Entrepreneurship - SD Nuggets™

Use Your Job Loss Experience to Achieve Greater Success

September 12, 2013

If you’ve lost your job, you’ll want to read this piece. But even if you’ve not, it’s possible you (now, or in the future) will know one or more persons who have. If they are having a hard time dealing with it, or getting their lives back on track, you might want to send them […]

Entrepreneurship

Your Business Should Free You, Not Restrict You

September 10, 2013

If you own a business - with employees - that won’t make money/do well unless you're there, what you have is NOT a business, but a job! This article offers guidance to help you get maximum value from your business – even when you're not physically present. Indeed if you do it right, you'll develop […]

Career Development

Why Won't LinkedIn Stop Sending Me Email Invitations, Months After They Agreed To?

September 3, 2013

When - on August 16, 2013 - Alison Doyle, About.com Guide wrote her article titled “Don’t Waste Your Time On LinkedIn”, she got more than she bargained for: her readers’ summarily bashed LinkedIn in the comments section! About 21 of the 32 comments on her article described LinkedIn using expressions like “a complete and utter […]

Entrepreneurship

Nine(9) Sure Signs & Symptoms That Indicate You Need To Adopt Best Practice Systems In Your Business

September 3, 2013

Quick Take-Away: Best Practice is about continually striving to do better than you did the last time - in any area of endeavour you may be engaged in. I like to refer to Best Practice as "Self-Development (i.e. continuous self-improvement) for Organisations or Businesses". Do You Operate Best Practice Systems In Your Business? This article […]

Entrepreneurship

No. 105: Chasing Clients Will Cost You Profits (A True Story)

September 2, 2013

I returned from Nigeria, where the events described in this write-up took place, 14 hours ago. Sales leads “follow up” - when "over done" - can sometimes erode one's "credibility". Potential buyers start thinking you need them more than they need you. Then insisting on your best fees/prices becomes difficult! That's why it's wiser to […]

Career Development

Mutual Benefit Proposition for Sponsorship (Low Cost Microbrewery Drinks Production from Peels of Pineapple & Other Fruits)

August 28, 2013

[mpoverlay]By Tayo K. Solagbade – www.tayosolagbade.com | www.tksola.com | COTONOU, 22ND AUGUST 2013 @10:00a.m Your organisation needs to market/sell your products, while building brand loyalty and long term repeat customers. What I propose below can positively influence your target customers, while also advancing your marketing objectives. NB: See download link to a FULL PDF version […]

Entrepreneurship

No. 104: Your Audience Needs Truth - Not Flattery

August 26, 2013

When a public speaker tells an audience of struggling business owners that "evil spirits", and "enemies from the village" are the reasons they fail, s/he sets them up for longer spells of avoidable hardship! (NB: This issue of my newsletter features a priest, who - for 3 decades now - has provided world class Agri-business […]

Entrepreneurship

3 Reasons to NOT Pay for Facebook "Likes"

August 20, 2013

I'm intrigued by people - some big name bloggers too - who recommend "seeding" comments on blogs. That is getting friends etc to routinely post comments, using aliases, on your posts to entice visitors to comment. What value is there in doing that? Would it not be better to challenge yourself to write better, so as […]

Career Development

Error-Free People Rarely Achieve Authentic Success

August 17, 2013

"Success tends not to go to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk averse. Rather, it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn’t making mistakes that’s critical; it’s correcting them and getting on with the principal tasks.” – Donald Rumsfeld I […]

Entrepreneurship

I Have NO FARM (Yet), BUT Farm Biz Owners BADLY NEED My Help - Here's Why!

August 13, 2013

Preview: This write-up was first published - on April 21, 2012 - as a NOTE on my Facebook profile at https://www.facebook.com/notes/tayo-solagbade/i-have-no-farm-yet-but-farm-biz-owners-badly-need-my-help-heres-why/369364946438303. I've now moved it here, on my SD Nuggets blog, but it also auto-publishes via RSS Feed to my Cost-Saving Best Practice Farm Business Ideas website. Any smart Farm Biz owner who does NOT […]