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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 organisations with personal development training and coaching, custom MS Excel-VB solutions, web marketing systems, freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners). Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™, the popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook, and developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator - as well as the increasingly popular Monthly Poultry Farm Manager app. On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, writes and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, in the French Speaking Benin Republic on the first lap of his slow travels 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). 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 previews of paid issues of The Farm CEO™ Newspaper (www.thefarmceo.net), in addition to his FREE Weekly Public Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter - which he uses to promote Burt Dubin's Public Speaking Mentoring service to experts across the African continent. Visit Tayo's Flagship Performance Improvement website to download over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your personal and work related productivity. Join Tayo's international community of fans on his Flagship MS Excel Heaven Facebook page (click here). You can also connect with him via Twitter (@tksola).

PII 159: [FREE DOWNLOAD] Secret Key You Need to Achieve Repeatable Success Inspite of Adversity

Quick Take Away: Text your full name, email address, job title and WhatsApp number to +234-803-302-1263 to request a FREE PDF version of this book titled “The World’s Future Prosperity Depends On Digital Multipreneurs” (on sale at www.lulu.com/sdaproducts – my store), as a gift from me to you.

In conceiving the philosophy/approach I advocate for adoption in this book (and which I have since used, for years, to achieve repeatable success – in spite of severe adversity) I spent extensive periods over a 4 year period, between 2002 and 2006 reflecting deeply, based on the experiences I was having at the time, as a struggling startup entrepreneur.

Over time, the following 3 questions came to the fore in my mind.,,

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PII 159: [FREE DOWNLOAD] Secret Key You Need to Achieve Repeatable Success Inspite of Adversity

Quick Take Away: Text your full name, email address, job title and whatsApp number to +234-803-302-1263 to request a FREE PDF version of this book titled “The World’s Future Prosperity Depends On Digital Multipreneurs” (on sale at  www.lulu.com/sdaproducts – my store), as a gift from me to you.

In conceiving the philosophy/approach I advocate for adoption in this book (and which I have since used, for years, to achieve repeatable success – in spite of severe adversity) I spent extensive periods over a 4 year period, between 2002 and 2006 reflecting deeply, based on the experiences I was having at the time, as a struggling startup entrepreneur.

Over time, the following 3 questions came to the fore in my mind.

1. How do we make it possible for any willing person(s) in our society (including the most disadvantaged e.g. indigent, poor, handicapped) to become capable of rendering economically beneficial  products or services to others within and outside our countries and continents?

2. How do we ensure they do this in a way that enables them earn adequate remuneration to achieve financial independence so they are less vulnerable to being manipulated for their voting power?

3. How do we create a situation whereby opportunities for socio-economic benefits accessible to those in developing countries make the option of their leaving home to settle/work in developed countries far away from loves ones less compelling than it currently is?

I realized that whatever solution I settled upon would need to address all of them, if it was to be successful.

Most importantly, I wanted the solution to be one that ANY INDIVIDUAL could implement ON MY OWN as an individual, without need to depend on others.

My Answer – a Vision Statement:

To read my answer, text your full name, email address, job title and whatsApp number to +234-803-302-1263 to request a FREE PDF version of this book, as a gift from me to you.

Below: A quote in which I explain the key to achieving repeatable success, regardless of the adversity one may be exposed to. The core requirement is adoption of a multidisciplinary (or multipreneurial) habit/disposition in life.

“People with mental attitudes and skills that enable them to take control of what happens to them daily, are unlikely to be seriously(if at all) negatively affected in the long term by the vagaries of their countries socio-economic circumstances. They are likely to make the best of them rather than fall apart. It is my conviction that knowing how to ADAPT to inevitable changes that could make your survival skills obsolete, is of crucial importance. The foregoing is one of my motivations for being a Multipreneur. To succeed more frequently, one needs a multiple-career strategy i.e. have a variety of skills to generate income and capture opportunities in today’s fast-changing market place – leading to prosperity and fulfilment independent of economic fluctuations. ” – Tayo K. Solagbade, Location Independent Performance Improvement Specialist & Digital Multipreneur, www.tayosolagbade.com

This book is based on an original piece first published online in January 2006 as a PDF White Paper on www.spontaneousdevelopment.com, my flagship website at the time.

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I have since applied the ideas contained in this book, to achieve repetitive success (read some true stories here) as 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.

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Reading this book, and applying the ideas and strategies described in it, can yield similar results for YOU.

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TIP: Text your full name, email address, job title and whatsApp number to +234-803-302-1263 to request a FREE PDF version of this book, as a gift from me to you.

Here’s a message I always include to each person I send a GIFT copy of this book to:

I hope this book helps you discover the multiple, lifelong benefits to be had in pursuing this unconventional “career” path that I advocate.

For policy and decision makers in private and public sectors, seeking solutions that can enable them empower multitudes at less cost, and using less effort/money, the ideas and strategies I proffered here offer limitless potentials – IF used correctly.

That’s why I now offer educational talks and coaching programs to support policy makers in equipping those they lead successfully take ownership of their own lives by becoming Digital
Multipreneurs. Click here to send me a message.

The best part is that even persons in paid employment can adopt this strategy on a part time basis as preparation for retirement, while boosting their income earning capability in the short term!

Below: Screenshot of the book on sale in my online store as a PRINT as well as DIGITAL book

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1. PII 158: How My Farm Business Support Center Can Help Farm Owners Achieve Superior Results at Low to Zero Cost [3 Common Challenges It Will Address]

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2. PII 155: Make Money Building & Selling Custom Excel-VB Software to Profitable Niche markets [Join my MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation club to Start Learning HOW]

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Connect with me using any of the following:

Phone: +234-8033021263 (in Nigeria) OR +229-66122136 (in Benin Rep)
Email: tayo at tksola dot com
Twitter: @tksola

