Entrepreneurship

Convert Your Excel Reporting Workbooks to Secure (& Even Money Making!) EXE Files

February 13, 2014

Below is a screenshot of the 2014 upgrade version of my popular Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator sofware. Do you notice it’s actually an EXE (executable) file, and NOT an Excel workbook...even though it's in Excel?! Users need not enable macros. Plus, it works on any Excel version (for Windows or Mac). All past buyers get […]

Entrepreneurship

Anyone - Including Kids In School - Can Achieve Success Via Part Time Entrepreneuring

February 11, 2014

Photo 1: Wed. Dec. 11, 2013 - My 10, 14, and 12 year old sons, and the 50% pineapple peel based cakes they baked WITHOUT an oven. All they used was the charcoal stove, a heavy metal pot, and flour, sugar etc that I brought ALL the way from Cotonou...LOL! Now They’re Selling Their Cakes! […]

Entrepreneurship

No. 128: Using Location Independent Multipreneuring to Achieve Public Speaking Success

February 10, 2014

I began my “Location Independent Multiprenuring Travels” across West Africa, on 1st April 2013 – about 10 months ago. The amazing successes I’m achieving (some described below) convince me one MUST be willing to take greater risks, to move to higher levels of achievement. If I’d remained in Nigeria, I doubt I’d have achieved this […]

Career Development

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 […]

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