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An Indigenous African Church Leader Who Makes World Class Talking Automobiles (Incl. Engines!) From Scratch, Using Local Materials in Ghana: Meet Apostle Dr. Kwadwo Safo

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I’ve been studying and researching him for some time now and have downloaded articles, videos and audios by reporters from BBC, Al Jazeera, AFP, CNN etc, based on visits they made to his facility in Ghana, to see his amazing locally made talking SUVs and other tech products like TVs that go off when you clap, and doors that speak when you knock and open ONLY if someone is in.

Over 2 decades ago, Ghana’s Apostle Dr. Kwadwo Safo began producing hand-built SUVs made using over 80% locally fabricated parts, including branded engine blocks molded in his foundry, using an ingenious process involving crushed palm kernel shells. Today, his Made-in-Ghana cars are gaining international attention.

kantanka-engine

Image credit/source: http://africarm.org/an-insight-into-the-world-of-kantanka-automobiles-the-history-present-and-the-future-2824/

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Above: Apostle Dr. Safo (Photo credit: http://africarm.org/november-edition-vnovember-edition-apostle-dr-kwadwo-safo-the-hero-of-our-time-ideos-and-pictures-of-some-kantanka-products-1374/the-hope-of-africa/)

Click here to see search results done today, on Google.com using the string “Kantanka motors”

A true Man Of God!

The best thing about this man is that he continues to train thousands of Ghanaian youths in his hands-on training school, regardless of their religious beliefs or preference.

Note also that this Apostle’s church, with branches across Ghana is 100% indigenous and self funding via a chain of businesses from which he finances the motor manufacturing arm, and also give out scholarships and free homes to citizens in need.

Would you believe the dashboard, bumpers and other parts of the cars he and his team build are made from locally crafted wood and formica with superb finishing that mimics plastic used in imported cars but is much much cheaper?

In fact only the tires (and I think the radiators) used in his cars are imported. When he began years ago, he worked with a small team over 6 months to build one single SUV by hand.

I have watched one of the training videos. It is amazing.

If Nigeria’s Innoson – which mostly assembles imported cars – can adopt a similar strategy, he won’t be affected by lack of government patronage.

Apostle Safo was ignored by Government and private sector investors in his country for decades. Only in the last 3 years or so has he begun to get major attention from them.

Before then he refused to be discouraged and simply channeled funds from his multiple businesses into the car making.

Note that he does not hold a university degree in engineering!

Today, his son who is a licensed pilot runs the company and is now leading a move to export their unique range of cars, which now enjoy patronage from local celebrities and others.

Below: Links to the videos and audio interviews I found on the web in my search late last year (2015)

http://africarm.org/an-insight-into-the-world-of-kantanka-automobiles-the-history-present-and-the-future-2824/

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/08/ghana-talented-but-ignored-inventors-2014823191921173432.html

http://www.hulkshare.com/africarmorg/bbc-and-apostle-safo (BBC World Report – Audio Podcast)

http://africarm.org/apostle-dr-kwadwo-safo-creativity-184/

http://africarm.org/report-by-aljazeera-after-their-visit-to-apostle-dr-kwadwo-safo-in-ghana-2630/

http://www.ghbase.com/get-ready-kantanka-care-series-hit-roads-soon/

http://africarm.org/bbc-overwhelmed-by-apostle-dr-safos-creativity-348/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9D9bD_DX5k&feature=player_embedded&list=PLgGkzD1gCVOg4hXEHCD15ZMGVxf6paQHQ (Kantanka Inventions exhibitions)

It’s amazing that Nigerians and Africans are not celebrating this guy, and sending people to learn from him!!!

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Handle Your Problems Without Drama!

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One Yoruba saying I really LOVE goes thus:

Gbogbo alangba lo da inu de ile. A ko mo eyi ti inu nrun.

Literal Translation:
Since all lizards go around with their stomachs on the ground, we cannot tell which one is suffering from stomach trouble.

Contextual Translation:
The fact that others are not screaming to your hearing about the challenges they are facing in their lives does NOT mean they have none. So stop thinking you are the only one with problems and that others are better off, or have no clue what you’re going through.

Quite often there will be some who not only know what you’re feeling, because they’ve been down that road before…

However even those persons may actually – at that point in time- be going through an even worse experience, but have TRAINED themselves to take it in their stride, and use it as a stepping stone to achieve their goal.

These thoughts often come to my mind every time I come across people who readily complain about their inability to have one or more things they want in life, and who choose to moan and complain about how unfair life is, INSTEAD of devoting intelligent, creative effort t think up viable ways to turn their circumstances around while seeking help from the Creator via prayer.

It has been my experience that those who complain in this manner the most, are often people who are actually situated in socioeconomic environments that afford them MUCH greater access to multiple comforts, conveniences and benefits.

