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PII 120: Life’s Got You Down? READ THIS!

June 4, 2018 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

When things are not going well it can be hard to stay positive and motivated.

No one wants to experience delays, disappointments, setbacks or failure in any form, for any length of time.

But the reality of life is that we WILL sometimes have to face them to grow, and mature to our fullest potentials.

Whether we get there (i.e. to success/full potential) will however depend on how we respond to those negative experiences we have!

In this issue (4th June 2018) of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter, I feature verbatim transcript excerpts from a scene in the iconic Sylvester Stallone’s blockbuster movie “Rocky”.

In it, struggling Pro Boxer “Rocky” (Sylvester Stallone) shares powerful insights about WINNING in spite of adversity in life, with his young son, in response to the latter’s stinging criticism about his (Rocky’s) lack of success achievement.

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Tayo Solagbade’s
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Monday 4th June 2018

NB: This PI Squared newsletter will be published weekly, on Mondays, in place of the Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, starting from today – 15th February 2016. I’m reinventing my Monday newsletter content and theme, to accommodate my vision of serving the growing audience of serious minded individuals and organizations reaching out to me, with information, education. news and research findings designed to help them do what they do better.

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PII 120: Life’s Got You Down? READ THIS!

When things are not going well it can be hard to stay positive and motivated.

No one wants to experience delays, disappointments, setbacks or failure in any form, for any length of time.

But the reality of life is that we WILL sometimes have to face them to grow, and mature to our fullest potentials.

Whether we get there (i.e. to success/full potential) will however depend on how we respond to those negative experiences we have!

In this issue (4th June 2018) of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter, I feature verbatim transcript excerpts from a scene in the iconic Sylvester Stallone’s blockbuster movie “Rocky”.

R0cky tells him why it is important to keep MOVING FORWARD no matter how hard life hits you, and why blaming others for the knocks you get from life should NEVER be something you do, except you want to be a coward – and in the long run, a failure!

I strongly recommend that every parent read this transcript and watch the video, then use what you learn to challenge yourself to live a better life.

But don’t stop there: Also use what you learn, to COACH YOUR kids, in preparation for life when they arrive adulthood. Believe me, they WILL need it!

Here’s why I think you need to let your kids STUDY the video and this transcript with you:

You see, during hard times, your ability to provide for your loved ones, may become a bit limited and this could lead them to begin DOUBTING you. Depending on how bad things get, your circumstances could make people outside your home talk about you, to the hearing of such loved ones who you provide for, causing them to feel embarrassed. Knowing the truths stated in this video clip can help YOU deal with this phase of your life and also help them keep believing in you – and even in themselves!

Click here to download the clip I typed this text transcript from…

Son (walking alongside Rocky): So you nervous about the fight?

Rocky: Scared to death

Son: You don’t look scared

Rocky: Well you ain’t supposed to

Son: Then you don’t have to do it

Rocky: Yeah, well I think I do

Son (stops walking, so Rocky turns around): You know living with you, it hasn’t been easy. People see me, but they think of you, Now with all this going on, it’s going to be worse than ever.

Rocky: It don’t have to be

Son: Oh, sure it does

Rocky: Why? You got a lot going on, kid

Son: What? My last name? That’s the reason I got a decent job. That’s the reason why people deal with me in the first place. Now I start to get a little ahead. I start to get a little something for myself and this happens. Now I’m asking you as a favour, not to go through with this okay. This is only gonna end up bad for you and it’s gonna end up bad for me.

Rocky: You think I’m hurting you?

Son: Yeah – in a way you are

Rocky: That’s the last thing I ever wanted to do.

Son: I know that’s not what you wanna do, but that’s just the way that it is. Don’t you care what people think?

Doesn’t it bother you that people are making you out to be a joke, and I’m gonna be included in that?

Do you think that’s right?

Do you?

Rocky: You ain’t gonna believe this, but you used to fit right here [points to palm of his right hand]

I’d hold you up and say to your mother “This kid’s gonna be the best kid in the world. This kid’s gonna be somebody better than anybody ever knew.

And you grew up good and wonderful. It was great just watching. Every day was like a privilege.

Then the time come for you to take on the world and be your own man, and you did.

But somewhere along the line, you changed. You stopped being you.

You let people stick a finger in your face and tell you you’re no good.

And when things got hard, you started looking for something to blame. Like a big shadow.

Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows.

It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it.

You, me or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving’ forward.

How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done!

Now if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him or her or anybody!

Cowards do that, and that ain’t you!

You’re better than that!

[PAUSE[

I’m always gonna love you no matter what.

No matter what happens. You’re my son and you’re my blood.

You’re the best thing in my life.

But until you start believing in yourself, you ain’t gonna have a life.

Many people who encounter hard times sometimes wonder why things have to be so difficult. Some get to a point where they even question “God”.

Others decide they cannot take it anymore and settle for cutting corners to make ends meet.

Now, cutting corners to succeed is NEVER right and ultimately hurts more than it helps, in most cases.

But at least those who do it are ACCEPTING responsibility for where they are, and taking ACTION to go where they want to be!

This is more than can be said for those who choose to blame others for hardships they encounter.

They go through those experiences without making effort to LEARN and IMPROVE themselves so as to make PROGRESS towards a better life.

As a result, their circumstances worsen – and they complain, and point fingers at others to blame even more, thereby remaining in that sad cycle of repeated failures!

You do NOT want THAT to be YOUR story.

I recommend you take Rocky’s admonition to heart and begin to think and act accordingly, from today onwards.

Sooner than later, the success you seek, will be come your reality.

Good luck!

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PII 119: Shine Your Light: Succeed Without Apology [Verbatim Video Transcript of “Shine Your Light” – Powerful Speech by World-Renowned Motivational Speaker and Bestselling Author, Lisa Nichols]

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Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur

*Best Practice Farm Business Support Specialist & Founder of the MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club and Competition

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 Development Manager, 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 computerize 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 (SDAc).

