Entrepreneurship

How to Choose the Right Website Design Service Provider (4 Tips)

December 6, 2014

Are you trying to choose a web designer to build a website for your business? You may not realize it, but today, great design skills are NOT all you need to check for. In this article I list 4 important issues you MUST consider before parting with your hard earned money to put your business […]

Career Development

Why You Need to Mix Things Up Periodically - Even in Business (Hint: There Are Many Ways to Get Results You Want)

December 5, 2014

Even though you use the web for marketing, it PAYS to periodically connect with "humans" offline e.g. via phone and face to face. BUT not with intent to sell. Doing so once got me invited - in May 2012 - as Guest Speaker at Yaba College of Technology's Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial […]

Career Development

The Secret to a Worry-FREE Life: Never Let Your Problem Give Birth to Babies

December 4, 2014

“Either do wrong or feel guilty but don’t do both. It’s too much work.” - Anonymous A number of factors can cause a person to worry. Examples include financial difficulties, problems in the family or workplace etc. Sometimes we become so worried or pre-occupied by certain things that we inadvertently let them affect our behaviour […]

Entrepreneurship

White Paper (PDF), Blueprint for a Low Cost Automated Spreadsheet Hospital Management Information System (HMIS)™

December 2, 2014

In August 2007, an old client engaged me to write a research based paper on development of a low cost networkable Hospital Management Information System (HMIS) for a South Western state in Nigeria. We later traveled down from Lagos, to the state, so I could present the paper, but were unable to meet with top […]

Entrepreneurship

No. 170: Achieve Speaking Success Using Your Audience’s Local Proverbs & Stories

December 1, 2014

Popular Yoruba proverb: “Èhinkule l’ òtá wa, ilé ni aseni ngbé” [Meaning: “The enemy lies in wait in the backyard. The traitor lives in the home”. Read story-based interpretation in photo below].To speak successfully, one must connect emotionally and intellectually with an audience. Pastor Tunde Bakare is a speaker who does that effortlessly using local […]

Career Development

To Succeed, Make Your Excel-VB Software Complement Others

November 28, 2014

"Tayo, what is your honest opinion about commercial off-the-shelf accounting software, compared with the custom applications you build?" I am sometimes asked the foregoing question in various forms, by prospective clients trying to make up their minds about what option to choose (i.e off-the-shelf apps versus my custom Excel-VB application development service). Here's a typical example of the […]

Entrepreneurship

Boost Your Supermarket Bookshop or Factory's Profits With a Custom Excel-VB Software [Hint: View Screenshots of an Excel-VB driven Pure Water Business Manager™ app built for a Pure Water Factory in Ogudu, Lagos-Nigeria]

November 27, 2014

UPDATE - 29TH DECEMBER 2020: Watch video demonstration of NEW version with Auto Cashbook, KPI Charts etc. The Typical Scenario Some bookshop/supermarket owners (especially in my part of the world – Nigeria/Benin/Africa) focus - almost exclusively - on capturing sales and recording expenses using cash registers/POS tools (sometimes in conjunction with a PC based financial reporting […]

Career Development

Adults Learn Best by Doing: Power User Experiential Coaching Learning Event

November 25, 2014

Become more productive in using Microsoft Excel through my Power User Coaching. I employ an "Experiential Coaching" technique which emphasises job-based case studies as a medium for imparting knowledge/skills to adults, so as to ensure increased retention. By "Power User" I mean a person who demonstrates: a. superior proficiency in using an application to the […]

1 Hour Talks

1 Hour Talk(No. 5): Proven Strategies for Using MS Excel to Boost Employee and Company Productivity

November 25, 2014

Key Target Audience: CEOs & Corporate Executives, Sales/Marketing Managers, Clubs/Association Presidents etc [Breakout sessions available] "Everybody knows some Excel, but stop seeing Excel as an office program that everybody MASTERS and that is used to organize numbers in columns and make a few calculations. Excel is the best reporting application on the market and it […]

Entrepreneurship

No. 169: Achieve Superior Success by Acting Locally While Thinking International

November 24, 2014

“Have noble intentions. A grand plan. A mission. An objective that makes a difference. A major difference. Something transcendent everyone you know assures you cannot be done, at least not by you. Many people who know you and love you do not believe you have what it takes to reveal the greatness they do not […]

Entrepreneurship

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