Career Development
True Story Real Life (Phone SMS) Sales Conversation with a Farm CEO client
September 17, 2016









I've written several articles in the past about the powerful sales boosting advantage of building a client and prospects/potential buyers contacts database/mailing list. You can over time grow and nurture, then ultimately MINE it for "gold" i.e form or money from sales you make to buyers on it! This is what I do, and I […]







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To Succeed, You Need to be a Problem Solver [True Story: Real Life Problem Solving Email Conversation With New Buyer of my Excel-VB Ration Formulator App]
September 17, 2016









Finding buyers for your products/services can be hard, but what is even harder is GETTING and KEEPING those buyers satisfied, so they do NOT feel what is called "buyer's remorse" and demand their money back, or refuse to give you repeat business. Having said the above, let's be clear about one thing though: You CANNOT […]







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[Recommended] Download The Secret to Winning at Life & Investing [Why I’m Giving You a No Cost 10 Minute eBook] - by Robert Kiyosaki
September 15, 2016









The reason I started Rich Dad was to be an educator. To develop a way for people like you to learn about finances since it wasn’t being taught in school. When I was young, my poor dad wanted me to go to a good college and get a good job. To him, that was the […]







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Protected: You Don't Need a Computer Degree to Make Money from Spreadsheet Programming
August 28, 2016

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Why Today’s Extension Specialists/Farm Business Support Providers Need Spreadsheet Automation Skills to Succeed Better!
August 25, 2016









As a self-taught Excel-Visual Basic (VB) Solutions Developer, I've (over the past 2 decades) evolved my own unique approach to using my Spreadsheet Programming skills. And I realize others who work in the Excel-VB programming industry, especially outside Africa, who are used to the traditional approach adopted by a large majority of developers may find […]







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PII 028 [Case Study]: Using Excel-VB Automation for Smart Hospital Records Management (Featuring: A Custom app built for a Lagos based Medical Clinic)
August 22, 2016









This week's Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter features an article from my archives. It discusses one of several scenarios for potential application of custom Excel-VB programming as a low cost, user-friendly means to effective and efficient data handling and report generation in Patients Records Management for Hospitals/Clinics or Medical Centres. At the end, I append […]







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Protect Yourself from Macro Viruses [Potential Dangers of Enabling Macros in Excel-VB Workbooks From Unfamiliar Sources]
August 22, 2016









[This article was sent to members of my Excel-VB Club earlier today, and published here without password protection so interested others can benefit] In introducing you to Excel-VB Programming, over the past weeks, I've demonstrated (using screenshot images and video tutorials) the important steps regarding How-To "Enable Macro" code in a workbook to run in […]







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How I Built a Bank Transactions Monitor (BTM) ™Excel-VB Driven App as a Gift for a Client in 2006 [Another Example of Real Life Problem Solving with Excel-VB]
August 18, 2016









The app show in the screenshots below is called the Bank Transactions Monitor (BTM) ™. I built it in November 2006, for the Head of Accounts in a Medium Sized Lagos based hotel client. Above: The Login Screen The hotel's MD had hired me, on the recommendation of the company's audit consultant, to build a […]







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PII 027: Make Money Selling Spreadsheet Workbooks You Use
August 15, 2016









The key to making money is finding a solution to problems that others around us are prepared to pay us profitably for. If you know how to go about it, you CAN make good money selling the Workbooks you build for use in your work as a business user of MS Excel, or indeed any […]







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PII 026: You Can be Competent Yet Lack Confidence!
August 8, 2016









To boost your chances of making sales, you need to have sales conversations as often as possible. And that requires creating systems to generate a regular stream of sales leads/prospects. I learnt that truth the hard way, and today, I apply that learning with diligence. My ability to succeed in making sales in spite of […]







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