Entrepreneurship
How to Insure Yourself for Success (A Time Tested Solution)
May 28, 2013









To achieve long term success, you must keep going when things get tough, and avoid losing focus when the going is good. That's easier said than done though! Which is why you need a guiding philosophy. Without it, even highly skilled and talented people have failed. When inevitable “tests” of qualities like endurance and integrity […]







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Career Development
F-Y-I: Google Confirms Hacker Attacks On This Website
May 25, 2013









I've periodically announced the fact that I believe that - this website (spontaneoudevelopment.com) - is a target of selectively orchestrated online attacks. Well, this past Wednesday 22nd May 2013, I got a detailed email from Google Web master Support confirming some of my suspicions. Below is the detailed hacker email alert sent me by Google, […]







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Entrepreneurship
3 Things an Entrepreneur Must Not Do to Succeed
May 21, 2013









Don’t shoot yourself in the foot, and deny yourself useful progress in your business. As much as possible, avoid doing any of the 3 things discussed in this article. 1. Don’t Wait For Connections to Make Progress: Get Out & Make Things Happen Instead! Sometimes who you know matters more than what you know. But […]







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Career Development
FYI: Orchestrated Sabotage Campaign Against This Website
May 17, 2013









The email (in the screenshot below) is a 419 - that is scam - message being circulated disguised as if it's from my website email (tayo at spontaneousdevelopment.com). Believe it or not, this one came right into my inbox yesternight - got me wondering why I would send myself an email, till I read the […]







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Entrepreneurship
Frugality & Prudence Can Help You Do More with Less Money
May 14, 2013









Overheads like rent, mortgage, salaries, are often fixed. However, most other things you spend money on depend mainly on how much you use. To cut down on your electricity bill, a simple way is to check for points of waste in your insulation, and also your energy usage habits. When a room (in your office, […]







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Entrepreneurship
What Do You Do When People Are Scared To Trust You?
May 7, 2013









Sometimes it happens with women who’ve had bad experiences with men. The men want to take the relationship to the next level, but they keep holding out. In business, this problem of damaged trust from past relationships between people can create major obstacles to successful selling. I’ve tried hard to keep quiet about it since […]







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Entrepreneurship
Getting Potential Buyers to Do What You Want (5 Powerful Insights from my Study of Online Scam Artists Who Get Total Strangers to Send Them Big Money!)
April 30, 2013









In this article, I narrate a true story of an encounter I had with an online scam artist in a Lagos cyber cafe. I then offer – for the benefit of online entrepreneurs - my insider's perspective of strategies they employ to convince total strangers to part with their money. That is, after all, what […]







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Career Development
3 Ways Speaking a Foreign Language Can Make You Succeed More Often
April 23, 2013









Speaking a foreign language can help you in paid employment as well as in business. I have had the unique priviledge of experiencing the amazing benefits derivable from being able to speak a foreign language, on both sides of the fence. Below I outline 3 powerful rewards you can expect to reap repeatedly, from being […]







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Career Development
Why I've Told LinkedIn to Delete My Profile (Talk About Trying to Give a Dog a Bad Name to Hang It)
April 19, 2013









UPDATE: Isn't it just amazing? I sent the request for linkedIn.com support to delete my tayo@spontaneousdevelopment.com profile at 13.05pm on 19th April 2013, and after failing to reply my previous email sent more than 24 hours earlier, I get a response confirming my request has been carried out at 13.11pm on the SAME day. Wow! […]







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Career Development
Educational Commercials Will Boost Your Marketing
April 18, 2013









If you are a business owner, or someone responsible for sales and/or marketing in the company you work, the information provided here can help you. This article is based on a suggestion I recently sent as an email message to a solo entrepreneur. I ended up making it so long and detailed that I've decided […]







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