INVITE ME TO DELIVER THE FULL 10 COMMANDMENT SERIES AS A LIVE TALK TO YOUR GROUP/TEAM MEMBERS

This talk is based on an educational weekly email series I created exclusively for members of my Web Marketing for CEOs club.
It provides experience based ideas, tips and insights for use by any persons engaged in business, who wish to achieve low to zero cost business marketing reach and impact by leveraging the the power of PC and Internet Technology.
It is NOW available in a specially bundled MP3 Audio and PDF Book package that can be downloaded online or accessed offline on a DVD delivered to you.
Attendees of THIS LIVE talk however get instant membership of my Web Marketing for CEOs club (N50k value – includes FREE weekly coaching via Private Facebook and WhatsApp groups) + FREE download link to the ebook/audios.
Standard FEE for Talk – N100k

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Excel-VB Driven Ration Formulator

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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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PII 158: How My Farm Business Support Center Can Help Farm Owners Achieve Superior Results at Low to Zero Cost [3 Common Challenges It Will Address]

I estimate that over 60% of those who contact me about the Farm Business Support Solutions I offer end up unable to buy from me because:

(A). they have a limited budget

(b). they want a demonstration that goes beyond what I can provide without risk to me

(c). they prefer to gain access to me physically, in order to learn practically about feed formulation and compounding, as well as best practice farm business management.

That’s why I believe the time is NOW right to have a PHYSICAL location for the FBSC.

So far, I have run it non-formally, as a skeletal ONLINE service as I travel. My preference is for the physical presence to be located in Cotonou.

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 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 158: How My Farm Business Support Center Can Help Farm Owners Achieve Superior Results at Low to Zero Cost [3 Common Challenges It Will Address]

Regular readers of this blog most likely know that I have set my sights on having a PHYSICAL location for what I call my Farm Business Support Centre (click here read a 2015 introductory article, complete with a tentative layout plan).

The FBSC’s purpose is to continuously investigate, document and publish Best Practice (I call it BOPMS) ways of rearing livestock (especially poultry, fish, and rabbits) and growing crops, as well as marketing BOTH crops and livestock, for higher yields and profits, using locally sourced materials and indigenous knowledge/skills.

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I have been supporting Farm Businesses with custom software, extension advisory services and web marketing support for many years now, and enjoy great relationships with many of my clients.

Specifically, I provide information and education/coaching via articles, videos, audios, books etc – some of which have made clients openly send me unsolicited testimonials.

I believe one of the reasons for my growing success with clients, is that I am gifted with the ability to SEE beyond the core activity the client focuses on, to help him/her understand the bigger picture of what s/he needs to do to boost productivity and profits – and also to deal with adversity.

A good example can be seen in the ideas I offer in the article titled “Why Farm CEOs Need Multiple Streams of Income“.

Here is a statement of FACT:

I have established myself as a reliable provider (working 100% remotely via the web) of a unique range of custom Excel-Visual Basic driven software that business owners within and outside Africa buy from me.

This achievement did NOT come easy. And it certainly did not happen quickly. Indeed I suffered prolonged periods of total marketplace irrelevance and rejection, locally, during which time I was completely reduced to BEGGING friends and relatives for money to meet my most basic expenses and needs – especially to care for my family.It was THAT bad.

But I persisted. I had no choice. There was no other way. I had left myself no escape or alternative option, having burned virtually all my bridges, by following the recommendations in Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich”.

I had to begin by literally creating the market for my custom Excel-VB Software Development Service and Products in my country of residence Nigeria. It took quite some doing, but when you have no alternatives, you learn to THINK CREATIVELY to find ways to achieve your goal.

I did that, and began creating demo applications for target niche markets I identified – Small and Medium businesses in the Healthcare industry – hospitals, clinic etc.

One day, a Web marketing client saw one of my demos and though he was NOT a medical professional, and was instead an Environmental Consultant, he saw the potential application to suit his own needs.

After some discussions, he paid me the N100k I requested 100% in advance, to have me build an MS Excel-VB driven dynamic menu driven database version of the Environmental Guidelines and Specifications for the Petroleum Industry in Nigeria (EGASPIN).

This was a digital version of a massive 2 volume bound print manual, used as a reference by professional in his industry.

From then on I’d tasted blood, and began to think even bigger.

What people see today, in form of the range of custom applications I now offer ready for use, is the direct result of what I have learned from over a decade of trying to find the best way to make people take my custom Excel-VB solutions seriously.

Some Excel-VB developers from other countries befriend me AFTER seeing videos of some of my advanced applications in my YouTube channel. And I have gotten unsolicited testimonials and referrals from various quarters.

Several years ago, following references made to my work, by a Nigerian born Professor of Agriculture based in South Africa, I was invited to submit a proposal, and eventually got paid 2,500 (Two thousand five hundred) Euros by a European Union funded NGO, to write an international Agribusiness case study paper about how farm CEOs use my Ration Formulator.

I estimate that over 60% of those who contact me about the Farm Business Support Solutions I offer end up unable to buy from me because:

(A). they have a limited budget

(b). they want a demonstration that goes beyond what I can provide without risk to me

(c). they prefer to gain access to me physically, in order to learn practically about feed formulation and compounding, as well as best practice farm business management.

That’s why I believe the time is NOW right to have a PHYSICAL location for the FBSC.

So far, I have run it non-formally, as a skeletal ONLINE service as I travel. My preference is for the physical presence to be located in Cotonou.

This is mainly because I have NEW ideas based on enquiries from prospects and clients that could be added. www.discovercotonou.com is one such idea.It is meant to be a vehicle for attracting farm CEOs and those aspiring, as well as others, to travel down and learn new ideas about agribusiness under a special travel and tour service I would facilitate via my FBSC – where paid accommodation would be made available for travelers e.g. short stays etc.

This article is meant to give the reader an idea of the bigger picture I see, with regard to the work I do as a Best Practice Farm Business Management Support Service Provider.

It is my intention to – over time – attract like-minded others to support me in accessing the needed resources to implement this next growth phase of my plans, especially as it relates to setting up the proposed Farm Business Support Centre physical premises.

Click here to send me a message.

