Entrepreneurship

To Achieve AUTHENTIC Success, Make Adversity Your Teacher and Friend

July 22, 2014

Some people (wrongly) believe delays, setbacks and disappointments should only persist for “wrong doers”. If such happens once too often for them to rationalize, they get paranoid. Then the “Devil” (poor guy) gets accused of trying to make them fail! In about 750 words, I explain why you’re better off embracing YOUR adversity! "I often […]

Entrepreneurship

No. 151: 3 Reasons Farm CEOs Will Succeed as Paid Speakers

July 21, 2014

The world needs Farm CEOs (who do what I describe in this article) to become public speakers and inspire it! If you could see what I envision, you would believe me instantly. But I know that’s hard for most people (especially farm business owners!). So, I'm committed to presenting and representing this idea in as […]

Entrepreneurship

Back Good Quality Website Content With Delivery of Value Promised, to Achieve Web Marketing Success (Special Offer: Buy My Ration Formulator Software, and get my Poultry Farm Manager Software FREE)

July 19, 2014

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

Entrepreneurship

To Win Profitable Clients, You Must Know Their Hot Buttons (A True Story)

July 15, 2014

One day in September 2006, I walked into a large Lagos hospital in Akoka area, and asked for the accountant. The receptionist got him on intercom. Using my elevator speech, I explained that I provided MS Excel-Visual Basic automation services to help business users get their work done faster, and with less effort - giving […]

Career Development

The Mental Attitude That Yields Web Marketing Success (Hint: Tips for "Marketers" In Paid Employment...and others)

July 11, 2014

The ideas I offer here can benefit members of sales and marketing teams in companies, who, in addition to offline efforts, have been tasked to use the web to find buyers, by the company (be it micro business or multinational) that employs them. And of course solo operators (e.g. independent consultants/professionals) who do self-marketing, will […]

Career Development

Video Narration: She Called Me a Peeping Tom (A True Personal Story) - What If This Happened To YOUR 8 Year Old Child?

July 10, 2014

This is a True Story Narration. It is available as audio (MP3) & as a video presentation, and PDF on CD/DVD. You can listen to the audio on your phones. This is Part 2 in the Self-Development Education for Parents Series titled "Kukuru Danger™: Adventures - & Misadventures - of a School Age Child Trying […]

Entrepreneurship

To Succeed, You Need a Gut-Level Instinct for Self-Preservation

July 9, 2014

I once had someone phone me up (in 2002, my first year in business), requesting that I come down to Falomo on Victoria Island from my Gbagada base, in Lagos (more than 30 minute drive on a good day) saying my services were needed. I got there to find that I was only being mocked! […]

Entrepreneurship

One Major Reason Why People Avoid Entrepreneurship (True Story)

July 8, 2014

[NB: Names used in the following narrative are NOT real] The Admin Manager in a medium sized company gets an ultimatum to resolve a recurring office photocopier fault. This fault has made it necessary to visit business centres to duplicate sensitive documents at higher costs. Different "trained" service engineers brought in previously had been unable […]

Career Development

No. 149: To Succeed, Use Adversity To Become More Creative

July 7, 2014

Yesterday (6th July 2014) was my 44th birthday. While reflecting, this quote awoke memories in me: "When man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood, he has gained facts, learns from his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has […]

Career Development

Why Farm CEOs Need to Read Non-Farm Related Articles (Hint: Like the multidisciplinry articles on THIS blog)

July 5, 2014

I believe, from over 2 decades of observation/experience, that one major mistake being made by conventional farm support specialists is that they focus mainly - sometimes exclusively – on farm related issues, in serving farm business owners. This can be self-defeating, because other aspects of the farm owner’s life can – and do! - interfere […]

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