

Since 2002, he has earned multiple streams of income providing individuals and organizations with personal development training and coaching, custom MS Excel-VB solutions, web marketing systems/web hosting, freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).

Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm Manager™ software.

He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods and others.

In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.

On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly traveling across the West African region.

His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).

In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years (October 1994 to December 2001) as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer to Training & Technical Development Manager, and later acted in senior roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.

In addition to constantly challenging the status quo and influencing positive work changes, he built a reputation for using self-taught spreadsheet programming skills (starting with Lotus 1-2-3, and later moving to Excel Visual Basic) – in his spare time – to develop Automated Spreadsheet Applications to computerize manual report generation processes in the departments he worked. Over four(4) of his applications were adopted for brewery level reporting.

Tayo holds a B.Sc degree in Agricultural Extension Services from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, having graduated top of his class – with Second Class Upper Division honors – in 1992. He is an Associate Member of the UK Institute & Guild of Brewing, a 1997 National Finalist of the Nigerian Institute of Management’s(NIM) Young Managers’ competition, a Certified Psychometric Test Administrator for Psytech UK, innovator of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development™ (SCfS-D™), and Founder of the Self-Development Academy (SDAc).

When he’s not amazing clients with his superhuman skills (wink), Tayo works as the creative force behind his Daily Self-Development Nuggets blog – on which he also publishes The Farm CEO Weekly Newspaper (sent via email to paid subscribers) and his Weekly Performance Improvement IDEAS newsletter.

You can connect with him on Twitter @tksola.com and Facebook.

Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your personal and work related productivity.

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On 4th May 2014, Tayo’s 9 year old domain (Spontaneousdevelopment dot com), which hosted his website, was taken over by Aplus.net.

Within a few days however, Tayo used his advanced self-taught web development skills to build a SUPERIOR “reincarnation” of it the website http://www.tayosolagbade.com.

But updates are still ongoing to URLs bearing the old domain name in most of the over 1,000 web pages, and blog posts he’s published.

If you experience any difficulties finding a page or document, email Tayo at tksola dot com.

Click “Tayo, What Happened to SpontaneousDevelopmentDotCom ?” to read a detailed narrative about how the above event occurred :-))

Here’s an article Tayo wrote, to inspire others to defy adversity, and bounce back to even greater reckoning at what they do EVERY time:

Succeed by Emerging from Adversity Like a Phoenix

(TayoSolagbade.com launches extra Hosting plan with FREE Web Marketing!)

And he wrote the one below, to explain why losing a domain name, no matter how old, NO LONGER determines your online success or otherwise:

A Proven Strategy to Find Profitable Buyers Regardless of Your Domain Name
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Make MORE Money: Convert Your Custom Spreadsheets to Mobile Phone Apps [Hint: My New Spreadsheet to Mobile Phone App Conversion Service – See “Agricultural Field Inspection App” in test mode]

This is my first broadcast to members of my Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club in 2017 – and it is a special Audio Podcast.

In it, I reveal the many insights I’ve gained from over 6 months of careful research into the potential opportunities to be harvested from venturing into development of mobile phone apps using custom spreadsheets.

My message: Regardless of your field of interest or specialization, you can LEARN to create mobile phone apps you can sell, based on custom spreadsheets you use in your work!

My interest in doing this was first aroused after a series of clients asked me if my Excel-VB Ration Formulator and the Poultry Farm Manager software had versions that could run on mobile platforms.

At that time I waved off such inquiries as being from overzealous users. But later on, after I encountered a feed formulation app built to work on Android devices, I realized that not only would it be wise to explore building my own app to work on mobile devices, but that I could create a whole new range of products, based on spreadsheet customization – and even help other professionals using proprietary spreadsheet models they’ve built.

At the end of the audio, I announce my new Spreadsheet to Mobile Phone App Conversion Service. 

Click here to request a copy of the audio podcast

NB:

0. If you’re a member of my Excel Heaven VB Automation Club, REPLY YES to the email in which you’re reading this message, and I’ll send you the audio file in your email inbox as an attachment.

1. If you’re NOT a member of my Excel Heaven VB Automation Club and you’re reading this online: Text “YES – XL Heaven Podcast 2017” with your name and email address to +234-803-302-1263

2. If you’re NOT a member of my Excel Heaven VB Automation Club, and you’re reading this in an email: simply click REPLY and type “YES – XL Heaven Podcast 2017”. Alternatively, send “YES – XL Heaven Podcast 2017” to tayo at tksola dot com

Below: Screenshot of an Example “Agricultural Field Inspection App” – in test mode

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It’s a mobile app for agriculture field inspections.

How It Works:

The app comes with 2 links that allow you to to install it on (a)  your mobile device and/or (b) run it in your web browser.

1. Users will use it to collect images, notes, and GPS locations while working/inspecting locations in the field.

2. The app automatically records date, time, and GPS location when a new record is posted.

3. It also allows the user capture up to two images and type in accompanying notes for each record.

4. This nifty app will come in especially useful for field workers/researches when they need to document specific issues while in the field.

NB: Variants of this app will be created for other applications. For instance, Primary Health Care Database Facilities Inspection etc.

 

Useful Example of How True Stories Can be Used for Business Marketing [Case Study: Lemonade Sets New World Record for payment of insurance claims – LinkedIn Pulse Article by Daniel Schreiber – CEO & Co-Founder at Lemonade Inc.]

I absolutely LOVE the way this company’s CEO used a true story about how a client was perfectly served to promote the solutions offered to potential clients.

Low to zero cost street-smart marketing can be used to achieve superior sales leads generation results, compared to many conventional paid marketing and advertising methods. You just need to be willing to think creatively, and diligently reinvent yourself.

Read this company’s true story previewed/linked below, to get a feel for one of many ways this can be done!

How A.I. Jim Broke a World Record Without Breaking a Sweat

His coat was stolen on a sub-zero Saturday night. He hoped it might turn up, but 6 freezing days later Brandon despaired of finding it, and did something no one has ever done: he took out his iPhone 7 and set a world record.

It was December 23rd at 5:43pm when he entered the details of his Canada Goose Langford Parka in his Lemonade app: it had cost $979, and was bought at Saks Fifth Avenue. Sending a 140-character-tweet would have required more taps.

He then spoke into the camera and described what happened (that took 61 seconds) and at 5:49 and 7 seconds he hit ‘Submit’.

Continue reading…

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lemonade-sets-new-world-record-daniel-schreiber?trk=hp-feed-article-title-channel-add