My experience based achievements make me a competent expert authority on entrepreneurship and other areas of focus maintained in my writing – as reflected in the categories on this blog.
The article linked below is one that describes ideas I advocate for adoption, based on the BENEFITS that have accrued to me, and others I’ve studied, from APPLYING them
There Is Nothing Wrong With A Humble Beginning- Achieve YOUR Success With Honour & Integrity
Identify The “Hurry Merchants” Around You, And Steer Clear Of Them!
I have met and in certain instances worked with (or studied closely) some business owners who call themselves entrepreneurs but display traits that suggest they are not.
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These individuals I noticed tended to measure their progress(and therefore that of anyone else they met), in terms of how quickly and easily they could make money and almost nothing else! They tended very often not do discriminate about how they made the money. That’s why people like them are often prepared to buy their way repeatedly to get awarded jobs.
Merry Xmas to you all. This week’s issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter, features my recommendation of a Farmers Weekly article titled “6 farming similarities between the UK and Africa”
Below is a preview ending with a link to the full piece:
NB: This PI Squared newsletter will be published weekly, on Mondays, in place of the Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, starting from today – 15th February 2016. I’m reinventing my Monday newsletter content and theme, to accommodate my vision of serving the growing audience of serious minded individuals and organizations reaching out to me, with information, education. news and research findings designed to help them do what they do better.
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PII 098: 6 Farming Similarities Between the UK and Africa – Farmer’s Weekly (Recommended)
Merry Xmas to you all. This week’s issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter, features my recommendation of a Farmers Weekly article titled “6 farming similarities between the UK and Africa”
Below is a preview ending with a link to the full piece:
The crops, climate and cultures differ dramatically, but there are parallels in the challenges that farmers in both Africa and the UK face – even if the scale and consequences of success and failure differ dramatically.
Debbie Beaton talks to Farm Africa about six of the similarities.
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.
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 contact me about purchasing this product.
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).
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.
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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[IMPORTANT NOTE:====
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.
Should a person who diligently professes (and practices) faith in the “All Knowing & All Powerful God” experience difficulties, delays, hardships, setbacks, failures or adversity in any form?
If YES, how long would be enough, and when would it be too much?
Does the fact that a person goes through hard times that seem prolonged and/or traumatizing mean that s/he has done something wrong for which s/he is being punished by “God”?
NB: This PI Squared newsletter will be published weekly, on Mondays, in place of the Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, starting from today – 15th February 2016. I’m reinventing my Monday newsletter content and theme, to accommodate my vision of serving the growing audience of serious minded individuals and organizations reaching out to me, with information, education. news and research findings designed to help them do what they do better.
Should a person who diligently professes faith in the “All Knowing & All Powerful God” experience difficulties, delays, hardships, setbacks, failures or adversity in any form?
If YES, how long would be enough, and when would it be too much?
Does the fact that a person goes through hard times that seem prolonged and/or traumatizing mean that s/he has done something wrong for which s/he is being punished by “God”?
To put it another way: Is it possible for an honest and sincere believer to experience suffering in any way at all?
Should such a DEVOTED, honest and sincere believer not live a life free from problems, or hassles, that will reflect the fact that s/he believes in a “God” that has the power to put the world at his/her feet?
In this latest audio podcast version of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter, I share some hard truths based on the theme of the above title and questions.
Quick take-Away: To believe that professing faith in “God” or the “Creator” will spare you from experiencing suffering, hardships, difficulties or adversity of any form in life is NAIVE. Indeed the fact that YOU have taken such a stand to BELIEVE puts you in a position where you become a VERY eligible candidate for MASSIVE visitations of adversity!
Listen to the full audio for my complete message – and learn why you need to EMBRACE adversity whenever it shows up in your life, IF you want to grow and succeed.
Refuse to adopt the silly mentality that success will be yours simply because you claim it – by saying it. Nothing could be further from truth: YOU have to do the work!
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.
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 contact me about purchasing this product.
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).
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.
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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[IMPORTANT NOTE:====
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.
Order Tayo’s Self-Development Bible – as well as his popular Practical Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook, 25 Articles & True Stories Ebook, Speaking Ideas: 25 Articles and True Stories for Experts Who Speak and Those Aspiring, the 4 part Farm Business Best Practice Ebook series, Kukuru Danger ebook and others.
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or write. They will be those who cannot learn, unlearn or re-learn.” – Alvin Toffler
Preamble
Many people today, who have undergone formal schooling, do not have life survival skills, having only acquired learning for school (i.e. academic education), which they do not KNOW how to apply usefully in the real world.
We already know from years of recent history that it is no longer necessarily those who do well in school that go on to achieve success in life. It used to be so, when paid employment was the primary destination for people who finished school/learning.
