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No. 215: Don’t Be So “Nice” That You Appear Incompetent (Hint: Sometimes It Pays to be Initially “Difficult” So as to be Successful Later)

October 19, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

When it comes to DELIVERING desired results, LOWERING YOUR STANDARDS (or COMPROMISING) in order to avoid being called “difficult” by clients (or representatives) unwilling to honour their end of the bargain, can end up making you look incompetent.

In this write-up I explain why doing the above to please others is never worth it, IF you want authentic and lasting success.

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No: 215

Title: Don’t Be So “Nice” That You Appear Incompetent (Hint: Sometimes It Pays to be Initially “Difficult” So as to be Successful Later)

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1 of 2: PUBLIC SPEAKING – No. 215: Don’t Be So “Nice” That You Appear Incompetent (Hint: Sometimes It Pays to be Initially “Difficult” So as to be Successful Later)

In this write-up I explain why doing the above to please others is never worth it, IF you want authentic and lasting success.

Some people always want to cut corners, or give too little, if possible nothing, to get ALL they want!

In today’s NIGERIA, a person can easily get labelled wicked if s/he REFUSES to allow or tolerate wrong behaviour from those who report to him/her or who s/he has to LEAD.

The problem is widespread, and begins right from the schooling system, from primary to tertiary level.

For instance, today the following can earn a teacher/lecturer the label of “WICKED”:

1. Insisting students meet minimum required attendance, or get penalized.

2. Insisting students score required passing grade for a credit course, or repeat/carry over.

3. Refusing to entertain “pleas” that a student whose performance falls below cut-off level be allowed to advance to the next class.

Like I said, it’s everywhere…even on the Nigerian roads, the traffic offender thinks the same way. S/he will plead in the same manner after DELIBERATELY jumping the lights and getting caught.

They always believe they can plead (and if necessary BUY) their way out of any trouble. Quite often they also find enforcers willing to let them do just that.

In Nigeria, when people “BEG” you to bend the rules for them and you agree, they say “God Bless You”. When you refuse, they call you “WICKED”!

I argue that it becomes impossible to ensure the required high standards are met, and the DESIRED RESULTS achieved when we fail to enforce rules put in place to make that happen!

For instance, how do we turn out competent medical surgeons if we let those who fail tests designed to test “competence” to advance to the next class…because we don’t want to be WICKED, or we want to HELP?

The truth is that there are times when the best way to HELP people will be to make them pay the price for their wrong doing.

We need to challenge people to put in the needed effort to QUALIFY to move to the next level in pursuit of a reward they want.

The reason Nigeria has become home to “mass mediocrity” is because too many people are UNWILLING to EARN merit-based access to rewards they seek…AND too many people in decision making positions are WILLING to BEND the rules to let such people have their way.

We see the result in the pitiful state of our sports today, compared to our rich past!

Save for some individuals who are excelling in their fields using raw talent and drive (e.g. Table Tennis), our Sportsmen and Women today give us little or no reason to cheer.

Many people are getting picked to represent us through corner-cutting, and it’s preventing the BEST talents that we really have from getting to represent us.

It’s the same problem in other areas.

Merit gets second place most times in decision making when it matters most.

Until we change this harmful and shameful culture, Nigeria will continue to crawl in fields of endeavour where she should be SOARING high above other nations, in the skies of achievement.

I’ve been called DIFFICULT, UN-REASONABLE, RIGID (or even WICKED!) quite a bit in Nigeria…and I have NO PROBLEMS with it!

That’s because I do NOT tolerate mediocrity in any guise or form, and I constantly demand EVERYONE around me to pull their weight, and earn the right to access rewards they seek.

My kids will tell you this is true – and like I’ve told their grandparents, the results WILL be obvious in the abilities they manifest for the world to see in the VERY near future.

In the meantime, if YOU are a parent, I urge you to entrench a similar culture in your home, so your kids get the best preparing to excel in the real world.

They will arrive adulthood with the right mental attitude and discipline to make the most of opportunities that come their way!

Question: How do you serve clients successfully?

Answer: By delivering the results YOU promised them and which they agreed to pay YOU for.

It’s VERY unlikely that you can successfully serve clients by being NICE to them, while failing to do the above i.e. delivering what you promised!

This is why it’s crucially important that you avoid making the dangerous mistake of LOWERING your standards to please any client.

Let me explain using a personal example:

In developing and implementing Web Marketing Systems (WMS) for clients, I sometimes get asked to meet with and/or give a talk to decision makers (who pay to have that happen) on what I am to do for them.

During such interactions I spell out what I will do for them, as well as what they need to do on their own part, to meet me halfway, so that the solution works as expected.

But I don’t just stop at telling them…

When work starts, if/when I identify that a client is going off track in terms of delivering what s/he has agreed to enable me progress the work (e.g. sending me a profile, or articles to use in creating new content), I firmly, but politely remind him/her noting problems likely to occur.

Trying too hard to be “nice” with a client (or representative) failing to give you what you need to do YOUR work, can end up making YOU look bad at the end of the day.

How?

Myriad possibilities exist.

For instance, in order to be “nice”, you may say nothing about the delays to those who need to know. The problem is that the culprit could later turn around – when eye brows are raised, and say YOU did not ask/remind him/her – effectively blaming you!

So don’t take the business of being nice too far: You must think and act like a true professional at all times – IF you want the client to respect you.

Learn to assert yourself to get your work done.

No one is going to give you a pat of the back for failing to deliver. Remember that you’re getting paid!

If the decision maker has given you the go ahead, and some person(s) assigned to work with you are delaying things, find a way to set them right before they make you look bad.

If they fail to change despite your best efforts, get the relevant decision maker involved.

THAT could get you labelled “WICKED” by any naughty mediocre minds involved. However, my experiences indicate that such a situation will only be temporary.

You see, taking such decisive action WILL often enable you deliver a solution works, just like you promised. When that happens, you’ll look good to decision makers WHO TRULY MATTER!

All others will simply fall in line and join in applauding you from them on!

Take it from me. I’ve been there countless times in paid as well as self-employment…

…as a shift manager leading over scores of men to achieve daily targets on bottling lines; as a shift brewer leading a dozen operatives to meet daily brewing targets; as Technical Training and Development Manager leading a team of Training Instructors and Engineering Trainees to serve the brewery with custom training, and also as Acting Production Manager, leading others (some 15 years my senior in the company) to achieve target brewing outputs.

Since becoming an entrepreneur over a decade ago, I’ve also been “there” countless times at an even more demanding level…

…as a multi-skilled Performance Improvement Specialist working – in person and online – with clients within and outside Africa, to deliver promised results.

Sometimes it’s not deliberate on the part of the client or representative. They tend to get so busy with their own business tasks that they “forget” or “de-prioritize” what they agreed to do for you.