In other words, these people are often living in more conducive circumstances compared to others who are NOT complaining.

I argue, and historical evidence abounds to back it up, that for every bad experience YOU find yourself having, someone out there will have gone through, or is currently going through something that is MUCH worse.

The fact that you may not be aware of it is no justification for you to assume it is not happening. Indeed, as I mentioned above, it could be happening to someone around you, that you see everyday, but s/he may choose to deal silently – and courageously – with it, instead of falling apart and burdening everyone around with the problem.

That is not to say one should not ask for help or support, or seek outlets for venting. That can be therapeutically beneficial at times.

What I am however against is adopting the disposition of a victim or trying to make yourself look like you’re suffering more than you should.

Like I always tell people I coach, you will NEVER be presented with a challenge in your life that will be beyond your ability to overcome it. All you need to do is harden your resolve and focus on finding a viable solution to the problem. That mind set will NEVER fail you.

But while you’re passing through that phase, the whole world need NOT know about it. They have their own problems to worry about – and to be honest, no one is likely to give you an award or pat on the back for knowing how to moan and complain about how badly life is treating you.

So, get real: Take a cue from the lizards mentioned in the Yoruba quote I began this piece with.

Choose to be discrete about how you share information about whatever you think your pains or difficulties are. You are better off working to eliminate them and THEN offering to share HOW you did it with others who may be facing similar issues.

That way you add VALUE to the world: which will make people want to have you around. No one wants a complainer for a friend. They may not say it, but they most certainly THINK IT!

I’ll end this piece by sharing a quote from Jim Rohn, which perfectly captures the mind set I always adopt in dealing with adversity, and which I recommend anyone one who wants to become UNSTOPPABLE adopt as well:

“Learn to hide your need from the world and show your skill.” – Jim Rohn

Simple and easy to remember isn’t it?

Yeah…but it is sooooo tough to apply.

Yet those who master the DOING of it end up with the uncanny ability of being UNSTOPPABLE.

That’s what I AM….

What will YOU be???

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CEO Spotlight Interview VIDEO: With Efe Ohwofasa, UK Based Nigerian born Speaker, Biz Coach & Consultant

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Watch the video version of the 3rd edition of Tayo Solagbade’s CEO Spotlight Interview Series below

 

Click here to download the full PDF version which contains the text based version of the interview.

 

Click the link/image below to download the PDF version of my interview with Efe. I’m sure you’ll find it useful reading.

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You Need an Experience Sharing Habit to Succeed More…in Career, as a Parent & in Life!

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In this article, I explain what drives me to keep using my writing to share my experience based knowledge, ideas and insights on various areas of life, and why doing the same thing can help you succeed in your chosen occupation, as well as in parenting your kids!

It is my vision to be the best father possible to my kids, so that I can spare them needless pains of self-discovery I have had to suffer, and
endure, in arriving/evolving my adulthood.

A lot of what I do in coaching young people, and my kids, is greatly
influenced by the knowledge and memory of the pains visited on me because I got VERY little in form of proactive preparation for the REAL WORLD of the society into which I was born…until it was almost too late.

Instead I’d been trained to focus of developing my academic genius almost
without regard for my other abilities and with little or no effort being
made by those who raised me to ALERT me to the shocking contradictions extant in Nigerian society.

Now, I’m not trying to blame anyone, but like I’ve told relevant persons, I am determined to make sure I do a MUCH better job of preparing my kids to face the REAL WORLD…

And when they do begin their journey, I intend to be THERE, always ready to give them the needed support without making them dependent on me, until they can carry on by themselves.

In the recent photos taken during our 2016 Lagos Bar Beach New Year celebration outing, five of my kids appear I.e 2 girls (6 and 9 years old respectively), and 3 boys (the 2 older ones are
12 and 14 years old respectively…while the little man will clock 2 years in
April). Click here to see the photos in the article I wrote.

It is instructive to note, that one child – the eldest in fact – is missing from the photos.

In other words the kids are 6 in total. He is my first son – Fela, and is 16 years old.

He did not go on that outing with us because he had to join his mother to take one of the Cockerels sent to me by a client, as a gift to his maternal grandmother.

Click the link below to see the 2016 Calendar I sent out as a GIFT to all my newsletter subscribers in December.

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On pages 4 and 8 of the calendar, you’ll see Fela, in a pose with the others – excepting the little man (Tayo Solagbade Junior).

These kids are the ones who inspire me on the home front, to do what I do the way I do it, especially with regard to my Best Practice Parenting Advocacy.

Going further, and by way of interest, the above mentioned 2016 Calendar features a quote by Burt Dubin, which I put there as a reminder of how far I’ve come in my journey to success as an entrepreneur.

You see, just like I am passionately driven to be the best father I can be to my kids, I also remain unequivocally committed to making the most of myself vocationally and professionally.