In this audio podcast version of my weekly Performance Improvement Ideas newsletter, I discuss the subject of money making, with regard to the deficiency of formal conventional schooling systems in giving learners the know-how to do IT.
Among other issues, I highlight the fact that conventional learning institutions in our societies continue to focus excessively on book based learning, so that learners arrive adulthood, and enter society, post schooling with little or no understanding of money and how to make it.
NB: This PI Squared newsletter will be published weekly, on Mondays, in place of the Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, starting from today – 15th February 2016. I’m reinventing my Monday newsletter content and theme, to accommodate my vision of serving the growing audience of serious minded individuals and organizations reaching out to me, with information, education. news and research findings designed to help them do what they do better.
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PII 096 [AUDIO]: Money Making Skills Cannot be Acquired by Reading a Book!
In this audio podcast version of my weekly Performance Improvement Ideas newsletter, I discuss the subject of money making, with regard to the deficiency of formal conventional schooling systems in giving learners the know-how to do IT.
Among other issues, I highlight the fact that conventional learning institutions in our societies continue to focus excessively on book based learning, so that learners arrive adulthood, and enter society, post schooling with little or no understanding of money and how to make it.
Unfortunately, they inevitably discover, to their shock and dismay, that the world – more or less – revolves around money i.e. Money – as they say – makes the world go round.
No matter the academic credentials you acquire via schooling, if you lack money in enough volumes, to meet your needs (as an adult, post-schooling) so that you do not have to depend on others to “survive”, chances are good that you will NOT enjoy their respect – especially in Nigeria (ignore what they SAY & pay close attention, instead, to what they DO).
People will roll their eyes heaven wards when you speak; they will accuse you of “speaking too much English” or “blowing grammer”, when you voice opinion on issues. You will be used as the butt end of jokes to your face, and often behind your back. Money has a way of popping up in all areas of human life – so NOT having it, can make you look and feel bad quite often.
I say ALL this based on my painful personal experiences – which I’ve described in MANY of my past articles on this blog. A good example is this PDF report (in which I describe my experiences as a struggling startup of being the “Bambiala” of the Solagbade family) and this article, in which I noted that I used to steal N100 naira from the purse of my kids’ mother to purchase browsing time in the cybercafe, so as to do more marketing!
I did all that because I did not know how to make money in those early years. My brilliant academic abilities did NOT help me!
It took great effort and pain, to learn via trial and error, till I became competent. Today I make money without even needing to meet clients/buyers in person.
I therefore argue that parents who want the best for their kids need to ADD a vocational skills acquisition dimension to the “education” of their kids. Formal schooling on its own simply will NOT do anymore in today’s world.
This is why we have armies of unemployed certificate carrying graduates walking jobless on the streets. You can make YOUR child’s story different. I say this based on what I’m doing for my kids. Learn more from the audio – and follow the instructions at the end to find out how I can help you design a programme for your child.
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.
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 contact me about purchasing this product.
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).
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.
Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your personal and work related productivity.
====
[IMPORTANT NOTE:====
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.
NB: This PI Squared newsletter will be published weekly, on Mondays, in place of the Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, starting from today – 15th February 2016. I’m reinventing my Monday newsletter content and theme, to accommodate my vision of serving the growing audience of serious minded individuals and organizations reaching out to me, with information, education. news and research findings designed to help them do what they do better.
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PII 095: Transform Your Child Into a Money Making Machine Who NEVER Needs a 9 to 5 Job!
This post features photos of 2 different sized batches of snails put up for sale in a popular Ikeja-Lagos side street market.
The bigger ones (see below) sell for N2, 000.0 for a set of 4. In other words, one goes for about N500.0
The smaller ones (see further down) sell for N250.0 for a set of 4. In other words, one goes for about N60.0
In a past article on this blog, I shared photos of snails being reared by my 8 year old daughter in her backyard snailery.
This was something she started a simply hobby, but over time we’ve gradually begun to turn it into a formal – though still pilot -scale operation.
Now we have a formulated ration we feed them and we have also set up a nursery where we hatch baby snails
Especially as we excitedly discovered that the new feed we were giving the snails seemed to result6 in regular eggs lying.
One main challenge with handling the eggs and baby snails is that we are still struggling to get the hang of it.
As a result, I estimate that we end up losing up to 50% of the egg batches we collect. In most cases we get about 15 to 30 eggs laid in a batch. So, you can do the math to determine how many snails we end up with as babies from each batch.
Feeding these babies has also been something we’ve not really been able to formally address.
For the most part we’ve sprinkled the same powdery feed for the adults in the nursery section, and left them to roam around. We’ve found that they generally are able to eat the same food the adults eat, but the smaller sizes of course.