But the problem created for you WILL always remain the same!

That’s why you need to call their attention, if/when they inadvertently fail to meet you halfway as agreed.

If you do not do so in a timely manner, you will be setting yourself up to look bad.

You have been warned!

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Public Speaking[Monday]:	No. 214: Be Prepared to Maximize EVERY Opportunity!
[Tuesday]:	On-Demand Feed Formulation for Farm CEOs Workshop [Hint: FREE Entry for Owners of Tayo Solagbade’s Feed Formulation Handbook & Software]!
[Wednesday]:	THE FARM CEO (Issue 19): Feed Formulation for Farm CEOs Workshop: FREE Entry for Buyers of Feed Formulation Pack, How a Ugandan Woman Became a Millionaire from Piggery, Mixed-Crop Livestock Farming: Traditional technologies for animal production, FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT OF CATFISH FARMS : Catfish Growth-Cash flow MS Excel Models, Genetic improvement of indigenous cattle breeds in Zimbabwe : a case study
[Thursday]:	[RECOMMENDED READING] An adventure to discover the best teacher in Nigeria. Drama Galore…lol!
[Friday]:	Making Nigeria Work Again: We ALL Need to Beat The Nigerian Factor (BTNF) ™
[Saturday]:	Motivational Speaking is NOT Self-Development Education
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Motivational Speaking is NOT Self-Development Education

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[NB: This Personal Philosophy paper was originally e-published via SpontaneousDevelopmentDotCom (now defunct) on 27th March 2003/Revised on 27th December 2006 by Tayo Solagbade – Founder SDAc]

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It rarely happens anymore, what with my increasing name/brand recognition for what I do…but several years ago, it happened fairly often. I mean people calling me a “Motivational Speaker/Author” – based on aspects of of my writing or learning events they were exposed to.

But whenever it happened (or happens), I made (or make) a point of promptly correcting the person, by stating that I am a Self-Development Educator/Performance Improvement Specialist.

So, what’s the difference, you ask?

In this paper I explain why calling me a Motivational Speaker would be most inaccurate and potentially deny those who can benefit from me (possibly persons you care about!) the opportunity to discover that I can help them.

Yes, there is a motivational dimension to what I do, but my basic aim is to help people achieve Mental Emancipation™, by (re-) orienting them about what they (think they) know; how they see themselves/their society; and what they believe they can (or cannot) do.

You could in fact call it “Philosophical Re-Orientation”.

The unusual titles of many of my Talks and Information Products (e.g [NEW BOOK with Optional MP3 Audio files] Ten (10) ‘Storyfied’ Yoruba Proverbs for Children – Goes Live from 8th January 2015 at www.lulu.com/sdaproducts | SD Nuggets™ ) support my claims.

I have gained deep insight into the socio-cultural situation in Nigeria, and wish to share my ideas with others. My objective is to influence people to positively change the way they think/act towards getting what they want in life. That’s why I also describe my role as that of a Social Change Agent.

We all (should?) take time to reflect on our experiences, and develop our own philosophies about life.

We should also be unafraid to voice/discuss them with others, even if they differ from what the majority hold to be true. This is especially important, if our ideas can help others.

It is my considered opinion that many harmful myths, values etc are held in our society today, causing major damage to the self-perception of the average Nigerian

I believe that correcting this damage will enable many Nigerians (re)discover themselves, and achieve more personal successes to the overall benefit of our country.

You can help an individual become motivated to achieve success in a chosen area of life, but if the wrong “education” about himself/his society is not corrected by helping him re-think or unlearn certain things, his chances of achieving sustainable successes are limited.

The phrase “know yourself” becomes relevant here.

Many Nigerians – motivated or not – do not know themselves. For instance, many believe the only way to get respect is to have a white man as a friend…Or to be based in “Jand”(i.e. overseas), and visit Nigeria every once in a while.

I have worked with white people (from England/South Africa etc), right here in Nigeria. Some expressed unease with how most Nigerians treated them “special” for no obvious reasons.

A few wondered why we treated ourselves shabbily/with contempt! Our own Fela once sang “Let us think say, Oyinbo no good pass me”(translation: “Let us stop thinking the White man is better than us“). I guess most of us heard the music, but didn’t listen to the lyrics!

In certain ways, I see myself as a non-singing ideological equivalent of Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Through his lyrics, I discovered myself, and became passionately proud of being Black, Nigerian and African. (I named my first son after Fela, for this/his other good sides). My objective is to help others achieve similar Self-Discovery.

Think about Fela’s messages and you’ll find that just as he entertained with good vibes, he also motivated and often educated his listeners. For example he once sang about the white colonialists:

“…Na we open dem eyes. Na five hundred years slavery cause am. Dem meet us we dey do plenty things. I say we teach dem plenty things. No be me talk am, na books dey talk am. No be the yeye books you dey read, for the yeye school for your town. Na those colonial books from dat London..”

(translation: “We were the ones who opened their eyes. Five hundred years of slavery caused it. They found us doing many things. I say we taught them many things. It is not I who said it. It’s the books that say it. Not the rubbish books you read, in the rubbish school in your town. It’s those colonial history books in London..“).

So “Who” is a Self-Development Educator? And how does a Self-Development Educator differ from a Motivational Speaker? Here’s my personal definition of a Self-Development Educator:

A person who provides practical information about what people can do by themselves for themselves to achieve their goals in life.

Specifically, he/she will consider 2 major aspects to developing/empowering people: (a) Motivational – I help people see/believe they can achieve goals they set for themselves in life. (b) Educational – I actively challenge, (what I consider) any limiting sets of values, belief systems etc they hold, deriving from their environment or elsewhere.

I tell them why it is important to be Self-Educated and Emancipated Thinkers™, if they wish to empower themselves to achieve sustainable successes. Lastly, I SHOW them(through articles, special reports, talks, coaching programs and other learning events) – often using lessons from my experiences, and other real-life case studies – HOW TO empower themselves to go about pursuing their set goals in a way that increases their chances of success.

In showing people how to empower themselves, I work hard to make them INDEPENDENT of me, by helping them develop confidence in their own abilities to come up with solutions that work for them.

For instance in my article titled “A System That Can Produce Millionaire African Writers” (which has been read over 5,600 times since I republished it on this blog back in May 2014), I provided an example of how my adopted approach benefits the larger society:

“It is my strong conviction that empowerment of individuals to be multi-skilled, independent minded creatives, who are able to leverage technology and the Internet in ways that require little or no capital, for the purpose of offering value adding products and services for which they will paid, is the most realistic, and viable solution for Africans living in Africa. Adopting Print-On-Demand Self-Publishing as proposed in this article is one way individual Africans can easily adapt foreign ideas to achieve financial independence – and prosperity for their countries.” – Tayo K. Solagbade

Still think it’s all motivational?

