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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).

Two Learning Resources to Educate Farm CEOs and Other Stakeholders On the Need to Adopt an Entrepreneurial Mindset

Over the years, I’ve built a large following within and outside Africa using my Cost-Saving Farm Business Support Solutions.

About a year ago, I began creating LEARNING solutions (real life and DVD based) for Farm CEOs and other stakeholders, to educate them on the need to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset to their businesses.

If you’re a decision maker for a farmers group or organization, the learning resources described below would benefit your members.

  1. Below is a link to a 1 hour talk I offer at NO CHARGE to attendees.

All they need do is get me down to the venue, and back etc.

http://tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets/one-hour-talk-speaker-one-sheet-earn-extra-income-from-your-farm-at-zero-cost-5-little-known-strategies-you-can-use/

NB: I also have a special Sales & Marketing Coaching Program (DVD) Specifically Prepared for Farm CEOs

  1. Do you have a passion for improving data handling/analysis for research and report generation – especially with MS Excel?

If YES, you may also be interested in my newly launched MS Excel Visual Basic Club and Competition

Watch the video below:

Title: Spreadsheet Automation Can Boost Your Success [What MANY African Professionals Are Missing]

URL:  http://tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets/video-3-of-9-ms-excel-heaven-visual-basic-competition-to-compete-you-must-be-a-member-of-sdacs-excel-vb-club/

(a). The club offers serious minded business users a platform to learn useful spreadsheet automation skills using MS Excel-Visual Basic.

(b). The competition provides such business users with a REAL WORLD relevant challenge that they can use to test their new skills, thereby building the confidence to deliver greater value to their employers or clients – leading to increased productivity and income.

I’m offering FREE membership to students whose learning institutions take up membership.

[I am also reaching out to sponsors to cover membership fees for them or to sponsor the competition – I have my own prize, but that’s just an extra (see details in the slideshow below)]

Click the link below to download the 9 page slideshow that offers FULL details:

http://www.tayosolagbade.com/uploads/xlhcluboffer.ppsx

Learn more about my MS Excel Heaven Solutions at http://www.excelheaven.biz or http://www.excelheaven.tayosolagbade.com

 

Go through the above, and let me know if you can put something together to benefit people at your end.

Like I said, I require NO PAYMENT. Just get me down…and back.

PII 054: Boost Your Success Achievement Using These 4 Services

This week’s issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter is a special broadcast edition that announces four (4) key Performance Improvement Solutions I offer via www.tayosolagbade.com, www.thefarmceo.net, and www.excelheaven.biz.

My achievements and reputation speak for me. I keep promises I make to EVERY client. If you want reliable expert support to Boost Your Success Achievement, consider taking up these solutions I offer!

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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 054: Boost Your Success Achievement Using These 4 Services

This week’s issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter is a special broadcast edition that announces four (4) key Performance Improvement Solutions I offer via www.tayosolagbade.com, www.thefarmceo.net, and www.excelheaven.biz.

My achievements and reputation speak for me. I keep promises I make to EVERY client. If you want reliable expert support to Boost Your Success Achievement, consider taking up these solutions I offer!

1. PUBLISH YOUR BOOK AT ZERO COST

As an expert in your field, you would greatly boost your market place credibility by writing & publishing one or more book(s) sharing your knowledge and insights about your area of expertise. There is an internationally proven way to do this AT ZERO COST. I discovered how in 2005. Today, my books can be purchased in hard copy at www.lulu.com/sdaproducts .

