Entrepreneurship
Sometimes You'll Need to Keep It Within Your Family









“Tayo, let your wife and kids work with you to run the place. Do not employ people who will have easy access to the inner workings of your business. Out here, people can rarely be found who are that trustworthy. Give them an inch, and they’ll take a mile!" That kind of advice came from […]







Read more
Entrepreneurship
Why Marketing to Strangers Yields More Success









Rekiya, a chartered accountant had a great career, for 15 years, in a leading financial services firm. Since launching her own consulting outfit 6 months ago however, finding client business has been tough. She’s been offered advice by well meaning friends, relatives, former colleagues and associates. Many recommended calling old school mates, past acquaintances, with […]







Read more
Career Development
Earning Income Working From Anywhere (True Story)









Yesterday, I was in a Cotonou taxi headed for the Benin Republic-Nigeria border, when Alhaji Usman S., CEO of a pelleted livestock feed manufacturing company in Nigeria’s Kano State, called, and we spoke like old friends…even though we have NEVER met. I've been having such conversations weekly, with increasing frequency since last year... If truth […]







Read more
Career Development
No. 135: Succeed by Speaking Part-time With a Full Time Job!









Some experts in paid employment are doing great things others can learn from. You may be one of them. Do you know you can earn extra income by sharing what you know with others as a part-time speaker? I offer ideas you can use in this issue of my Speaking Ideas newsletter. Some Self-Employed Experts […]







Read more
Entrepreneurship
Achieve Increased Marketing Success Using This System









I've used it for years, at zero cost, to repeatedly attract prequalified prospects, who periodically buy from me, and/or refer others to do so. It's difficult to imagine ANY website owner being averse to such benefits. I explain how YOU can have such a system. FACT: If Google Sends People to Websites Unrelated to Their […]







Read more
Career Development
Teach Your Child How to Recognize Authentic Success









A recent discussion started by a friend - Chima Ejiofor - on Facebook reminded me I wanted to write about two kinds of success: Authentic and Non-Authentic (or to put the latter bluntly…Phony!). If you desire positive, long term progress, pursue achievement of "Authentic Success". I offer ideas you (and any child in your life) […]







Read more
Entrepreneurship
How Many Farm Records Do You Need to Succeed?









As a Farm CEO, how do you decide what data to record and analyze, towards achieving cost-effective and proactive planning/decision making for profits? And how many would be too many? This article offers ideas that can help you. This evening I sent an email response to a consultant representing a Farm Business Owner in Kenya, […]







Read more
Career Development
Extracting Useful Lessons From Travel Experiences (True Stories & Tips)









Have you ever interacted with an unschooled, but widely traveled person? Stop for a moment and think about any such person you know. They often come across as knowledgeable, and self-confident don’t they? Now, consider an unschooled person whose soccer skills earned him a high paying pro career, in clubs around the world for years. […]







Read more
Career Development
To Succeed, Extract Useful Lessons from Your Travel Experiences









You arrive in a new country at night, and check into a hotel. Then at 10a.m you meet your business associate, for a meal. You talk business, and then fly out. Get this: You have NOT really "been to" that country! If your schedule makes doing the above necessary, I do not quarrel with that. […]







Read more
Career Development
Best Practices Boost Farm Employees' Productivity (3 Tips)









To run your farm business, you’ll engage employees, who will also document records e.g. feed used, eggs produced, stock counts etc. But a farm hand – or even the farm manager! – could (deliberately…or accidentally) make a potentially costly documentation error. S/he could, for instance, forget to replenish the stock of vaccines to be used […]







Read more