Then why not read more of my articles or attend one of my learning events, and then decide afterwards.

Even better, you can actually take me up one-on-one on this issue – by sending me a message.

I look forward to “meeting” you!

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[RECOMMENDED READING] An adventure to discover the best teacher in Nigeria. Drama Galore…lol!

October 15, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

I never re-publish other people’s writings on my blog, but I do link to those I find compelling. This piece by Olusegun Adeniyi titled “An adventure to discover the best teacher in Nigeria. Drama Galore…lol!” – published in THISDAY Newspaper perfectly fits that description: it is a truly compelling, and at the same time “painful” read, that confirms the serious ROT Nigeria’s educational system in in!

Read on…and see if you disagree…

PREVIEW: Why are you in the teaching profession? Ordinarily, you would expect a teacher who was in the final rounds of an interview for a life-changing national award to be prepared for such a question. But after a momentary hesitation, the respondent said she chose teaching because it is a profession that “offers me opportunities to do other things by the side.”

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On-Demand Feed Formulation for Farm CEOs Workshop [Hint: FREE Entry for Owners of Tayo Solagbade’s Feed Formulation Handbook & Software]!

October 13, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

Are you a Farm CEO looking to save money, and boost performance in feeding your livestock? If YES, attend my on-demand workshop to learn Practical Livestock Feed Formulation and Compounding for Poultry, Fish, Pigs, Dairy Cattle and Rabbits based on use of low cost locally available feed ingredients to formulate balanced rations.

Since 2006 I’ve conducted on-demand one-on-one feed formulation training, for INDIVIFUAL Farm CEOs. In the last 2 years, some traveled from as far as Uyo and Umuahia (while I came in from Cotonou), to meet me at the venue: a Feed Mill location in Oko-Oba, Agege area of Lagos.

Those unable to make it down often chose to purchase my Branded Auto run Home Study DVD containing 30 video tutorials.

However, a new trend has recently been developing in terms of enquiries I’m getting…

For instance, in the last 3 months, I’ve been approached by CEOs of organizations looking to invite me to conduct LIVE training on Feed Formulation for small groups.

The first time it was the Abuja branch of a National Government Agency.

More recently, it was the CEO of a Vocational Skills/Entrepreneurship Development Centre in Lagos.

This latest enquiry led to a request by the CEO for a price concession, to which I responded with the following offer:

===Starts===

I appreciate the preference you expressed for a discount concession in light of the fact that you are looking to train 10 persons. I’ve done some thinking and come up with what I feel may appeal to you…

Here’s what I propose:

a. I will FREEZE invoice total for training at N250k.

In other words, you will NOT pay for the 5 extra persons you wish to attend.

b. Note however that to take up this offer, the full amount has to be paid AT LEAST 5 business days BEFORE the training date.

c. In exchange, I’d like to have space provided at your venue for up to 10 of my clients to attend.

I have a database of over 500 Farm CEOs based in/out of Africa. Some are past buyers of my Farm Business Support Products and Services (Custom Software, Information Products, Training and Web Marketing Services). About 70% of those past buyers are based in Nigeria – in various states across the country, and even though I have not met 95% of them in the flesh, we’ve enjoyed healthy relations via email and phone over the years.

When I read your latest message it occurred to me, that they might want to attend the training. So, this afternoon I called up about 10 of them, in places like Kano, Warri, Umuahia, Ibadan, Lagos etc, and so far 6 have told me they would love to attend.

It’s likely I’ll get up to the 10 I have in mind. All they need is the space (seats) to be part of the event.

They will take care of their own transportation, accommodation, feeding etc. I’ve cleared all that up with them and they are OK with it. Note however that they will NOT be paying me ANY money, as they already own my software and handbook.

Indeed, some have even paid for/attended my training in the past at a feed mill location I normally use in Oko-Oba area of Agege (I typically traveled down from Cotonou, while they came from places like Uyo, Umuahia etc)

My purpose is simply to add extra value to them by exposing them to the training at zero cost, so they become better equipped to make use of the products they purchased from me.

NB: I am also hopeful that they will be able to share experiences with YOUR 10 attendees, based on their practice of feed formulation in real-world situations.

This is the best way I can think of to make the required investment more pocket friendly for you.

If it appeals to you, please let me have your feedback on the following:

1. What is/are the intended Date(s) you wish to have the training?

Do you want it to happen in one day (6 to 8 hours) or over 2 days (3 to 4 hrs/day)? As I stated earlier, the N250k fee needs to be paid 5 business/working days before your intended training date. That’s the minimum notification and commitment I need to prepare for an event like this.

2. What is the address of the intended venue?

3. What are the demographic characteristics of your intended attendees? (E.g. Age, gender, educational level, Do they already run their own livestock farm businesses? if YES, what kinds? etc)

4. Please state the specific goals and objectives you have for holding your program/event AND WHAT your expectations are.

In other words, how do you intend to measure whether the training has been a success? (What will you see in your trainees/attendees; what will they say; what will they be ready/able to do AFTER the event in line with your organization’s vision/mission?)

5. Please state any other issues you want me to consider in preparing for the training.

With kindest regards,

Tayo K. Solagbade

===Ends===

There has NOT been a response yet, but even if the CEO takes up my offer, responses I have gotten from past buyers of my Feed Formulation Handbook and Software, who I contacted BEFORE sending my reply to the CEO, indicate that MOST of them would love to attend the workshop.

In speaking with past buyers, I discovered that the fact that it’s FREE makes it appeal readily to them. As a result, I already have nine (9) who’ve said YES, and now await details from me, of when and where etc.

Below are excerpts of the benefits as outlined on the flyer…

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Get LIVE Exposition and Hands-On Training on:

1. Theory and Practice of Livestock Feed Formulation for different livestock – especially Poultry, Fish, Pigs, Dairy Cattle & Rabbits.

2. Identification of feed ingredients and considerations in choosing them for use in ration formulation

3. Use of TK Solagbade’s ExcelVB Ration Formulator software

Attendees Get the Following at ZERO COST:

a. T.K Solagbade’s popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook – N8k

b. Pictorial Introduction to Feed Ingredients (Print-ready PDF) – N7.5k value

c. Automated Ration Formulation Excel-VB Software – N12.5k value

d. PDF user guide for Automated Ration Formulation Application – FREE

e. User-guide videos for the software will be on EACH attendee’s DVD – FREE

f. 10 Most Frequently Asked Questions About Feed Formulation (PDF) – FREE

g. Branded Auto run DVD containing 30 Livestock Feed Formulation
(& Compounding) Home Study Videos – N35k value

===Ends==

In light of the above, especially since those I’ve contacted are less than 25% of the total number I can make this offer to, it’s likely that I’ll need to have more than one run of the workshop to cater for all of them.