In this regard, I have found Burt Dubin’s work to be of especially great value to my socio-psychological development towards achievement of my valued goals.

Like I’ve told Burt many times, his words/writings have inspired me for over a decade: Since way back in 2000, when I discovered him – and his famous Speaking Success System – via a series of classified ads in Michael Angier’s Success Digest newsletter!

Many MANY times, over the years, I’ve re-read Burt’s words to keep myself motivated to continue despite the delays and setbacks I suffered in trying to achieve my goals.

For instance, when I relocated to Benin Republic on 1st April 2013, I used a quote I found in one of Burt’s write-ups, to stay focused on my goal, by putting up an image version of it on my website then hosted on my spontaneousdevelopment.com domain (which later became defunct at 9 years, in 2014).

That same quote is the one I’ve put up on the cover of the above linked calendar.

The inspiration I’ve derived from reading the works of accomplished experts like Burt Dubin, Napoleon Hill, Zig Ziglar, Les Brown, Robert Kiyosaki, Wole Soyinka and Jim Rohn, is what encourages me to keep doing my own writing, sharing my own ideas and stories, in the
hope that they might serve as useful and timely inspiration for some other person(s) when they need it.

I hope that what I’ve written here will make you give serious consideration to sharing your own ideas and stories for others – includind your kids – to learn from.

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No. 227: CEO Spotlight Interview With Efe Ohwofasa, UK Based Nigerian born Professional Speaker, Business Growth Coach and Marketing Consultant [FREE PDF – VIDEO COMING SOON]

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In the second issue of this interview series, my guest was Burt Dubin, US based veteran mentor of some of the world’s highest paid speakers.

One of the points I noted in the introductory notes was that despite that fact that he is 91 years old, he remains as active as ever, especially as a mentor to speakers. In that regard, I pointed out that Efe Ohwofasa was/is being mentored by Burt Dubin himself!

Efe Ohwofasa is a UK Based Nigerian born Professional Speaker, Business Growth Coach and Marketing Consultant with an amazing rag to riches story.

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1 of 2: PUBLIC SPEAKING – CEO Spotlight Interview With Efe Ohwofasa, UK Based Nigerian born Professional Speaker, Business Growth Coach and Marketing Consultant [FREE PDF – VIDEO NOW LIVE – CLICK HERE]

In the second issue of this interview series, my guest was Burt Dubin, US based veteran mentor of some of the world’s highest paid speakers.

One of the points I noted in the introductory notes was that despite that fact that he is 91 years old, he remains as active as ever, especially as a mentor to speakers. In that regard, I pointed out that Efe Ohwofasa was/is being mentored by Burt Dubin himself!

Efe Ohwofasa is a UK Based Nigerian born Professional Speaker, Business Growth Coach and Marketing Consultant with an amazing rag to riches story.

Recently, in November 2015, Efe hosted UK based CEOs and Independent Consultants to a business seminar sponsored by Bournemouth Chamber of Trade & Commerce (1st of its kind in its over 100 year history).

For a guy whose journey in life began with the daily routine of hawking groceries for daily survival on the streets back home in his native Nigeria, this is no mean achievement!
He has indeed come a long way, and it goes without saying that is it NO ACCIDENT that he’s gotten where he is today.

Little wonder that Efe enjoys the recognition, admiration and respect of CEOs and business decision makers within and outside the UK, who depend on him to help the develop and implement strategues to achieve their valued goals in life.

Efe is my 3rd CEO Spotlight Interview Guest…and like I mentioned earlier, it so happens that he is currently undergoing mentoring with Burt Dubin.

Click below to read a recent piece I did on Efe:

No. 218: Meet a Nigerian Expert Who Speaks to – and Coaches – British CEOs to Succeed

Click the link/image below to download the PDF version of my interview with Efe. I’m sure you’ll find it useful reading.

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 New posts from last week that may interest you! *
Public Speaking[Monday]:
No. 226: Products and Services Bartering Can Make You More Money! [True Stories & Research Proof – from Harvard & Others]

[Tuesday]:
You Need to Create an Environment That Enables People to Pay Taxes [An Open Letter to Goverments]
[Wednesday]:
Boost Your Biz Marketing With Auto-Run CDROM Promos & Branded VB-Driven Power Point Presentations
[Thursday]:

THE FARM CEO (Issue 31): How ICT can help small-scale farmers, AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY FOR SMALL FARMERS IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA, Empowering farmers through mobile communication in west Africa, How Low-Tech Farming Innovation Can Make African Farmers Climate-Resilient, Farmer Organizations Work Better with ICT
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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 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 DevelopmentManager, 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 computerise 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.

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 his Weekly Public Speaking IDEAS

newsletter(which he uses to promote Burt Dubin’s Public Speaking Mentoring service to experts working across the African

continent).