(NB: I also offer a book writing service. Call 234-803-302-1263 or +229-66-122-136. Visit http://tayosolagbade.com/pod-letter.html)

“Infact, there is the greater likelihood of the success of export drive involving our cultural products and talents than one involving our outstandingly shoddy manufactures and primary produce nobody wants. The only problem is : our writers and artistes have to think like business (people). They have to learn to study the international marketplace and woo it with skill & subtlety” – Sina Odugbemi (SOURCE: Article titled “Why Writers Are Poor (part 2)”. Subtitle: “A critical look at the economic status of writers in the contemporary society” – published in Newswatch magazine, January 2, 1989 page 38

2. ORDER A WEB MARKETING SYSTEM

I help clients develop and implement custom web marketing systems to make their websites get found by potential clients without their having to spend ANY money. Click the link below to view a PDF flyer (wms_talk_offer.pdf) I use to introduce and explain key benefits a Web Marketing System can deliver to its owner – IF well conceived and implemented.

http://tayosolagbade.com/uploads/wms_talk_offer.pdf

“Unless the person running your marketing is patient, it will be difficult to practice commitment. View marketing as an investment, be consistent, and make prospects confident. Patience is a guerrila virtue.” – Jay Conrad Levinson in “The 15 Secrets of Guerrilla Marketing”

3. BUILT-IN EXCEL SOLUTIONS DEVELOPMENT

Self-Development Academy’s Excel Heaven™ is the FIRST provider of Preprogrammed and Custom Spreadsheet based solutions in Nigeria. We offer Workbook Auditing/Optimisation and VBA Automation; Custom Spreadsheet Software Development; Sales; Job-Based Spreadsheet Coaching; and Consulting/Advisory Services on effective application of spreadsheets for business use.Call 234-803-302-1263. See video demos at http://www.youtube.com/user/TKSolagbadeSDAc

Visit our Excel Heaven mini-site at : http://www.excelheaven.tayosolagbade.com or http://www.excelheaven,biz

4. COST-SAVING FARM BUSINESS (BEST PRACTICE) SUPPORT SERVICES

SDAc’s Cost-Saving Farm Business Ideas mini site offers custom best practice farm management systems (and software) development at affordable rates to farm business owners in Nigeria/Africa. This is a new, unconventional, but practical approach to provision of Modern Extension Services for farm businesses in this part of the world.

I work with crop and/or livestock farmers to develop and implement intelligent decision making systems that help their farm businesses become more efficient and profitable, through low cost adaptation of technology, while building on indigenous knowledge systems.

Visit the mini-site at : http://www.iff.tayosolagbade.com

Also subscribe to Weekly Newspaper – The Farm CEO™ at www.thefarmceo.net

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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What You Need to Create a Splashscreen for Your Custom Spreadsheet Application [Part 1 of 2]

Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist

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

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

http://www.tayosolagbade.com

Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Succeed by Emerging from Adversity Like a Phoenix

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

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

A Proven Strategy to Find Profitable Buyers Regardless of Your Domain Name
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What You Need to Create a Splashscreen for Your Custom Spreadsheet Application [Part 1 of 2]

This week’s tutorial features an anatomy of the Excel-VB code and Graphic User Interface Active-X controls you can use to create professional looking Splash Screens for your custom Excel-VB apps.

As you develop increased proficiency in building custom apps for various uses, especially if you dream of launching your own range of commercial quality spreadsheet software, knowing how to add a Splash Screen to your app would go a long way to help your better impress your buyers/users.

Splash Screens provide users an interface to notify the user that the app is loading. They typically contain “an image, a logo and the current version of the software.” – and are generally visually appealing.

As soon as I learned that I could use Excel-VB code and forms/controls in the Visual Basic Editor, to create Splash Screens, I knew I would be using them for my apps.

Below are screenshots with short notes/tips about how the Splash Screen for my Excel-VB driven Poultry Farm Manager was built.

1. Double-clicking the workbook application’s file launches this Enable-Disable Macros dialog box.

The user will click “Enable Macros” for the app to continue loading. Otherwise, the code in the app will be auto-disabled, and the app will remain in the small window shown

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2. This is the Splash Screen – It appears (called by a line of code in the Workbook_Open procedure for the Workbook) after the “Enable Macros” button is clicked.