That’s one reason I decided to launch this formal on-demand workshop offer.

Another reason is that the busy schedules of my clients make it difficult to do a run that they will all find convenient to attend at the same time.

For instance, when I called one Farm CEO client based in Kano, who has purchased my handbook, Ration Formulation Software and Poultry Farm Manager, he told me he was headed on a trip across Asia, and would not be abel to make it.

This is not the first time that has happened with several of my Farm CEO clients across the country. Over the years we’ve tried to come together as a group, with little success due to various challenges.

So that’s ANOTHER reason I’m launching THIS On-Demand Workshop offer: The idea is to allow interested Farm CEOs and those aspiring, as well as other stakeholders, to book to attend the workshop at a time that is convenient for them.

As long as we get up to 5 persons (to a maximum of 15), the event will hold.

Details will be agreed with all those who register for the event. Over time, I hope to interests sponsors of various kinds, to partner with me, and make this more pocket-friendly for those who may wish to attend.

BELOW: One page flyer I’ve created to announce this On-Demand Feed Formulation for Farm CEOs Workshop [*Image Updated in 2021 – from 2015] (http://tayosolagbade.com/ffworkshop)

If you’d like to attend…

Fee = N50k

For payment details (and/or to discuss possible group discount concessions for your group members), email tayo at tksola dot com

Call +234-803-302-1263 or +229-66-122-136 or send a message via www.tayosolagbade.com

If you already own my Feed Formulation Handbook and Software, you get to attend FREE.

Just contact me to book your place!

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No. 214: Be Prepared to Maximize EVERY Opportunity!

October 12, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity” – Unknown

Unless you can see the future, you cannot know what opportunities are headed your way. Yet your ability to make the most of them will ultimately determine whether you succeed or fail in pursuit of YOUR value goals or dreams!

That’s why if you want repeatable and reproducible success, in any area of life, you MUST form the healthy habit of INTELLIGENTLY preparing yourself to maximize every single opportunity that may come your way.

Example: My continually growing success and status in serving Farm CEO clients in and out of Africa – with my Best Practice Cost-Saving Farm Business Ideas

Let me illustrate by sharing insights based on a recent real life story from my work as a provider of a uniquely original range of Best Practice software, information products, farm management, and web marketing solutions to Farm CEOs…

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Date: Monday 12th October 2015

No: 214

Title: Be Prepared to Maximize EVERY Opportunity!

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“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity” – Unknown

Example: My continually growing success and status in serving Farm CEO clients in and out of Africa – with my Best Practice Cost-Saving Farm Business Ideas

Few days after buying my Feed Formulation Software and Handbook bundle, a Catfish Farm CEO based in South West Nigeria sent me the following text message based on our earlier discussions:

Hi Tay! And good morning. I have been on the net and seen some info on daphnia farming. What did you use as your source for propagation and what were you feeding them? I want to start up asap since I have some fingerlings on ground and want to quickly enhance their growth. Maggot may take longer – putting the farm unit together – R<name removed for privacy>

That SMS arrived Saturday morning of 10th October 2015…

I was just preparing my kids for another day’s run of the Personal Achievement Coaching for Kids (PACK) program I developed for them based on a unique Home schooling arrangement.

Less than 10 minutes later, I was done with my response, and back with the kids for our session.

However, that only happened because I had anticipated MONTHS ago, that some Farm CEOs clients/subscribers I’d told about potential cost-saving/performance enhancing benefits of Daphnia (and Earthworm) rearing would want to know more.

That realization made me prepare and publish ready-to-use information that I would be able to dispatch, in an easily accessible format, to ANYONE.

See below my reply via email…

Tayo K. Solagbade

Oct 10 (2 days ago)

to <Name/email removed for privacy>

Morning R<name removed for privacy>.

About to start a coaching session with my kids.

But quickly…

1. See Issue 06 of The Farm CEO in the zipped archive of past issues I emailed you.

It was published on 13th July 2015.

A. On page 1 you’ll see a preview with links to a 2 part Guest Post I got published with a high traffic 3rd party website in 2012.

Title: Reducing Catfish Feeding Costs (A Secret Weapon) – Parts 1 and 2

B. On page 3 you will see photos and a preview titled “How to Raise/Rear Daphnia to Feed Your Catfish”

It offers details based on what I did has links to additional resources that I learnt from.

Hope this helps…

Let me know if have further questions or need clarification.

In your service,

Tayo

PS: By way of interest, especially with regard to best practice, you may find it useful to read the article linked below:

http://tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets/8-questions-a-catfish-farmer-must-answer-yes-to-in-order-to-make-good-profits/

And here’s the CEO’s acknowledgement on getting it:

Subject: Re: Re(Your Phone SMS): Daphnia Rearing…

From: R <name/email removed for privacy>

R
Date: Sat, October 10, 2015 10:19 am

To: tayo at tayosolagbade dot com

Good morning Tayo,

Hope you and are fine.

Thank you for your response. I will check as directed.

Thanks a million.

See screenshot below:

By having a generic resource READY to answer questions important to my client, I was able to meet this Farm CEO’s need in a timely manner.

I do this in various ways e.g. via articles on this blog, videos on my Youtube channel, MP3 Audio Products, and information products – as was the case above.

Suffice to say that I would not have been able to respond so promptly with an answer that fully addressed the CEO’s questions – and then some – if I’d NOT prepared it ahead of time!

Now, the uninitiated tend not to get it, but doing the above, despite NOT resulting in ANY new sale, doing so, actually puts me in a BETTER position to sell.

Here’s why:

A. It makes my clients happy they connected with me, when they get access to deeper insights about how to do what they do better, at low to zero cost.

B. Such happy clients inadvertently say good things about me to others in their networks, boosting my name/brand recognition.

At some point in the future one or more of those positive benefits to them will lead in the long run to more tangible direct/indirect benefits for me – including repeat sales and/or referrals!

Adopting the strategy I recommend here requires that you develop a mental attitude of Self-Reliance

“Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one’s own person is its ultimate reward.”–Patricia Sampson

Take this from me, as a person who successfully uses a strategy of self-reliance based on intelligent preparation, to defy adversity in any form.

I have done so in both paid employment as well as self-employment, for close to 2 decades.

Forget about trying to climb on others’ backs – especially by way of using “connections” or “favours” from supposedly powerful others etc

That is NOT a reliable strategy, and can sometimes lead to putting yourself in an inferior position before others, that ultimately undermines your ability to actualize your full God-given potentials.

What I propose here WILL enable you advance by yourself, and with help from others willing to give unconditional support, without losing your freedom, or your dignity.