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

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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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Forget the Gloomy Economic Predictions! Your Success is 99% Within YOUR Control

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[NB: This is a transcript of my New Year audio message]

This is Tayo Solagbade, and I want to challenge your thoughts a bit in this short audio clip I’m doing, with regard to the issue of jobs availability, unemployment locally in Nigeria, in Africa, and loss of jobs by people who are Africans based abroad in diaspora, and who are being probably sent home, losing their jobs and having to return home after decades working overseas.

And the fact that they were told "Oh because there are no jobs" so there’s nothing esle to keep them there, and they have to return home, because those economies in Europe and America can no longer support them, and are trying to provide for their own citizens – the native citizens…

All of those theories…that’s why I’m doing this audio:

I want to pass a message to the individual who fits any of those descriptions…

Maybe you’re somebody locally in Nigeria or Africa who cannot find a job, lost your job, are looking for a new job, or a better job…

Or you’re somebody who has been abroad, and you’ve lost your job, cannot find a job, are looking for a job…

Wherever you may be operating from or may have been operating from, I just want to tell you something:

The truth of the matter is that what your experiences and circumstances turn out to be in life, will be 99% within your contol!

I am not God – of course! – and I am NOT a magician.

But I am telling you this because it is the way I have lived my life, and I’ve seen the results every day: My life is a miracle, and my life is proof that the Creator will reward those who put in the effort to make themselves better, with faith and persistence.

So I want to tell you, that no matter what anybody is writing in the papers, on the Internet, or saying on radio or TV, the truth is that YOU are the master of the ship of YOUR life!

This is NOT a motivational talk. I am going to give you specific ideas you should take and apply in your life, if you know you don’t want to be one of those sorry statistics they’re gonna reel out at the end of the year saying "Oh it was a rough and tough year for people".

The truth of the matter is this: Because you are a child of God, YOU and WEALTH have an affinity for each other.

Understand that unless you do not have faith in YOUR Creator, that is the only reason you will accept that there is going to be a gloomy year: "Er this year is going to be a gloomy year, because of the lack of oil…"

All of that is just "story". It does NOT apply to everybody. It applies to those who accept it as their reality.

If you don’t accept it as your reality, and you take ACTION to make it NOT be your reality, it will NOT be your reality.

Now specifically, what I wanna tell you is this:

You need skills – and you need to acquire and develop skills that the market in which you are going to function – or the market you want to target – will appreciate enough to pay you profitably for.

If you are NOT willing to do that, then FORGET about dealing with hard times or winning in hard times or overcoming hard times.

You must be willing to adapt by acquiring and developing skills, knowledge and attitudes that will help you flourish and overcome any adversity or changes in your fortunes that may occur…

Because life is NOT a straight line graph. Life is not a bed of roses. We know this and yet we behave as if we expect it to be like that.

You cannot say you want to be successful, in spite of fluctuations in fortunes of societies and people around you, and then you still sit around doing what you were doing last year, 2 years ago.

You have to be willing to study trends, anticipate changes, and adjust yourself accordingly to make the most of waves that are going to come your way – or get thrown your way by life.

So skills are the key to your survival.

When I talk about skills (I mean) skills in any area of endeavour whatsoever. Whatever your talents, whatever your abilities are, you need to be able to identify skills that are marketable, that can make people pay you money to apply those skills for them – to their benefit.

Okay?

If you’re able to do that, you will never have a problem. Yes there will be ups and downs, but you will always have the answer.

You will always know that all you need to do is to apply yourself, make changes to your strategy, and still apply yourself again, and you will get the results you want.

I’m gonna give you a specific example.

For Africans in particular…as a matter of fact, for anybody anywhere in the world, the truth of the matter is that the Internet, PC and Internet technology, in conjunction with the use of smart phone technology and all of that – all the telecoms resources that we have today, that make this world such a rapidly changing marketplace.

If you can find a way to link what you do to the use of PC and Internet resources, you are going to succeed no matter the area of endeavour you are in.

It’s just going to be a matter of you using your creativity.

Specifically, if you can find a way to help people solve problems they have in:

a. the use of PC and Internet technology

b. the use of PC and Internet technology to achieve their offline goals.

If you can do one of those 2 things, you will not have a problem finding income that you need to live well, even in the hardest of times.

If you’re somebody that is creative, then you can develop solutions that are digital that people can buy from you, and that has nothing to do with what you studied. It has nothing to do with whether or not you’re in paid employment. You can do this at night, and resume at work by 8 and still do it when you get home at night again.

This is the thing. You need to stop thinking conventional. You’ve got to be able to think outside the box – in fact just get rid of the box completely!

If you’re unwilling to do this, then expect your road to be rough in 2016 and beyond.

But if you’re willing to think the way I’m talking about, then I assure you nobody can stop you from growing your brand, no matter what area of endeavour you’re in.