As can be seen from the code in the VBA interface of the form used to build the Splash Screen, it is set to stay visible for about 5 seconds, after which it “disappears”…

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3. This is the login screen for the app – it is loaded AFTER the Splash Screen is “killed” or “unloaded from memory”

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4. This is the Excel-VB code used to call the Splash Screen – in the “Private Sub Workbook_Open subroutine

This is the code that runs when the workbook is loaded into MS Excel, after the “Enable Macros” button is clicked. Notice the 4th line of black text below the “On Error Resume Next” entry i.e the text “ShowSplash”.

That is the name of the Excel-VB code procedure containing the instructions for loading the Splash Screen that appears after the “Enable Macros” button is clicked.

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5. This is a dialog box showing how the “ShowSplash” macro procedure is located by typing its name, so it can be opened for modification by clicking the “Edit” button.

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6. This is the Splash Screen “design” view in the Visual Basic Editor interface – In the video for Part 2 of 2, that goes LIVE next week, I will show step-by-step how to build this on a blank form control.

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Creating a Splash Screen does not require elaborate coding – or design…

The Graphic User Interface created using the form control does NOT need to be as complex as the one I created for my app.

You can simply add a few descriptive labels, for your purposes.

I have used the screenshot images shown above, to explain the thinking behind the creation of this Splash Screen, to give you insights into how you can go about creating such for your apps.

Next week I will create a step-by-step video demonstration showing how I built this app’s Splashcreen

NB: If you’re not a member of my Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club, click here to request a copy of the video.

Your Mental Attitude Can Help You Develop Street Wisdom Needed to Safely and Profitably Navigate Shark Infested Waters of Business

It’s not just about being competent in your vocation or business or whatever you plan to do. People going into business will need to develop “street wisdom” to competently interact with buyers or clients.

Otherwise they can be competent, and still struggle to get paid for their products and services!

Believe me when I say I’ve seen a lot of this happen first hand – like the true story I share below.

I once had a client whose manufacturing operation sold a excellent consumable item nationally. But his distributors routinely held him to ransom, by failing to remit money for sales of items he sent them on credit via hired trucks to Abuja!

Yet they still called and asked for more. He told me he could not say NO, because they made a lot of sales for him. I told him it was because he was NOT actively recruiting NEW distributors who could perform.

And that was the hard truth. These are not things we learn easily. It can be a painful process!

Do you know that he ended up taking a bank overdraft facility that nearly ruined him, just to cope with cash flow demands, when he had over N2million in receivables?!!

And with salaries to pay too!

So you see, he had the required technical competence to succeed, but he lack the required mental attitude to deal with the realities his business operations faced.

I like to use the phrase: “You need Street-Wisdom, NOT just Textbook Theory, to excel in the real world” – to capture my intended meaning in this regard.

Books/E-books and real life learning or coaching, that help learners get better prepared to handle such issues, will boost their ability to make successful use of any business idea they settle on.

Sadly, very little formal training “solutions” exist to confer “Street Wisdom” on those who need it: especially for persons going into business.

I have had considerable contact with MANY training providers who simply use the same approach to conduct learning events for retirees or start-ups, preparing to launch their own outfits.

When the attendees are told all the routine, recycled stuff, ONE major ingredient is often missed out.

Yet that’s the THING, that helps majority of entrepreneurs who breakthrough keep going till they do so!

That THING is what I call the “Mental Attitude Required for Success”

That THING has been found by MANY who have since succeeded in business, by reading books like  Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, as well as James R. Cook’s Start-up Entrepreneur.

Now that’s an aspect that’s grossly neglected by most people preparing to go into business for themselves.

The truth is that quite often business failures are recorded NOT because the business idea is bad, or the entrepreneur is incompetent.

Often times it’s the mental attitude resulting from a lack of access to, or adherence to a guiding philosophy.

Your adopted mental attitude will equip you to develop the needed “Street Wisdom” to safely and profitably navigate the shark infested waters of business, and indeed life in general.

Unfortunately, this is not something that most people can fully grasp at one sitting or in one learning event.

It often needs to be drummed into their heads. And they even need to READ about it in as many varied ways as possible – till they internalise it.