The key here is being able to accurately visualize where you need to go, and then putting in the work needed to get there – when and how it most matters.

I know this because I’ve experienced it – more times than I can count.

And that’s why I make BEING PROACTIVELY PREPARED such a fanatical habit of mine..!

Every single day that passes, I reflect deeply on new ideas based on what I read, see or hear and use the insights that come to me, from doing so, to prepare new problem-solving resources to meet my target audiences needs.

If you’d like to continue wowing those who buy from you, long after you take their money, especially so that they never make the mistake of experiencing buyer’s remorse, THEN …I recommend you adopt a similar strategy to what I’ve described in this write-up.

Good luck!

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

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SD Nuggets Blog™	New posts from last week that may interest you! *
Public Speaking[Monday]:	No. 213: To Achieve SIGNIFICANCE in Success, YOU Need to Resist Corruption! [Feature: Strive Masiyawa’s 5 Part Anti-Corruption Series on Econet Wireless in Nigeria]
[Tuesday]:	Tayo Solagbade’s Farm and Grow Rich™- 6 Zero Cost Steps to Boost Farm Income: 7 Week FREE Email Auto-responder Course for Farm CEOs and Those Aspiring [LIVE from Wednesday 7th October 2015]!
[Wednesday]:	THE FARM CEO (Issue 18): [SIGNUP NOW] Farm & Grow Rich™: FREE 7 Week Best Practice Autoresponder E-Course for Farm CEOs, Typical composition values of 274 feeds commonly fed to cattle and sheep, Appraisal Of Indigenous Pig Production and Management Practices In Rivers State, Nigeria, Formulation of Low Cost Balanced Ration for Livestock using MS Excel, 2006 Annual Survey Of Socio-Economic Activities In Nigeria Farm gate
[Thursday]:	To Coach Successfully, Don’t Tie People to Your Apron Strings
[Friday]:	Make Money By Reselling my Customizable Spreadsheet Software Products for (Farm) Businesses
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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.

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 as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer, to Training

& Technical Development Manager, and then later acted in senior management roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.

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 Limited.

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:

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October 9, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

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To Coach Successfully, Don’t Tie People to Your Apron Strings

October 8, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

Coaching is ultimately about subtly putting ideas into a coachee (person-being-coached)’s head about who s/he is and what s/he can become or accomplish.

That may NOT sound very romantic, but THAT is what Coaching ultimately entails!

This is the reason why the best coaches are those who know how to make you BELIEVE you can do anything you set your mind to.

It is also why those coaches often succeed in getting a coachee to rebound from serious failures or setbacks that would keep others down, to resume his/her winning ways at even higher levels.

Sometimes however even the best coaches will not be able to help a coachee…

But that will often only happen when the latter is unwilling to accept the ideas the former ever so subtly puts into the latter’s head.

For instance, if a tennis player past the age that most active players are expected to be able to compete effectively at world class level, wants to reach the Top 10 rankings, after having crashed out say 5 years earlier, s/he has to DISPENSE with the conventional wisdom that players enter a period of decline once they cross that certain age range.

S/he must also tune out advice from inevitable nay sayers: some will be former champions, veterans, even coaches, who will try to dissuade him/her from embarking on a futile journey.

Most importantly, s/he will likely need to exorcise his/her own demons in terms of self-doubt that may plague him/her anytime s/he suffers a setback as s/he pursues this ambitious goal.

The coach’s ability to show him/her how to deal with the above mentioned intangible but potentially negatively impact-ful factors/conditions, will go a long way to determine how successful the player ends up being.

The ability to do the above, and reproduce it, is what makes some coaches better than others.

A quote I once read stated that success is never about being right 100% of the time. It’s instead a matter of percentages. You will get it wrong, or fail periodically. That is inevitable.

The trick to success is to work hard to get it right more often, over time, than you get it wrong.

It won’t matter what you do, or where you do it. Understanding this simple rule is the key to avoiding frustration as you pursue success!

Coaches who excel are those who leave coachees equipped to CONTINUE succeeding on their own…

They do this by instilling in their coachees a sound understanding of the above philosophy, and a mental attitude that ensures they can diligently apply it anytime the need to do so arises.

In other words, the best coaches are those who empower those they coach to eventually BE INDEPENDENT of the coach, such that they can Self-Coach!

At that stage, such coachees, only reach out to the coach periodically, for insights or perspectives to deal with new or unfamiliar challenges.

Outside such situations, they would be confident carrying on alone in pursuit of valued goals they constantly refine and expand towards achieving self-actualization.

If you’re going to be a coach, THAT is the kind I recommend you become!

As you can imagine, IT IS the kind that I am – and have always been.

Such coaches make what is called a LASTING DIFFERENCE anywhere they go.

And they are the ones our societies need…NOT those who try to tie people who learn from them to their apron strings – or worse, who try to keep persons they coach, from surpassing them.

Doing the latter (i.e. failing to give enough to make coachees do better than you are doing or have done) effectively defeats the purpose of coaching.

How successful a coach can you be, if you cannot produce any coachee that you’ve empowered to exceed whatever you may have accomplished?

It goes without saying, that NOT all coaching relationships involve both parties sharing similar vocational/career interests.

However, whenever THAT is the case, it is my considered opinion that if the coachee does NOT end up exceeding the coach’s achievements at some point, something would be wrong with such a coach’s formula or method!

Why do I say this?

Because a coachee’s talent/potential is only one part of the coaching equation that will yield success.

Other factors will often come into play – most being Psychological, and some Environmental.

Both factors are the coach’s playground…where s/he creatively injects needed input to elicit the desired behaviour from the coachee.

In other words, a coach’s success in getting his/her coachee to succeed will depend on how frequently s/he is able to create conditions that enable the coachee reject anything that goes against what s/he needs to believe/think/do, to achieve a set goal.

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No. 213: To Achieve SIGNIFICANCE in Success, YOU Need to Resist Corruption! [Feature: Strive Masiyawa’s 5 Part Anti-Corruption Series on Econet Wireless in Nigeria]

October 5, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

Earlier today, Strive Masiyawa posted the first of 5 stories (view here) in his promised series on CORRUPTION regarding his experiences launching Econet Wireless in Nigeria.

The revelations are shocking, yet instructive.

As an expert in your field, if you desire SIGNIFICANCE in success, YOU MUST resist corruption, like Masiyawa has done for decades.

But you don’t need to be rich like him to do it, and still progress in life. I explain based on unique successes I’ve achieved by THINKING up a way around it!