And you will always find yourself thanking God, living a life that is glorifying to him, because people will be asking you: "What is your secret?"

Because even when people are complaining, you will not be complaining , you will be giving thanks. You will be expressing gratitude.

So, don’t let anybody tell you that there is one gloomy prediction that is going to apply to you. It is a decision you can take. You have the power in your hand to decide how your future will be – with faith in God, and with the willingness to apply yourself with persistence.

If you do these things I describe in this audio, or those that you find when you check out my website – www.tayosolagbade.com – your story will be different from others.

To get a copy of the MP3 recording from which this transcript was made, click here to send me a web form request.

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Boost Your Biz Marketing With Auto-Run CDROM Promos & Branded VB-Driven Power Point Presentations

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Over the years, in a bid to increase the effectiveness of my business marketing, while lowering the expenses I incur in the process, I have explored the use of a variety of what I consider relatively under-utilised media.

Even though I cannot say that I have achieved massive success through their use, the fact is that they have significantly facilitated my ability to demonstrate to prospective clients/customers, what I can do for them.

It has always been my thinking that WE are the ones who must routinely CREATIVELY explore NEW and better ways to make use of our constantly improving technologies – such as the PC, the software that run in them, the Internet etc.

Below, I share my ideas about how you can make use of (1) Custom Auto-Run CDROM Presentations and (2) Branded VBA-Automated Microsoft Power Point Presentations to achieve improved business marketing impact.

1. Custom Auto-Run CDROM Presentations

I actively promote the use of auto-run CDROMs as an offline complement to other business /organisational marketing resources. Not all of your target audience will have access (or time) to visit your site online. Nor will they all see your paper, TV and Radio adverts.

But a professionally created automated CDROM presentation gives you a low cost but highly reliable alternative means of delivering your message to your prospects, clients/customers. Think of it as your Marketing Manager everywhere you cannot be.

Not only does it let you say more(via audio-video input) into over 600MB of CDROM storage space, it also enables you do so in a way that increases the impact of your branding(e.g. custom CDROM labels to match your website design).

Auto-run CDROM presentations are a low-cost one-time expense BUT deliver long-term useful shelf-life value. This is especially true when you consider that they can be mass-duplicated very cheaply.

Below: Photograph of my Audio DVD Information Product titled “Proven Ways to Generate Useful Passive Income” (sitting on my copy of Robert Kiyosaki’s “Why ‘A’ Students Work for ‘C’ Students, and ‘B’ Students Work for the Government”)

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Why would anyone want to make a Power Point template and/or presentation for the organisation s/he runs?

One key justification is often the need to stand out from the crowd or to be easily recognisable. You may also wish to communicate a unique style, or simply avoid being confused with others.

For instance, let’s say you’re invited to speak at the same event with other decision makers from different departments, organisations etc.

More or less everyone has access to MS Power Point, and most are likely to use the templates/features pre-installed with the application.

And THAT is the problem.

It would be nearly impossible to create a presentation unique enough to impress your knowledgeable audience.

You can create custom graphic designs and use them to produce unique templates for your presentations, PLUS incorporate advanced automation using Visual Basic Macros built into Active-X Controls.

The result will be a fully customised/VBA-automated presentation 100% unique to you.

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Where Do You Want Your Business To Be FIVE Years From Now? (Progress Evaluation Checklist)

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*This article was first published online, via Spontaneousdevelopment.com (now defunct) on April 04, 2006

“In the race for excellence, there is no finish line” – Malcolm Baldrige

In a past edition of Philip Humbert’s(http://www.philiphumbert.com) TIPs newsletter, he wrote that persons building their businesses should always strive to make the systems they setup sustainable.

Sustainability, he explained, is what will ensure a business started up today can endure weeks, months or years of struggles till it eventually becomes what many(who are often unaware of the prolonged periods of struggle endured) call an “over-night-sensation”.

Philip’s expressed insight captures the essence of this article. Many times we think only about what we need to do to overcome the challenges of starting up a business.

We fail to think of what will be needed to successfully keep it going – profitably – for as long as we want it(or should I say “forever” i.e. long after we’ve passed on like Ford, Carnegie etc?).

If it was not for the use of Best Practice/Continuous Improvement Systems they developed in order to achieve sustainability, many Japanese companies would not be as efficient as they are known to be today.

Robert Kiyosaki once wrote that these sustainable systems keep many Japanese companies running on low operating expenses while achieving optimal efficiency in production.

They are consequently able to sell higher performance products at lower prices, thereby attracting more paying consumers – and increasing their retained profits.

“The world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going” – Abe Lincoln

It is important that you make it easy for yourself to stay on track towards achieving your business purpose. I once read somewhere that success is the never ending pursuit of perfection or excellence.