This is why I believe a practical coaching element, comprising this guiding philosophy, mixed with tips of business practice relevant to the entrepreneur’s needs, MUST be combined to help him/her.

I also strongly believe that’s how we can make a real difference in the lives of these people.

Otherwise, it would just be the same old stuff.

Everything I’m saying is based on over 10 years of interacting with many people in business at various levels in Nigeria

I got a unique opportunity to analyse them up close, and I saw that THAT was often missing element.

My desire to help those who are willing to learn, is what drives me to write about it, and how to do it, on this blog. It is also why I offer learning solutions to help any interested persons. An example is my Spontaneous Coaching for Mastery of Adversity(SCfMA)™ program

To Achieve Quality Success, Building Your Business Needs to be a Labour of Love [Hint: Special Valentine Celebration Offer of Two Cost-Saving Audio Podcasts for Farm CEOs]

History has shown that men and women in love, will often go to great – sometimes unimaginable – lengths for one another.

Yesterday being Valentine’s Day, we’ve had lots of talk about love – especially the romantic kind.

However, the truth is that the “love” for which Saint Valentine’s Day is celebrated is more all encompassing than that – and instead includes what we feel for, and show to all those we have cause to interact with.

For instance, love for our family members, neighbours, co-workers, fellow citizens etc. All of that qualifies for our attention during this Valentine season.

Many times I have wondered how great this world would be if people could apply up to half of the passion and energy they use to show love for the people in their lives, to the process of building their own businesses.

Most people fail to appreciate this truth, but running a successful business is similar in many respects to keeping a healthy relationship – especially with someone you love.

Just like you’d be willing to (as some love-struck persons would say) “go to the ends of the earth to please that special somebody”, so you should be willing to do whatever it takes, for as long as may be necessary, to make your business succeed.

In other words, I’m saying that the process of building a business is necessarily a labour of love.

Little wonder that it is often advised that in choosing a business to venture into, you “do something you LOVE” i.e. that which you have a passion for, and which you would do literally ANYTHING for – just like for that special Valentine.

It is line with the above theme that I therefore offer YOU today – one day after the Valentine day celebration – two of my Audio Podcast Training series via a special Time Limited Valentine “season” celebration discount promo.

The audio messages offer practical insights and experience based wisdom about best practice ways you can make more money for your farm business, at less cost, using less effort, in less time.

It is my way of showing YOU love, and helping you to shower your business (aka your other sweetheart) all the LOVE s/he deserves, so that s/he can reward you with many more profitable and long term returns.

Click here to view the one page flyer I prepared this special Valentine Day offer in, and follow the instructions to get your copies of the Audio Podcast Training files, BEFORE the expiry date/time. Contact me using this form

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Case Study – Crop Farmers Make 30% More Money Using Innovative Weather Predicting platform: Interview with Professor Oladimeji I. Oladele [Professor of Agricultural Extension]

What follows below, is a verbatim text transcript of a 3 minute video interview by CTA, with Professor Oladimeji I. Oladele [Professor of Agricultural Extension]

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In this video, Prof. Oladele explains how Crop Farmers (in Kenya and Ethiopia) recorded 30% income rise, due to increased crop yields arising from enhanced timeliness of decision making and planning for farm production, which was made possible via use of an innovative World Bank Agro-Weather Technology platform he worked on.

NB: Prof. Oladele was the 2014 most productive researcher at South Africa’s North West University 

Read the full interview narrative below…

The project I’m working on is Improving Farmers Resilience through the provision or the use of Agro-Weather tools.

It’s a project by the World Bank, sponsored by the Bank of Netherlands, and promoted by CTA.

Essentially, farmers have the problem of coping with the variation, in terms of the amount, in terms of the intensity, and the distribution of rainfall.

So, with the use of Agro-Weather tools, we are able to forecast, to know the amount of rainfall, the distribution of the rainfall, as well as the intensity of rainfall.

So this is simulated based on historical data and geo-reference data, to be able to predict what rainfall amount and intensity will be, for farmers to be able to carry out their agronomic practices and decisions within the available window of opportunity for the distribution of rainfall that is available.

