January, 2017 - SD Nuggets™

[Recommended] Stop Trying to Delight Your Customers

January 18, 2017

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 […]

Entrepreneurship

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

January 17, 2017

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 […]

Excel-VB Solutions

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

January 16, 2017

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. […]

Entrepreneurship

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]

January 15, 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 […]

Excel-VB Solutions

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

January 15, 2017

[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 […]

Entrepreneurship

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]

January 12, 2017

[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 […]

Entrepreneurship

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

January 11, 2017

[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 […]

Career Development

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

January 9, 2017

"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 […]

Career Development

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]

January 8, 2017

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 […]

Entrepreneurship

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.]

January 7, 2017

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 […]