Last Wednesday (25th May 2016), I had a 1 hour meeting with the CEO and other team members of an ICAN/ATS tuition centre in Ojodu-Lagos, and they indicated interest in having me facilitate 2 runs of my workshop for their students.
The title is to be: Build & Sell Your Own Excel Software [Introduction to Excel-VB Automation]
They asked about the fees and I explained that the centre simply needs to pay the $65 USD annual membership fee and that will entitle all students enrolled with them to access my online tutorials and workshops FREE (but once a student is no longer enrolled in the centre s/he will not be allowed access and wiil have to join the club by making payment independently, if s/he wishes to continue).
This afternoon I sent them the PDF invoice, since the CEO had told me they would like it to hold in the first 2 or 3 weekends in June.
If/when they pay the club membership, I’ll send invitations to all my existing club members, to attend, if they’re interested.
But you don’t have to be an accountant or a student in an ICAN/ATS Tuition Centre to access my ExcelVB club or workshop
Of course you don’t. And that’s why I’m writing this blog announcement.
The truth is every serious minded user of MS Excel who wishes to maximise his/her productivity NEEDS to learn how to use ExcelVB programming to automate most of what s/he does in MS Excel.
Now, there’s a wrong mindset many business users seem to adopt when they hear me say “MS Excel Programming”.
Quite often they conclude they will need some kind of serious formal IT certification level training as a prerequsite for automating their work in MS Excel.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
You see VIsual Basic for Application is a programming language developed mainly for use by USERS who want to intelligently use automation to boost their output to the next level of productivity.
In essence ExcelVB is a coding language you and I (I.e ANY motivated user) can learn to use to get Excel to do what we want and how we want it.
As with most other things in life, ExcelVB programming cannot be mastered overnight.
But it is fairly intuitive, and with diligent persistence any user can develop proficiency in it, to extent that s/he can build and sell branded, robust custom software for clients at various levels.
How can I be so sure?
Well that’s because I’ve been building commercial quality spreadsheet software for over 2 decades for business users in various fields, and industries.
I did it for over 5 of the 7 years I worked in Guinness Nigeria, where at a point I learned through the corporate grapevine that I was being called “Super Brewer” by colleagues.
This was probably due to the fact that they knew:
1. the apps I developed were formally adopted for brewery level reporting, having replaced manual reporting systems in the departments I worked.
2. I did all that work in my spare time, when I was off duty from shifts or after close of work (after I got promoted to 9 to 5 senior positions)
3. I did not have any IT training or background in programming or software development. All I hold till this day is a 2nd Class Upper Division Honours B.Sc degree in Agricultural Extension Services
As you can see from the above, I began just like any other person who knew nothing about IT, but had a data handling and report generating PROBLEM that badly needed solving!
If I could develop myself through self-study to the point that I now sell my apps to international buyers, then so can you.
And that’s why I launched my ExcelVB club and offer membership to you, including free weekly tutorials (downloadable videos/PDFs) and monthly LIVE workshops.
Interested? Click here to send me a message?
If you run a tuition centre, do your students a favour and signup your centre so they can all get FREE access.
Indeed you will be able to attract more student enrollments by informing them that they’ll gain FREE access to the club tutorial through your centre!
Call me on +234-803-302-1263 or +229-66-122-136 for details.