 

DOWNLOAD the infographic below:

PII 155: Make Money Building & Selling Custom Excel-VB Software to Profitable Niche markets [Join my MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation club to Start Learning HOW]

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Connect with me using any of the following:

Phone: +234-8033021263 (in Nigeria) OR +229-66122136 (in Benin Rep)
Email: tayo at tksola dot com
Twitter: @tksola

INVITE ME TO DELIVER THE FULL 10 COMMANDMENT SERIES AS A LIVE TALK TO YOUR GROUP/TEAM MEMBERS

This talk is based on an educational weekly email series I created exclusively for members of my Web Marketing for CEOs club.
It provides experience based ideas, tips and insights for use by any persons engaged in business, who wish to achieve low to zero cost business marketing reach and impact by leveraging the the power of PC and Internet Technology.
It is NOW available in a specially bundled MP3 Audio and PDF Book package that can be downloaded online or accessed offline on a DVD delivered to you.
Attendees of THIS LIVE talk however get instant membership of my Web Marketing for CEOs club (N50k value – includes FREE weekly coaching via Private Facebook and WhatsApp groups) + FREE download link to the ebook/audios.
Standard FEE for Talk – N100k

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Get 1 Year Web Marketing Saupport: Become a member of my Web Marketing for CEOs club

Click here to learn how you can join my Web Marketing for CEOs club, and get my 1 year Web Marketing Support Service

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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LEARN COUNTING FROM 1 TO 1,000 IN YORUBA LANGUAGE USING THIS CUSTOM MENU DRIVEN SPREADSHEET APP [With Optional MP3 Audio files]

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LEARN COUNTING FROM 1 TO 1,000 IN YORUBA LANGUAGE USING THIS CUSTOM MENU DRIVEN SPREADSHEET APP [With Optional MP3 Audio files]

6 months ago, I began toying with the idea of creating a spreadsheet application to help my daughters better understand how to count in our native Yoruba language.

Today – 3rd April 2019 – I am able to announce that a fully functional version of that application is now ready and I intend, like I did with my Storyfied Proverbs book back in 2014) to make it available for use by any interested persons.

See details below:

LEARN COUNTING FROM 1 TO 1.000 IN YORUBA LANGUAGE USING THIS CUSTOM MENU DRIVEN SPREADSHEET APP [With Optional MP3 Audio files]

I created this custom spreadsheet application as a tool for teaching my kids to count in our native Yoruba language. The girls can NOW count from 1 to 100 in Yoruba.

But I want them to use this table, with its drop down menu query interface (above) to master counting in Yoruba to 1,000 and beyond. It will help them refresh their memories, via repetition, so as to ensure long term retention.

It allows users to choose a number to display it’s full Yoruba meaning, complete with phonetic markings – AND automatically play AUDIO SNIPPETS OF ME & MY KIDS VOICES (REPLACEABLE WITH YOURS) CALLING OUT EACH NUMBER IN ENGLISH AND YORUBA.

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SMS your name, email address, and country to +234-803-302-1263 to request details of how to get it.

Below: Cover Photo and preview/link for my 10 Storyfied Proverbs Audio Book

Title: Ten (10) ‘Storyfied’ Yoruba Proverbs for Children

Sub title: Ten popular Yoruba proverbs with contextual translations and story-based examples of their use, in daily life, for young children & and learners in general

Cover Photo - NEW Book titled Ten (10) ‘Storyfied’ Yoruba Proverbs for Children. Subtitle - Ten popular Yoruba proverbs with contextual translations and story-based examples of their use, in daily life, for young children

PII 157: Why Is Nigeria Such a Terrible Country? [A Nigerian University Professor Gives a PERFECT Response to This Quora.com Question] – Highly Recommended

NB: At the risk of stating the obvious, far from being self-serving, this week’s issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter is a Public Service. 
Welcome.
Anyone familiar with me, and/or my writing most likely KNOWS that I do not hesitate to speak my mind on ANY issues. And when it comes to Nigeria, I am deliberately unapologetic and blunt in stating my views about how badly it has been – and is being run – by its leaders, and also how badly VERY MANY of its citizens behave, on a daily basis,  making it unpleasant for most people to live.
Little wonder that citizens readily seize any opportunity to FLEE to any other country.

When I saw the question “Why is Nigeria such a terrible country?” on Quora.com I felt a great urge to post a response to it.

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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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View Tayo Solagbade's video tutorials and demonstrations on Facebook Productivity Tips, Web Marketing, and for his Custom MS Excel-VB driven software applicationsJoin the SD Nuggets community on Facebook.comConnect with Tayo on Twitter.comConnect with Tayo on Google PlusConnect with Tayo on LinkedIn.com

PII 157: Why Is Nigeria Such a Terrible Country? [A Nigerian University Professor Gives a PERFECT Response to This Quora.com Question] – Highly Recommended

NB: At the risk of stating the obvious, far from being self-serving, this week’s issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter is a Public Service. 
Welcome.
Anyone familiar with me, and/or my writing most likely KNOWS that I do not hesitate to speak my mind on ANY issues. And when it comes to Nigeria, I am deliberately unapologetic and blunt in stating my views about how badly it has been – and is being run – by its leaders, and also how badly VERY MANY of its citizens behave, on a daily basis,  making it unpleasant for most people to live.
Little wonder that citizens readily seize any opportunity to FLEE to any other country.

When I saw the question “Why is Nigeria such a terrible country?” on Quora.com I felt a great urge to post a response to it.

I felt that way because I was almost convinced that most outsiders would NOT be accurate in the views they posted, and that any insiders (i.e. Nigerians in or out of the country) were likely to indulge in the usual nonsense like mentioning worse places, or saying Nigeria was getting better.
But right from the first paragraph of Prof. Omotayo Fakinlede‘s reponse to the question, I could tell that my contribution would not be needed.
By the time I was done reading, it was clear he had said ALL that needed to be said, making it crystal clear, like I had wanted to do, that Nigeria IS the way it is MAINLY because both leaders and followers are co-conspirators in the shameful mismanagement of one of the most blessed nations on the planet.
Hopefully it will serve as food for serious thought for those naughty individuals engaged in the sad practices described, so that they might turn over a new leaf, and enable Nigeria STOP being a crawling giant!

Read the preview below, and click the link at the bottom, to read his full answer:

Out of sixteen answers I can see here, the Jewish Agronomist, Ian Kedem, in a few words, hit the nail on the head. Before I discuss his answer, let us note that several of my compatriots here engage in a very “Nigerian” pastime: Dispute the basis of the question itself; get angry about the question and indulge in our kind of “nationalism” in wishing away the truth. Nigeria, AD 2018, is a terrible country to live in. Take it from me, I am more than sixty years old and have lived here most of my life. I have also traveled the world. I have a clear idea of how other peoples manage their problems.