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Date: Monday 5th October 2015

No: 213

Title: To Achieve SIGNIFICANCE in Success, YOU Need to Resist Corruption! [Feature: Strive Masiyawa’s 5 Part Anti-Corruption Series on Econet Wireless in Nigeria]

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Earlier today, Strive Masiyawa posted the first of 5 stories (view here) in his promised series on CORRUPTION regarding his experiences launching Econet Wireless in Nigeria.

The revelations are shocking, yet instructive.

As an expert in your field, if you desire SIGNIFICANCE in success, YOU MUST resist corruption, like Masiyawa has done for decades.

But you don’t need to be rich like him to do it, and still progress in life. I explain based on unique successes I’ve achieved by THINKING up a way around it!

Strive Masiyawa (Founder of Econet Wireless Telecom company) is the FIRST authentically successful African business owner I am consciously aware of, who has OPENLY narrated specific instances in which he has encountered and had to fight corruption.

Most others simply skirt around the subject – or refuse to comment on it at all. They pretend it’s not there, while sometimes either participating in it, or benefiting in one way or another from it.

Yet many such people want you to listen to and accept the advice they give you about succeeding in running your own business in Africa, like they claim to have done.

But they refuse to offer you valuable information and education, to DEAL successfully with CORRUPTION – which most times constitutes the BIGGEST obstacle to success that any entrepreneur has to face, especially in Africa.

I find that to be hypocrisy of the worst kind. And it annoys me that such business persons are in the majority in these parts. I KNOW MANY – some were once clients. Others are relatives.

I say this as one who has shared countless true stories of the stifling effects of corruption on my efforts to breakthrough, for years, as an entrepreneur.

It took taking the drastic steps of focusing on 80 to 100% online income generation and relocating to another country, to get the freedom I needed to begin to flourish.

As Masiyawa’s narratives indicate, corruption is EVERYWHERE.

However, in Africa it’s largely uncontrolled…and in Nigeria, it has simply gone viral!

Consequently, when you are starting up, and what you do requires interacting with others in the African environment – especially face to face – CORRUPTION is a reality you must deal with.

The problem – as many questions posted by young Africans on Masiyawa’s page indicate – is that most people start-up unprepared for the discovery of just how bad it is.

By the time they find out, they are already committed to doing business, and probably in dire straits financially, so that they feel too weak to resist the suggestion that they cut corners.

Masiyawa’s message is that there is a SPIRITUAL dimension to dealing with this problem, which can help ANYONE faced with the dilemma of deciding whether or not to engage in corruption.

I’ve been saying the same thing in many of my past articles in which I’ve shared my own very painful encounters with corruption (at my SMALL level compared to Masiyawa).

I found myself enduring prolonged periods of humiliation unable to fulfil my obligation as a husband and father. All because I would not bend.

My business remained stunted because my attitude towards corrupt advances meant I had LIMITED – very limited – opportunities I could reasonably pursue to earn income, especially via offline channels.

My stubbornness cost me so much. It strained my marriage relationship to breaking point, and caused conflicts with some clients, friends and close relatives who felt I was trying to do the impossible by fighting the system.

But I remained firm in my faith that I could advance without giving in to corruption in any form.

You will need uncommon courage and wisdom, to overcome every encounter you have with corruption

ONLY absolute faith in your Creator and a willingness to persist perpetually in working hard to find creative ways to progress in spite of CORRUPTION induced adversity, will enable you succeed.

Read below, a comment (click here to view it on Facebook) that I shared on Masiyawa’s page as my contribution on 1st October 2015…

It offers insights into the mindset you can adopt in dealing with corruption, even if you lack resources like those used by the Zimbabwean billionaire to fight back (click here to read the post I responded to):

Regarding what I said above, about moving to another country, it was Benin Republic.

As I’ve said in past articles, I did NOT go there to look for clients or business. No.

Instead I did so to access steady power supply and a saner environment, devoid of annoyances to achieve my goal of building my brand online so that I would no longer need to meet prospects face to face to sell my products and services.

For over 2 years, from late 2010 till early 2013 I had tried to do just that while still based in Nigeria.

But VERY poor power supply and consequent hefty DAILY expense on generator fuelling and maintenance, on top of high living costs made it impossible for me to invest the quality of effort and volume of time I needed to do anything tangible.

In contrast, between 1st April 2013 when I arrived in Cotonou and the end of the year, I was able to work most days virtually round the clock, to the point that my web marketing began generating powerful sales leads, 50 to 60% of which I was able to convert to sales.

Guess what? Over 80% of those sales were to Nigerians living in Nigeria, who sent payment via my bank account.

The icing on the cake was that I ended that year on a high by getting paid by an International NGO to write an Agribusiness case study paper based on one of the products I sell to Farm CEOs within and outside Africa: the Excel-VB Ration Formulator.

To this day (indeed this morning!) I continue to record such online sales that afford me the peace of mind and convenience that I NEVER enjoyed when I had yet to put in place the Web Marketing System I setup on relocating to Benin.

Now that my 24-7 leads generation system is in place, I am able to earn income regardless of where I am. I do NOT need to meet anyone face to face.

That means LESS contact with corrupt individuals – at least as far as doing what I do for a living goes. In other areas, where and when I do encounter them, I resist them as is my habit.

In case you wonder, the core of a Web Marketing System that makes it generate sales leads via search engines and other online platforms for you, is YOUR CREATION OF USEFUL INFORMATION AND EDUCATION in as many formats as possible, for consumption by people that fit your target audience profile.

Creating such content requires LOTS of thinking, with a focus on problem solving for those you wish to sell to.

I could not do that with any degree of consistency back then in Nigeria: It cost too much money and effort. When I got to Benin, I was able to work online from 8a.m round the clock till close to midnight, even beyond, where some café’s permitted it. I only took breaks to rest while eating.

That was a brutal period!

I pushed myself to the limits, adding more web marketing content to my online presence until it reached “critical mass” and began to produce repeat leads.

Today, I continue creating new content almost DAILY, but it now takes me MUCH less effort than it used to, because I have gotten so proficient at it that I do it almost without conscious effort i.e. spontaneously.

The point I’m making by sharing the above details is that since I lacked the resources Strive Masiyawa had, I had to THINK up a different way of doing what I wanted to do, that would make it UNNECESSARY for me to accept the corrupt ways of others!

It was not easy, and it did not happen overnight…

BUT I succeeded eventually, and today, I am better off as a result.

No one can dictate to me, or demand that I give him/her any form of gratification to get paid for what I sell. I would simply laugh in his/her face.

The way I have positioned myself makes it IMPOSSIBLE for anyone to do that to me.

It’s either you see what I offer via my Web Marketing System, and decide you want it badly enough to send payment, or you move on.

I won’t even know you were there unless you send me an email or call my number.

And if you do either, the system I employ in responding to enquirers will QUICKLY make it obvious there is no room in my space for nonsense of that kind.

