Entrepreneurship

Smart Exercising Will Keep You Fit, Healthy, and Alive

November 23, 2013

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 […]

Entrepreneurship

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

November 12, 2013

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" […]

Career Development

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

November 8, 2013

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 […]

Entrepreneurship

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

November 5, 2013

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 […]

Entrepreneurship

No. 114: Speaking IDEAS for Farm Support Experts

November 4, 2013

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 […]

Entrepreneurship

Smart Farm Owners Will Write Articles

November 2, 2013

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. […]

Career Development

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

October 31, 2013

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 […]

Entrepreneurship

Succeeding With Social Media: The Required Mind Set

October 29, 2013

Top performing sales people often succeed by painstakingly building trust in the minds of their prospects. They rarely adopt pushy sales strategies or hype. Yet, over time, those they approach loyally buy from them, and even tell others about them without being asked. That's why I'm a believer in letting things happen naturally. Be it […]

Career Development

What Video Interviews Don't Reveal About What It Takes to Succeed

October 23, 2013

I have a deep passion for analyzing success stories, and extracting useful learning points from them. My most recent obsession has been ESPN’s video about how a guy, born without arms, rose to world class success as a vehicle engineer. The video however lasts only 7 - short - minutes. But It Actually Took That Guy 22 […]

Entrepreneurship

My Pineapple Peel-Based Drinks Production Project UPDATE: Pilot Scale Shelf-Life, and Variable Cost-Reduction “Trials”

October 22, 2013

This is an update on progress with my Pineapple Peels based drinks production project. I’ll also be posting an update on my Quick and Dirty Guide to English/French soon. [NB: That next post will include details of how I’ve now partnered with a 2-man Beninois team of language experts to produce chapters 2 to 10 […]

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