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, […]

Entrepreneurship

No. 123: Boost Your Marketing Success by Using the Web Differently

January 6, 2014

The massive name recognition and marketing reach/impact I'm getting via my zero cost Web Marketing System baffles many. Most believe if you don't spend on online ads in some media, you cannot get enough marketing exposure. My achievements on the web disprove that myth. SCROLL DOWN TO READ FULL ISSUE Home | Subscribe | About | Contact Publication: Weekly […]

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Meet the Best Agricultural Radio Program for 2013: Alhaji Luqman Ibidunni's Global A.I.M.S

January 1, 2014

Happy New Year to you! And here's one bit of news that will help you start up the new year perfectly - on radio. Especially if you're a lover of agriculture. Global A.I.M.S is a company specialized in providing agro-industrial information marketing services. And they are making BIG strides in agribusiness communication nationally. Infact, their […]

Entrepreneurship

No. 122: You Need Mastery, Innovation and a Problem Solving Focus

December 30, 2013

Modiu confidently assured me he could do it. He said “Just let me have each child’s age. That’s all I need to sew the outfits for them”.And he was going to sew six full outfits in about 4 days (with piles of other people's fabrics awaiting his attention)! I still struggled to believe it. Modiu […]

Entrepreneurship

Sometimes Going On Alone Will Be Futile (Hint: I Wrote "Begging Letters" to Keep Going)

December 24, 2013

I first encountered the term "begging letters", from reading a biography of Karl Marx. Many books have been written about Marx, and NONE fail to mention that he wrote "begging letters" (read this one). That's why I know that the SMSes/emails I've sent to ONE friend (few times in 2002), and many relatives (over the […]

Entrepreneurship

No. 121: If Others Doubt Your Ideas, You’ve Probably Struck Gold!

December 23, 2013

Fran Tarkenton (Former American Football Star turned Millionaire Entrepreneur) once said: “I have never started a company that, at some point, didn’t cause me to have doubts. ‘This must be a stupid idea because no one else is doing it. Why don’t people get it? Maybe there is nothing there’. We all have self doubts, but […]

Entrepreneurship

Even When Too Busy, Don't Stop Marketing!

December 21, 2013

[UPDATE: 15 February 2025] NEVER STOP MARKETING! Why The Time To Do More Serious Marketing Is When "The Going Is Good". This piece was originally published as a blog post (see below) . It’s now republished HERE - today (15 February 2025) - as a PDF. Click HERE (or the above COVER) to download the […]

Career Development

Sell Successfully Using a Mailing List

December 20, 2013

[Quick tip: If you own - or run - an agro-based/allied business, the ideas in this article can REALLY help you. Trust me. I LOVE farmers - and would NEVER steer you wrong :-))] Are you responsible for creating marketing awareness, and generating sales leads for your company? If yes, then building a mailing list […]

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