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The British left here long before most of the Nigerians living today were born. Blaming them for Nigeria’s problems is not just foolish, but self immolating for the simple reason that it means that unless “lord” Lugard came back to life, we will continue to wallow in this mess. Thankfully, some other African countries are not waiting for us: Rwanda is shedding its recent violent ethnic cleansing and moving to a better country that can look after its people. Botswana, Namibia, and others are giving Africa something to be happy about. I rejoice greatly for these nations!

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Nigeria-such-a-terrible-country

 

 

DOWNLOAD the infographic below:

PII 155: Make Money Building & Selling Custom Excel-VB Software to Profitable Niche markets [Join my MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation club to Start Learning HOW]

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Connect with me using any of the following:

Phone: +234-8033021263 (in Nigeria) OR +229-66122136 (in Benin Rep)
Email: tayo at tksola dot com
Twitter: @tksola

INVITE ME TO DELIVER THE FULL 10 COMMANDMENT SERIES AS A LIVE TALK TO YOUR GROUP/TEAM MEMBERS

This talk is based on an educational weekly email series I created exclusively for members of my Web Marketing for CEOs club.
It provides experience based ideas, tips and insights for use by any persons engaged in business, who wish to achieve low to zero cost business marketing reach and impact by leveraging the the power of PC and Internet Technology.
It is NOW available in a specially bundled MP3 Audio and PDF Book package that can be downloaded online or accessed offline on a DVD delivered to you.
Attendees of THIS LIVE talk however get instant membership of my Web Marketing for CEOs club (N50k value – includes FREE weekly coaching via Private Facebook and WhatsApp groups) + FREE download link to the ebook/audios.
Standard FEE for Talk – N100k

10-Commandments-Part9-S1S

Get 1 Year Web Marketing Saupport: Become a member of my Web Marketing for CEOs club

Click here to learn how you can join my Web Marketing for CEOs club, and get my 1 year Web Marketing Support Service

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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PII 156: You Need to Tell Stories to Achieve Superior Business Marketing Success

Google the question below:

“Do you need to be a good storyteller to be a successful sales person?”

The results you get confirm the accuracy of the claim made in the title of this latest issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter, which says:

“You Need to Tell Stories to Achieve Superior Business Marketing Success”

Indeed some of the most successful sales people in the world have been referred to as MASTER STORYTELLERS – and with good reason: they tell stories that make people buy!

In the rest of this piece, I explain how you can use storytelling to achieve your own repeat selling success.

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Performance Improvement 
IDEAS
(PI Squared) Newsletter

Monday 18th March 2019

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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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View Tayo Solagbade's video tutorials and demonstrations on Facebook Productivity Tips, Web Marketing, and for his Custom MS Excel-VB driven software applicationsJoin the SD Nuggets community on Facebook.comConnect with Tayo on Twitter.comConnect with Tayo on Google PlusConnect with Tayo on LinkedIn.com

PII 156: You Need to Tell Stories to Achieve Superior Business Marketing Success

Google the question below:

“Do you need to be a good storyteller to be a successful sales person?”

The results you get confirm the accuracy of the claim made in the title of this latest issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter, which says:

“You Need to Tell Stories to Achieve Superior Business Marketing Success”

Indeed some of the most successful sales people in the world have been referred to as MASTER STORYTELLERS – and with good reason: they tell stories that make people buy!

In the rest of this piece, I explain how you can use storytelling to achieve your own repeat selling success.

At the risk of sounding like I am bragging, I happen to be gifted in using storytelling to sell. And it has played a big part in the success I have achieved at various levels in selling my products and services internationally.

I have NEVER read ANY of the articles that came up on that Search Engine Results Page (SERP) when I did the search (see some below this article).

But I have known THE truth about storytelling being a key ingredient for selling, from my early startup years, back in 2002 through 2005 reading widely about the careers of many different successful entrepreneurs (This was when I started article marketing from my first website – spontaneousdevelopmentdotcom)

Over time, I intuitively adopted storytelling as a selling strategy, when – while struggling with serious cash flow limitations – I discovered that prospects tended to buy in more readily to offers I made when they read (or heard me narrate) one of many true stories about how I used my solution to solve problems for others like them.

Today, many years after I adopted that approach, I have gone on to publish hundreds of articles based on real life sales experiences I have had – AND they have boosted my sales leads generation efforts again and again!

Sometimes I even share transcripts from actual sales conversations, on phone, email, WhatsApp etc.

An example is the true story published in last week’s issue of this newsletter about an international sale I made, of one of my Excel-VB Software products.

It is this approach that influences those who encounter my web marketing (which is primarily done based Article Marketing where I share those stories) to make contact with me.

And like I have said in past articles on this theme, the stories I tell are often so compelling in their authenticity, that prospects who read them, often go out of their way, to connect with me.

For instance, there have been some who filled and submitted a request for my products via my website contact form, but got no response from me (due to problems with email delivery from the script to my inbox).

So they came back and resubmitted the form, after which some came over to contact me via Facebook, Facebook, even Twitter.

Examples: Screenshot of real life sales conversations initiated by different prospects via Facebook Messages either to my Personal Profile or one of my Facebook pages (SDAc’s Cost-Saving Farm Business Ideas).

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[Interesting Fact: Looking back now, I just realized that the only Social Media platform I use, but have NEVER had a prospective buyer reach out to me from is LinkedIn.com.]

In essence I am saying, when you use storytelling the right way, especially through articles you publish and propagate via your Web Marketing System, potential buyers, who fit your target audience profile are more likely to become HIGHLY MOTIVATED to buy from you.

They will gladly go the extra mile to do what I needed to get money to you, in exchange for what you sell, which they want.

Isn’t that what we are all in business hoping will happen – repeatedly – for us?

Of course it is. But DOING IT takes work!

For one thing, you must use TRUE STORIES. No lies. No fairy tales. No false claims. Nothing phony.