This platform will simulate the climatic conditions and then release information to farmers through SMS, through Interactive Voice Response with different codes for farmers to call and get information on how to make decisions on their agronomic practices for the crops.

In Kenya, the project covered Maize, Beans, Sorghum, Coffee and Tea, whereas in Ethiopia it covered Wheat Tevs (?), Chick Peas and Lentils.

So both male and female farmers were included in the project, and then an important stakeholder, which is the input dealers are brought on board, because the information that is provided by the platform does not necessarily translate to utility.

But the farmers are monitored, and the use of the information is actually confirmed, by our ground staff monitoring the use of the advisory services that are provided.

So in this way, for every stage of production, farmers are able to take advantage of the forecast, to decide and to do what they have to do, in order not to fall outside the available rain period or the rainy days. And they are able to harness the opportunities better.

And we discovered that those who got the information were a lot better off, in terms of yield, in terms of timeliness of operations and the production. And they were able to raise their income by as much as 30%.

And also they are able to be conscious of their environment, in terms of the inputs they use, in order to keep their production very sustainable.

Click here to watch the video.

PS: By way of interest, Prof. Oladele was my co-author for the international agribusiness case sttudy paper I wrote in 2013, under the auspices of CTA.

PII 053: If Achievement of Authentic Non-Corner-Cutting Web Marketing Success Was Easy, Everyone Would Be Doing It! [Hint: What You Need to KNOW – and DO]

Forget the hype you encounter so often online. Achieving tangible, authentic and reproducible web marketing success does NOT come easy – at all.

I know this, because I’ve passed through the – long and sometimes difficult – phases required to get there. And I’ve found that there are various levels of success. What’s more, experience has also taught me that succeeding in web marketing (and indeed any other area of life) is more a journey, than a destination.

So it’s a never ending endeavour.

In my case, one powerful weapon I have successfully leveraged to achieve growing web marketing success over the years, has been the Web Marketing System I conceived several years ago.

Today, I help clients within and outside Nigeria, develop and implement their own unique WMS to promote their products and services to potential buyers at less cost, using less effort and less money, and in less time.

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Performance Improvement
IDEAS
(PI Squared) Newsletter

Monday 13th February 2017

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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 053: If Achievement of Authentic Non-Corner-Cutting Web Marketing Success Was Easy, Everyone Would Be Doing It! [Hint: What You Need to KNOW – and DO]

Forget the hype you encounter so often online. Achieving tangible, authentic and reproducible web marketing success does NOT come easy – at all.

I know this, because I’ve passed through the – long and sometimes difficult – phases required to get there. And I’ve found that there are various levels of success. What’s more, experience has also taught me that succeeding in web marketing (and indeed any other area of life) is more a journey, than a destination.

So it’s a never ending endeavour.

In my case, one powerful weapon I have successfully leveraged to achieve growing web marketing success over the years, has been the Web Marketing System I conceived several years ago.

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Today, I help clients within and outside Nigeria, develop and implement their own unique WMS to promote their products and services to potential buyers at less cost, using less effort and less money, and in less time.

Adopting a custom Web Marketing System (WMS)™ to promote solutions you offer, to your target audience will make you a member of an elite community of results – focused self-marketing business owners, who leverage this unconventional self-sustaining promotional strategy, to get high impact exposure.

Note however, that if you have been operating in a different way before now, and not had the results you wanted, then you must understand that CHANGING to this new approach is highly unlikely to yield 100% profitable returns overnight.

I can however assure you of certain immediate benefits you can harvest IF you begin to use your WMS™ the way I recommend:

  1. You WILL record a significant – and measurable -drop in time, effort, resources and money you expend in promoting your business.
  2. You WILL also be able to more accurately correlate your marketing expenditure to your client conversion.

By way of interest, a parameter you WILL find it useful to periodically measure is your Cost of Customer Acquisition (COCA) – to ensure you recruit new clients/customers as cost-effectively as possible.

