Career Development
No. 227: CEO Spotlight Interview With Efe Ohwofasa, UK Based Nigerian born Professional Speaker, Business Growth Coach and Marketing Consultant [FREE PDF - VIDEO COMING SOON]









[UPDATE: VIDEO NOW LIVE - CLICK HERE] In the second issue of this interview series, my guest was Burt Dubin, US based veteran mentor of some of the world’s highest paid speakers. One of the points I noted in the introductory notes was that despite that fact that he is 91 years old, he remains […]







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Entrepreneurship
No Matter How Bad Things Look You Can't Claim to Believe In an Almighty God and Accept Gloomy Predictions for YOUR Life!









This is sad, and it needs to STOP: I am seeing LOTS of "broken" men and women on and off the web...! Recognizable from their "panic-fueled" words and actions, these people are obviously allowing gloomy predictions from dooms-day forecasters, to make them adopt a NEGATIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE towards perceived impending hard socioeconomic times, and it […]







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Excel-VB Solutions
Take Your Kids Out to Experience The REAL WORLD of Your Society [True Story: A Last Minute New Year's Outing with my Kids to the Bar Beach via Public Transportation in Nigeria's Lagos]









You take it for granted, but your kids don't have a clue about it - even though they WILL have to deal with the reality in future. I'm talking about everything you have to do, to provide for them and/or to pursue your goals in life. That includes the STREET SMARTNESS to move around in […]







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Career Development
Forget the Gloomy Economic Predictions! Your Success is 99% Within YOUR Control









[NB: This is a transcript of my New Year audio message] This is Tayo Solagbade, and I want to challenge your thoughts a bit in this short audio clip I'm doing, with regard to the issue of jobs availability, unemployment locally in Nigeria, in Africa, and loss of jobs by people who are Africans based […]







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Excel-VB Solutions
THE FARM CEO (Issue 31): How ICT can help small-scale farmers, AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY FOR SMALL FARMERS IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA, Empowering farmers through mobile communication in west Africa, How Low-Tech Farming Innovation Can Make African Farmers Climate-Resilient, Farmer Organizations Work Better with ICT









[Tagline: If it can help your farm business, you’ll find it in THE FARM CEO™ Newspaper ] In this first issue for this year (2016), I feature 5 reports on application of ICT to development of African Farming. This page’s article echoes a LOT of the sentiments I’ve expressed over the years about the need […]







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Career Development
Boost Your Biz Marketing With Auto-Run CDROM Promos & Branded VB-Driven Power Point Presentations









Over the years, in a bid to increase the effectiveness of my business marketing, while lowering the expenses I incur in the process, I have explored the use of a variety of what I consider relatively under-utilised media. Even though I cannot say that I have achieved massive success through their use, the fact is […]







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Excel-VB Solutions
You Need to Create an Environment That Enables People to Pay Taxes [An Open Letter to Goverments]









What follows below is a transcript version of an audio message I recorded on this subject [To get the MP3 recording, click here to request it]. I asked a question on Social Media recently on this same theme.... Why is it that governments generally (especially those in this part of the world i.e. Africa, Nigeria […]







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Entrepreneurship
No. 226: Products and Services Bartering Can Make You More Money! [True Stories & Research Proof - from Harvard & Others]









Some call it "Modern Barter": Done right, it can dramatically boost your sales, as well as profit margins, beyond what you're currently able to achieve. Sadly, many business owners still do not know "barter exchange" is an option they can adopt. As a result, their business transactions, and resulting growth tend to suffer NEEDLESS cash […]







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Career Development
Where Do You Want Your Business To Be FIVE Years From Now? (Progress Evaluation Checklist)









*This article was first published online, via Spontaneousdevelopment.com (now defunct) on April 04, 2006 "In the race for excellence, there is no finish line" - Malcolm Baldrige In a past edition of Philip Humbert's(http://www.philiphumbert.com) TIPs newsletter, he wrote that persons building their businesses should always strive to make the systems they setup sustainable. Sustainability, he […]







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Excel-VB Solutions
THE FARM CEO (Issue 30): Ponds — Planning, Design, Construction, How to Construct a Semi-intensive Pond for Aquaculture, Africa's agriculture needs young blood, says report, Basics of Raising Tilapia & Implementing Aquaculture Projects, China’s role in African agriculture









[Tagline: If it can help your farm business, you’ll find it in THE FARM CEO™ Newspaper ] This final issue of The Farm CEO™ for 2015 features 2 news reports about the development and future of Agriculture in Africa – with regard to the crucial role to be played by African youths. I personally believe […]







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