Nigeria, and most of Africa remain places that baffle me in terms of how the large majority of locals fail to understand that the way they use the web is NOT the main way those in developed societies, who make it work, use it!
Later today, my Writers Submission Guidelines go LIVE regarding this offer (details here).
For now, a few thoughts about my purpose…
I’m on a personal mission to challenge web users, at least serious minded ones, out here, to begin thinking about its use more in terms of legitimate, creative income earning effort making, and LESS in terms of the silly hyped “become a millonnaire fast” or “make money without working”, often scam based offers most people out here settle for.
My brother in law (Segun Ogunlana, who is connected to me on on Facebook), as well as my sister (Tomi Ajayi) have been involved in getting royalties in USD to me from sales of my books, my ExcelVB software, and agent commissions from my US partner for quite some time now.
That is apart from a large payment I got paid by an international organisation in Holland, to write a 4,000 word case study research paper about adoption of my Ration Formulator software by farm business owners in and out of Africa.
Coming closer home, I get paid by clients in Nigeria, Benin and beyond, to ghost write articles, website copy and books on their behalf.
My STRATEGIC vision is to boost my earnings in USD by serving more international clients with my solutions.
My success so far has helped me weather the countless storms of erratic business climate in my local market in Nigeria especially.
It has also enabled me demontrate to those who supported me when I began, that I have something that works!
I have articles on my blog in which I’ve provided details of all these, and some are visble right now on my Facebook wall!
It is instructive to note that my offer is nothing like any other seen on ANY website in Africa.
Take it from me: www.tayosolagbade.com is the first ever website in Africa, to offer payment of this kind to contributors of good quality Guest Posts/Articles
Most will simply ask you to write for free, if at all.
My other reasons for doing this are stated in my blog post including the soon to be announced new Joint Venture partnership I’m starting with a famous US based Internet Marketing personality, who recently made me an offer of co-ownership of his website.
Let me make it clear that the USD funds I aim to use to pay authors who take up this offer comes from monthly passive income earnings I have been getting for a while, which I’ve now arranged, with the sender, to redirect part of towards this purpose.
Paying $50 USD out of it amounts to using about 30% of it. To me, that is a good investment.
Note that my offer has been emailed to my database of subscribers some being in Asia, America and Europe.
I will also be notifying leading blog and website owners in and out of Africa, with audiences fitting my target audience profile that I’m doing this, so they can spread the word if they wish.
In other words, this is intended to be a process that will yield QUALITY content I can feature to command better attention for my blog, with associated benefits.
Anyone thinking of taking up this offer must understand that I belong to a little known world of hard working experts who write (in my case I also code and sell software etc) for a living.
Keyword there = Hardworking.
Ever written a marketable 1,000 word article?
I mean an authoritative piece that made serious content publishers contact you for permission to republish in a journal to be put on sale, or even to pay you for rights to republish in their newsletter?
Well I have – many times. And writing such a piece is NOT easy, even though most of my clients continually comment that I make it look so. But I always remind them that I’ve been doing this for over a decade, and for many years I kept doing it even though I got no one offering to pay me!
That’s all changed now. Today, I belong to a world of silent success, where hard work, done with creative intellectual effort yields great ROI at low to zero cost.
By the time I accept and pay for the first Guest Post in January 2016, it will be clear to any doubting Thomases that THIS offer is no joke.
By the way, just so you know, paying for guest articles has been a widespread practice for YEARS in America especially.
I have benefitted (and continue to benefit) from that culture.
Now that I earn passive income in USD to support doing so, I intend to grow my brand to the next level by paying those willing to do the hard work to meet my stated requirements to submit useful content on my blog as well.
To illustrate, here’s an article that lists 79 websites that pay writers up to $100 USD.
http://www.makealivingwriting.com/websites-that-pay-writers-2015-79-sites/
Nothing stops YOU from sending submissions to them as well!
PS: Note that not a single one is in Africa. Not even one. Well I intend to change that with my offer from January 2016.
One need not be earning millions already to do this.
It’s common sense business marketing I.e people who hear will talk about your blog, as will those who get paid, leading to more visitors etc.
Get it??!