Entrepreneurship
THE FARM CEO (Issue 27): Farming is the new ‘it’! - Beauty Manake, Researchers develop Beans that cook in 15 minutes - Farming, Overview of pepper (Capsicum spp.) breeding in West Africa, Improved NEWEST Rice variety to African farmers, Nigeria releases improved cassava varieties to boost productivity P3









[Tagline: If it can help your farm business, you’ll find it in THE FARM CEO™ Newspaper ] In this issue, I feature a report - by Anne Wangalachi of http://agra-alliance.org,  that highlights the fact that a new generation of your young African agro entrepreneurs is emerging. They are described as “well-educated, business- and tech-savvy, stylish […]







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Entrepreneurship
Coming Soon: Hope Agwulonu's QUICK START GUIDE TO CATFISH FARMING [Hint: Includes Chapters on Processing & Marketing]









Below: Screenshots of Book Cover for Hope Agwulonu's forthcoming guidebook for aspiring Catfish Farm Business Owners. Title: QUICK START GUIDE TO CATFISH FARMING Subtitle: How to Start Your Own Low Cost Catfish Farm Business   If all goes according to plan, this book will go LIVE in Hope's online store, for purchase as an e-book, […]







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Entrepreneurship
4 Web Marketing Tips You Need to Achieve Success [True Story]









I have used the ideas I offer in this piece to successfully build name recognition, and generate increased pre-qualified sales leads, for myself. They are not new. But I did not follow convention in putting them to use for my purposes. Instead, I had to creatively adapt them to suit my needs. Indeed I was […]







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Entrepreneurship
THE FARM CEO (Issue 26): Farm CEOs Lack of Sales and Marketing Savvy REMAINS a major problem, Products (e.g. Delicious Chin Chin) made from Cassava - Going beyond Fufu, Gari etc, Agro Nigeria: a 100% Nigerian magazine on Agriculture, 300 Ha Pineapple Plantation in Nigeria's Calabar - Rivers State, Specialty Fats & Oils Made From Different Parts of the Palm Fruit [FREE Download - Complimentary: Special Issue. Agra Innovate Exhibition Visit Report]









In this special FREE issue of The Farm CEO, I present the promised report on my visit to the 2015 Agra Innovate exhibition on its last day (Thursday 26/11/2015), at Landmark Centre on Victoria Island. Here are the headlines, reviews - and links - for this week's featured news items: [URL] Farm CEOs Lack of […]







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Career Development
How a Hilarious definition of "Black Friday" Made Me Offer THIS Black Friday Sale on TayoSolagbade.com [True Story | Goodies Inside!]









Yesterday, after returning from the Agra Innovate Exhibition on Lagos-Nigeria's Victoria Island, I stopped at the office of a small firm to see the CEO. While waiting, I overheard a young female employee voicing the following truly hilarious definition of Black Friday sales based on a Jumia.com TV ad being shown on the office TV […]







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Entrepreneurship
[Highlights from 2015 Agra Innovate Exhibition] Farm CEOs Lack of Sales and Marketing Savvy REMAINS a major problem, Products made from Cassava - Going beyond fufu, gari and other basic food items, AgroNigeria - a 100% indigenous magazine on Agriculture...Details Coming Soon!









[Update: Click here to read the FULL report here] Arrived from Cotonou yesterday p.m and managed to visit Landmark Centre, venue of the Agra Innovate exhibition on Victoria Island here in Lagos. The event certainly proved to be great for networking. Almost got myself dragged to do a full lecture on Farm Biz marketing with […]







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Entrepreneurship
THE FARM CEO (Issue 25): Feed Ingredients: Consideration of Alternatives When Facing Increased Price Volatility, More Bird Flu Found in Nigeria's Rivers Area, Best Practice in the Breeder House: Preventing Floor Eggs, ThePoultrySite Recipe Section, Poultry farmers in a soup over higher input costs









[Tagline: If it can help your farm business, you’ll find it in THE FARM CEO™ Newspaper ] This week I start by featuring yet another piece on a topic that holds unending interest for farm business owners:: reduction of costs of livestock feed bill. In the rest of this issue, articles on bird flu, best […]







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Career Development
VIDEO Presentation based on Tayo Solagbade's Mind Map for Steve Roller's "Reap What You Sow: 12 Ideas to Increase Your Harvest of New Clients In 3 to 6 Months"









Watch this 9 minute VIDEO Presentation based of Tayo Solagbade's Mind Map based version of AWAI's Steve Roller's "Reap What You Sow: 12 Ideas to Increase Your Harvest of New Clients In 3 to 6 Months". Visit http://tayosolagbade.com/sow-reap to download the mind map and read the full explanation in Issue 219 of Tayo Solagbade's Speaking/Web […]







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Entrepreneurship
THE FARM CEO (Issue 24): Get Serious Potential Buyers of Your Farm Products Sent to You at ZERO COST [Join my Sales and Marketing Club], Digestion: Know Your Birds Inside & Out, How To Start Eggs Supply To Shops In Nigeria, Anatomy of the Digestive System of Fish, [PowerPoint Presentation] Digestion and Nutrient Metabolism









[Tagline: If it can help your farm business, you’ll find it in THE FARM CEO™ Newspaper ] Preview: On this page I announce my special offer of a Sales and Marketing Support Service for my Farm CEO clients to deal with the problem of greedy buyer groups (e.g market women & middlemen) who deny them […]







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Entrepreneurship
Sponsor my FREE Flagship Micro-Business Start-up Coaching Clinic titled "How to Make Drinks You Can Sell, from Peels of Pineapples and 9 Other Fruits" [Hint: Invite my kids to show how to do it!]









Things are getting interesting here in Cotonou. This morning (Tuesday 17th Nov 2015), I had a meeting with 2 joint-owners/partners of a Commercial Export company. [NB: I just walked in and up the stairs to their office - after reading signs they put up that told me my offer might interest them) and asked to […]







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