Stop and think for a minute about many successful businesses that you know have been around for as long as you can remember – IBM, General Electric, Ford, BMW, Mercedes. There is hardly anyone of them that has not gone through some evolution over the years from when it started till today.

Decision makers running these companies have to ensure they keep looking for cheaper and more effective ways of making the companies succeed. And in doing this, they would need to be able to accurately relate every action they take to the results they get, so as to competently decide on the best way(or combination of ways) to proceed. How well each company does this, determines how successful, and relevant it remains over the years.

The same requirement for big companies just described applies to small ones – and even individuals.

One tool I personally use for meeting this requirement – and which I believe others could find useful, even if with modifications – is the Action Plan/Progress Evaluation Checklist.

It can help you stay focussed towards achieving your set objective(s), and at the same time ensure you can review your achieved progress to determine modifications/changes you may need to make to your plan(s), in order to continue towards your purpose.

You can download an Acrobat PDF copy of my personal “Action Plan/Progress Evaluation Checklist Template”, from my website – TayoSolagbade.com.

Below, I provide steps you can follow in using it, should you be so inclined:

1. Use a spreadsheet to produce a blank editable version of the PDF document. (You can make any changes you want to the headings to meet your peculiar needs).

2. Decide on your Purpose/Goal – type it in the space provided on the blank checklist. IMPORTANT NOTE: You need to be certain about what you write here. If you are not sure how to accurately decide what your Purpose/Goal should be, read “The First Way – DEVELOP A MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION” in my article “Ten Ways You Can Use Self-Development To Create The Future You Want”.

3. Under the “Year” column, enter the year in which each sub-Goal(see 4. below) is to be achieved. Try making entries according to the order in which each sub-goal is to be tackled relative to others.

4. On a piece of paper, list the specific key tasks/actions you will need to take in order to achieve your purpose or goal. These would be your sub-goals or mini-goals.

5. Next, you will number/type each Sub-Goal from 4. above under the “Sub-Goals” column in the checklist table, leaving a few rows between it and the next. This is necessary to allow for entry of description details for each sub-goal. (Note that you can have more than one sub-goal in a year – email the checklist template to yourself to see).

6. Enter bullet point descriptions under the “Action Plan” column, of the specific Action Plans (Tasks/Activities) you will need to implement in order to achieve each sub-Goal.

7. Indicate the specific date you expect to complete each task under the “When” column.

8. Indicate completion status for each task by entering “Yes, No or Ongoing” under the “Done?” column.

9. Decide on a reasonable time interval during which you will routinely review your progress(each time updating your entries to reflect the current status. It might help to print out and file each updated version to track progress made).

The Action Plan/Progress Evaluation Checklist will force you to document up front, the various key tasks you need to perform in order to achieve your set goal over a defined time period.

You will also be able to record DATE ACHIEVED next to each task successfully completed.

As you pursue your goals, this document can help you easily keep track of what has been done, and what needs to be done next. You will also find it to be an extremely useful reference material much later – especially when you need to revisit your startup/other experiences in the future (possibly in coaching someone else).

In the long run, the Action Plan/Progress Evaluation Checklist will provide you a detailed historical record of what you did to produce the results/achievements you recorded, making it potentially valuable for better decision making(and/or knowledge sharing) in the future.

With regard to the foregoing, and to end on a lighter note, writing a book – in future – about HOW you succeeded in business might just turn out to be easier than would be normally expected, if you have diligently used your Action Plan/Progress Evaluation Checklist! :-)

This article is one of twenty-five(25) contained in Tayo Solagbade’s Ebook titled “25 Articles/True Stories On Self-Development, Entrepeneuring & Web Marketing To Help You Succeed More Often”.

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No. 225: To Excel, You Need to Immunize Yourself Against “Herd Mentality” [Hint: 5 Questions to Check If You Have “IT”]

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Are you secretly scared of standing out from the crowd? Of being different from others? Or of having to – sometimes – go after your goals ALONE?

If YES there’s a good chance authentic and sustainable success will habitually elude you – especially as an expert in your chosen field of interest or expertise.

Why?

Because those who excel in life rarely let concerns about belong to the “herd” influence their decision making about goals to set and pursue.

Or to put it another way, they are NOT afflicted with “Herd Mentality”.

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1 of 2: PUBLIC SPEAKING – To Excel, You Need to Immunize Yourself Against “Herd Mentality” [Hint: 5 Questions to Check If You Have “IT”]

Are you secretly scared of standing out from the crowd? Of being different from others? Or of having to – sometimes – go after your goals ALONE?

If YES there’s a good chance authentic and sustainable success will habitually elude you – especially as an expert in your chosen field of interest or expertise.

Why?

Because those who excel in life rarely let concerns about belong to the “herd” influence their decision making about goals to set and pursue.

