Career Development
Why You Need "Sales & Marketing Education" - Even If You're a "Job Seeker" or Employee! (Based on a True Story)









I sat down for one week in 2002 (my start-up year), and wrote what is now my popular Feed Formulation Handbook (photo below). It was based on my knowledge/experience as a key member of the self-funding Student's Farm Research Foundation (SFRF) in the University of Ibadan. But...my first sale did NOT happen until 2004! (NB: […]







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Career Development
How Exposure To Poverty & Trial-By-Fire Can Be Deliberately Used To Prepare People To Succeed









[NB: This article is based on lessons I learned from my real life personal experiences, as an individual AND a parent] The concept of "Trial By Fire" can be successfully applied in different social settings. The ultimate purpose of a "Trial By Fire" approach should however always be to help "participants" discover and/or develop FURTHER […]







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Career Development
The Company You Keep (Even Online!) Determines The Quality of Life You Live (Practical Ideas You Can Use)









I have a relatively tiny Facebook friends list (







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10 Practical Strategies To Help Your Employees Produce Better Results









To get your team members to put in their BEST efforts at all times, you need what I call a Workplace Performance Improvement philosophy. One that will inspire them to willingly do their jobs AND even take up MORE as the need to do so becomes obvious - without seeing it as extra work! I […]







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Why You Need to Become a Master of Adversity to Achieve Long Lasting Success









Are YOU experiencing discouraging delays, disappointments, or setbacks in life, and struggling to deal with them? If YES, this article can help you. “Ona kan o gba oja” - a Yoruba saying – translates literally as: “several routes can be followed to the market”. It is often used in a figurative sense e.g. if an […]







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Why More People Prefer Teaching Others, to Doing What They Teach









What I discuss in today’s article – in my experience based opinion – afflicts adults in both paid and self-employment - especially the well schooled ones. They typically possess great knowledge, and competence, but often lack the know-how to MONETIZE what they know/can do. The seeds for that problem are however sown in them long […]







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Career Development
FACEBOOK AUTOMATION: How to Auto-Schedule New Posts to Appear On Your Facebook Wall At a Future Date or Time (For BUSY People Who Need to Save Time!) - FREE PDF Download









This document is password protected. If YOU are able to open and read this document, after downloading, it means you are my web marketing client and had password access that I supplied via phone SMS - at my own expense. [NB: If you have yet to receive your password, let me know and I will […]







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Career Development
Start Something You Never Need to Retire From (Hint: Why We All Need to Emulate Muhammad Ali - the BOXER, and the MAN!)









"When you saw me in the boxing ring fighting, it wasn't just so I could beat my opponent. My fighting had a purpose. I had to be successful in order to get people to listen to the things I had to say." - MUHAMMAD ALI, The Soul of a Butterfly I recently watched a video […]







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Career Development
No. 162: You Need Childish Enthusiasm to Achieve Uncommon Success









“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” – Pablo Picasso I am VERY childishly excitable and I SHOW IT. Not all my clients understand IT, but most like IT, because (IF I take on their project) IT  makes me DELIVER what I promise them. Unlike […]







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Every Time You Achieve Success, Find Out Why, So That You Can Reproduce It.









I often groan when I hear a celebrity answer the question about the secret of his/her success by saying something like "Na God O!" (i.e. "It's God's handiwork!").  You see, I also succeed with God's help. BUT, I KNOW there's more to success achievement than saying "Na God O!" suggests! And this is where successful […]







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