Entrepreneurship
Can Lack Of Money Stop Your Marriage Succeeding?
April 15, 2014









Drawing from my experiences initially as an employee, and later as an entrepreneur, I describe the psychological challenge that confronts a person who runs out of money, while married - and doing business. I then offer practical for surviving such periods of financial adversity, without losing dignity. Do you have a spouse? If yes, do […]







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Entrepreneurship
No. 137: Succeed By "Looking Bigger" Than You Are!
April 14, 2014









Size (in physical or financial terms) can confer “popularity”. So can appearing to be everywhere. That’s why I argue that making yourself look bigger than you are, can make your marketing more successful! People – and organisations - that are popular, often get their offers taken more seriously, than those who are not. SCROLL DOWN […]







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Career Development
Why I Give Free Money Making Ideas to Excel Trainers
April 11, 2014









I periodically offer unsolicited income generating ideas, via phone/email to CEOs of training companies I discover offer MS Excel training. In fact, I just did THAT today, with a Lagos based trainer. This article explains why I give away money making ideas I could use by myself! As an Excel-VB Solutions Developer, I've used my […]







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Entrepreneurship
How my Automated Invoice Generator Was Built to Solve a Real Life Client Problem
April 9, 2014









Last Tuesday, during a meeting with a Web Marketing client, a Jos based business owner called asking for the price for my mini Poultry Farm Manager software. 6 hours later – around 8p.m at night - he’d done a bank transfer to me.The next day he called and asked “Do you have software to generate […]







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Entrepreneurship
Why You CAN Succeed In Your Livestock Farm Business [Feed Formulation Video Series]
April 8, 2014









Quick Take-Away : This is a verbatim transcript of Video No. 2 (out of 33) in my New Practical Feed Formulation (& Compounding) Home Study Video Series. I explain background details about my popular feed formulation handbook, which the video series is based on. Watch the full video below. Email tayo at tksola dot com, […]







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Career Development
No. 136: Stop Taking Failure Personally!
April 7, 2014









People who take failure personally, often fail to succeed. Some who succeed fail to continue succeeding, for the same reason! Most people want things to work the way we want all the time. And when that doesn't happen, they give up on themselves. But people who succeed often do so, because they NEVER take failure […]







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Entrepreneurship
Fulfilling Farm Business Best Practice Product Orders, Amidst Chaos (True Story)
April 6, 2014









[Lagos, 6:49a.m, 6th April 2014] Each time I visit Lagos, I see more reasons to justify not doing any aspect of my work from here. I spent all of Friday 4th February 2014 - under stressful conditions - battling to prepare and send courier packs to 3 Farm CEOs who paid for my products. One […]







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Career Development
To Sell with Your Writing, Touch on Different Areas of Your Target Audience's Life
April 5, 2014









Successful selling in any area of life requires gaining the trust of the prospective buyer. If you think about why YOU buy things, you'll likely discover multiple factors often influence your final decision. For instance, I have bought tutorial CDs and books on a variety of subjects, because I felt they would be useful for […]







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Entrepreneurship
Sometimes You'll Need to Keep It Within Your Family
April 3, 2014









“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 […]







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Entrepreneurship
Why Marketing to Strangers Yields More Success
April 2, 2014









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 […]







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