Or to put it another way, they are NOT afflicted with “Herd Mentality”.

I define “Herd Mentality” as the unconscious – near uncontrollable – desire to belong to a group of others, and a severe aversion for being alone.

This mentality, in my estimation, afflicts over 80% of people in most societies, because they pass through conventional schooling, which by it’s very design, discourages individuality.

If you’ve been following my writing a while, you most likely know that I believe formal schooling systems, carried over from the industrial era, generally do more harm than good to most learners who pass through them.

The reason for that is our conventional schools train learners to (wrongly) believe it is more important to conform to other people’s definition of success, than to pursue self-discovery and fulfillment.

The result is that most people leave school driven to seek the approval of others, rather than looking inwards to discover what truly edifies them as individuals i.e. what makes them happy and fulfilled.

The Herd Mentality makes them lack the crucial ingredient for excelling in life i.e. self-esteem or self-belief.

A person with a healthy level of self-esteem will have no problems believing that s/he has something unique that sets him/her apart from others who do what s/he does.

Such a person will also have the self-confidence to go out of his/her way to nurture that unique knowledge/ability into something that gives him/her a competitive advantage over others.

Not just that, s/he will do so, without feeling guilty or apologetic about missing out on being with others in the process.

S/he would be immune to “Herd Mentality”.

Are you immune to “Herd Mentality”? YOUR answer to these questions will tell you! (YES = Good | NO = Not So Good).

1. Are you able to say NO to others when they invite you to join them, at a time when you have something you KNOW you need to get away from others to do?

2. Do you refuse to let others make you feel guilty (when you meet later) for choosing to stay away when they invited you at such times?

3. Are you able to go out and about to new places, meeting new people, on your own, when not with others in a group?

4. Are you able to speak your mind without needing to be around others who think like you?

5. Can you confidently communicate and/or implement an original idea you believe in, even if you get no support/agreement from others whose opinion you value?

If you said NO to all 5 questions I’d say you have a REALLY SERIOUS case of “Herd Mentality”…and that is likely to severely limit you as an Expert in your field!

At the risk of stating the obvious those you serve (i.e. your clients) will be looking up to, and depending on YOU to guide them in the right direction to achieve their valued goals.

A person struggling with self-esteem and self-confidence issues will find it difficult to do that, and there is a good chance it will show – especially when you come under stress.

Now, stress is an inevitable reality in life. Things can – and do – go wrong – and it is our ability to stay in control, despite the occurrence of setbacks or crises, that helps us maintain course towards success.

This is why you need to train yourself to make changes in your mental attitude, that will enable you say YES to those questions, if you want to excel in serving your clients.

The key to achieving that change in mental attitude, is for you to realize that you do NOT have to live your life in conformity with others people standards and expectations.

Or to paraphrase Dan Kennedy, you do NOT need anyone’s permission to succeed.

This is not a call to dump or ignore friends or loved ones.

Instead, it’s a challenge for you to be true to yourself, and focus your best efforts on achieving the goals you hunger for, without feeling guilty or apologetic about it.

Most importantly, this is a call for you to refuse to settle for what others seem to think is okay for them, when your gut instincts tell you that you are capable of so much more!

Being true to yourself in this manner will drive you to live YOUR life on YOUR own terms, in a way that will INEVITABLY glorify your Creator.

So, if you’ve been doing it, stop trying to please others at the expense of your dreams, by belonging to the herd.

Remember this:

1. The Creator did not design you to be wimp.

When you let a fear of being different, or of being criticized for being different keep you from doing what you REALLY want to do, you are being a WIMP!

2. The World will appreciate you more if you give in to your instincts to aim higher in life, to achieve challenging goals, because You WILL become a LEADER in the process, thereby making you more capable of helping them!

In light of the above, I urge you to examine your life so far till date…

Determine how often you have let the need to conform, and belong, prevent YOU from actualizing YOUR full God-given potential.

If you what you discover falls short of the standard you know you should aim for, then make the change recommended from TODAY.

I wish you greater success in 2016 and beyond!

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Answer: Burt is a 3 decade veteran in the professional speaking business. After achieving top level cross continental success as an

expert-speaker, he has established a reputation for mentoring some of the highest paid speakers in the world. He owns SpeakingBizSuccess.com, SpeakingSuccess.com and BurtDubin.com.

Burt helps those he mentors (experts-who-speak) to Position, Package, Promote, and Present* themselves successfully to clients (*He calls

them the 4Ps). That’s why it’s no surprise that on Burt’s website, considerable space capital is devoted to useful business marketing articles as well as products.

It might also interest you to know that MANY years back, Burt established himself as one of the best marketing minds in the world. To really put this FACT in

proper perspective, I’ll provide more specific details in form of an example.