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 The Farm CEO Weekly Newspaper (sent via email to paid subscribers) and his Weekly Performance Improvement IDEAS newsletter.

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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PII 119: Shine Your Light: Succeed Without Apology [Verbatim Video Transcript of “Shine Your Light” – Powerful Speech by World-Renowned Motivational Speaker and Bestselling Author, Lisa Nichols]

May 28, 2018 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

In this week’s issue (28th May 2018) of my newsletter, I share the verbatim transcript I’ve typed from a 3.5 minute video clip of World-renowned motivational speaker and bestselling author, Lisa Nichols delivering her powerful speech on how to keep shining and blinding those who cannot handle your light.

Notice that I’ve DELIBERATELY retitled it “Shine Your Light: Succeed Without Apology”

Reason: To better drive home the message from her speech.

This is a message so MANY adults need to hear today.

I meet too many as I move around, who have been sooooo psychologically battered by society to believe they need to act “humble” and not “show so much of what they can do”.

This makes them go through life UNDER-ACHIEVING.

Very wrong.

The Creator is NEVER pleased with that kind of lifestyle, because it does NOT glorify Him!!!

I’ve explained why this is so, in past articles on this blog – including a popular one (click here to read it in a new window) about how Muhammad Ali achieve legendary status while alive by shining his light brightly and blowing his trumpet loudly!

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Tayo Solagbade’s
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Monday 28th May 2018

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PII 119: Shine Your Light: Succeed Without Apology [Verbatim Video Transcript of “Shine Your Light” – Powerful Speech by World-Renowned Motivational Speaker and Bestselling Author, Lisa Nichols]

Notice that I’ve DELIBERATELY retitled it “Shine Your Light: Succeed Without Apology”

Reason: To better drive home the message from her speech.

This is a message so MANY adults need to hear today.

I meet too many as I move around, who have been sooooo psychologically battered by society to believe they need to act “humble” and not “show so much of what they can do”.

This makes them go through life UNDER-ACHIEVING.

Very wrong.

The Creator is NEVER pleased with that kind of lifestyle, because it does NOT glorify Him!!!

I’ve explained why this is so, in past articles on this blog – including a popular one – viewed over 35,000 times (click here to read it in a new window) – about how Muhammad Ali achieve legendary status while alive by shining his light brightly and blowing his trumpet loudly!

Below: The “Shine Your Light – by Lisa Nichols Video” – Click to Watch (or Scroll Further Down to Read the Text Transcript I’ve Prepared)

https://www.goalcast.com/2018/03/05/lisa-nichols-keep-shining/

BELOW: Shine Your Light: Succeed Without Apology [Verbatim Video Transcript by Tayo K. Solagbade, www.tayosolagbade.com of “Shine Your Light” – Powerful Speech by World-Renowned Motivational Speaker and Bestselling Author, Lisa Nichols]

=Start of Transcript=

“It’s a life of hustle and survival.

I remember when my 9th grade teacher asked me:

‘Lisa what do you want to be when you grow up?’
You see I had to fight the Harlem Crip 30’s every day to get home from school, so I looked at her and said “Alive.”

I took an English class, and I got a FAIL in English.

And my English teacher said, in front of the entire class:

‘Lisa, you have to be the weakest writer I have ever met in my entire life.’

Don’t worry, my story ends good.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

I got seven under my belt.

And then the same year, my speech teacher said – after giving me a “D minus’

I knew I had an A in speech, like, come on…

He obviously didn’t agree with me. He gave me a D minus and said:

‘Ms. Nichols, I recommend that you never speak in public. That you get a desk job.

So here’s the beauty of that story:

Other people’s perception of you, ain’t none of your business.

Everything you’ve ever been through, set through, rose through, cried through, prayed through…everything is a setup for your next best season.

In the way you forgive the perceivably unforgivable; the way you love the perceivably unlovable; the way you accept what seems to be unacceptable; the way you embrace after you’ve been betrayed; the way you do that, is the way you will lead us.

Your light belongs to everyone who’ll be illuminated because you were bold enough and obedient enough to let your light shine.

Yes, Yes. Yes, Yes.

And every time you cross someone’s path and they can’t handle your light…

You know those people. They try to give you reasons why you should tone it down a bit…

That they will tell Sheryl not to sing so loud.

Right, right, right.

They would tell me to shut up in class.

They tell you, ‘You kind of strange’

You know those people.

Dream snatchers. Vision busters.

Don’t be mad at them. They can only love you to the capacity to which they are able to love themselves.

Don’t be mad at them.

Don’t be mad at them.

Pray for them. Love them.

Because they’re dealing with themselves, like we’re dealing with us.

But, I want you to remember that your 70 watts…your 70 watts had to be turned way up.

Because you got way more to give us.

It ain’t over yet.

Don’t put a period, where God put a comma.

And when you turn it up to 159 watts, you know you keep turning it up.

You like you stop dimming your light. You say ‘Today is the first day of the rest of my life’ and you turn it up…

You’re going to find people that can’t handle your light.

And before today you might have dimmed your life. You might have shrunk a little bit.

You might have tempered it down a little bit.

But after today, I want you to see this.

After today, turn the lights up.

After today you don’t dare dim your light.

As your light gets brighter…As your light gets brighter…you’re going to disrupt some people, and they’re going to tell you:

‘Your light’s too bright.’

‘Your light’s too bright.’

‘Your light’s too bright.’

Then you just look at them and say:

‘Well I’m not dimming my light.’

‘I’m just going to hand you some (sun) shades.’

I’m just saying…

Why don’t you start carrying around an extra pair of shades!

=End of Transcript=

Stop Being Shy About Manifesting Your God-Given Potential.

Lisa’s message simply put is that…

The world needs you to be yourself – YOUR FULL unadulterated self. You have so much to TEACH others, based on your God-given Genius and Talents.

And like someone once said: You do NOT need anyone’s permission to succeed.