You have to be 100% authentic – a good way being NOT leaving out stories about those times when you actually failed FLAT on your face. Don’t try to use your storytelling to paint yourself as being a perfect person. People want to connect with a human being!

Again – remember that lies or half-truths about your achievements will only create unexpected complications for you later.

Be upfront, honest and straightforward in sharing what you know and where you’ve been with your target audience, in a manner that demonstrates you have gained real world relevant competence that THEY can benefit from.

That is what SMART storytelling will do for you!

Read Master Salesmen Use Smart Ideas to Sell. Ordinary Salesmen Don’t! [TIP: Be a Master Salesman – Experience Based Ideas from a Master Salesman]!

I help clients – through my Freelance Writing/Web Marketing Support Service – achieve the foregoing and more.

Once they join my Web Marketing for CEOs club, I handle ALL of the work to be done, for 12 full months – and while doing it all, I also COACH and challenge them to DO what I coach them to do. This is so they will, at some point be able to do it by themselves, while I step back and provide support from behind the scenes.

Click here to learn how to join my Web Marketing for CEOs club.

Related Articles (Extracted from the SERP linked earlier in the above piece)

  1. Why Storytelling Is A Must-Have Inside Sales Skill
  2. The 7 storytelling secrets of successful salespeopl
  3. Storytelling In Sales: Make Your Client the Hero
  4. Why Good Storytelling Beats Good Selling
  5. Why Every Salesperson Must Be a Master Storyteller
  6. 5 Stories Every Salesperson Should be Prepared to Tell
  7. Why Storytelling Is Scientifically Proven To Boost Sales
  8. Trending This Week: The Salesperson as a Storyteller

     

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Phone: +234-8033021263 (in Nigeria) OR +229-66122136 (in Benin Rep)
Email: tayo at tksola dot com
Twitter: @tksola

INVITE ME TO DELIVER THE FULL 10 COMMANDMENT SERIES AS A LIVE TALK TO YOUR GROUP/TEAM MEMBERS

This talk is based on an educational weekly email series I created exclusively for members of my Web Marketing for CEOs club.
It provides experience based ideas, tips and insights for use by any persons engaged in business, who wish to achieve low to zero cost business marketing reach and impact by leveraging the the power of PC and Internet Technology.
It is NOW available in a specially bundled MP3 Audio and PDF Book package that can be downloaded online or accessed offline on a DVD delivered to you.
Attendees of THIS LIVE talk however get instant membership of my Web Marketing for CEOs club (N50k value – includes FREE weekly coaching via Private Facebook and WhatsApp groups) + FREE download link to the ebook/audios.
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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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Download this PDF ebook to read the true story of how I literally single-handedly created a market for my Excel-Visual Basic solutions development service in Nigeria/Africa.

In February 2019, a young African university graduate, working as an Agric. Consultant in East Africa, wrote me on Facebook (See screenshot above with video demonstration link) that he had been inspired by my ExcelVB Ration Formulator to create his own version of THAT software, by learning and using MS Excel Visual Basic.

And he apparently now offers his own application and also his spreadsheet software development service, to Farm Businesses in his country. My vision is to help young people and interested adult experts make money like I do, as Excel-VB solution developers of low cost alternative custom software for small and medium businesses out here. 

Extension professionals can collaborate with Farm Business Owners to develop low cost custom spreadsheet software (like I do) to achieve useful data recording, analysis and report generation benefits, that aid timely profit-boosting farm management decision making. Learn more in this issue of my newsletter.

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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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*FREE Membership Access for Agricultural Extension Professionals (Read Below)

Extension professionals can collaborate with Farm Business Owners to develop low cost custom spreadsheet software (like I do) to achieve useful data recording, analysis and report generation benefits, that aid timely profit-boosting farm management decision making.

Learn about my proposed Farm Business Suppot Centre (FBSC) at www.tayosolagbade.com/fbsc

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In February 2019, a young African university graduate, working as an Agric. Consultant in East Africa, wrote me on Facebook (See screenshot above with video demonstration link) that he had been inspired by my ExcelVB Ration Formulator to create his own version of THAT software, by learning and using MS Excel Visual Basic.

And he apparently now offers his own application and also his spreadsheet software development service, to Farm Businesses in his country. My vision is to help young people and interested adult experts make money like I do, as Excel-VB solution developers of low cost alternative custom software for small and medium businesses out here.

I run a coaching club called the MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation club with members from different countries. *To join, e-mail tayo at tksola dot com (Subject: “XLVB Club”) stating your name, job title, country and email address. *Agricultural Extension Professionals get FREE Access (Terms Apply)

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Name: SOLAGBADE Tayo Kayode

Title: Location Independendent Multipreneur [a Multiskilled Entrepreneur working as a Digital Nomad]
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Above: I met for the first time ever, with this Abeokuta, Ogun State – Nigeria based Poultry Layer Farm CEO (O. Azeez) on 15th February 2019

Venue was Sherryville Arcade (opposite First Bank Plc, Ojodu Berger, in Lagos. This was after he purchased my Excel-VB Poultry Farm Manager software.
Over the past decade, I have sold my applications to Farm CEOs from countries within and outside Africa e.g Nigeria, Ghana, Guinea, United Kingdom, UAE, Canada, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi etc. Over 80% NEVER meet in person with me, yet we go on to build friendships via phone, email and social media. [Read No. 119: How to Achieve Success in Any Field (True Story)]

NB: All claims I make about my work are 100% verifiable. Simply get in touch with me (see details below) – DOWNLOAD the infographic below

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Connect with me using any of the following:

Phone: +234-8033021263 (in Nigeria) OR +229-66122136 (in Benin Rep)
Email: tayo at tksola dot com
Twitter: @tksola

INVITE ME TO DELIVER THE FULL 10 COMMANDMENT SERIES AS A LIVE TALK TO YOUR GROUP/TEAM MEMBERS

This talk is based on an educational weekly email series I created exclusively for members of my Web Marketing for CEOs club.
It provides experience based ideas, tips and insights for use by any persons engaged in business, who wish to achieve low to zero cost business marketing reach and impact by leveraging the the power of PC and Internet Technology.
It is NOW available in a specially bundled MP3 Audio and PDF Book package that can be downloaded online or accessed offline on a DVD delivered to you.
Attendees of THIS LIVE talk however get instant membership of my Web Marketing for CEOs club (N50k value – includes FREE weekly coaching via Private Facebook and WhatsApp groups) + FREE download link to the ebook/audios.
Standard FEE for Talk – N100k

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Get 1 Year Web Marketing Saupport: Become a member of my Web Marketing for CEOs club

Click here to learn how you can join my Web Marketing for CEOs club, and get my 1 year Web Marketing Support Service

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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[RECOMMENDED] The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money Hardcover – January 30, 2018 by Bryan Caplan (Author) – Amazon.com

Linked/previewed below (incl. screenshot of online store) with its blunt, truth telling matter-of-fact title (The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money Hardcover – January 30, 2018– is yet another publication I’ve found – this time a full book, (available in print and digital formats) preaching the need for us to change the way we EDUCATE people!