A few years ago, Burt contributed an article to a powerful publication titled “The Most Effective Articles Ever – By The World’s Top Marketers“. That 574 page ebook features timeless marketing advice from 71 of the world’s top marketers – including Jack

Trout, Joe Vitale, Yanik Silver…and Burt Dubin.

That’s ample proof that (in addition to Public Speaking), Burt would be a great resource to learn business marketing from!

Full Disclosure: I represent Burt as Sole Agent for his products/services, which means if YOU buy from him, I get paid.

But that’s NOT the main reason I represent and recommend him. I have benefited in many ways by learning from Burt. Through his writing, his audio recordings,

and from directly relating with him.

Before we teamed up in 2011, I’d been studying his work and adapting it to succeed in my work from way back in 2002. It does not matter what part of the world

you’re in. If you know how to adapt them to suit your peculiar local needs, Burt’s ideas and strategies WILL work for you. I am living proof of it!

That’s why I never tire of CONFIDENTLY recommending him to others.

If you need help putting the ideas shared above to use, let me know HERE.

Click here to tell me which of Burt’s speaker mentoring products or services you are interested

in.

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If you need help purchasing ANY of Burt’s products (like “Presentation

Magic”), call me on +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic, my base) or +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria)  or email tayo@tksola.com

Have a great week :-))

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So, with diligent persistent application of what you learn you’ll start (as Burt says)…”bringing home high speaking fees”…whether you speak or not…in

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THEY WROTE…

“(Tayo Solagbade) is amazing and I think he is going to produce some impressive results online…” – click here to read full comment by Patrick Meninga (US based 6 figure income blogger who gained fame for building a $2,000 per month adsense website and selling it for $200,000).

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“Tayo, I honestly believe you are one of those who will succeed at anything he does. Your commitment and effort has been outstanding….Thanks for all your hard

work since I’ve been here – you will be sorely missed. I don’t need to wish you good luck, you have the ability to make your own luck. – Andy”(R. Jones)*

*Operations Manager, Guinness Nigeria Plc Benin Brewery, December 2001 (Handwritten comments in farewell/xmas cards sent to Tayo Solagbade following his resignation to

start his own business).

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Click here to contact Tayo… 

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Public Speaking[Monday]:
No. 224: To Write Productively, Develop the Ability to Do Your Best Writing At Will [Hint: I’m back on LinkedIn.com]

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[Wednesday]:
Become A Habitual Peak Performer – Learn How To Get Into Flow Or – The Zone More Frequently
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Think Your Problem Is Worse Than Other People’s? Cheer Up & Use It As A Stepping Stone To Success!
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Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist

*Sole Agent For Burt Dubin’s Speaker Mentoring Service In Africa

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 DevelopmentManager, 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 computerise 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.

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 his Weekly Public Speaking IDEAS

newsletter(which he uses to promote Burt Dubin’s Public Speaking Mentoring service to experts working across the African

continent).

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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[IMPORTANT NOTE:====

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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THE FARM CEO (Issue 29): Back Good Quality Website Content With Delivery of Value Promised, to Achieve Web Marketing Success, Online Strategies for Direct Farm Marketers, 5 Farmer’s Market Marketing Ideas, 101 Guerilla Marketing Ideas: Grow Sales with Zero Budget, Agricultural Entrepreneurship Coaching Guide

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[Tagline: If it can help your farm business, you’ll find it in THE FARM CEO™ Newspaper ]

In continuation of my year end efforts to focus more on areas often neglected by CEOs for achieving profit-making success in business, be it farming or any other. I feature articles on smart marketing.

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Just like I’ve said in recent articles, the loss of my 9 year old spontaneousdevelopment.com on 4th May 2014, has not limited my online sales lead generation via my tayosolagbade.com, which replaced it. The number of enquiries has risen to the extent that my Website Conversion Ratio has actually INCREASED.

This means that I’m actually getting MORE people contacting me about what I offer per traffic volume, than I used to.

NB: If you don’t know what a Website Conversion Ratio(WCR), or how to calculate it, I link below to an article I wrote in 2005, that explains (Note that my byline at the bottom of the article is yet to be updated to tayosolagbade.com. So you’ll find it still links to spontaneousdevlopment.com – which got taken over by Aplus.net in May 2014).

But how come I’m getting a higher rate of Website Conversion after losing my domain?

Here’s my experience based understanding. And I’ve taken time to study this via trends, to be sure.

 

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Here are the headlines, reviews – and links – for this week’s featured news items:

[URL] Back Good Quality Website Content With Delivery of Value Promised, to Achieve Web Marketing Success P.1

[PDF] Online Strategies for Direct Farm Marketers P.2

[URL] 5 Farmer’s Market Marketing Ideas P.2

[PDF] 101 Guerilla Marketing Ideas: Grow Sales with Zero Budget P.3

[PDF] Agricultural Entrepreneurship Coaching Guide P.3

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