If you’re still in doubt, here’s a famous quote that communicates the same truths:

“You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.” Marianne Williamson

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1. Click here to learn more about this app – watch demo videos etc

2.Click here to watch a 4 part video in which I demonstrate how to use this app to formulate rations using real life data sent to me by an Algerian PhD student.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

EXCEL-VB DRIVEN POULTRY LAYER FARM MANAGER SOFTWARE

Click here to download a detailed PDF user guide and watch 15 screen shot user guide tutorials of the Monthly Poultry Farm Manager that I now offer Farm CEOs.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

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New posts from last week*

Monday:

PII 118: You Need a Smart Marketing Action Plan to Attract Quality Sales Leads [Preview of a Smart Web Marketing Action Plan for a REAL LIFE Client]

[Tuesday]:

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[Wednesday]:

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[Thursday]:

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[Friday]:

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[Saturday]:

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[Sunday]:

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Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur

*Best Practice Farm Business Support Specialist & Founder of the MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club and Competition

Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic)

http://www.tayosolagbade.com

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).

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
==================

audience profile. I can help to research and investigate the market there, to get firmer details of what it will take to get started etc.

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Haters Cannot Change Your Destiny!

May 11, 2018 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

This post was first published (along with THIS one) on Wednesday, May 7, 2014 – on the temporary blogspot dot com channel (click to see) I setup in May 2014, after spontaneousdevelopmen dot .com, my 9 year old domain got taken over by a former hosting company.

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Haters Cannot Change Your Destiny!

A great man once said:

“Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice. Not something to be wished for but to be attained.”

Shina Peters also once sang in his native Yoruba:

“Aye o le pa kadara da. Won kan le fa owo ago pada si eyin ni.”

Contextual Translation: “Haters cannot change a person’s destiny. They can only turn the hands of the clock back i.e slow him/her down.”

This afternoon, I had a chat session with my current web hosts about the issues with my primary domain now locked off by my former host, Aplus.net

From the feedback Hostgator have given me, it’s obvious there’s lots of work I have to do, to modify my hosting account and entire website content to work with a different domain name I have control over.

I’m now awaiting a quote from them, for the configuration that may be needed.

I am also still pursuing a response from Aplus.net to my request that they supply at least the name on the credit card they claim the charge back happened on.

But even if I get the domain freed, I will still carry out my plan to NOT use spontaneousdevelopment.com as my primary domain anymore, until it’s no longer with Aplus.net.

These unexpected developments, and the new plans I just began implementing now make it apparent to me that it’s unlikely I’ll be able to find the time, and resources, to really do what is needed to honour an invitation I got (along with a professional colleague) to attend an event for public speakers in the USA in June 2014.

I’d intended my new marketing plan targeting Farm CEOs with speaking and coaching solution to serve as the “driver” towards achieving that goal.

But the current realities now make it obvious that my prorities need to change.

And so tonight I begin a long overdue process of re-inventing my massive library of web content, based on my personal brand. Www.tayosolagbade.com got renewed using my reseller account for a second year today at $9.99 US dollars.

If the GT Bank Naira Mastercard I used had been accepted by the payment processing system at Aplus.net, I would easily have renewed spontaneousdevelopment.com by myself. Instead I have to depend on friends or relatives based abroad to use their cards on my behalf to pay Aplus, and hostgator. Very awkward and sometimes humiliating.

If I’d been able to pay with my own card, this ridiculous excuse they’ve used to lock down my primary domain may not have worked.

But then again, I’ve been conflicted for months about how to make tayosolagbade.com lead people to my content online via search engines.

Spontaneousdevelopment.com at over 8 years old had always looked too big to replace.

And yet I knew my goal of using speaking and coaching to promote my offers in my travels, would benefit much more from use of tayosolagbade.com.

As luck would have it, those aiming to hurt me have inadvertently helped me. Now I’m taking the excuse of this situation, to carryout the long overdue re-purposing of the web content I’ve been creating since 2005.

I’m going to really enjoy using this as an object lesson to the haters who foolishly keep thinking they can stop me.

Shina Peters’ words of wisdom reproduced above, accurately captures my message here.

Let me quote him again:

“Aye o le pa kadara da. Won kan le fa owo ago pada si eyin ni.”

Translation:

“Haters cannot change a person’s destiny. They can only turn the hands of the clock back i.e slow him/her down.”

From tomorrow I launch a temporary alternative platform to publish my new DAILY content, while I work on the changes to my site. I estimate it might take most of this month of May 2014 to finish.

There’s lots to be done, but I intend to continue my online publishing as normal.

So here we go!

UPDATE (11th May 2018): You are reading THIS post 4 years AFTER I published it on my Blogspot channel – here on my TayoSolagbade.com SD Nuggets blog that I’ve built since then. In other words, I succeeded in defeating that wind of adversity that came my way – and I’ve done even more!

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Below – Link to read this post on my blogspot.com channel:

Title: Haters Cannot Change Your Destiny!

URL: http://sdnuggets.blogspot.com.ng/2014/05/haters-cannot-change-your-destiny.html

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Make Money Using THIS Secret Advanced Spreadsheet Automation Report Generation Weapon [First 10 Persons Only]

May 6, 2018 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

My name is Tayo K. Solagbade – Founder of the MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club and Competition.

I am the secret weapon you will gain access to on a 24/7 basis if you take up this special promo offer I’ve launched to recruit new members to my club.

If you use MS Excel, I can make your life so much easier as far as getting your data recording, analysis and report generation work done goes.

No matter your field of expertise (marketing, insurance, real estate, manufacturing, healthcare, hospitality, engineering etc), as long as you are a serious business user of spreadsheets, especially MS Excel, I can help you boost your productivity beyond your wildest imaginations.

You will be able to spend less time, effort and even money getting your work done, for your boss or client .

