Entrepreneurship

You Can Agree to Disagree and Still LOVE (Tribute to my father at 80!)

February 8, 2014

Photo: My father - Ezekiel Oluwajimi (E.O) Solagbade - cuts his 80th birthday anniversary cake on Tuesday 4th Feb. 2014, with my mom (his wife for 43 years now). Dad is a Civil and Structural Engineer by profession. I absolutely LOVED the cake, because it was beautifully decorated to depict technical drawing tools he uses! […]

Career Development

Happy 80th Birthday to our SUPER DAD!

February 4, 2014

By the time you read this, I'll be in Lagos with my siblings and the rest of the "Luwaji Solagbade family" to join in celebrating with my father, on his 80th birthday anniversary, at the University of Lagos. [Update (12th Feb 2014): Dad's 80th anniversary celebration went perfectly! Click here to read about/view photos :-))] […]

Career Development

Is Your In-House Expert's Ego Costing Your Company Money? - Part 2 of 2

January 31, 2014

In this second – and concluding part – of this article (read Part 1 of 2 here) , I offer practical suggestions (based on the true success story of a large multinational company) about how businesses can help their in-house experts act, more often, in the best interest of the company. . The In-House Expert's […]

Career Development

Is Your In-House Expert's Ego Costing Your Company Money? - Part 1 of 2

January 30, 2014

“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us”. – Western Union Internal Memo, 1876. Isn’t it amazing how those narrow minded individuals who wrote that memo, rubbished an innovation that was destined to change the world? If anyone had […]

Entrepreneurship

Achieve Entrepreneurial Success - ANYWHERE - Without Becoming Crooked

January 28, 2014

I once told barefaced lies, for months, to loved ones in order to prevent them stopping me from using money I'd set aside for an agreed purpose, for a new idea I had for my business. Yep. I did it. Irresponsible? Probably. I'm certainly not proud of it! Today, I have no need to do […]

Entrepreneurship

Do You Want a Trial Version of my Excel-VB Driven Poultry Farm Manager Software?

January 21, 2014

I returned to Cotonou from Lagos, this past Saturday (18th January 2014). While holidaying with my family, I'd continued writing and coding 😉 It’s been hard work, but I’m now almost done building the pocket-friendly mini version of my increasingly popular Poultry Farm Manager Application. In light of the number of broiler farm owners contacting […]

Entrepreneurship

No. 125: Don’t Be Penny Wise, Pound Foolish In Your Business Marketing

January 20, 2014

"What? You want to build a website for your business? That’s going to make you spend money every year for hosting and domain name registration!” exclaimed the IT consultant (NOT a typo!) friend to my Chartered Account client. Looking at my client to see his reaction, I thought to myself: “Hmm, this is going to […]

Entrepreneurship

A Pocket-Friendly Poultry Farm Manager Software for Profit Conscious Farm Business Owners

January 14, 2014

A growing number of smallholder poultry farmers are impressing me with their drive to achieve best practice improvement in their farm businesses. The increasing rate at which they contact me about purchasing my Excel-VB driven Poultry Farm Management app, is how I know. That’s Why I Deliberately Bear The Cost of Calling Them on Phone […]

Career Development

Quit Your Job? (Some Web Marketing Ideas for Your New Business)

January 9, 2014

So, you finally bit the bullet and resigned your appointment with your employer after years of meritorious service, to start your own consultancy? And you did it while the ovation is still loudest? Good for you! Most people rarely get rich working for others. No matter what service you want to offer, the web can […]

Entrepreneurship

How Much Should Your Start-up Farm's Business Plan Cost? (Real Life Email Conversation)

January 7, 2014

I get email requests and enquiries of all kinds from visitors to my different websites: 1. Self-Development Education. 2. Best Practice Farm Business Support. 3. Freelance Writing/Web Marketing Systems Development . 4. Custom Excel-VB Driven Software Development But MOST of the enquiries come from my Cost-Saving Farm Biz Ideas/Support Service website located at: http://www.iff.spontaneousdevelopment.com. Initially, […]

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