A Point to Note: Today when I say I sell my custom Excel-VB software and physical books online, as an African living in Africa, people readily accept it because they SEE evidence of it…BUT I did not enjoy such acceptance at the start!!

You see, when I began trying to earn income without going out anymore, using the web as my main marketing platform, to sell what I used to sell offline, virtually EVERYONE I told, or who knew about it told me it could not work.

Their argument was that Nigeria/Africa was NOT ready for it.

And they often said it with relentless emphasis!

The same people now see me doing it daily, and succeeding MORE than I ever did when I drove my battered car around all over Lagos, visiting prospective clients for possible projects!

Hopefully, that tells you something about the wisdom of taking too much advice, when you’re trying to break new boundaries.

What you can see, most people will likely be unable to see!

Final Words: To free yourself from the annoyance of corruption and those who engage in it, you MUST invest quality time to THINK UP a solution for yourself like I did.

It does not matter what you do, so long as you have FAITH in the Creator, you can always find a way around corruption.

He will guide you to discover what will work for you, like He did for me.

In fact, forget about me: He will do it for YOU, like He did it for Dr. Strive Masiyawa!

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SD Nuggets Blog™	New posts from last week that may interest you! *
Public Speaking[Monday]:	No. 212: End The Year on a High Using This Unique Low Cost Business Promotion Strategy
[Tuesday]:	How to Attract Farm Customers Online (Case Study: A Farm CEO’s Interesting Facebook Post on Human Salmonella Outbreaks Resulting from Backyard Poultry Practice)
[Wednesday]:	THE FARM CEO (Issue 17):How to Attract Farm Customers Online (Case Study: A Farm CEO’s Interesting Facebook Post on Human Salmonella from Backyard Poultry), The Hot 50 Small Farm Marketing Tips, 11 Steps to Successful Farm Marketing, Online Marketing Tips from the Farmer’s Market, 5 Farmer’s Market Marketing Ideas
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[Friday]:	Layout Plan for TK Solagbade’s Proposed Best Practice Farm Biz Support Centre (FBSC)™ – Benin Republic
[Saturday]:	Spend Less Money to Eat Well, by Growing Foods (Hint: True Story With Photos of my Kids Growing Tomatoes, Beans, Pineapples at Home)!
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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.

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 as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer, to Training

& Technical Development Manager, and then later acted in senior management roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.

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 Limited.

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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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:

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No. 212: End The Year on a High Using This Unique Low Cost Business Promotion Strategy

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The year is drawing to a close. For experts serious about growing their businesses, ideas about how to (a) end it on a high and (b) hit the ground running in the New Year, will be appealing.

I describe an unconventional but potentially useful low cost business promotion strategy you can consider.

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Title: End The Year on a High Using This Unique Low Cost Business Promotion Strategy

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The year is drawing to a close. For experts serious about growing their businesses, ideas about how to (a) end it on a high and (b) hit the ground running in the New Year, will be appealing. I describe an unconventional but potentially useful low cost business promotion strategy you can consider.

Below: Photos of a Derbyshire calendar/meeting planner gift left for me by our family friends who recently visited Nigeria, from Sheffield.

In a previous article I mentioned that these friends had arrived for a 2 week tour, and that I’d purchased a popular ancient West African board game called “Ayo” in Yoruba (my language) as a gift for them.

It was handed to them by my 16 year old son, who they met for the first time on their last day. Click here to view photos my daughters playing the game.

When I visited the UK for a course back in 2000, this was one of the items I bought that I found very useful in my work after I returned to Nigeria.

But I’ve never found a place to buy it out here, since then.

You can therefore imagine how pleased I was to get this 2016 edition, as 2015 closes out.

Now, while flipping through it, the thought that I could not get it before now triggered the idea in my mind that I could MAKE MY OWN calendars…

As that idea took shape in my mind, it occurred to me that I could use my own original photos taken during my travels, creatively mixed with graphics of products I offer for sale, to brand the calendars I produce.

The best part was that I knew WHERE I could get it ALL done to VERY high standard, at VERY low cost – most likely lower than anywhere else (If you wonder how that is possible, just keep reading).

Once I established the above in my mind, I knew I had to tell others – my clients, subscribers and other members of my target audience who I actively aim to ADD value to…

That’s why you’re reading this. Here are two examples of how this idea can be put to use:

1. Use a special selection of photos from events and outings you’ve had in the past, to produce a branded calendar that you can sell, and/or give out as gifts into the New Year.

2. If you sell products, use photos of your key products creatively merged into photos of popular tourist attractions or destinations, from your town, city or country/continent, to produce a Calendar or Meeting Planner that you can sell, and/or give out as gifts into the New Year.

In my case I plan to create calendars and meeting planners using photos of my custom Excel-VB softwares‘ reporting interfaces, merged in an aesthetically pleasing manner with photos of key attractions in Nigeria and Benin. Short descriptions/annotations will be appended where relevant.

Now, if you’re like most people, you’re probably wondering about potential cost implications of doing all I’ve said above.

Well, if you’ve been following my writing for a while, it’s likely you know I get my print/physical books published at zero cost, using Print-On-Demand publishing provided by Lulu.com.

Click here to read more about Print-On-Demand (POD) publishing, and a book-writing service I use it to provide to clients.

The well finished print quality of the books produced using this system is comparable to what obtains anywhere in the world. Y et, as the author, I (as well as my clients who use this system) do NOT spend money other than that for accessing the web, to get each book published.

Similar services to Lulu.com’s POD publishing exist for other non-book-related printing needs that creative people have.

For instance, I have a store on Cafepress.com which displays for sale, t-shirts, key holders, and over 50 other products, branded with Eyo Masquerade graphics, that I created by using Photoshop to manipulate photos I took of an artist friend(Eze)’s pointillism artworks back in 2005.

Click here to view my print Calendar branded with an Eyo Masquerade image on sale at www.cafepress.com

To begin, I designed and uploaded my graphics to a FREE store (see www.cafepress.com/ezeartsonline) I created on their website

The graphics then appeared on individual products I chose, with the resulting branded versions becoming instantly available for purchase online.

In other words, just like it happens with ordering bulk copies of books from Lulu.com, anyone IS can orders ANY of the branded products, and have it shipped to his/her doorstep in a box!

a. Lagos Eyo Masquerade Greeting Cards (Pk of 10)

b. Lagos Eyo Masquerade Shirt

c. Lagos Eyo Masquerade Calendar Print

As a Cafepress.com store owner, this means you can create for instance, calendars branded with images you design or photos you take, and then order whatever number of copies you want.

Note that the options available in terms of calendar types may limit what you end up with. For example, the Cafepress.com platform probably will not have anything that can allow you create something like the Derbyshire calendar.