1. You tell me what you need to do and I create a workbook report(s) you can confidently present to your boss or client.

2. Also I will build – for you – FREE, a custom Excel software of your choice, that you can use &/or sell with your name as owner – like the ones I’ve sold for years via www.tayosolagnade.com/sdn-sell.htm

3. Plus, you get my FREE Excel coaching.

Simply, join my Excel Heaven Automation club & get 1 to 3 plus more (see newsletter below ).

What You Need to Do to Signup

Be one of the first 10 persons to pay N50k [You get HUGE savings – Compare standard fees on my Excel-VB coaching offer page here]

Text your email address and full name to +234-803-302-1263 or fill and submit this web contact form (click here) to request payment (and any other) details.

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We start your Excel-VB Coaching with an introduction to the club, and to the ideas and philosophies that guide MY APPROACH to using Excel-VB to solve real life problems.

It is an approach I recommend that ALL members of my club adopt,if they want to achieve the kind of proficiency I display.

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The first LIVE workshop I held for club members was in Lagos, Nigeria.

Here’s the URL to the newsletter I published featuring photo and story highlights, as well as explanation of my Experiential Coaching strategy:

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PII 115: To Kill Unemployment, Treat People With Vocational Skills With EQUAL Respect (and Remuneration) as Those With University Degrees! [True Story – Remi, a Lagos Based Entrepreneur, Shows Sapele Youths How to Make Ankara Bags and Shoes]

April 30, 2018 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

Remi, this young custom Ankara shoe and bag making entrepreneur who trained youths on day 3 of the B.H.F Youth Conference in Delta State’s Sapele (see photos below), is a model of what is possible. So many of our young people can be gainfully self-employed like Remi is, IF they would only embrace vocational skills acquisition.

Rather than repeat myself all over again, in yet another “preachy” article, I feature below, previews and links to 2 news reports that illustrate VIVIDLY the fact that even those coming back home with “hot” university degrees obtained from foreign universities are NOT getting the jobs they thought they could get.

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Tayo Solagbade’s
Performance Improvement IDEAS
(PI Squared) Newsletter

Monday 30th April 2018

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PII 115: To Kill Unemployment, Treat People With Vocational Skills With EQUAL Respect (and Remuneration) as Those With University Degrees! [True Story – Remi, a Lagos Based Entrepreneur, Shows Sapele Youths How to Make Ankara Bags and Shoes]

On day 3 of the 3 day Youth Conference on Vocational Skills Acquisition organized by. B.H.F Foundation (recall on day 2 of 3 I conducted my training on How to Make Drinks You Can Sell Using Pineapple Peels), we had a smart young entrepreneur named Remi teach the over 230 youths how to make Ankara Bags and Shoes.

Below: Beginning stages of the process of making Ankara slippers – notice the shoe last (or mould)

My phone battery shut down before this session ended. Luckily we had 2 photographer/video men who captured it all, so DVDs are to be produced.

Over a 4 hour period, this highly skilled young man painstakingly demonstrated the process of making what he called a “Box Bag” (see photos below) and also how to make smart slippers – both with beautiful Ankara fabrics.

We had been expecting him to join us since Monday, but he’d had to stay back to ensure the first half of a client order was safely dispatched to its overseas destination.

In other words, this chap actually produces his custom bags, and shoes for both local and export markets.

Further discussion with him revealed that he’s been in the business for about 8 years now.

Dropped out from Secondary School due to lack of funds. Found his way back to school via technical education where he learned the basics of shoe making. He however noted that he learnt the art of Ankara bag and shoe making by studying YouTube Videos -adding that ANYONE can do what he does today, if s/he is willing to invest the time and effort required to learn the same way – at more or less zero cost.

I have shared the above to underscore a point I’ve been making for YEARS that education needs to be functional.

This young man is not only gainfully self-employed, but he also offers a few people income earning opportunities to work with him.

On top of that, he offers training and coaching for interested persons to learn how to do what he does.

Many of our so called graduates carrying B.Sc and M.Sc degree certificates from local and foreign universities around looking for increasingly hard to find jobs fail to realize they can do much more for themselves by exploring entrepreneurship – especially via acquisition and use of income earning vocational skills that are IN DEMAND in their societies!

Rather than repeat myself all over again, in yet another “preachy” article, I feature below, previews and links to 2 news reports that illustrate VIVIDLY the fact that even those coming back home with “hot” university degrees obtained from foreign universities are NOT getting the jobs they thought they could get.

And they are certainly NOT getting the kinds of salaries they thought their expensively acquired degrees would command. Indeed, as the Sunday Punch report below shows, many are finding themselves being passed over for graduates from local private universities!

It’s so bad that many of them, in spite of the many millions they spent getting their degrees from abroad, have today put them aside and embraced self-employment via vocations like custom shoe making – and as the case of Agu proves, despite being initially mocked by colleagues, they are actually doing quite well.

The above reality – and the fact that many others who continue to venture abroad to study, face increasingly tough conditions to pay their fees and living expenses, resulting in serious and humiliating hardships, PROVE that pursuing paper qualifications NO LONGER works like it used to.

Read: I Am Now Depending On Friends For Food And Shelter – Nigerian Man Studying Abroad

Today’s society rewards people with skills more readily than it does those without them. At the least, you want to arrive in the market place with both academic competence AND market relevant skills.

Dashed hopes: Returnee graduates struggle as employers snub foreign degrees

This much was said by the graduates interviewed in the reports I feature above, as well as the HR consultants whose opinions were sought by the reporter.

The truth is that our conventional schooling system – the one that emphasizes near exclusive book learning – no longer works and needs to be totally overhauled.

The smart parent – and student – would do well to make the needed changes in what s/he chooses to learn NOW, rather than wait for the school teachers, lecturers, administrators or policy makers to do what needs to be done.

That’s what I’m doing for my kids and it is why I’m offering any interested parents, teachers or policy makers FREE download access to the PDF pre-publication edition of my paper titled “Schooling is a Means to an End and NOT an End In Itself”.