And it has been chalking up high ratings from buyers/reviewers for its unapologetic message about how irrelevant our traditional schooling system has become, to our needs in the 21st century and the future we all see coming.

The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money Hardcover – January 30, 2018 by Bryan Caplan (Author)

Why we need to stop wasting public funds on education

Despite being immensely popular–and immensely lucrative – education is grossly overrated. In this explosive book, Bryan Caplan argues that the primary function of education is not to enhance students’ skill but to certify their intelligence, work ethic, and conformity?in other words, to signal the qualities of a good employee.

Learn why students hunt for easy As and casually forget most of what they learn after the final exam, why decades of growing access to education have not resulted in better jobs for the average worker but instead in runaway credential inflation, how employers reward workers for costly schooling they rarely if ever use, and why cutting education spending is the best remedy.

Click here to visit the online store to read the preview,  reviews, and buy it.

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Just yesterday, I published a new blog recommending the article titled “College is Dying, Design Your Own Education – by Jonny of Hackernoon.com”. In it, I linked to 3 other write-ups from several years earlier (two of them – one of which is a 62 page White Paper – written by me) on the same theme.

My eyes were opened to this problem through reading and listening to VISIONARY THINKERS like Robert Kiyosaki (author of If You Want to be Rich and Happy, Don’t Go to School and Why A Students Work for C Students and Why B Students Work for the Government) and Sir Ken Robinson (TEDx talk titled Schools Kill Creativity).

It goes without saying that OUR numbers are growing i.e. those of us who SEE the harsh reality and are unafraid to say what others also SEE but are too scared to say or admit.

Like it or not, you – as a parent, teacher, or policy maker – will at some point (if you are yet to) come to ACCEPT that things need to change completely.

Our so called “education systems” no longer work well enough to support our individual societies.

We need to overhaul them and adopt a new system that is tried and tested. One which requires education to be DECENTRALIZED and customized to suit each child’s peculiar needs.

So much reinventing needs to be done – and societies that fail to make the needed changes WILL be left FAR behind by others that do!

It’s that simple.

Related Articles

  1. [RECOMMENDED] How Schools Are Killing Creativity – by Line Dalile, 14-year-old student and writer @ huffingtonpost dot com
  2. Schools Can Kill Your Child’s Creativity – IF You Don’t Apply These Tips
  3. Conversation between Entrepreneur Parent and His Kids’ Lesson Teacher
  4. [BPP] This 2016 Viral Video Sues “School” for Killing Creativity, Individuality and being Intellectually Abusive

[RECOMMENDED] College is Dying, Design Your Own Education – by Jonny of Hackernoon.com

On 1st November 2017, I posted a link recommending the article titled Why The Degree is Dying (and being replaced by something better) by Isaac Morehouse – Founder & CEO of Praxis.

Five years earlier, on 13th November 2012, I’d written an experience based blog post titled A New Generation of Entrepreneurs PROVES That Our Schools Need To Offer a Different Kind of Education!

That earlier piece voiced my concern about the serious need for a total overhaul of the formal schooling system which most societies continue to operate, despite glaring evidence that it was becoming less and less relevant to the real world learners would have to enter!

I have since gone on to publish a 62 page White Paper which I have been invited to discuss with policy makers’ representatives. Read TRUE STORY: An Invitation from The Ministry of Youth and Social Development to Discuss My Paper Titled “Schooling Is a Means to an End and NOT an End In Itself”

The article previewed/linked below was written on 4th September 2018, less than 6 months ago, and echoes the same sentiments expressed in the write-ups mentioned above. The obvious implication is that nothing has changed, and our schools continue to offer what is effectively irrelevant education.

College is Dying, Design Your Own Education – by Jonny of Hackernoon.com

College is dying.

I’m not referring to the institutions — those will probably survive for a few more decades.

I’m referring to the paradigm.

A paradigm where in order to acquire education you have to:

  1. Select a single field of study.

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The truth is that parents today need to take control of their children’s education and ensure it it customized for each child, based on his/her natural abilities, talents and genius.

If you are a wise parent, you will take this warning and make needed changes for your child’s sake, before it is too late!

PII 154: Microsoft’s Excel Might Be The Most Dangerous Software On The Planet – Forbes.com [RECOMMENDED]

This special Forbes.com report previewed/linked below (titled “Microsoft’s Excel Might Be The Most Dangerous Software On The Planet“, published in February 2013), was one of those I mentioned as a reference in the 4,000 word International Agribusiness Case Study paper I was engaged (by a Holland based European Union funded NGO), to write in the last quarter of that same year.

Over 2 and a half decades of developing and implementing custom automated spreadsheet solutions driven by code, while supporting business users locally and internationally (via www.tayosolagbade.com), have exposed me to the shocking FACT that many serious errors go undetected DAILY when people use spreadsheets manually!

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Tayo Solagbade’s
Performance Improvement 
IDEAS
(PI Squared) Newsletter

Monday 18th February 2019

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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 154: Microsoft’s Excel Might Be The Most Dangerous Software On The Planet – Forbes.com [RECOMMENDED]

This special Forbes.com report previewed/linked below (titled “Microsoft’s Excel Might Be The Most Dangerous Software On The Planet“, published in February 2013), was one of those I mentioned as a reference in the 4,000 word International Agribusiness Case Study paper I was engaged (by a Holland based European Union funded NGO), to write in the last quarter of that same year.