Let me emphasize at this point, that if you want to get the best value from your investment in your WMS™, you need to (if possible printout and) read;

(a) Michel Fortin’s 10 commandments E-book and

(b) Burt Dubin’s Articles on speaking/marketing

I will add that it would serve you well to re-read them, many times over – especially when you need new ideas.

I recommend, in addition, that you also conduct online searches for useful write-ups by other competent authors, to generate new ideas you can try out over time.

In essence I’m saying that your learning must never stop. Indeed you will need to be perpetually hungry for new perspectives you can use to make your marketing more effective.

This is because business marketing is about communication – ultimately.

The quality of useful information and education you offer people who fit your target audience profile, will draw them to you even when you don’t use paid adverts.

The above is a TRUTH that is known by the world’s top marketers – including the 2 gentlemen I’ve recommended i.e. Burt Dubin and Michel Fortin.

What I do today for clients is based on ideas and strategies I developed by studying their works (and those of many others I took time to read up) towards achieving my own business marketing purpose

Today, the web marketing success I enjoy, attracting mostly zero cost sales leads/enquiries from potential buyers within and outside Africa confirms that the ideas I picked up – and adapted creatively for my use – really do work!

That’s why I strongly recommend to all my clients that they FIRST of all develop familiarity with the original concepts, principles, ideas and strategies – by READING what seasoned experts have to say in their written works.

You see, it is when you have done that to a point that I will be able to more effectively add value by working with you to adapt their ideas, to suit whatever unique perspective you have to operate from.

I will bring to bear, over a decade of experience failing miserably repeatedly, in doing the above, having to re-visit and refine my approach, until finally, I found a way to make it work, to achieve financially rewarding returns in my business.

The advantage you will get, from working with me to develop your own unique WMS, is the benefit of my experience based insights.

This will equip me to help you get your WMS up and running faster, minimizing the trial and error involved in the process of evolving what works for you!

“Many people make the mistake of thinking marketing is about selling. The truth is that it is NO (especially when done online i.e. Web Marketing). Marketing is about getting noticed and building credibility in the minds of potential buyers, until they are convinced enough to take buying action which then leads to the sale.” – Tayo K. Solagbade

The point made in the above quote explains why many top marketers/salespeople worldwide agree that in order to make a sale; you FIRST have to make a friend i.e.  ‘making friends’ who eventually ‘buy’ from you to become your clients or customers.

Study the Mind Map of a WMS

Click http://tayosolagbade.com/uploads/wms-mindmap-writers.pdf to view the mind map I created to illustrate the key components of a WMS.

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.

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Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist

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

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

http://www.tayosolagbade.com

Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Succeed by Emerging from Adversity Like a Phoenix

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

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

A Proven Strategy to Find Profitable Buyers Regardless of Your Domain Name
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2016 Excel-Visual Basic Automation Club Home Study Tutorial Archives DVD [COMING SOON]

It feels just like yesterday, that I hosted the Maiden Edition of my FREE Monthly Workshop for members of my MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club on Sat 19th March 2016 in Lagos-Nigeria.

Since then I have diligently churned out weekly Videos, Workbooks and Articles on various aspects of basic Excel-VB programming with a focus on work related experiences of members.

To celebrate the first year anniversary of the launch of this Excel-VB Automation learning event, I’m compiling ALL the content for the various tutorials, into a special branded DVD (screenshots below)

1. Autorun display image for the DVD menu

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2. Branded label for the autorun DVD itself

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It will be made available to members as they renew their individual club memberships for another year.

This DVD is useful because I know it can be difficult to keep track of stuff that one downloads and studies over time, via the web. This archives DVD enables you access all that useful information on ONE location, for study at your convenience, without needing to incur expenses accessing the web etc.

Click here to request details of how you can get YOUR copy.

Read PII 006: Succeed by Becoming an Expert at Solving Real World Problems [Hint: Highlights from Maiden Edition of Tayo Solagbade’s FREE Monthly Workshop for his MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club Members Held on Sat 19th March 2016 in Lagos-Nigeria]