My PDF report features links to a video that compares Job Training in the USA with that done in Germany – and it points out a GLARING shortcoming of what is done in the USA and explains why Germany’s approach enables it boast one of the lowest youth unemployment rates in the world.

I believe Nigeria can LEARN a lot from that video -and that we can drastically cut down unemployment in our country if we adopt a similar model to Germany’s in which people with vocational skills get treated with EQUAL respect (and remuneration) as those with college or university degrees!

Remi, this young custom Ankara shoe and bag making entrepreneur who trained youths on day 3 of the Youth Conference in Sapele, is a model of what is possible. So many of our young people can be gainfully self-employed like Remi is, IF they would only embrace vocational skills acquisition.

I explain with elaborate examples and illustrations, including true stories about my personal experiences and those of others, in my PDF report. Click here to learn more.

PII 112: A Well Schooled Person May NOT Necessarily be Well Educated [Excerpt from Tayo Solagbade’s “Schooling is a Means to an End and NOT an End in Itself” – Includes Excerpts from Tayo’s Letter to Lagos State Deputy Governor]

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PII 114 [EVENT VIDEO & PHOTOS] How to Make Drinks You CAN SELL from Pineapple Peels – True Story

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This Money Making Business Requires Zero Cost Capital to Start [True Story: Tayo K. Solagbade Shows Sapele youths How to use Pineapple Peels to make drinks they can sell at zero cost]

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Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur

*Best Practice Farm Business Support Specialist & Founder of the MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club and Competition

Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic)

http://www.tayosolagbade.com

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).

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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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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audience profile. I can help to research and investigate the market there, to get firmer details of what it will take to get started etc.

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[EVENT] How to Make Drinks You CAN SELL from Peels of Pineapples – In Ogun State on Sat. 14th April 2018!

April 11, 2018 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

[Photo Below]: Image flyer version of THIS post announcing the event titled “How to Make Drinks You CAN SELL from Peels of Pineapples” that my 2 daughters (12 and 9 years old) – supported by me – will be facilitating in Ogun State on Sat. 14^th April 2018!”

Date: 14^th April 2018 | Time: From 10a.m

Venue: Town in Ogun state

Attendees: Up to 100 expected (likely split to groups – shoe making, drinks making)

Facilitators: Temi (12) & Oluoma (9) Solagbade

Organiser: BHF Foundation [3 Day Youths Conference]

Following several face to face meetings as well as phone and email exchanges over the past few weeks, the CEO of BHF Foundation – a Lagos based NGO engaged in vocational skills training across learning institutions (up to tertiary level) in Nigeria has formally sent in an invitation letter (see below) indicating his desire to have my Pineapple PEELS drinks making training for an estimated number of housewives, undergraduates and youths.

His NGO is organizing an approved 3 day youth conference outside Lagos. Our training comes up on the final day (Sat. 14^th Apr 2018).

There will also be a Shoe and Bag Making Training by another expert whose work I’ve seen. Venue is a town in Ogun state. Full details with photos WILL come after the event.

The CEO learnt of my one day workshop on drinks making using Pineapple Peels, from a partner of www.discovercotonou.com (my new travel product/service website brand) and got interested.

I have since told the CEO, who is also a Pastor, that my 2 daughters (aged 12 and 9 years old) will be the lead –facilitators on that day. as they have been doing it for YEARS (I will mainly provide support as they progress). The purpose of running the event in this manner is:

To challenge the adults who will be attending the event to BELIEVE they can do it, when they see my girls doing it.
To give the girls an opportunity to develop their sales/marketing presentation skills as part of the Vocational Skills training based education they’ve been undergoing. You can see photos of home based baking of bread, pizza, cake, chin-chin etc that they do at home using their trademark charcoal stove and pot on their Facebook page at facebook.com/TemiandOluomasCharcoalStoveBaking/

INVITE US TO CONDUCT ANY OF OUR HOME BASED DRINKS AND FOODS MAKING TRAINING SESSIONS

My girls make their drinks and bake their confectionaries using their charcoal stove technique – we use that approach to PROVE that lack of capital cannot stop YOU from getting started. However, they also KNOW how to do it all, using gas cookers.

Apart from inviting us to conduct our on demand training for your group, public spirited individuals//organizations can SPONSOR the event, for groups of people we (and/or my partners) may bring together.

VIDEO: [Micro-Biz Opportunity] Make Money Using Peels of Pineapples

The video trailer on the page at www.tayosolagbade.com/boisson-tayo.html announces the availability of THIS learning event to audience groups ANYWHERE on the continent.’

About Temi & Olouma…

‘Temi (12) & Oluoma (9) are sisters who (with support from their family) use creative low cost recipes & a charcoal stove pot to bake cookies, cakes, bread, chin-chin, Pizza etc for sale.

This micro business venture began as a “skills acquisition project” Temi asked their Dad to let her do, after seeing videos of homemade cookies baking. The girls learnt to make the cookies by watching YouTube videos by hobbyists/experts in the USA and Nigeria.
Learn more on their Facebook page – see notes below.

Temi and Oluoma own and manage (with support from me and their brothers) their “Temi & Oluoma’s No-Oven Charcoal Stove Baking” Facebook page. Use this short URL to visit it: www.tinyurl.com/temiandoluonfacebook

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[RECOMMENDED] Do You Know How To Deal With People Who Mock And Ridicule You? (Syndicated Version)

April 3, 2018 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

I wrote this article over a decade ago, less than 5 years after I quit my job to become self-employed. It was a period when I was experiencing a lot of repeat rejection from potential clients, especially as I tried to find buyers for my Excel-Visual Basic Automation solutions.

Many people simply ignored me (or my letters/flyers) while some walked me out of their offices.

But some went out of their way, to mock and ridicule me in ways that remain so painful for me to remember even now.

I will however add that what they was what I ended up using to inspire myself to succeed in creating a lucrative niche market for my Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation products and services – which have since been purchased by clients within and outside Africa.