Many of us use spreadsheets in our personal and work lives. But most of us NEVER consider the dangers of doing so, in the routine data handling and report generation we do for often serious (especially financial) purposes in various areas of endeavour.

Below is a paraphrased excerpt from my 4,000 word case study paper, which highlights the potential dangers of using MS Excel.

“Software automation can make the process of feed formulation less tasking and more reliable in terms of accuracy, compared to the error. But feed formulation software tend to be pricey…

In addition, some – due to legal requirements – limit ingredient types usable…

That’s why some farmers now adopt manual Excel platforms developed by researchers/extension specialists. But using MS Excel MANUALLY for a serious (and sensitive) task like feed formulation requires sound Excel user skills.

Unfortunately, many users often assume they know enough. That mental attitude sometimes leads to avoidable errors, that are hard to detect – with potentially costly consequences in the case of a farm business.” [Read the true story about how I got to write that paper here]

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Below is a preview of the Forbes.com report ending with a link to read the full version on their site.

I recommend you read it to learn about potential dangers you may be exposed to, as you use your darling spreadsheet to handle your precious data!

Microsoft’s Excel Might Be The Most Dangerous Software On The Planet – by Tim Worstall [Forbes.com Contributor]

No, really, it’s possible that Microsoft’s Excel is the most dangerous software on the planet. Yes, more dangerous than rogue code running a nuclear power plant, than the Stuxnet that was deliberately sent off to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program, worse, even, than whatever rent in the fabric of space time led to the invention of Lolcats. Really, that serious.

There’s a danger at one level: it’s all become so complex and it’s handled in such a slapdash manner that no one is really on top of it anymore. And don’t just take it from me as an assertion, there are very serious people indeed warning about this:

Click the link below to continue reading…

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/02/13/microsofts-excel-might-be-the-most-dangerous-software-on-the-planet/#47aacf8f633d

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Over 2 and a half decades of developing and implementing custom automated spreadsheet solutions driven by code, while supporting business users locally and internationally (via www.tayosolagbade.com), have exposed me to the shocking FACT that many serious errors go undetected DAILY when people use spreadsheets manually!

This was one of my major motivations for formally launching out as an Excel Visual Basic Solutions Developer in 2002. I had seen, from doing it in paid employment, that I could add value to businesses and independent consultants by helping them adopt smart code driven spreadsheet automation.

Today people use my custom spreadsheet software in and out of Africa (see http://www.tayosolagbade.com).

And I’ve gone a step further (since 2015) to launch a MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club – we have a private Facebook group and a WhatsApp group.

Since the club’s inception, I have run 2 LIVE workshops (but use primarily online articles, PDF tutorials, videos, audios etc) to slowly coach members, who include practising accountants (some chartered), a university professor, university undergraduates, career persons (e.g a network engineer), independent consultants, Farm CEOs etc.

All of them are paid members who joined to learn from me, how to develop and implement smart, low cost, bullet-proof Excel-VB driven spreadsheet software to solve data handling and report generation not readily or cost-effectively addressed by conventional, off-the-shelf applications.

Visit http://www.excelheaven.tayosolagbade.com to learn more.

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INVITE ME TO DELIVER THE FULL 10 COMMANDMENT SERIES AS A LIVE TALK TO YOUR GROUP/TEAM MEMBERS

This talk is based on an educational weekly email series I created exclusively for members of my Web Marketing for CEOs club.
It provides experience based ideas, tips and insights for use by any persons engaged in business, who wish to achieve low to zero cost business marketing reach and impact by leveraging the the power of PC and Internet Technology.
It is NOW available in a specially bundled MP3 Audio and PDF Book package that can be downloaded online or accessed offline on a DVD delivered to you.
Attendees of THIS LIVE talk however get instant membership of my Web Marketing for CEOs club (N50k value – includes FREE weekly coaching via Private Facebook and WhatsApp groups) + FREE download link to the ebook/audios.
Standard FEE for Talk – N100k

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Get 1 Year Web Marketing Saupport: Become a member of my Web Marketing for CEOs club

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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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PII 153 [TRUE STORIES]: Using a Web Marketing System Yields Residual Sales Leads Generation Power – Bonus Commandment No. 3 of my 10 Commandments of Web Marketing for Business Success

This issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter, doubles as BONUS COMMANDMENT No. 3 of my 10 Commandments of Web Marketing for Business Success.

In it, I explain how using Web Marketing, the way I recommend can help you establish what I call RESIDUAL SALES LEADS Generation Power that channels a valuable timeless stream of high quality sales leads into your sales funnel on a regular basis.

To illustrate what I mean, I share screenshots from my sales conversations with:

1. A UK based Nigerian Startup Farm CEO who tried to reach me on phone without success, before deciding to send me a direct email towards purchasing my Poultry Farm Manager

2. A Malawi based Farm CEO who first emailed me on 28th September 2018 but had to persist in exploring ways to send me payment for my Feed Formulation Bundle – right up till 8th February 2019 (well over 4 months) last week!

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Performance Improvement 
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(PI Squared) Newsletter

Monday 11th  January 2019

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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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View Tayo Solagbade's video tutorials and demonstrations on Facebook Productivity Tips, Web Marketing, and for his Custom MS Excel-VB driven software applicationsJoin the SD Nuggets community on Facebook.comConnect with Tayo on Twitter.comConnect with Tayo on Google PlusConnect with Tayo on LinkedIn.com

PII 153 [TRUE STORIES]: Using a Web Marketing System Yields Residual Sales Leads Generation Power – Bonus Commandment No. 3 of my 10 Commandments of Web Marketing for Business Success

This issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter, doubles as BONUS COMMANDMENT No. 3 of my 10 Commandments of Web Marketing for Business Success.

In it, I explain how using Web Marketing, the way I recommend can help you establish what I call RESIDUAL SALES LEADS Generation Power that channels a valuable timeless stream of high quality sales leads into your sales funnel on a regular basis.

