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When You’re Not Working, Create a Bigger Dream (Hint: New Product – My Pineapple Peels Based Cakes…Made Without an Oven!)

7 December 2013


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When I’m not hammering away at my laptop keyboard, writing articles, reports and books…or building custom Excel-VB software, I’m likely to be found sleeping, or working to progress further towards my ultimate dream. That dream is to own what I call a Home-Based Farm-Products-Brew-Pub. And I’ve nursed it since 1999, when I still worked in […]

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Achieve Superior Success by Letting Your Work Speak for You

3 December 2013


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Henry Kaiser once said: “When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt“. Many people achieve their website (sales and other) goals very quietly – everyday. They let their diligent work convince buyers, and sometimes use “success stories” to re-inforce their impact. This article discusses requirements for succeeding that way. Many Whose Websites Succeed Noiselessly Are […]

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How to Use Niches & Specialties to Boost Your Profits (Article & Infographic)

26 November 2013


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I once got – in 2003 – a LONG email response to a proposal I submitted. It was from the CEO/founder, of a company regarded as one of Nigeria’s foremost brand marketing and advertising companies. He politely declined interest in my proposal of a Strategic Partnership between my start-up Self-Development Academy, and his well established, […]

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Smart Exercising Will Keep You Fit, Healthy, and Alive

23 November 2013


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Yes, that’s the key to good health, looking young, and LIVING LONG. Sweating enables your body expel many “bad things” that can weaken it! I took the photo below, this a.m (Friday 22nd Nov. 2013 at 10.00a.m): Above: Photo taken in 2013 – I was 43 at the time Below: Photo taken in March 2017 […]

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“Biafra Born” Micro-Refineries Operating in Nigeria? Lessons for Nigeria/Africa!

12 November 2013


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Chinua Achebe wrote: “Let me give one more dimension of what we were hoping to do in Biafra…We were told, for instance, that technologically we would have to rely for a long, long time on the British and the West for everything. “ This is Issue No. 3 in my “IDEAS for Making Nigeria Better” […]

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(FREE PDF) Using MS Excel® Solver for Least Cost Feed Formulation Can Be Easy – But Also Dangerous (How to Protect Yourself)

8 November 2013


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Everybody knows a little MS Excel. It’s so easy to use. However, I make sure to warn – from over 20 years of supporting users of Excel-apps I develop – that Excel’s “friendly“ nature is also what makes it a potentially dangerous tool. Especially for users with inadequate knowledge and experience, or indeed absent-minded competent […]

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4 Reasons Going Out Without Your Car May (Sometimes) Be a Smart Thing to Do!

5 November 2013


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This writeup is based on updated/revised excerpts from an article I originally wrote (on 30th November 2006), as a service provider when I was still based in Lagos-Nigeria.As such, not all the ideas I offer here, may be applicable to you or your environment. NB: I relocated to Benin Republic on 1st April 2013, and […]

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No. 114: Speaking IDEAS for Farm Support Experts

4 November 2013


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If you provide farm support products and services, this issue of my weekly speaking IDEAS newsletter will interest you. That includes experts working with private owned agro-allied companies, government agencies or even Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs). Yesterday, I listened to a top Ekiti state government official (on Nigerian TV) explaining how they are attracting young people […]

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Smart Farm Owners Will Write Articles

2 November 2013


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The gains from low production costs will be wasted if selling costs are not kept in check. The more it costs you to sell your product or service, the lower your profits will be (and vice versa). This is basically common sense. But not every business owner “gets" or "remembers" it, when it matters most. […]

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How to Safely retire into Self-Employment (A True Story)

31 October 2013


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A client once told me how the first boss he worked for often told him: “Look Alooya, if you work 8 hours in a day for an employer, start making effort to work one hour per day for yourself as well. Think of things you can do for yourself to earn income that will benefit […]

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