Read this article (which has been widely syndicated online – see examples here) to learn the exact ideas I used to enable myself to succeed inspite of ANY mockery and ridicule directed at me. Apply them as recommended and you WILL become UNSTOPPABLE, like I am!

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TRUE STORY: An Invitation from The Ministry of Youth and Social Development to Discuss My Paper Titled “Schooling Is a Means to an End and NOT an End In Itself”

March 16, 2018 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

Two 2 days ago (on Wednesday 14th March 2018) I got a call from the Ministry of Youth and Social Development.

The lady asked “Is this Mr. Tayo Solagbade?”.

I replied that it was.

She then went on to say they had received and read a cover letter and the 62 page version of my Work-In-Progress version of my Best Practice Parenting Report titled “Schooling Is a Means to an End and NOT an End In Itself”, which I’d submitted in printed form to the offices of the Honorable Commissioner as well as that of the Permanent Secretary.

She asked “When can we meet with you?”

I replied “Anytime at all you prefer will be acceptable to me.”

With that we agreed that I would come in to her office at 2.30p.m the next day (yesterday) and she hung up.

Below: Photo of my copies of the 2 letters beside a printed version of the 62 page report

I got to her office about 15 minutes ahead of time yesterday p.m

And I recall having to get past a gatekeeper who initially told me she was out, until I mentioned my name and insisted I was given an appointment by her for 2.30p.m. Then he went “inside” and I overheard her exclaim “Aaaah….”. Next thing I knew, he came back smiling and motioned for me to take a seat.

About 10 minutes later, she came out of her office and we greeted briefly as she went out. Not long after, another lady popped her head into the office and asked if I was the person waiting to see the “Director”. I looked at the gatekeeper for guidance, and saw that he was nodding that I was.

I got up and walked towards her. She said “So you’re the one who wrote that paper – with a look of surprise in her eyes”. I replied that I had written a paper that I’d sent in to the ministry, but wondered why I was to see the director and not the lady in whose office we were.

That was when she explained that THAT lady had other assignments to attend and would be represented by her at a meeting that had been arranged for me to have with the Director.

When they Director’s name was mentioned, I smiled inwardly, because she was someone I’d met before and had extensive discussions with on the theme of the paper I’d now published.

For me, it was therefore fitting that I was to meet with her again. The first time we’d met in 2015. Back then I’d explained what led to my decision to start homeschooling my kids, via a Vocational Skills Acquisition based strategy, as I searched for an academic institution that would enable them continue doing so, along with their academic studies.

[NB: Full details are provided in my 62 page report, which anyone can request by sending me a message via my Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/tayo.solagbade]

The meeting soon got started and she explained that the “PS” (Permanent Secretary) had sent her my paper, with the cover letter with notes that she was to invite me for a meeting to discuss the ideas I’d described in my paper.

To start off, she acknowledged the points I’d made in my report about the inadequacy of the current schooling system, and noted that what I had done, by CHECKING what the schools were DOING and taking action to develop an alternative that worked was the way to go.

The following were some of the questions I was asked (as her PA and the Deputy Director on either side of me) took notes while I spoke.

Do you want to government to collaborate with you on this project?

Are you proposing a change in the educational curriculum used by schools in the state? If YES, you will need to contact the Ministry of Education, as we at Youth and Social Development cannot take decisions binding on them(She added that work was already ongoing to review it, but that more could be done as per the issues I’d raised in my report)

We have a parenting support network and we’re thinking of adopting your report’s ideas for use in that area. Can we invite you to give an experience-sharing talk to parents we work with?

Among other things, she noted that I could take what I was doing to the next level, by doing a summary or abstract to the Deputy Governor for higher level support.

The truth is that most of the questions they asked and the comments they made were consistent with my purpose for writing my paper in the first place. I wanted to ROCK THE BOAT of the Nigerian Educational System as currently run.

Not for any selfish attention getting motive, but for the sake of MANY parents who I believe may not realize how bad the system is for the kids they gladly push through it. The reaction I’ve seen so far confirms that a desire exists on the part of the policy makers, to do better.

I believe a good number of parents also want something better, for their kids. And if that is so, then the teachers are bound to fall in line and give the other 2 groups what they want: REAL WORLD RELEVANT EDUCATION that works for learners to survive and flourish in life AFTER school!

And that’s why I’ve been GLADLY sending this report to ANY persons who have requested it. Get your copy by sending me a message via my Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/tayo.solagbade]

Note that what I sent to the ministry, and which I offer NOW, to anyone is the 62 page pre-publication edition, so I am still working in more content, and refining it towards final publishing.

However, even as it is now, which is what I sent to the ministry, it offers massively useful volume of information and education for parents, teachers and policy makers willing to study its contents diligently.

Here’s an excerpt from the report:

“My parents told me they worked while in school, to pay their way especially through tertiary education. This cannot be bad, because it forces the learner to develop income earning competence in readiness for his/her entry into the real world. Sometimes that competence could evolve into a successful vocation.

Some big names we know today, like Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Richard Branson – all started engaging actively in business while still students in school – some even from their high school days.

The child that is guided to do this can only end up better off in the long run. I think it’s a shame that we are being told to spoon feed kids right into the completion of their formal schooling.

My experiences and observations/studies clearly show that it is the wrong thing to do. And that is another reason why I have supported my 8 and 11 year old daughters to venture into various income earning vocations like make-up and gele tying, hair styling, baking of a variety of confectioneries in addition to drinks making, PLUS snail rearing on a micro scale.” – Tayo K. Solagbade, Best Practice Parenting Advocate, in “Schooling Is a Means to an End and NOT an End in Itself” – Request your FREE 62 page copy via www.tayosolagbade.com/contact.htm

Do you want to get a copy of my 62 page report?