Below: A Recent Web Request Form Submission by Visitor to www.tayosolagbade.com

Date: 2019-01-13|13:05:57

Name: Tunde [XXXXXXXXX]

Email: xxxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com

Business: Poultry Farm

Country: United Kingdom

Phone Number: 07xxxxxxxxx

How did you find us: internet

Subject: EXCEL-VB DRIVEN POULTRY LAYER FARM MANAGER SOFTWARE

Comment: I will like to discuss your software (EXCEL-VB DRIVEN POULTRY LAYER FARM MANAGER SOFTWARE) with you. I am looking to purchase one for my business with is going live soon. I have tried calling you Nigeria number but no luck.

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The above web contact form submission is just one of many hundreds, I have received for well over a decade, since I began using the web. And especially since 2013, when I focused my efforts on generating sales leads for solutions I offer primarily from the Internet.

That enquiry was sent in on the 13th of January. However, I did NOT see/respond to it, until the 1st of February (last week). In other words, it took me over 2 weeks to get back to him.

Definitely not an ideal way to handle sales enquiries, and for those who know me, it is very out of character. However, I had no way of knowing he had made the enquiry, because his was one of those affected by the yet-unexplained disabling of email delivery from the script handling web contact forms on tayosolagbade.com

I mentioned in a previous newsletter that this has been happening for about 4 months now, making me unaware of over 30 enquiries sent to me using my web contact forms. Only an accidental incident led to my discovery of the submissions.

I have since begun implementing the alternative system I’ve thought up, to ensure I no longer have to worry about missing enquiries like this one.

But I mention this particular gentleman’s enquiry because it shows how a smart Web Marketing System (WMS) can motivate the prospect to:

  1. actively pursue you – sometimes using multiple alternative channels for answers about how s/he can buy from you
  2. patiently wait, to get response from you about what to do and how
  3. diligently go the extra mile to make the payment using whatever options you recommend.

Let me warn here that the intention is not to present the prospective buyer as one who is begging the seller for access to the latter’s solution.

Far from it.

Indeed the exact opposite is the case, and THAT is why the prospective buyer is often willing and able to act along the lines mentioned in a, b and c above.

In other words, a Web Marketing System makes those who fit your target audience profile SEE that you offer what they consider not only a valid solution to a need they have, but also that gaining access to you and your solution would obviously be in their best interests, because it would be apparent to them that YOU are an authentically passionate solution provider who delivers what s/he promises.

All of this can be inferred from a well developed and implemented Web Marketing System, without your saying a single word to a prospective buyer of ANY solution you offer.

An even better example of how a WMS can motivate prospects, can be seen in the case of the Malawi based Farm CEO who first emailed me on 23rd September 2018 but had to persist in exploring ways to send me payment – right up till 8th February 2019 (well over 4 months) last week!

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Like many others before them, the Farm CEOs whose enquiries and conversations with me are reproduced above have experienced what it feels like, to be on the receiving end of my Web Marketing efforts.

It should be noted that the UK based Nigerian tried reaching me on phone, without success and that was why he settled for sending a web form enquiry.

Imagine therefore, if I had failed to provide a web contact form on my website?

Some people make that mistake. Others have the web contact form on their site, but it does not work.

I have used web forms for years and never let any of mine exist without functioning as they should. This new experience I’m having with non delivery of submissions to my email is one that I have studied and adopted an alternative solution to, so as to ensure I stop having delays in seeing messages sent to me.

The point I’m making therefore is that the foundation for a successful Web Marketing System is a fully functional response generating website.

Without it, you will most likely be pouring water you fetch, into a basket – to paraphrase a Yoruba saying which implies WASTING your efforts,

Having said all of the above, I now offer you the key message I want to pass on in this issue of my newsletter, which is that I have not been doing anything resembling the volume of writing I did from April 2013 to mid 2018, in a long while now.

Back then I wrote at least ONE new article daily, to promote various aspects of my multidisciplinary range of solutions. This was a well established routine that earned me great search engine visibility, generating leads/enquiries that I converted to sales.

Yet, despite the fact that I have not been doing as much active writing for marketing purposes online, as before, I have notched that enquiries have continued to come in for various solutions I offer.

If you have been following my writing over the years, you will have noticed that I share LOTS of true stories about sales conversations, and client support experiences I have quite often.

The reason I do that is to SHOW to my readers that far from being on an ego trip, with regard to what I offer online via www.tayosolagbade.com and other platforms I use, I am actually engaged in high profile money making interactions that add value to the lives of those I engage with.

This is why majority of those I relate with, both on and off the web, take me seriously. They SEE that I am the REAL DEAL, That I offer solutions that work, which I regularly, provide useful information and education about, to help them make up their minds.

Indeed, some of them found me because some other person who knew about me, but had up till then never needed to buy from me, recommended that they do so. Did you get that?

A person who has only heard of you, or followed you online, but neither met with you in the flesh or hired you him/herself,  recommends you so strongly to another person seeking a solution you offer, that the latter decides to buy from you…sometimes to the tune of over N50k!

It takes a rare kind of marketing effectiveness to get that sort of response from totals strangers. This is why I so boldly proclaim to any who will listen that a Web Marketing System, used the way I recommend is the ultimate, most cost effective and efficient marketing tool ANYONE can hope to have access to.

BUT you need to know how to use it right, to get the promised results. I offer lots of free ideas about how to do that here at tayosolagbade.com, Contact me and I will send you links you can study.

Or, better still join my Web Marketing for CEOs club and enjoy FREE coaching as I help you develop and implement a custom Web Marketing System to cost effectively and efficiently promote your brand to potential buyers/your preferred target audience.

INVITE ME TO DELIVER THE FULL 10 COMMANDMENT SERIES AS A LIVE TALK TO YOUR GROUP/TEAM MEMBERS

This talk is based on an educational weekly email series I created exclusively for members of my Web Marketing for CEOs club.
It provides experience based ideas, tips and insights for use by any persons engaged in business, who wish to achieve low to zero cost business marketing reach and impact by leveraging the the power of PC and Internet Technology.
It is NOW available in a specially bundled MP3 Audio and PDF Book package that can be downloaded online or accessed offline on a DVD delivered to you.
Attendees of THIS LIVE talk however get instant membership of my Web Marketing for CEOs club (N50k value – includes FREE weekly coaching via Private Facebook and WhatsApp groups) + FREE download link to the ebook/audios.
Standard FEE for Talk – N100k

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

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