Having said the above however, recent checks I’ve done online has indicate that some new POD providers now exist online. And they offer a much wider and flexible range of products you can customize with your graphics along the lines I propose here.

As I make progress with my own plans to find something that suits my needs, I will document what I discover to share with interested persons ( Click here to let me know if you’d like to get updates on this them in future).

Create, order & sell (or “GIFT”) your branded calendars and meeting planners to mainly CEOs and organizational leaders.

Even though I plan to sell them, whenever and wherever I perceive it will be useful to do so, I will give out complimentary copies of my branded products to persons fitting my target audience profile.

Imagine being able to sit at home and order GIFT versions of your unique low cost, branded products to prospects, clients, as well as friends and relatives?

The strategy will be to make your branded products NOT similar to anything available in the local market.

The pocket-friendly pricing will be added as the icing on the cake to attract attention and generate interest.

Low prices make sense for branded products of this kind because people who buy them will learn about my other products/services in using them.

I like using items like calendars/meeting planners, greeting cards, keyholders and similar items because they:

a. tend to be more pocket-friendly cost-wise

b. come in small units so large quantities can be purchased at discounted rates

c. can be “gifted” to DECISION MAKERS – who happen to be a key target audience.

As an expert-who-speaks, your uniquely branded products can make a great impression and boost your name/brand recognition in the process.

That’s why what I propose here should interest you.

Not only is this a little known way to achieve useful marketing impact, it is also little used – especially when done using POD publishing.

If you adopt this strategy going into the New Year, there’s a good chance doing so will get you noticed ahead of your peers, rivals or competitors.

REMEMBER: When you do it using a POD provider, you get to spend VERY little to get A LOT done, that would not be possible any other way!

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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

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SD Nuggets Blog™	New posts from last week that may interest you! *
Public Speaking[Monday]:	No. 211: The Key to Sales and Marketing Success
[Tuesday]:	Authentically Successful African Billionnaire Shares True Life Stories In a Series About Fighting Corruption to Succeed in Business [Econet Wireless Founder, Strive Masiyawa Sets an Example Worth Emulating by Business Leaders Worldwide]
[Wednesday]:	THE FARM CEO (Issue 16): Made in Africa Talking Cars, Animal Reproduction Boosting Extracts & Incubators by a Church Leader?!, World’s 1st Fish Farm in Shipping Container: A South African Invention, New Innovations to Reduce Harvest Loss, Aquapod System That Can Enable MARINE Fish Farming by Africans?, Kenyan Invention: Egg Monitoring Kit to Check Egg Fertility/Assess Incubation Progress
[Thursday]:	Your Child Needs Strength of Character to Successfully Resist Corruption
[Friday]:	Excel-VB Apps Can be Made Networkable, to Enable You Remotely View & Generate Timely Reports for Decision Making
[Saturday]:	Creative Thinking, Hard Work, and Blind Faith Will Defeat Adversity – ANY DAY! [Hint: Get Spontaneous Coaching to become a Master of Adversity (MA)™ ]
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Farm Businesses and others.

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 as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer, to Training

& Technical Development Manager, and then later acted in senior management roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.

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 Limited.

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:

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Some people always want to cut corners, or give too little, if possible nothing, to get ALL they want!

I argue that it becomes impossible to ensure the required high standards are met, and the DESIRED RESULTS achieved when we fail to enforce rules put in place to make that happen!

The reason Nigeria has become home to “mass mediocrity” is because too many people are UNWILLING to EARN merit-based access to rewards they seek…AND too many people in decision making positions are WILLING to BEND the rules to let such people have their way.

I’ve been called DIFFICULT, UN-REASONABLE, RIGID (or even WICKED!) quite a bit in Nigeria…and I have NO PROBLEMS with it!

Question: How do you serve clients successfully?

In developing and implementing Web Marketing Systems (WMS) for clients, I sometimes get asked to meet with and/or give a talk to decision makers (who pay to have that happen) on what I am to do for them.

Trying too hard to be “nice” with a client (or representative) failing to give you what you need to do YOUR work, can end up making YOU look bad at the end of the day.

If the decision maker has given you the go ahead, and some person(s) assigned to work with you are delaying things, find a way to set them right before they make you look bad.

You see, taking such decisive action WILL often enable you deliver a solution works, just like you promised. When that happens, you’ll look good to decision makers WHO TRULY MATTER!

Sometimes it’s not deliberate on the part of the client or representative. They tend to get so busy with their own business tasks that they “forget” or “de-prioritize” what they agreed to do for you.

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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:

So, what’s the difference, you ask?

You could in fact call it “Philosophical Re-Orientation”.

It is my considered opinion that many harmful myths, values etc are held in our society today, causing major damage to the self-perception of the average Nigerian

I have worked with white people (from England/South Africa etc), right here in Nigeria. Some expressed unease with how most Nigerians treated them “special” for no obvious reasons.

So “Who” is a Self-Development Educator? And how does a Self-Development Educator differ from a Motivational Speaker? Here’s my personal definition of a Self-Development Educator:

In showing people how to empower themselves, I work hard to make them INDEPENDENT of me, by helping them develop confidence in their own abilities to come up with solutions that work for them.

Still think it’s all motivational?

However, a new trend has recently been developing in terms of enquiries I’m getting…

This latest enquiry led to a request by the CEO for a price concession, to which I responded with the following offer:

There has NOT been a response yet, but even if the CEO takes up my offer, responses I have gotten from past buyers of my Feed Formulation Handbook and Software, who I contacted BEFORE sending my reply to the CEO, indicate that MOST of them would love to attend the workshop.

Attendees Get the Following at ZERO COST:

In light of the above, especially since those I’ve contacted are less than 25% of the total number I can make this offer to, it’s likely that I’ll need to have more than one run of the workshop to cater for all of them.

So that’s ANOTHER reason I’m launching THIS On-Demand Workshop offer: The idea is to allow interested Farm CEOs and those aspiring, as well as other stakeholders, to book to attend the workshop at a time that is convenient for them.

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Few days after buying my Feed Formulation Software and Handbook bundle, a Catfish Farm CEO based in South West Nigeria sent me the following text message based on our earlier discussions:

That SMS arrived Saturday morning of 10th October 2015…

See below my reply via email…

And here’s the CEO’s acknowledgement on getting it:

By having a generic resource READY to answer questions important to my client, I was able to meet this Farm CEO’s need in a timely manner.

Now, the uninitiated tend not to get it, but doing the above, despite NOT resulting in ANY new sale, doing so, actually puts me in a BETTER position to sell.

Adopting the strategy I recommend here requires that you develop a mental attitude of Self-Reliance

What I propose here WILL enable you advance by yourself, and with help from others willing to give unconditional support, without losing your freedom, or your dignity.

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