Title = “Schooling Is a Means to an End and NOT an End It Itself”

Alternative Title = “Why I Do NOT Want My Kids to Get the Kind of Formal Schooling I Got”

Subtitle = Hard Truths Parents, Teachers & Policy Makers Need to Understand, to “Educate” Kids for ”Authentic Non-Corner-Cutting Success” in the 21st Century!

Simply send me a message via my Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/tayo.solagbade – and I will send it to you as an attachment via that same channel. For those who do NOT wish to use the Facebook channel, fill/submit this web form [NB: Include your WhatsApp number in the telephone field]

Below: Screenshot of a page from the 62 page version of the PDF report

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[RECOMMENDED] How Schools Are Killing Creativity – by Line Dalile, 14-year-old student and writer @ huffingtonpost dot com

February 28, 2018 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

This 14 year old lady hit the nail right on its head with this piece about how conventional schools are killing creativity.

Every parent should read her article shared here to understand why YOU need to take action to CHANGE the traditional schooling that you’re letting your kids gets exposed to.

It WILL DO THEM more harm than good in the long run.

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If a 14 year old girl GETS IT, I worry for you, if you – as an adult – still do NOT get it after reading her article [If you’re a child being sent to school, read her article and demand that your parents take action to help you avoid the dangers she points out in it.]

I’ve been SCREAMING about this problem with our conventional schooling systems for years [e.g my syndicated 2008 article: https://ezinearticles.com/?Is-Your-Child-Learning-For-School-Or-For-Life?&id=1240561]

Over the years, as I noticed no change in what schools offered, I have personally taken drastic steps to protect the valuable geniuses of my own kids from the damage it does.

That’s earned me severe criticisms from various quarters – but the RESULTS will soon begin to speak for themselves. Mark my words!

My advice to you: Take action now to help your kids protect their geniuses from the damaging impact of uncontrolled exposure to conventional schooling systems – or I might just be saying “I told you so!” in a few years time!

Read the full article at https://www.huffingtonpost.com/line-dalile/a-dictator-racing-to-nowh_b_1409138.html

1. Is Your Child Learning For School Or For Life?

2. Your Child can Succeed Even When Schooling Fails

3. PII 070: Will Your Child’s Certificates and Degrees be Enough to Succeed in Life?

4. PII 066: There’ll be No Need to Force Kids to “Finish” School If They See MORE Formally Schooled People Doing Well Financially [Hint: 9 Questions That Indicate How Conventional Schooling Shortchanges Learners]

5. Your Kids Need Modern Teacher-Educators, Not Teacher-Dictators (10 Distinguishing Traits)

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Powerful Strategy for Making Money from FREE Talks You Give [NO, It’s Not Back Room Sales]

February 17, 2018 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

I use what I call a “Public Speaking for Business Marketing” (PSBM) to cost-effectively boost my name and brand recognition in my target market place.

This involves looking out for and/or creating speaking opportunities in which I share my knowledge and expertise to a niche audience of experts interested in the solutions I offer.

Most times when I am the one who initiates contact with the target group or organisation, I do NOT request payment for my talks.

They are typically 20 minutes to 1 hour in duration, and most times I’ll have created a BREAKOUT session of a day or more, which will require the client to make payment,based on what would have been a positibe experience with the short preview talk.

Contrary to what most people tend to think when they first encounter my offers, however, the intent is rarely to get hired to speak or provide a service to be paid.

Instead, my purpose is very often to establish a trust based relationship by giving massive value without demanding or expecting ANYTHING in return.

Sometimes I notice those I offer/give FREE talks seem to see me as foolish and even proceed to act in ways that suggest they believe I’m losing out by doing things that way – and THAT makes me smile inwardly!

Yes, I smile to myself because I KNOW they think that way, because they lack ONE powerful insight that I have had access to, via my studies of accomplished public speaking self-marketing professionals like the legendary Burt Dubin, who I have had the privilege of working with, and enjoy great friendship with.

At 95 years of age, today, Burt no longer actively sells most of the solutions offers.

But a visit to www.burtdubin-blog.com/ should still give you a peek into the exciting variety of high quality information products he has provided to public speaking and business marketing expertise around the world, for many decades.

That’s in addition to phone and email mentoring he did (and probably still does).

So what’s the insight that I gained from exploring Burt’s wealth of knowledge and wisdome?

Well, it’s that EVERY talk you deliver or indeed any speaking event you host (seminar,workshop etc) can be recorded and sold = REPEATEDLY, after it ends, thereby generating a potentially endless stream of passive incoem for you.

Think about it this way – and I have experienced it, so I know it’s not a far fetched idea:

Not every target groups of experts that needs your talk will have the time, money or resources to invite you to speak to them. Sometimes it might even be YOU who lacks the time or resources to make yourself available to speak to some group members or other audiences.

However, there is a solution that works, if done right.

You see, while giving that talk, you can record your entire presentation LIVE, and then later edit/publish it, say as an MP4 video, or MP3 audio for download online, or playback on CD/DVD. such that it delivers roughly the same learning as those who attend your LIVE event will get.

Once you’ve done that (to an acceptable quality standard, that would justify charging a fee), put a price on it, and offer it to those who may NOT be able to attend your LIVE event for any reason.

I have done this with great success to show many times for various products and services I offer. Typically, I would sit in a quiet room and record whatever message or presentation I know is in demand, and them offer it via my website.

But it was from Burt Dubi’s website that I got the idea to record myself speaking during my LIVE talks, and then offer THAT recording for sale to a LARGER audience of potential buyers (in addition to the original audience members, in case any are interested).

He actually has products like that on sale, from decades back.

Think about this and you will see how it can transform the way you make money..

Even when you give FREE talks on a subject you’re an expert authority on, if you record it the way I propose here, you can leave that FREE talk venue and go elsewhere to sell that recording to others who may not be able to invite you, but who NEED or WANT to hear your message.

That’s what I did 2 days ago, when I gave my flagship Web Marketing talk to executives of a network marketing company this past Thursday, 15th February 2018.

