Excel-VB Solutions

Advertise Your Products and Services on Tayo Solagbade's Buyers-Meet-Sellers Platform for Agro based businesses - and others!

May 6, 2016

I'm pleased to finally be able to announce that my buyers-meet-sellers platform is LIVE. Right now, I'm using the contact details and information from businesses belonging to both groups, that I have so far obtained via the market surveys I've been doing on behalf of clients in Benin Republic and Nigeria. The platform is still evolving, but […]

Entrepreneurship

How to Make Drinks You Can Sell from Pineapple Peels (Real Life Phone Coversation Session Prospective Attendee Based in Nigeria's Abuja

May 5, 2016

Few days ago, a gentleman called me from Abuja to ask how he could come down to Cotonou to learn how to make my Pineapple peel drink. I was quite surprised by how determined he was. He told me he'd tried making the drink at a basic level, but that he'd prefer getting the full […]

Entrepreneurship

How Studying a Great African Achiever is Leading Me to Self-Actualization

May 4, 2016

"Va vers les gens, vit avec eux. Apprend d’eux. Aime-les. Commence avec ce qu’ils connaissent. Planifie avec eux. Construit sur ce qu’ils ont. Enseigne en montrant. Apprend en pratiquant. Ne te conforme pas, mais transforme. Ne soulage pas mais libère. Et quand avec les meilleurs leaders, le travail est fait, la tâche accomplie, les gens […]

Excel-VB Solutions

Marriage is Not for Everyone [You Don't Have to Get Married to Prove You're Normal]

May 3, 2016

Yes. It is my considered opinion, based on my personal observations over the past 25 years of my adult life (16 of them as a husband and father) that marriage is not for everyone. You don't have to get married to prove you're normal. And when you're a high performing achiever or "genius", […]

Career Development

PII 012: Succeed by Solving Problems Using MS Excel Visual Basic [How I Started Spreadsheet Programming in Guinness Nigeria Using Lotus 1-2-3 Macros in 1995, Before Discovering Microsoft's Excel Visual Basic in 1999]

May 2, 2016

Today I enjoy patronage from buyers within and outside Africa, for my customizable Excel Visual Basic software. But the journey to this point began for me 2 decades ago when I worked as a young graduate trainee brewer in Guinness! Back then Lotus 1-2-3's was the industry spreadsheet application standard worldwide and it had a […]

Entrepreneurship

THE FARM CEO (Issue 45 - International Business Opportunity): Agro-processing Companies in Benin Republic Seek Buyers/Distributors in Nigeria and Other English/French Speaking Countries for their Organic Health Boosting Agro-based Food/Drink Products

May 2, 2016

This week just ended, I met the marketing representatives team leader for a company here that produces nicely made and packaged Pineapple juice. When I told him how I get buyers without going out or paying for advertisement, he invited me to meet the Head of Marketing - a lady. By the end of that […]

Entrepreneurship

How the Excel-VB Driven Poultry Farm Manager is Used (True Stories)

April 30, 2016

In this article, I share some examples of how my Farm CEO clients use my increasingly popular Excel-VB driven Poultry Farm Manager software I sold them, with my guidance. I do this here to provide potentially useful insights for prospective buyers who may be concerned about how well it meets their unique needs. In […]

Entrepreneurship

Learn to Please Your Clients Without losing Productivity or Profits

April 28, 2016

As Burt Dubin one wrote, youu are a marketer first and an expert second. It does not matter what field you specialize in - this truth always applies. I have profited greatly by acting based on this truth in my business, and I always recommend it to my clients and others I coach. The main […]

Excel-VB Solutions

No Country Can Really Develop Unless its Citizens are Educated: But What Kind of "Education" is Needed?

April 27, 2016

"No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.” - Nelson Mandela I believe it's safe to say we all agree that the above quote is accurate. What I'm not so sure about is how well we all agree on the shape and form this so called "education" should take, to equip those exposed […]

Entrepreneurship

PII 011: You Need to Coach Your Child to be Resourceful in Life [Watch video of 12 Year Old Building Battery Powered Toy Power Bike from Scratch]

April 25, 2016

Few weeks ago, I shared a video on my YouTube channel, of a battery-powered toy power bike built by my 12 year old son, using scrap materials he picked up from various places. Since then I have shown the video to many people in Nigeria and here in Benin Republic, eliciting the same comments of […]

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