It’s really tiny – but if you look carefully at the vertical glass side of the nursery to the right, you will eventually see it climbing slowly up… We have many of them now.
The truth is however that I’ve always known that the best way to make my daughter’s efforts relentless investment of time, effort, energy and creativity into caring for the snails worthwhile, would be to help her scale it up to a commercial operation.
For that to happen there was need for a formal feasibility study to be done.
Luckily, I knew who to go to, for that/
So, a few weeks ago, I put my money where my mouth was, by ordering for a feasibility report to be prepared for my daughter’s proposed scaled up snail farm business.
Before contacting the consultant, I told her my intentions and watched as her eyes lit up in excitement. I explained that the report needed to include the name of her farm – asking her to tell me w3hat she would like to name her snail farm business. After a short brainstorming session she settled for using her name i.e. Oxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Snail Farm (OSF) – full name removed for privacy.
Next, I logged on to the web and sent the proposed farm name, address and other details to the consultant via Facebook messenger.
It goes without saying that most of the technical aspects` would not make much sense to her. However, the computations of snail and egg numbers, as well as monetary values for purchase/sales were aspects she could relate to. fairly readily/
Soon, we will begin implementing the expansion plans. But for now, she’s pushing to grow the 21 snails she has as much as possible, fir sale by the end of December.
I took photos of the smaller batch of (N250 for four) snails to show her that her snails (21 of them) already command a good price in the market.
The idea is to inspire her to keep doing what she’s doing, based on the realization that it’s not a waste of time.
The entire exercise I’ve involved her in through this vocation is designed to give her real world relevant education about what to focus her attention upon, outside the academic arena.
We need to realize that kids are fast learners
Therefore if we expose them to such income earning vocations early in life, so that they develop a passion for doing it, they will arrive adulthood with a lifelong money making competence that will boost their chances of achieving financial independ3nce and success in life.
Isn’t that why we send them through formal school?
Shouldn’t that be the ability they emerge from their schooling with?
Shouldn’t they know more than just carrying their certificates from school, along with CVs to look for jobs?
Does it not make sense that if they search for paid employment post-schooling, and are unable to find jobs, that they should at least be able to fall back on income earning vocational skills, like that required for snail farming, to earn income that meets their needs?
I say it does.
Reality says it does.
History, past and present, says it does.
That’s why I argue that vocational skills based education is what schools need to offer to remain relevant to the needs of people in the 21st century and beyond.
Smart thinking societies like Germany have operated this model for decades – and that’s why they boast one of the lowest youth unemployment rates in the world.
I will be talking more about this is my next article.
For now, I challenge you to find out what passion. gift or interests your child has, and help him/her channel it into a vocation that is an established money making avenue in your society.
It’s the greatest gift you can give him/her.
PS: If you’re like me, and really want to take this to the next leve
In this regard you would aim to arm your child with multiple income earning vocational skills – and s/he will become an unstoppable, self-confident money making machine, who will NEVER need a 9 to 5 job!
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.
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 contact me about purchasing this product.
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).
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.
Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your personal and work related productivity.
====
[IMPORTANT NOTE:====
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.
In July 2005 I, met with the president of Ghana’s Pan-African Writers Association (PAWA) in Accra, about the use of Print On Demand (POD) publishing to publish international quality physical books at zero cost.
He agreed with the point I made that PAWA members could use POD to get print published to a global paying audience.
So he asked me to order a physical copy of my 113 page Self-Development Bible that I showed him in my online store.
Several months later, I sent a copy through a Nigerian banker friend’s Ghanaian colleague who had hosted me during my 2 week stay in Accra.
It was one of 2 copies hand delivered to our Lagos home by a family friend who’d kindly ordered while in his US base, prior to visiting Nigeria at the time.
Incidentally, that would be our 2nd attempt to order my book. A few weeks earlier he’d placed an order for 5 copies to be delivered to me via Post Office in Lagos.
They never arrived – even though we confirmed dispatch from the US publisher lol!
Back then (2005), debit cards did not exist in Nigeria. So I had to get others in diaspora to help with their crediz cards/paypal etc.
Things have changed a whole lot since then, and I’ve since gone on to help clients in/out of Nigeria get published in print via my ghost-writing based Print On Demand Publishing (POD) Service – using a debit card issued to me by a Nigerian bank.
And I’ve earned multiple royalties from sales of my books/information products in both physical & digital format in my online store.
Sadly I still see too many experts who can benefit from it, being unaware of &/or refusing to adopt Print On Demand Publishing (POD) to boost their brands’ sales & marketing efforts.
That’s why I talk about it in my on demand 1 hour talk about how a WMS can be used to achieve timeless marketing based name/brand recognition and zero cost sales leads generation.
…a multi-disciplinary blog for people passionate about reaching their goals!
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