The audience and organizers did not notice it, but I had my powerful smartphone recorder ON as I spoke, and periodically checked it to be sure it was working okay, as I spoke, right till the end.

However, as is my usual habit, I did not stop with just the audio recording. Instead, I went further to transcribe the audio to a written PDF ebook version,

So, by the end of last night, I had a new product that I announced via Facebook as being available for sale: the PDF ebook.

Today, I’m sending out notices to all my subscribers and contacts, offering the ebook (with the option of download access to the audio) for sale to interested persons.

I gave the talk FREE – But now sell a new product created by recording THAT same talk!

But how can I be sure anyone would want to buy the ebook or audio?

Well, going by the comments they filled on my feedback form, my talk added significant value to them in various ways, some of which they stated (see in image below) .

Therefore it’s likely to add useful value to others like them – and such persons are those likely to welcome the ebook product.

Indeed, even some of those who attended the event may wish to own the PDF ebook version so they can RELIVE the experience and/or share it with their team members.

See how being willing to give of yourself, so FREELY can still equip you with powerful money making opportunities?

All it takes to discover and harvest these kinds of ideas is to keep an open mind, and avoid having a rigid mindset about how things are (or should be) done.

Click here to request details of how you can get the PDF ebook version of my talk.

Here’s an excerpt from the ebook version of my talk

PDF Ebook Transcript Version of LIVE AUDIO Recording of Tayo Solagbade’s talk titled “Attract Profitable Buyers at Zero Cost…Even While YOU Sleep” delivered Thurs 15th Feb 2018 to National Executives of Life Plus International at Top Rank Hotel Galaxy, Opebi – Ikeja, Lagos – Nigeria.

Excerpt No. 1: “I’m trying to tell you that you have to have passion for what you do. And you have to use this your passion to build relationships. So when you were discussing about those people that will come and signup, I was thinking “How will they get there? How will you find and win them over to sign up? It’s easier said than done!”

One way is (what I call) the Cave Man approach: You know the marketer that goes around with metaphorical club, hunting for clients. Once s/he sees someone likely to need the product/service, s/he beats him/her (figuratively speaking), on the head saying “Oga signup, sign-up!” repeatedly till the person gives in (often out of frustration) and buys!

Then there is the other way in which you dangle a carrot: For instance you know when you’re fishing, how you put a worm at the end of a hook that you then dip in the water where you want to catch fish, using a fishing line. And the guy comes nibbling at the bait – you don’t have to do much of anything because he wants it!

That second method is better, because you don’t have resentment.”

Click here to request details of how you can get the PDF ebook version of my talk. http://tayosolagbade.com/contact.htm

In this issue (4th June 2018) of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter, I feature verbatim transcript excerpts from a scene in the iconic Sylvester Stallone’s blockbuster movie “Rocky”.

Tayo Solagbade’s Performance Improvement IDEAS (PI Squared) Newsletter

PII 120: Life’s Got You Down? READ THIS!

In this issue (4th June 2018) of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter, I feature verbatim transcript excerpts from a scene in the iconic Sylvester Stallone’s blockbuster movie “Rocky”.

Here’s why I think you need to let your kids STUDY the video and this transcript with you:

Many people who encounter hard times sometimes wonder why things have to be so difficult. Some get to a point where they even question “God”.

This is more than can be said for those who choose to blame others for hardships they encounter.

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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:

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:

Notice that I’ve DELIBERATELY retitled it “Shine Your Light: Succeed Without Apology”

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PII 119: Shine Your Light: Succeed Without Apology [Verbatim Video Transcript of “Shine Your Light” – Powerful Speech by World-Renowned Motivational Speaker and Bestselling Author, Lisa Nichols]

Notice that I’ve DELIBERATELY retitled it “Shine Your Light: Succeed Without Apology”

Below: The “Shine Your Light – by Lisa Nichols Video” – Click to Watch (or Scroll Further Down to Read the Text Transcript I’ve Prepared)

BELOW: Shine Your Light: Succeed Without Apology [Verbatim Video Transcript by Tayo K. Solagbade, www.tayosolagbade.com of “Shine Your Light” – Powerful Speech by World-Renowned Motivational Speaker and Bestselling Author, Lisa Nichols]

Stop Being Shy About Manifesting Your God-Given Potential.

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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:

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:

Haters Cannot Change Your Destiny!

This afternoon, I had a chat session with my current web hosts about the issues with my primary domain now locked off by my former host, Aplus.net

But even if I get the domain freed, I will still carry out my plan to NOT use spontaneousdevelopment.com as my primary domain anymore, until it’s no longer with Aplus.net.

And so tonight I begin a long overdue process of re-inventing my massive library of web content, based on my personal brand. Www.tayosolagbade.com got renewed using my reseller account for a second year today at $9.99 US dollars.

As luck would have it, those aiming to hurt me have inadvertently helped me. Now I’m taking the excuse of this situation, to carryout the long overdue re-purposing of the web content I’ve been creating since 2005.

Title: Haters Cannot Change Your Destiny!

What You Need to Do to Signup

Subject: [Welcome to the Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club] 5 Types of Excel VB Experts – Which One Are You? Mind Map, Maiden ExcelVB Club Workshop Highlights

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PII 115: To Kill Unemployment, Treat People With Vocational Skills With EQUAL Respect (and Remuneration) as Those With University Degrees! [True Story – Remi, a Lagos Based Entrepreneur, Shows Sapele Youths How to Make Ankara Bags and Shoes]

Below: Beginning stages of the process of making Ankara slippers – notice the shoe last (or mould)

Over a 4 hour period, this highly skilled young man painstakingly demonstrated the process of making what he called a “Box Bag” (see photos below) and also how to make smart slippers – both with beautiful Ankara fabrics.

I have shared the above to underscore a point I’ve been making for YEARS that education needs to be functional.

The truth is that our conventional schooling system – the one that emphasizes near exclusive book learning – no longer works and needs to be totally overhauled.

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